Nancy Kerrigan was offered "absolutely obscene" money to compete in unsanctioned head-to-head figure skating events against Tonya Harding this year, and turned them down.
"They were winner-take-all things and we didn't even consider them for a second," Jerry Solomon, Kerrigan's agent, said Monday.
The offers were for millions of dollars, Solomon said.
But "that kind of exploitation is not what we think sport is all about," he said.
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