Tonya Harding describes herself as a victim of the 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan

**sprynkles** · January 8th, 2014, 08:38 PM

Yup. I can almost picture her smoking a ciggy while at skating practice.

**Sylkyn** · January 8th, 2014, 09:17 PM

Originally Posted by Trixie

I had to go back and watch this. For a moment anyway, she really was something else...

This. This was fucking awesome. Bitch could SKATE.

**Polyester Pam** · January 9th, 2014, 12:02 AM

You just knew Dick Button, Peggy Flemming and the rest of those old farts couldn't stand this road hard, put away wet broad when they could have Nancy or Kristy Yamaguchi but that's what made it so damn entertaining and you'd just root for her. Also, her nails and make up are hilarious.

**Mel1973** · January 9th, 2014, 06:11 AM

and her eyebrows! GACK!
I always preferred Tonya to that fucking whining, screeching, horse-faced jackass Kerrigan. Of course, I don't watch this shit so... I had never heard of either until the whacking and once I'd seen that, I wanted to whack Kerrigan too!

**Bluebonnet** · January 9th, 2014, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Icepik

The only victims here were the public who had to repeatedly watch the Gillooly whack Kerrigan and hear the infamous "WHHHHHHHHHY!?!?!??! WHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?!?!?!??!?! WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY!?!?!??!?!?" ten thousand times.

Thank you! You took the words right off of my fingertips!

**Slushie** · January 9th, 2014, 01:16 PM

I dislike Kerrigan, but I still think the 94 gold medal should have been hers instead of Baiul's.

**Lobelia** · January 9th, 2014, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by Slushie

I dislike Kerrigan, but I still think the 94 gold medal should have been hers instead of Baiul's.

Oh nooooo...... nope. Oksana was my gurrrlll.

I like skaters who are pretty to watch, like Oksana when she was young, or Kristi Yamaguchi. Nancy's hands were so stiff, like she was doing jazz hands all the time. It was irking and after she got hit on the knee, I couldn't get the WHYYYY WHYYYYY WHYYYYY braying out of my head when I watched her skate. Tonya could do all the jumps but skated like a linebacker, plus her face could stop a clock and her hair, makeup and costumes were tacky and clownish.

**llamamama** · January 9th, 2014, 01:47 PM

How did her family afford the ice skating lessons? Did she have sponsors from a young age?

**Laurent** · January 9th, 2014, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by Slushie

I dislike Kerrigan, but I still think the 94 gold medal should have been hers instead of Baiul's.

ITA, Nancy deserved the OGM in Lillehammer. And I cannot stand her.

Oksana's FS was very shaky.

**czb** · January 9th, 2014, 02:20 PM

^^^ her mom was a single parent and had limited funds. tonya had some sponsors but also worked and did things like clean the rink (IIRC) to get ice time. also collected used cans for $$$. she was a total hard-luck story in a sport of prima donnas. that's why i liked her.

**gas_chick** · January 9th, 2014, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by czb

^^^ her mom was a single parent and had limited funds. tonya had some sponsors but also worked and did things like clean the rink (IIRC) to get ice time. also collected used cans for $$$. she was a total hard-luck story in a sport of prima donnas. that's why i liked her.

Me too plus she was just a breath of fresh air to watch. Not all cutsey and girlie but badass and always going for it.

**czb** · January 9th, 2014, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by gas_chick

Me too plus she was just a breath of fresh air to watch. Not all cutsey and girlie but badass and always going for it.

agree. and that's why what happened with kerrigan was a shame, it made a spectacle out of a competition which tonya would have won, based on sheer athletic skill. can you imagine the sponsors and career she would've had? she could have gone out with a bang instead of being a butch freak doing female wrestling on Fox.

**Lobelia** · January 9th, 2014, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Laurent

ITA, Nancy deserved the OGM in Lillehammer. And I cannot stand her.

Oksana's FS was very shaky.

I admit that I know zip about how things should be scored, that I also cannot stand Kerrigan and that I was/am a total sucker for Oksana's orphan situation and big doe eyes.

Y'all are killing me with this Tonya admiration, ugh

**Shinola** · January 9th, 2014, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by llamamama

How did her family afford the ice skating lessons? Did she have sponsors from a young age?

Nancy Kerrigan's family was poor too and had a hard time paying for lessons, iirc. That's what kind of sucked about the whole fiasco, it was two women from poor backgrounds who were rising in the world and one tried to knock the other back down.

**Trixie** · January 9th, 2014, 04:25 PM

Kerrigan's family was blue-collar, but I think she had a much more stable upbringing than Tonya with her floozy, abusive mother. (Per wiki, Tonya was the offspring of her mother's fifth husband...)