ESPN 30/30 Tonya Harding
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:59 pm
I think this was called the Price of Glory but I may be wrong. It was on last night.
Pretty good documentary on all of that Harding-Kerrigan shit. I was like 17-18 and could have cared less when it happened so didn't know specific details.
Also since then I have trained some figure skaters so know more about the sport in general.
What I came away with:
- Tonya Harding does not accept any responsibility for the Kerrigan attack. The filmmakers and virtually every talking head in the movie seem to 100% put blame on her. I saw nothing that indicated she had anything at all to do with it (other than proximity to the morons who did it). She could be lying but I felt with everything they showed it looks like she was railroaded by the USA skating world and the tabloid media.
- The people interviewed from the skating world have clear and strange biases against Harding. Like always. Since she was 15 or something. Some of these 40 year old dudes really, really hate Harding with no actual basis.
- Tonya was poor which is insanely rare in American figure skating from what I know of it. The ice skating fed or USA Skating or whoever seemed to openly dislike that. They also did not care for her looks. Kerrigan was the show pony and ONE TRUE WAY.
- From what I could see Harding was the significantly more athletic and impressive skater. She looked worlds above Kerrigan to me.
- Not impressed by Kerrigan's toughness. Maybe there is more to that story if her career was discussed but she sat out the Olympic Trials because of a bone bruise (due to the attack...that was the worst injury). Fucking come on. Painkillers existed in 1994. Her whole life lead to that and she sat it out with zero bone, ligament or tendon damage. She was gifted onto the Olympic team later without competing.
- If you don't already know that ice skating is a fucked up sport then I can't see how you wouldn't come away from this movie with that impression. Even if you think Harding planned the job. If Harding did not do it then her life got mega-fucked forever which is her view.
- I would like to start a theory that USA Figure Skating paid Jeff Gilooly (sic?) and his thugs to slightly injure Kerrigan so they could ban Harding for life for Heathers/Mean Girls-like reasons. Spread the word.
Pretty good documentary on all of that Harding-Kerrigan shit. I was like 17-18 and could have cared less when it happened so didn't know specific details.
Also since then I have trained some figure skaters so know more about the sport in general.
What I came away with:
- Tonya Harding does not accept any responsibility for the Kerrigan attack. The filmmakers and virtually every talking head in the movie seem to 100% put blame on her. I saw nothing that indicated she had anything at all to do with it (other than proximity to the morons who did it). She could be lying but I felt with everything they showed it looks like she was railroaded by the USA skating world and the tabloid media.
- The people interviewed from the skating world have clear and strange biases against Harding. Like always. Since she was 15 or something. Some of these 40 year old dudes really, really hate Harding with no actual basis.
- Tonya was poor which is insanely rare in American figure skating from what I know of it. The ice skating fed or USA Skating or whoever seemed to openly dislike that. They also did not care for her looks. Kerrigan was the show pony and ONE TRUE WAY.
- From what I could see Harding was the significantly more athletic and impressive skater. She looked worlds above Kerrigan to me.
- Not impressed by Kerrigan's toughness. Maybe there is more to that story if her career was discussed but she sat out the Olympic Trials because of a bone bruise (due to the attack...that was the worst injury). Fucking come on. Painkillers existed in 1994. Her whole life lead to that and she sat it out with zero bone, ligament or tendon damage. She was gifted onto the Olympic team later without competing.
- If you don't already know that ice skating is a fucked up sport then I can't see how you wouldn't come away from this movie with that impression. Even if you think Harding planned the job. If Harding did not do it then her life got mega-fucked forever which is her view.
- I would like to start a theory that USA Figure Skating paid Jeff Gilooly (sic?) and his thugs to slightly injure Kerrigan so they could ban Harding for life for Heathers/Mean Girls-like reasons. Spread the word.
