Dear Reader, Welcome to Delaney & Maddy’s multi-genre website, “Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan olympic incident”. For this website, we selected a topic that we found to be extraordinary in the ordinary. The topic we chose was The olympic attack on Nancy Kerrigan. We selected this topic for several reasons including,our curiosity towards finding out what happened during the attack and the reasoning behind it,our interest in how the attack impacted the olympics then and now, and how the media and the public influenced the investigation towards the attackers. It’s extraordinary because an attack on an olympic athlete turned into a world wide media story that people still reference today. To help guide us in the research process, we created an essential question about this topic: ?How did the Harding-Kerrigan olympic incident change the olympics, societies view of it and their athletes?”. To answer our essential question, we began by looking at articles from GVRL and history.com . we didn’t find good information so we watched a 30 for 30 and got a ton of information that helped answer our essential question. We also looked through news articles from the time of the attack and after it to get a better understanding of what happened. Once we concluded all of our research, we were able to answer our essential question. We found that the Harding-Kerrigan olympic incident changed the olympics because it got more people to watch the olympics, especially ice skating. The attack changed society's view of the olympics because they began to think that the athletes couldn’t be trusted and that the olympic committee tolerated cheating to win. This event changed the athletes because they were all scared to go to practices and competitions because they thought something like this could happen to them. The creative writing samples expressed throughout this website are used to highlight and explain our topic in a more detailed and entertaining fashion. Each web page will include a detailed explanation that describes why we selected a particular writing genre. We hope that you enjoy our website.