Michelle Kwan won the 1994 World Junior Championships. In 1994, Kwan finished second to Tonya Harding at the U.S. Championships, which ordinarily would have placed her on the U.S. team to the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. That place was instead given to 1993 national champion Nancy Kerrigan, who had been sidelined by an assault and battery (eventually connected to Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly) after a practice session at those championships. The 13-year-old Kwan went to Norway as an alternate but did not compete. Kerrigan and Harding both dropped out of eligible competition before the 1994 World Championships. Because of this
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