Posted on 04/13/2018 1:33:06 PM PDT by ethom
Tonya Harding is trading ice skates for dancing shoes — and many Dancing with the Stars fans aren’t too happy about it.
On Friday morning, ABC revealed the 10 former athletes who will compete on the Athletes edition of the reality dance competition series, premiering April 30.
After audiences learned that 47-year-old Harding, a former professional ice skater, was signed on to compete with pro dancer Sasha Farber on season 26, they took to Twitter to express their thoughts — many of which were not in favor of the controversial Olympian.
Why is tonya Harding on DWTS. no one likes her,” one Twitter user wrote. •Want to keep up on the latest from PEOPLE? Sign up for our daily newsletter to get our best stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox.
“This might be the fist time since DWTS has been on that i refuse to watch. I will never watch anything that promotes Tonya Harding…and I’m really bummed because i like so many of the other athletes that will be in this season,” tweeted another.
“Instead of the show being called called #DWTS, it should be called ‘Dancing with the criminals.’ They choose Tonya Harding for the lineup,” tweeted another. “Who’s next? O.J? Lol.”
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Tonya Harding admits during ABC special she heard talk of planned attack
It's all about the ratings and Tonya Harding will bring ratings.
Some of my female coworkers were talking about I, Tonya. They LOVED the movie! Unlike myself, they were too young to remember 1994 so they only know the Tonya Harding today and thanks to the movie, they think she's cool and an inspiration.
We will just disagree on this point.
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Its just not unsder our control.
Tonya became her own worst enemy. As the champ she was beautiful in every way, but when her armor was cracked by her ill-chosen mate, she started doing self-destructive things, like getting her tits pumped, and trying to pretend that she didn’t instantly know that her idiot mate was the culpret, etc.
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So breaking knees gets you on? Next major mob figures.
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>> “thanks to the movie, they think she’s cool and an inspiration.” <<
Tonya is a lot of things, but cool was never one of them.
Her intensity was once one of her virtues, but it got in her way on the down-slope.
A beautiful and powerful body isn’t enough to cover everything.
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She didn’t break any knees, nor is there a scrap of evidence that she was any part of the idea.
Like Nixon, she got snared in the aftermath.
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>> “Emmitt Smith won.” <<
Easily!
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Like you should come out of the closet as a CNN strategist?
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Kerrigan wasn’t pretty, but she was graceful on the ice.
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>> “Isn’t Twitter upset/angry about everything?” <<
Everything positive anyway.
You have to be anti-American to please the digital lords.
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Hey fucking stupid editor-surveyor. Do you ever see the news? Use Google before you post.
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Tonya has been out-doing the men around her all her life. That is a big chunk of her problem.
We have a hard time warming up to a woman that can out wrestle us.
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>> “She’s certainly guilty of conspiring with those dolt friends of her’s that assaulted Nancy Kerrigan” <<
Not likely at all.
It was their big chance to show Tonya that they could do things too.
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Hey fucking stupid bmwcyle, listen to the thing you posted!
They twisted her words. She only said that she thought he was up to something.
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She knew fool. Dancing with the felons. It started with the asshole in the Olympics.
Or Dancing for the Pedophiles when they had the kids on.
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Let us know when you quit working at CNN.
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You speak her language. That you would be so condescending seems strange. It’s ‘culprit’ by the way.
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Condescending?
Is reality condescending?
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