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This image provided by Mattel in April 2024 shows the company's Kristi Yamaguchi Barbie doll. Yamaguchi became the first Asian American to win an individual gold medal for figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics. (Mattel via AP)

Olympian Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll

By Terry Tang - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2010, file photo, Kristi Yamaguchi arrives at the Peace Over Violence 39th Annual Humanitarian Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. When Ice Theatre of New York honors Kristi Yamaguchi on Oct. 15, 2018, it will be for a whole lot more than her performances as a figure skater. Her on-ice resume is superb, of course, including the 1992 Albertville Olympic championship, followed by a starring role in the highly successful Stars on Ice tour. Her work away from the rink has been exemplary, particularly Yamaguchi's Always Dream Foundation that for the past seven years has fought child illiteracy. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Images, File)

Ice Theatre of New York to honor Kristi Yamaguchi

By BARRY WILNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 1991, file photo, American skaters (L to R) Tonya Harding, silver; Kristi Yamaguchi, gold; and Nancy Kerrigan, bronze, display their medals after the finals of the World Figure Skating Championships in Munich. A run-of-the-mill good luck tweet from Yamaguchi to Kerrigan is drawing online attention. Yamaguchi tweeted a message to Kerrigan ahead of Kerrigan’s performance on Monday’s “Dancing with the Stars” March 20, 2017, and added “break a leg.” Kerrigan was hit in the leg before the 1994 Winter Olympics by a man hired by the ex-husband of Harding. Yamaguchi’s spokeswoman says “no ill will was intended.” (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)

Kristi Yamaguchi tweets ‘break a leg’ to Nancy Kerrigan

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