Olympian Tonya Harding Destroyed Her Career In Seconds

How the mighty have fallen. Tonya Harding's figure skating career ended because of this.
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[@edwardruiz5515]

I feel sorry for her . Her shitty husband Jeff was the main problem for Tonya's life

[@Rand0mFemale]

… I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest my entire life. There’s never been any doubt around here that she knew exactly what was up. Just sayin’…

[@Inessence4]

@@Rand0mFemalethat’s funny I’m from around here too and she still has a lot of support.

[@Rand0mFemale]

@@Inessence4 not sure what city you live in…

[@Inessence4]

@@Rand0mFemale a place that doesn’t live or die by what drivel The Oregonian newspaper spews.

[@valmacclinchy]

@@Inessence4 yes, and she's got a lot of support from most people who know the facts about her life and her abusive husband

[@loeysgalaxy6283]

her being poor had a lot to do with how her performances were scored. she really was treated unfairly but definitely shouldn’t have resorted to violence.

[@lovelyzx]

She never resorted to violence, they did it behind her back.

[@onlycows726]

@@lovelyzx it's still shitty she just withheld information before the incident even took place

[@karmaround]

​@@lovelyzxexactly 💯

[@JokersD0ll]

@@onlycows726makes sense tho if she said anything who would of known what the crazy husband would of done to her?

[@tannerw14]

What should she have resorted to then?

[@ryancasey919]

I never knew that she recovered. Oh my gosh that’s really good to hear. A silver after getting jumped like that! That is a unit of a woman.

[@Inessence4]

Yeah, she was pissed. Having the world cheering for her probably helped as well.

[@Bombastic._.side_eye]

For once, she’s actually right It’s not what she did do that was horrible because she did nothing And that IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM It’s what she DIDNT DO that was horrible She knew what they were gonna do She was a bystander, but how does that make her better than her husband? The problem is exactly that she in fact, didn’t do shit

[@5cloudwalker]

Your reputation is a valuable resource never damage it!!!!

[@lisak1111]

She knew about it before it happened and confessed guilt!

[@valmacclinchy]

She knew about it after the fact.

[@---ty5jz]

That was for having a softer sentence

[@karmaround]

She DID NOT KNOW NANCY KERRIGAN WAS GOING TO BE ATTACKED

[@Patriarch.Chadimus]

​@@karmaroundShe literally asked for her husband to do it lol

[@chloe-zc6ik]

@@Patriarch.ChadimusShe only knew after her husband paid someone to do it. Meaning she was NEVER involved in attack and the sentence was way too harsh on her.

[@greentree730]

Tonya was a part of this...guilty.

[@PlaygirlCartii]

Her story is truly admirable. She’s a true depiction of American dreams for women that have to come out of nothing. I’ve related to her story more than anybody else on this earth!

[@aeqnta9861]

Why do people feel bad for Tonya she literally knew about it

[@yaboimommynipnip9423]

Why do I feel bad for Tonya? But my sympathy goes way deeper for Nancy. Great and powerful woman!!

[@anthonyd4771]

Why did she not go to prison?

[@evacuevas5506]

She's a mean selfish person. Im glad she was caught.

[@texaswunderkind]

I forgave her long ago. She was the penultimate American underdog story. Born with nothing, having nothing. Through sheer will she made herself into a world champion and two-time Olympian. In my opinion she will always be the dirt-poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks who became the best in the world. What is more American than that?

[@user-xq3pt8ks8c]

I would lend her a board and find out what kind of athlete she can be. Surfing is. Kinda hard!

[@alexsdb9712]

A very thoughtful and truthful comment! Thank you.

[@kieramcgregor]

It’s not up to you to forgive her. Who gives a crap if she was poor or had a bad life boohoo. She was a nasty jealous woman who tried to Ruin another one’s career. She deserved what she got

[@irenecunningham9782]

So she admitted to it then but is now claiming she was innocent? Wow, all these years later and she still can’t show remorse or take responsibility for her actions. 😑

[@valmacclinchy]

What you're saying isn't factual. She publicly apologized to Nancy for something her abusive husband and her bodyguard did.

[@zerkowskiii1323]

She was forced to

[@MsAlyMonique]

She never admitted to it, she agreed to a plea deal.

[@erika6651]

@@zerkowskiii1323 No one forced her. She always loved playing the victim.

[@lovelyzx]

​@@erika6651 If you were a little less stupid, you would know that she didn't even know about the evil plan of her ex-husband who did it just for money, you judge someone who would never do something like that, even though they suffered their whole life.

[@burgundyjayde]

she admitted she knew now some movie makes her look like a angel good god hollywood sux in more ways than 1

[@debbiekotch6006]

you did do something wrong

[@mariella2884]

The media didn't force her not to train appropriately for her Olympic bid, the media didn't smoke for her, the media didn't hide the truth that was her. She knew about the plan (before or after is the debate) and therefor because she didn't act, she lost it all.

[@Inessence4]

You sound just like the media.

[@valmacclinchy]

And you have zero evidence of what you're saying.

[@jenniferh.2150]

Dude, what? She got the Olympic bid because she trained her ass off after not having skated for a year, being the first woman ever to land a triple Axel, and winning the US title with the highest technical score in 20 years. She skated at the Olympics in damaged skates with a broken lace and that’s why she finished 8th.

[@erika6651]

​​@@jenniferh.2150 lmao laces for blades aren't expensive, and the broken lace incident from her long program didn't cause her mess up two jumps in her short program. Broken blades, laces, costume malfunctions - no other amateur skater has ever had that many mishaps in 2 years of competitive skating. If only Tonya had put the effort into training that she did putting on shows for people.

[@jenniferh.2150]

@@erika6651 You clearly don’t know anything about professional figure skating: a pair of skates is upwards of $1,000, are custom made and fitted with a single blade costing hundreds of dollars and taking several weeks to fabricate. Stop embarrassing yourself and sit down.

[@marionmarino1616]

Her performance was awful. Plus, she stopped what she was doing to show the judges her laces were untied & she had to retie them. All in front of cameras. Unheard of! Everyone else was prepared. Now, again, it’s everybody else’s fault.

[@alexsdb9712]

Remember that she had lack of resources and support. This unfortunately affected her equipment at times.

[@marionmarino1616]

@@alexsdb9712 An ice skater should be able to tie the laces on her own ice skates.

[@alexsdb9712]

@marionmarino1616 You missed the point. It's about the state of her equipment. That was the factor plaguing her career and it was reported and widely known at that time. Now, if you still don't understand, it will be because you didn't follow the story back then, or age is a factor, you're trolling, or english isn't your main language as it is mine. But the info is at your fingertips and you can look it up. Knowledge is power. All the best!

[@marionmarino1616]

@@alexsdb9712 You obviously live in a soap opera. Have you ever ice skated? I have. A skater knows how to lace up her ice skates. Only she knows how comfortable they are on her feet. Too loose - no good. Too tight - no good. Those judges granted her a favor no other skater ever had. She’s a loser - and she lost to the better skater.

[@alexsdb9712]

@@marionmarino1616 All the best!

[@AL-fl4jk]

“The media convicted me before I even did anything so I feel like when I did do something it was justified” 🙄

[@iluvvjenniee]

“before i even did anything” that just screams guilty

[@willpinkow9714]

She totally helped plan the attack. The tragedy of Tonya Harding is not her lying and scheming and stealing (from her own fan club none the less) or her participation in "the whack heard round the world." The tragedy of Tonya Harding is an unexamined life. And an unwillingness to admit her wrongs and grow from them. And I am "Team Tonya!"🥰

[@Inessence4]

How did she steal from her fan club? Their newsletter was written by Tonya's personal friend for free. Their only overhead should have been postage. The rest was for Tonya's training.

[@willpinkow9714]

@@Inessence4 Her fanclub raised money to send her to a pre-Olympic skating camp in Lillehammer. She lied and said she had an ovarian cyst and did not go. She never gave back the money that her fan club raised to send her. 😟

[@Inessence4]

@@willpinkow9714 she lies according to Gillooly. He said he made up the excuse for her. He would say anything to diminish her. She probably needed the money more than her fan club did. There are other training expenses. I know she had disagreements with them on how the money was to be spent. Probably having to do with their “over head”. She likely was feeling ripped off because they were collecting money for *her* benefit.

[@christinemomy8018]

Can't believe these comments. She never had a chance because she didn't fit the profile. Slim and wealthy background. I don't think she had any hand in the Kerrigan affair. Probably told to confess in order to stay in the sport.

[@MelanieHanseman]

Nancy wasn’t wealthy either. She came from a working class family and her father had to work several jobs to support her skating.

[@CranberryLeGoot]

@@MelanieHansemanBut, Nancy was America’s sweetheart, for awhile, at least. While definitely not wealthy, Nancy was graceful and an artistic skater. Tonya was an athlete.

[@Person-mh6xq]

You’re 100% wrong on every comment you made.

[@virginiatozier9957]

We know how confessions are obtained. You either confess or they go after your mother. Yep, Nancy had the snow white, ice queen thing, Tonya was Tinkerbell on skates. cute and in your face. It was refreshing.

[@jirihrnak]

@@CranberryLeGoot exactly!

[@Ptat4PF]

How do you plot with your husband and his friends just to lose 😭😭😭

[@winkieblink7625]

Tonya dear…YOU “DID DO” SOMETHING WRONG. You withheld a plan to harm another skater; your competition. So YOU ARE LYING. You did not hold the hammer but you knew the hammer could be coming down and YOU SHOULD HAVE PROTECTED Nancy. That, my dear Tonya, is the truth.

[@valmacclinchy]

She knew after the fact.

[@MsAlyMonique]

@@valmacclinchythat’s just as much bs as the OJ verdict. She knew about it from the start let’s not play dumb 😂

[@valmacclinchy]

@@MsAlyMonique the OJ trial had DNA evidence (and one of the jurors said that blood type is the same as DNA..unbelievably ignorant) OJ's victims were nearly beheaded by such deep cuts from the knife he used. No, it's not even close to the same. It's an insult to the victims to compare the two cases.

[@lovelyzx]

​@@MsAlyMoniqueprove?

[@IsabEla-tf5lt]

Did u watched the movie? Bc that never happened

[@mxlv92]

She’s toxic and she’s definitely guilty.

[@chloe-zc6ik]

get some proof before you open your big mouth

[@angiecastro2457]

​@@chloe-zc6ik 😂😂😂😂😂

[@dawnwalker2084]

She is one of the best skaters ever. She actually had to work for hers not like Nancy.

[@ikeataylor892]

She was the bomb and kept getting cheated because of her circumstances. They probably made her apologize for publicity and she was so young and dumb I doubt she knew it would lead to a conviction .

[@dimitrytimothee1590]

How do you know that though? Don't assume it

[@Iloveyoursmile]

Jealousy and hate isn’t welcome in the sport.

[@i_drive.]

Jealous of what? Tonya was so much better than Nancy ever was. The only difference was, Tonya came from a broken family, was a domestic violence survivor and everyone looked down on her because of it. America wanted someone with a wholesome well to do family who could represent the country, that's the only category Nancy fit in. She always had it easier than Harding.

[@Iloveyoursmile]

@@i_drive. But here she was planning and executing the attack.

[@i_drive.]

@@Iloveyoursmile no she was never directly attached to the incident, she never even knew about it because her ex plotted it behind her back and later came clean about ruining her career entirely

[@Iloveyoursmile]

@@i_drive. She even admitted at court, that she knew about the attack the whole time.

[@misstina1986]

​@@i_drive.Oh, please. Give me a break.

[@bbydoll01]

I used to watch world’s dumbest with my dad as a kid, and I just now put two and two together that figure skater Tonya Harding is the woman I used to watch in world’s dumbest. I only realized after I watched I, Tonya and looked up videos of her skating. Unrelated to the video but just something I thought was funny haha

[@fionnbarrcasey5247]

…. typical. Blaming others but not yourself

[@alexx_6668]

There's no evidence that she did something. And you guys are sick if you can't understand her

[@rhondaguerrero2869]

She did do it - so

[@valmacclinchy]

Do what? Have a husband who was abusive and a moron bodyguard?

[@TJSaw]

She absolutely knew. Horrible human being.

[@timlewis7218]

I remember her adult stuff too.

[@mfi-cf7sp]

Tonya was manipulated y full grown adults for one thing! her technique was far superior so she didn’t NEED to do it but the adults around her TOLD her to go to judges and fuss and do whatever else they said 😢

[@dmontes133]

Tonya should be in the women’s skating HoF. She made woman’s skating more popular than ever!

[@alexsdb9712]

And for her incredible abilities and what she achieved despite lack of resources.

[@alexsdb9712]

@@chanelwilliams34 That's fine.

[@notyourfavorite99]

For the wrong reasons though

[@kimmorgan8690]

stop it u knew it was u that set it all up

[@Zan_Chris]

So she’s not guilty of what she pled to?

[@valmacclinchy]

She plead guilty to knowing about what was done to Nancy after the fact. And her punishment was insanely harsh.

[@abigail7579]

​@@valmacclinchy Nope, well deserved

[@valmacclinchy]

@@abigail7579 lifetime ban for not telling that she knew about someone giving Nancy a bruise on her knee after it happened? 🙄

[@Zan_Chris]

@@valmacclinchy play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[@abigail7579]

@@valmacclinchy I think Tanya was in on the attack and planning

[@wiazowski1]

She should never be forgiven. Ans she should be in jail forever

[@josemiguellaserna3005]

Huggg...toxic human !!

[@Dodobird28]

That’s probably how Tonya’s mom feels

[@user-wj1id4ro3z]

She did it.

[@Inessence4]

Yo mama

[@marlondavis9450]

I just watched “I, Tonya” & I found it weird that they casted Margot Robbie to play Tonya when she looks more like Nancy.

[@dezerismith7529]

Tonya harding sorry but your infamous for life, you can't ever clean this up, but nobody is talking about it anymore much but you, do go on with the rest of your life and accept your fate and adk God for forgiveness, then you'll be alright, but the world has moved on so you need to as well.

[@i_drive.]

She has asked for forgiveness her whole life despite being innocent. She has been through so much, you can't even imagine being in her shoes. No one can. Leave the woman alone.

[@valmacclinchy]

She has moved on and has a lovely family and still skates, just not competitively. Nothing will ever take away the fact she is the first American woman to successfully land a triple axel in competition. And the first to get 6.0 as a technical score. And the first to do the triple axel in combination.

[@viridianagarciaquintana6925]

Pero fue culpa del esposo de mierda que tuvo

[@kathysmotherman2515]

​@@i_drive.Bless her heart That adult content TH did must've been so hard on her 🙄💜✌️

[@cml808]

Interesting how something that happened so many years ago has sparked fresh disdain for Tonya. But, I guess at the end of the day, she's getting paid for it so...there's that 😂

[@daniellelovett8486]

She just as guilty.

[@mcsinger7719]

I can't remember after she found out did she immediately go to the cops ..?? Cant remember .if she did...without waiting a moment then... I would feel More sorry for her.. I will say this..she is an amazing skater and a gifted hard working athlete.. and trust me Nancy was not perfect either....

[@alexsdb9712]

She had some threats made to her by both her husband but also her own skating federation (USFSA).

[@alexsdb9712]

Tonya faced threats from both her then-husband Jeff and even her from her own skating federation (USFSA). She was blocked and trapped for a lot of her career and personal life.

[@stacifry4059]

I only knew about Tonya from the knee incident. I liked her then and I like her now. Nancy K was annoying.

[@loriduggan-gj1ht]

Liar liar you're guilty

[@chingesenki4499]

She doesn’t even have one

[@duncanidaho2130]

She got what she deserved... but perhaps not enough. Iined her in Smoking Gun, though.

[@duncanidaho2130]

Like her... typo.

[@Patrick.V.]

Bullshit!

[@kmarek2008]

Her mother was abusive and screwed up Tonya.

[@alicegamewell755]

She is an adult. She chose to stay silent. You cannot blame the mother.

[@adambelfast1]

What's that got to do with anything? Does that play down or excuse her possible involvement in attacking Nancy's and Ending her career

[@dimitrytimothee1590]

She does mention her mother in the story

[@thebeautifulrose294]

This is so sad

[@ChristieAdamsKangoo]

Human beings are complicated. I think Tonya had the odds stacked against her from the beginning. She also had personality flaws that worked against her, too. It's also entirely possible she was both afraid to reveal what she knew about her abusive ex, AND secretly pleased her rival was out of the way. It's a shame, all around. With the right guidance, she had a lot to offer the sport.

[@emilg2075]

This story is literally the ultimate iq test, you can literally see the people speaking out of their asses who never show their proof when you ask them to and those who look at the whole picture

[@mylenerichard6530]

Crazy girl

[@constancedenchy9801]

Harding made USA Female Championship History with her triple axial...she was never given credit for her accomplishments. She never had the sponsorship need to compete at that level. She had lesser equipment and made her own costumes, faced so msny obstacles including having asthma...with all of those obstacles she out skated all of them all and made history. To think of she had had the support the otgers had the USS would have had the Gold, Silver,& Bronze at the Olympics

[@shealenebresnahan4469]

SHE didn’t destroy her career, the world did.

[@dmontes133]

“Put on ice” boooooooo

[@Deb_BG]

The media?

[@valmacclinchy]

Yes. The media. Which word confuses you?

[@tylerrollins5295]

Tonya worked hard but it was just a bad decision and plot I hope all is well to her and it’s to me kind of scary hearing about the incident but it is what it is and I wish for the best

[@mohamedkotbi776]

Trashy B-- did it 😡😡😡

[@vivianemerenini2625]

Is that about i tonya

[@Brandon-ld2zo]

"Banned for life" those people should be banned from banning!!

[@860rondo]

Lol victim

[@breowijF]

Call me Tonya. I love you ❤

[@brianrenollet9663]

I find it amusing that there are so many self righteous “holier than thou” comments here. Seriously people? Watch the film “I Tonya.” The cards were stacked against her. She’s turned her life around. Get over it.

[@user-xq3pt8ks8c]

You are a weirdo.

[@user-xq3pt8ks8c]

It was A film?

[@cristianchile5316]

Tonya 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@dharkknight4747]

She hasn't aged well.. !

[@loidaokeeffe521]

😂

[@kirkstewart-berry5675]

I will take Tonya Harding over Nancy kerrigan any day!... Nancy is meanspirited and a horrible person.

[@dpidS]

What about Karl Malonnnnnnnneeeee…….

[@parkerposey8155]

I believe her.

[@Lilith_2191]

Her life and the people around her were shit. Coming forward to rat on the people close to you isn’t easy when they are bad people who terrorize you emotionally. I feel bad for Tonya. She couldn’t catch a break.

[@hibrida9]

Tonya todo mi apoyo y admiracion para ti ♥️

[@texasranger793]

Sorry but im team Tonya here.