The ripples of sympathy for Nancy were nothing compared to the tsunami of worship for Oksana because of her "compelling life story" of overcoming such harsh adversity in her childhood and being raised by her skating coach, etc. There have probably been two or three Lifetime Movie Channel movies about her life before and up to winning the gold, and then another two or three about her post-olympic life of drug abuse and recovery.
Too bad they don’t just base their judging on the sport itself and its execution. (sigh)