Last week I presented a speech to my college class about Tonya Harding. This is such a good video, that really flows nicely. As a fellow person who has done a lot of research about this woman I love how you included things like how she was found on the side of the road with a baseball bat. A lot of people I talked to didn't know that about the story.
She was a terrific skater who had very little financial or emotional support. She fought the snobbery of women's figure skating and was penalized for it. Taking away her skating was an out-of-proportion penalty for her supposed knowledge of the plot to injure Nancy Kerrigan. In my book Harding was still the better skater and a survivor of terrible parental and spousal abuse.
The 1992 and 1994 winter olympics were the first I remember watching as a child. And while Lillehammer were probably the best winter games ever, I mainly remember this Harding/Kerrigan scandal, that I did not really properly understand at that time. It was the biggest sideshow of the games. Even now, I can only guess to which degree she was or was not involved.
Tonya was at one time, the greatest ice skater in the world, she was amazing, go watch the full routine of her first triple Axel in competition, its amazing she was on fire she didn't miss a beat
Um... Tonya is no victim today. She is famous, she gets paid to just appear in stuff, she is a host of several trutv shows. She had a bad childhood. All of us have. Doesn't give you the right to do what she did.
