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Am I the only one who felt a little bad for Tonya Harding here?

This is at the Olympics when her skate seemed to malfunction.

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by Anonymousreply 27April 26, 2019 11:26 AM

I did too.

Those rich elitists in the skating world treated her like trash. She was the underdog.

by Anonymousreply 1April 22, 2019 11:34 PM

Many years later and knowing what we do about her life and family, I can see why the clip would inspire sympathy among some people. But such was not the case at the time. Her behavior was deemed unprofessional, inappropriate - you name it. It was so ridiculous that it inspired the Seinfeld episode "The Understudy"

by Anonymousreply 2April 22, 2019 11:38 PM

She had a history of "skate malfunctions", so no sympathy here. Especially since they gave her FAR more time than the rule book allowed to fix the problem- they allowed her to leave and skate out of order and it totally screwed up the next skater who was forced to go on in her place.

by Anonymousreply 3April 22, 2019 11:43 PM

I was “Team Nancy” until I actually got to know what the two women were all about, and then I became Team Nobody.

by Anonymousreply 4April 22, 2019 11:45 PM

Yeah. At the time, nobody knew 100% whether or not she was directly involved/had knowledge of the Kerrigan incident. I believe she didn't plea to having prior knowledge until after the Olympics.

by Anonymousreply 5April 22, 2019 11:46 PM

The biggest competition of her career and girl couldn't even do her laces right? Come on, bitch. Get on your shit!

by Anonymousreply 6April 22, 2019 11:48 PM

R3, that sucked for Josee Chouinard (sp.?), who kind of had a disastrous skate if I recall correctly?

by Anonymousreply 7April 22, 2019 11:49 PM

I with r4.

by Anonymousreply 8April 22, 2019 11:54 PM

Nope.

by Anonymousreply 9April 23, 2019 12:02 AM

Who was her choreographer and why did they think having Tonya skate to the music of Jurassic Park was a good idea?

by Anonymousreply 10April 23, 2019 12:02 AM

She should have wacked more legs to get on the podium.

by Anonymousreply 11April 23, 2019 12:07 AM

Tonya needs to tell the whole truth.

by Anonymousreply 12April 23, 2019 12:09 AM

Chouinard was a mental midget.

by Anonymousreply 13April 23, 2019 12:10 AM

I felt bad that Nancy was whacked, but I was also glad that Oksana Baiul beat her. She had a more compelling story -- Ukrainian orphan -- and Nancy would end up coming across as pretty entitled afterwards.

by Anonymousreply 14April 23, 2019 12:30 AM

Not really. Tonya was given a million chances and screwed herself over every time.

by Anonymousreply 15April 23, 2019 12:53 AM

Pretty entitled, yeah: Nancy's brother killed her dad, batshit Tanya had her kneecapped, all because she worked her ass off from the time she was 3 years old.

by Anonymousreply 16April 23, 2019 12:53 AM

R16, that was tragic about her father and brother, but that was years later. She also didn't deserved to get knee-bashed by Gillooly's goons.

But she acted like a total whiner after Baiul defeated her. I can't even imagine how much more the media would have shoved her down our throats if she had won gold.

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by Anonymousreply 17April 23, 2019 12:57 AM

I felt sorry for her

by Anonymousreply 18April 23, 2019 1:12 AM

They were both unlikable.

by Anonymousreply 19April 23, 2019 7:20 PM

Nancy milked the deal, signed DEALS with every corporate entity she and her agent could scrape up. She was a lazy pro skater too.

by Anonymousreply 20April 26, 2019 10:38 AM

Tonya was the fly in your Chardonnay and like a turd on the ice.

by Anonymousreply 21April 26, 2019 10:53 AM

This is her now. You can take the white trash off the ice but you cant take the white trash out of the skater.

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by Anonymousreply 22April 26, 2019 10:59 AM

Kerrigan's husband was also very married when she started fucking him, so there's that.

by Anonymousreply 23April 26, 2019 11:05 AM

How does a skate 'malfunction'? Even I never heard of that.

by Anonymousreply 24April 26, 2019 11:06 AM

Same way that Janet Jackson's titty flopped out, it's a planned event.

by Anonymousreply 25April 26, 2019 11:12 AM

I’m the victim! I’m the victim! Poor me! I need sympathy! I’m the victim!!!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 26April 26, 2019 11:25 AM

I did at the time because I was convinced her husband had gone through with his stupid plan without her knowledge, and that she was acting smug because she WAS glad that Nancy got whacked but was too dumb to realize her dipshit husband had done it.

by Anonymousreply 27April 26, 2019 11:26 AM
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