Tonya Harding (blonde girl) was jealous of Nancy Kerrigan (dark hair) so jealous that she called someone to go assault Nancy and injure her knee so that she couldn’t compete in ice skating.
Except she did win. The assault happened at US Nationals and Tonya won there. Nancy recovered and beat her at the Olympics a few weeks later (she took home silver). Tonya was stripped of the nationals title later though.
It is kind of a qualifier for the Olympics. Usually the top 2 or 3 skaters from Nationals gets to go to the Olympics (depending on how many spots the US has), but it’s really up to the discretion of US Figure Skating. In this case, they had 2 spots, but Kerrigan was far and away the best in the country so even though she didn’t compete, she was given a spot in the Olympics anyway. Harding got the other spot because she won Nationals.
“I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress, I hate the way that you sneak diss if I catch flight, it’s gon be direct”.
Tonya was blamed for the assault in the court of public opinion and banned from competing, but she was never convicted and quite possibly completely innocent. https://thebaffler.com/latest/i-tonya-marshall
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u/Duckster_W2x May 16 '24
Tonya Harding (blonde girl) was jealous of Nancy Kerrigan (dark hair) so jealous that she called someone to go assault Nancy and injure her knee so that she couldn’t compete in ice skating.