There was a story going around a few years ago that Tonya was trying to get back into the Olympics by skating for a foreign country. What happened with that?
This was a story put out in February 1997 by David Hans Schmidt, Tonya’s agent at the time, and appears to have most likely been just a publicity gimmick designed to hype press coverage of Tonya’s pro debut in Reno. It made front page news in Norway (one of the countries proposed, and whose skating federation turned the offer down in any case), but was probably never a serious proposition. Indeed, some of the countries Schmidt approached weren’t even members of the International Skating Union, the body which governs Olympic skating.
