Guilty, beyond peradventure of doubt!
Release her, without a stain on her character!
She appears at about 1:20 in the video.
Tonya Harding was a thug and should have done prison time.
I always thought Nancy Kerrigan was kind of not-guilty, but that incident ruined her, I think.
She never recovered from the “Why? Why?” sobbing.
I felt kind of bad for her...she was obviously pretty terrified, and in the new age, everything showed up on film.
“best”?
Probably not. Otherwise, she would not have felt the need to have Nancy Kerrigan assaulted.
She didn’t have to THWACK her opposition and be world champion in order to make a good living from her reputation in her sport.
She just needed a good agent.
Couldn’t believe there’s a movie coming out about this event. Didn’t Harding descend into wrestling or maybe even mud wrestling? (my neighbor says porn too, but I’m not so sure about that).
Tonya Harding finished 4th in the 1992 Olympics. She looks terrible now, reflection of her hard life.
I didn’t see the grace in her moves across the ice.Now peggy Fleming was a different story as I remember.
The best description I heard of Tonya Harding at the Olympics was that she was “a dump truck at a sports car rally.”
Powerful skater, too bad she threw it away. I imagine the USFSA’ s lifetime ban on competing or coaching is harder on her than a prison term would have been.
Her skating was good athletically, but lacked a certain gracefulness and beauty.
To me the attack was a turning point. It represented the dawning of a new era. There was really something wrong when a woman would resort to these tactics especially in a sport like olympic figure skating. And then what followed in short order but OJ killing Nicole and then the OK City bombing. I guess it dawned on me then that we weren’t in Kansas anymore.
Guilty, beyond peradventure of doubt!
Release her, without a stain on her character!
Tonya Harding was athletic but she had no grace. No beautiful flow of motion.
Instead of ballet-like graceful skating to the next jump she rushed to the next trick.
She was not pleasing to watch.
I watched this Documentary, SHARP EDGES (1986) about TONYA, a few weeks ago. It is quite good, following her while training and competing for her first Nationals. She was 15. She had two coaches who cared about her and were essentially her Mothers. Her own Mother is interviewed and is a piece of work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GhzZOlP7MA
The IOC, NBC and whoever the governing body of figure skating is should still be paying Harding royalties for what she did for the sport and the olympics.
No, She was always stiff and jerky. Athletic, but not smooth, and certainly not graceful.