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February 22, 2026 
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On the eve of last week’s figure-skating final in Milan, the magazine revisited a stunning Olympic skating moment from the past: Sixteen-year-old Oksana Baiul’s victory at the ’94 Games over Nancy Kerrigan, whose shocking assault weeks earlier had turned the competition in Lillehammer into a media circus.
As Baiul, Kerrigan and the third-place finisher, Lu Chen, waited to receive their medals, they were captured in an emotional photo. Thirty-two years later, contributing writer Charley Locke asked the three women to explain what was going through their heads. For Baiul, the photo represents the moment her whole life changed. “I had no idea how to handle that,” she told Locke.
The story combines archival photography and present-day interviews to shed new light on fascinating moments from the past. An earlier article, published in November, followed a similar approach and explored the story behind an iconic photo from the finish line of the 1983 New York City Marathon.
For this week’s cover story, Lulu Garcia-Navarro spoke with Gisèle Pelicot, in her first interview with an American media outlet, about surviving years of secret abuse.
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| Photograph by Philip Gay for The New York Times |
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