It wasn't just the physical pain she was sobbing about. Imagine the hard work and preparation that went into this performance and the realization that it's all for nothing. I imagine that hurt more.
Exactly ... The mix between heartache and pure disbelief that everything she has worked so hard for was just taken away from her in a second flat is what she/Nancy was so upset about. Pure devastation, anger, and a whole lot of WHY was running through Karrigans head then.
Bushrod Rust Johnson That's stupid. These professional athletes have to consume many more calories than the average person, otherwise they'd loose insane amounts of weight just from how much they exercise. If she only ate the recommended amount of daily caloric intake for an average woman should would become emaciated, and would be in terrible shape. These people have to be in peak shape, which includes eating correctly, otherwise they would not have the energy to perform. There is absolutely no reason she'd have to vomit to stay skinny. That applies more to models, who have to stay incredibly thin and who do not work out much because it will affect their body shape. Nancy could probably consume upwards of 4000+ calories a day and still lose weight, these professionals train hard.
Don't forget folks that a knee injury is extraordinarily and exquisitely painful. Plus, every athlete knows that knee injuries are often career ending; she didn't know at that point how badly injured that knee was. Today, surgeons can often repair badly damaged knees but back then a knee injury would have been very serious. Over-react? I don't think so.
Faiz Fuad Yeah, it’s nuts how the movie flipped people. I coincidentally watched a documentary about Harding just months before the I Tonya trailer was first released and the comments there were so mean to Tonya and sympathetic towards Nancy. Then when the initial Tonya trailer was released, the comments under it were also mean to Tonya and saying Margot was too pretty to play someone so plain and calling Harding a famous cheater and liar and whiny baby and everything. I remember even under promotional interviews with Margot Robbie people were insulting Tonya. _Then_ the movie actually came out and humanized the hell out of Tonya Harding and the comments transformed to defending her and bashing tf out of Nancy Carrigan instead. It’s been wild to witness.
John-Del it was in her knee it was in her upper leg and I have had a knee injury two back then it was not hard at all and “ back then” was less than 25 years ago knee surgery has the same amount of difficult as it today which isn’t much and three no one is calling her dramatic drama queen at fucking all stop pulling this shit out ur ass
@@faizfuad8361 What’s weird is that even the movie made it clear that the characters are unreliable narrators. I guess people just kind of took it at face value.
I remember this happened when I was 9 years old. And the media making fun of her for it, and at the age of 9, I remember clearly thinking…why are people making fun of someone that was attacked? I’d scream “why” too if I got hurt that bad and I thought I couldn’t skate anymore. (If that’s what I loved) I don’t understand how I can understand this at age 9, but adults couldn’t.
The good news was that she managed to recover from this and win a silver medal at the Winter Olympics. But God, I can't imagine how devastating it must've been for her...
@@PeteNice29 Nope. It wouldn't. Bottom line is that Baiul was better on the day. Kerrigan doubled her only triple jump, she had only upright spins whereas Baiul included a camel spin, and Kerrigan's step sequence was perfunctory whereas Baiul's was easily level 4. Kerrigan also played it safe, while Baiul had the guts to throw in a double loop in the last few seconds of her routine. Kerrigan performed a very good routine, probably the best one of her career, but not as good as Baiul. The judges got it right.
@@theshillneckedlizard8364 I think he meant it would've been a gold if she hadn't been injured. maybe she was playing it safer because her knee was still a little compromised?
The attackers missed her knee and contacted the muscle just above it - that's why she was able to skate again. If they had actually got her on the knee, she would have never competed at the 94 Olympics.
I think people seem to forget that she was PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED. She was hit by two men with a police baton injuring her knee. Their intent was actually to break her leg so she couldn't skate and possibly win against Tonya Harding. She's not a drama queen, she was a victim of an attack. If it were anyone else not in the spot light, people wouldn't act this way. You don't know the reactions of someone who is attacked. Who knows what is going through their mind. People are ignorant.
The guy who struck her with a baton was Shane Stant. He was aiming to shatter her knee, but only hurt a tendon and caused extreme bruising. He was standing behind the camera when Nancy came off the ice. The camera came very close to getting him in shot. He waited until the crew switched the camera off to go after Nancy and assault her. He then smashed a glass door to escape. The attack was orchestrated by Jeff Gillooly, husband of rival figure skater Tonya Harding. Harding was later expelled from the sport for her involvement in planning and covering up the attack on her competitor.
@@charliewegner evidence found in 1994 showed that Harding was financing the attack to take place and was involved in the planning of the crime. She knew exactly what was going on
She is crying and freaking out because she is an ATHLETE who is realizing her chances for competing, after a lifetime of hard work, are being ripped out from under her. How would you feel if you were attacked by two thugs and missed your chance at the Worlds/Olympics. have some compassion!
Ikr I am i am a dancer what if it was Nutcracker opening night and someone I don't let's say pushes me down a flight of stairs and I land on my head I can't dance of course and people are making fun of me for being in hysterics I would not feel any better
SilentBudgie she didn't know that at the time. You always assume the worst in the moment that you're injured, especially if you've never suffered a major injury.
You put virtually your whole life into that one moment and somebody just takes it away from you like that? She is says "why" but the media twisted it to "why me?" Such a tragedy.
John McGown I’m actually only half and was born in the us but for enough can’t argue with someone who clearly has logic on their side. You know because the Mendela effect is fact based lol
The world's taint? Peru? I think, actually...that this shows just how ignorant you are John. Peru has some of those most amazing places to see on this planet. It is rich in history and arts as well. Man...you're a real drip. You should leave your trailer park once in awhile.
John Jay Which is the brain forgetting details over time....it's well documented.... Do you think the 19 Million people who voted in the 1st democratic election in South Africa....that ONE person remembers Mandela's funeral? If there were only 4 seats in JFK's car, who was driving? There is no "Mandela Effect".....just idiots. Parallel planes could exist, but the fortune teller lady that made up the Mandela Effect uses ads, TV, nothing scientific has EVER been used as an example much less proof.
As someone who has dislocated and fractured both their hip and knee, I can immediately relate to the physical part of the pain. However, I am not athletic and I was not attacked, my injury was purely accidental. And even then, I still had the dreading fear of never being able to walk again. I cannot imagine what she must have felt. The fear of maybe not being able to walk and thinking that her career was over. And then there's obviously the fear she felt from being attacked. I am glad she's doing better now.
I messed up my knee falling off an electric scooter, and I still can't sit on my knees. It'll never properly heal. Her pain was so understood and so heartbreaking.
She was attacked out of nowhere for seemingly no reason, that's the real reason she's screaming "why?" It's just pure confusion. "Why did someone hurt me? What did i ever do to deserve this? Why did this happen?!" It's a fair line of thinking.
God this is so hard to watch, not only was this poor girl in physical pain, but i can't even imagine how emotionally devastated she was. To commit your life to a sport and to work so hard for it just to have it all taken away. Sucks man
Me watching I, Tonya and also thinking how Tonyas career was just dissolved like that. I guess we’ll never know is she had involvement or not but still if she didn’t then that’s just a little sad. At least Nancy still got to perform.
Am I missing something? The entre comment section is people defending her reaction against people saying she was a drama queen or over-reacted..... but I don't see any comments saying any of those things.
@ carmen : Life must be rely boring for you. Do you think comments like this make you look cool or something? It actually makes you look like a demtard troll that has a very low IQ
+Charles Gomez Not always actually.. everyone has a different reaction. She may have been so caught up in the pain she didn't know what to think or do. Not everyone cries after a serious injury
I was 14 when this happened. I remember it was a huge story. I felt bad for her then, but looking back at it as an adult years later I really feel pain for her. She was physically distraught and emotionally, too. Imagine working so hard at something and then having this happen to you. Damn! She was not being dramatic (for any morons saying so). A busted knee would hurt like a bitch and then the thought of your career possibly being over. Think about that.
John Doe You don’t need tears to be in pain. I’m assuming you cry like a bitch over a paper cut. When someone is being physically attacked and both their knee and their dreams are being shattered, the last thing on their mind would be being graceful.
I was around when this happened and I still remember her saying, "why? why?" so devastated in that voice. So very sad that someone would do that to another human being that is literally NOT HURTING ANYONE, just skating. Truly ridiculous.
Not just excruciating pain, but also emotionally devastated that she couldn't compete that night that she trained so damn hard for. Makes sense that she's crying as hard as she is.
Don't laugh at the way she sounded. I hit my wrist on playground equipment when I was a kid and I heard sounds come out of me I never heard before or since. As much as I tried, I couldn't make those sounds stop for several minutes.
I broke my tibia and fibula at the same time. I didn't make a sound or feel any pain... because I was in shock. Later, I did scream and cry. Plus nobody attacked me. That alone is scary. And I'm not an Olympic skater. So yeah, she had a right to scream and cry all day.
The comment section 99% of people defending her from the people saying she is over-reacting. 0% of people saying she is over-reacting. 1% of me explaining the comment section.
I’ve never had my knee broken, but I’ve twisted my ankle pretty bad. I was running and I accidentally landed on my left foot wrong, which led to it rolling sideways and and I fell on the floor. The pain was really intense. I screamed and fell to the ground. I couldn’t talk because of how badly it hurt. I felt super nauseous and almost passed out. I can’t imagine how having your knee broken would feel. Idk why anyone would’ve made fun of her for this, especially because injuries can be career ending to athletes. Poor Nancy. I’m glad she recovered.
I have never played a sport in my life and find this strange. I've been jumped before and when my friends found me I wasn't screaming why, I was cursing because I just got the shit kicked out of me. Lol
@Umb O in that moment, her reaction is accurate considering she believed her career was over after all that preparation for one of the biggest events of her career/life.
God I can only imagine how much that hurt. I had back injury young and my back is never the same after that. This could have been the ending of her career that she worked for so hard.
he was.. as soon as she went through the curtain, she was hit.. the guy said when she came through the curtain, there was a camera man behind her.. he hid behind the cameraman.. after the cameraman stopped filming her, he attacked
OK a few things here the idiots in the comments section don't seem to get: 1) Hitting your knee hurts like fuck at the best of times, this was an attempt to cripple her so would have been a fucking hard hit. 2) Nightsticks hurt like fuck 3) She is crying why because she has no idea if her leg is broken or not or to what extent and is convinced her career is over and she is no longer able to do the thing she loves. It's not just pain, it's heartbreak.
Yeah, my dog ran straight into my knee in 2017 summer and I couldn't walk properly for at least two weeks and I couldn't play tennis or run for around two months after that, and to this day it still aches occasionally, but I am fine now.
I could never believe people were so cruel, making fun of her for this. She was attacked, out of nowhere. She was in pain. But people just kept making jokes, imitating her and the media played it every second they could. It's no wonder she doesn't really like talking about this time in her life.
For anyone who says she overreacted you need to GROW UP. When someone shatters your knee cap and you’re about to go to the olympics you have the right to be upset. I bet you get more upset when someone cuts you off in traffic.
her kneecap was definitely not shattered, the only injury she suffered was bruising. she was being extremely dramatic for the minimal “injuries” she suffered
Unless you are an athlete who has dedicated EVERYYTHING to your sport you have no room to talk about her crying. From the age of 5 I began my Olympic training in alpine skiing. I was born in Squamish, BC and essentially spent every day in winter skiing, my summers training and/or skiing up on the mountains. I dedictated 11 long years to skiing. Competed in 4 international events and 7 within Canada. It was my life. I lost a good portion of my childhood training specifically for the Olympics. When I was 16 I was involved in a terrible accident in North Vancouver which permanently damaged both of my knees. I can no longer ski the way I did. I literally lost 11 years of my life working towards a dream I never got to accomplish. For us athletes, losing the thing we have dedicated our lives to is one of the most depressing things. I have never been the same since. I am 23 now and though it's been 7 years I always look back and wonder how different my life would have been had I not been involved in that accident. It hurts and until you know that pain, shut up.
I agree. I was a figure skater and then a gymnast. In 2015 I tore my MCL. The pain was the worse id felt but honestly the pain of having to quit was worse. I came back expecting a big welcome you know what they said? You’re history. Soon after the grind of high school and juggling all these things got to be too much for me and I Had to leave gymnastics behind. Still I totally understand.
This is true for artists and musicians as well. I was a professional tattooer, my life long dream career, unfortunately a condition I was born with reared it’s head and forced me into retirement at age 30, I spent the last five years grieving my ability to tattoo and make art the way I once did. On the same token my dad is a musician his favorite instrument being the banjo, several years ago he developed focal hand dystonia which has hindered his ability to play. The only people who can make fun of someone experiencing this kind of (potential) loss are the kind of people who have no lifelong passions and haven’t worked their entire lives to achieve or become something specific. Those people are the ones missing out bc they don’t know what it means to truly dedicate yourself to something
I watched a documentary about Nancy and Tonya and it's heartbreaking to watch her cry after the attack. This was a BEAUTIFUL figure skater who had put in SO much effort and hard-work, only to have it torn away so easily? Not to mention the pain! My older sister heavily damaged her knee internally and the amount of pain she experienced was intense - I can't even imagine the pain poor Nancy felt.
Nancy is from one town over from me and we were all rooting for her! Such a shame that Tonya couldn’t handle the competition so she and her husband hired someone to attack Nancy. I don’t even know why anyone gave Tonya an audience in iTonya, should have been from Nancy’s perspective!
She admitted in 2018 that she knew something was up and also they found a note of Nancy Kerrigans practice schedule that was proven to be her handwriting in their trash. But ok I guess
Oh my God, my heart really breaks for her, I get her when she's saying"Why?! Why?!" again and again, it's really senseless why someone should take her health and all her dreams away just like that so brutally when she did nothing but work hard for them.
Weird Al summed it up decently in Headline news. "Once there was this girl who Swore that one day she would be a figure skating champion And when she finally made it She saw some other girl who was better And so she hired some guy to Club her in the kneecap" That's all it was in the end, violence over ambition and jealousy
Thank goodness they caught them in the end. This type of stuff was unheard of. I was 8 and didn't watch figure skating until this happened. My brother played hockey however.
i’m not even an athlete & this was completely heartbreaking to watch her sobbing. she worked so hard & dedicated her whole life for the Olympics & it was ripped away. wow.
@@conniemaheswaren554 At the time she did not know if it was or not. The idea of all your work being for nothing is enough to make someone despair. Imagine going to college, just to lose all your credits right before your last semester lol. It is probably what it felt like(maybe even worse) at the time.
Idk how ppl can make fun of something so serious, imagine putting in so much hard work for something Nd then seeing it all getting shattered in a moment, how insensitive it is of ppl who made fun of her reaction, idk if you'll have ever worked hard for something or know struggle or ambition. I hit my knee cap with the wall beside my bed, Nd I was crying for half an hour straight. It's real pain.
Yes, and when it happened she obviously had no clue the extent of her injury so I know if it was me, the cries would be a combination of pain AND wondering if my lifelong career had just ended.
Haley Miller what incident they didn’t even hit her knee she made a full recovery in a few days in every recent interview she is so stuck up she isn’t inspiring
She was very lucky I was smashed on my knee by a bat and fell on the ice on the street destroyed my kneecap and all ligaments in my leg.im in a wheelchair for life since I was in my 30's, now I'm 43. Could not be fixed with surgery. Glad Nancy was able to recover. What was done to her was terrible. People don't realize what a bad injury it is.
I remember this happening. I've never seen this footage and honestly I can feel the absolute devastation and pain in her voice. It makes me want to cry.
I remember walking past Cobo Hall in '94' and saw her getting into the ambulance. Didn't know it was her cause I don't watch figure skating. It was pandemonium, cop cars, ambulances, it was pretty crazy.
Bro how can anyone judge her for her reaction after being assaulted and having bones broken, and her getting to miss out on a possible championship? She was heartbroken. Anyone who judges someone’s reaction ability when they’ve been traumatized is seriously lacking worldly experience and completely unable to sympathize.
These people saying she overreacted.XD I t would be so funny to see how they would react if someone broke their knee with a pipe. I bet some of the dudes would cry like 6 year olds.
40 years ago I was in COOK County hospital recovering from foot surgery and and a guy was on the same ward recovering from knee surgery because he was KNEE CAPPEd by robbers on Chicagos westside!
I do ballet, I once got into an accident and my big toe probably broke. I remember my reaction being like hers, I wasn't that expressive, but I was into a lot of pain and I couldn't breathe.
i never liked nancy kerrigan, and its okay if you didn't either, but you don't have to call her a drama queen. she was injured. you would cry too -- and don't say you wouldn't.
A lot of black people had no idea that figure skating was so gangster until this incident. We were sitting back saying to one another, “are you serious?”
Why must white people be so excited to talk about "I'm so PROUD of my Dutch/French/German ancestry!" Then when a black person says "I'm so PROUD of my Nigerian/Panamanian/Kenyan ancestry!" suddenly white people can't shut up about "Were all ONE race the HUMAN RACE >:o" "OMG WHY MUST BLACK PEOPLE MAKE JOKES! ONLY WHITEY IS ALLOWED TO BE FUNNY! OMG"
@Katy Cunningham because black people are often on the outside looking in. That’s what happens when one has been marginalized socially and economically
@@luckyduck_. what the fuck???? White people didn't invent racism. Racism is in every country that has been practiced by every race. In Africa the tribes kill each other because they believe they are the superior race compared to the other. Native Americans killed eachother and enslaved one another because they believed that they were superior to the others, hell the first permanent slave owner in the US was a black man. So please stfu white people didn't invent racism.
After years..I still find this so upsetting..that two men came and assaulted her with police batons. To take away this one performance, that she dedicated her entire life to, for it to be in 8 minutes. Just stolen!
Katsuki Stole My Soul no she didn’t have permiment damage nothing was stolen and this happening to her actually gave her a career made her important and she is so stuck up in every interview
@Hiii How r u, even so, this is illegal. I wouldn’t wish this upon my enemy. Skating is so unappreciated, & is so much harder than it looks. You can hate her all you want, because she stuck up, or if she’s just full of herself. But never, should you think this is ok. If something actually happened to her ankles, her career would’ve been over. One wrong move, & it would’ve been over. This was a lot more serious, than it looks my friend.
Katsuki Stole My Soul it still wasn’t stolen she still got a spot on the Olympic team and won two gold medals her knee wasn’t even hit she had a small ‘injury’ and was skating in a few days it doesn’t look bad it just isn’t bad
Hiii How r u, you’re missing the whole point. Like I said, even if I wasn’t that bad. It could’ve been bad. Imagine two grown men running at you, covering their faces, twice you’re size, & start swinging police bats at you. Wouldn’t you be a scared? Traumatized possibly? That’s not overreacting, I would be shitting my pants. & you don’t even try to deny it, because we all know you would be too.
One two men did not run up to her only one of them two they hit her once above her knee which left bruising he hit her once three I did not say she was overreacting people keep say she isn't overreacting why r people saying that when nobody is
A competitor in that years Olympics, Tonya Harding wanted to win and knew that Nancy was a problem, so tonya got her bodyguard boyfriend and 2 other men to plan how to stop her from competing, they suggested slicing her Achilles tendon, running her off the road or literally just killing her, but they decided against it and just went with trying to break the leg she lands on. After Nancy was done practicing for the Olympics, which was coming up soon, she left the ice and began to walk to her room through the curtain as seen in the video. The person who attacked her was walking behind the camera crew waiting for them to stop filming, and when they did he followed her, took out a telescopic baton and slammed it into the back of her leg at her knee. The man then left the building and had a getaway driver drive him off.
Yeah..some people saying she is drama queen..my mind goes like why why why..is she drama queen.. it may be that people who have never worked for anything in life..might feel that.. but if someone ever woke up at 4 o clock for exams, or starved themselves for years only to compete , or put up with excessive stretching and dedicated their time and energy for just one goal would know.. its like preparing for an exam for years or trying to have a baby for years...and then have someone take.thay chance away.. I understsnad that people who made fun of her.. might not have really ever worked hard for anything like her..and couldnt understand why she cries.. the fear of being attacked again..
