Winter Olympic Games alternating even-numbered years. Lillehammer is the northernmost city to ever host the Winter Games and it was the second time the Games were held in Norway, after the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Czech Republic and Slovakia made their Olympic debuts. The women's figure skating competition drew media attention when American skater Nancy Kerrigan was injured on 6 January 1994, in an assault planned by the ex-husband of opponent Tonya Harding. Both skaters competed in the Games, but the gold medal was controversially won by Oksana Baiul who became Ukraine's first Olympic
Nancy Kerrigan 1994, Kerrigan hosted "Saturday Night Live", season 19 episode 15, featuring musical guest Aretha Franklin. In 1995, Kerrigan had a guest appearance on "Boy Meets World" in the episode "Wrong Side of the Track". In 2004, Kerrigan sang a cover of "The Best" for a Tina Turner tribute album. Kerrigan appeared in the Fox television program "Skating with Celebrities" (2006) and played a small part in the ice-skating comedy feature film "Blades of Glory" (2007) with Will Ferrell. She hosted "Nancy Kerrigan's World of Skating" on the Comcast Network starting in 2005, and has done commentary work for other skating