Very sad but at all unforeseen...

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The demise of Champions on Ice is another sign of the decline in the sport's mass-market popularity, which peaked after the Nancy Kerrigan Tonya Harding soap opera leading up to the 1994 Olympics.

Clearly the author is not very familiar with the sport and hasn't done his research very well. Ticket sales have been going down for a while now - in the minds of many that is because of the abnormally high prices, not due to a lack of interest in the sport 8o
~ Chris