3 thoughts on “In the spirit of the Olympics, become a Tanya Harding apologist. (I totally am.)”
I agree the way she was treated is really shitty, both before & after all that happened. And the weird image thing in figure skating is horrible, but unfortunately true.
Word. Have you ever read ‘Little Girls in Pretty Boxes?’ Pretty good about ice-skating and gymnastics and that image weirdness and everything.
I was the biggest Tonya Harding fan I knew, and I am absolutely reveling in all this anniversary coverage and the documentary (documentaries?) and the Believer piece and everything else. Also, I lived down the hall from the writer of that Deadspin piece in college and I kind of can’t believe we never talked about this back then.
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I agree the way she was treated is really shitty, both before & after all that happened. And the weird image thing in figure skating is horrible, but unfortunately true.
Word. Have you ever read ‘Little Girls in Pretty Boxes?’ Pretty good about ice-skating and gymnastics and that image weirdness and everything.
I was the biggest Tonya Harding fan I knew, and I am absolutely reveling in all this anniversary coverage and the documentary (documentaries?) and the Believer piece and everything else. Also, I lived down the hall from the writer of that Deadspin piece in college and I kind of can’t believe we never talked about this back then.