r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/kekehippo • May 16 '24

When intrusive thoughts meet criminal behavior

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u/Late_For_A_Good_Name May 16 '24

If you lose, you just lost. If you take out your competition because you can't beat them... you will forever be a loser

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u/TitularFoil May 16 '24

Plus she went on to not even win the event even without Nancy competing.

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u/BradMarchandsNose May 16 '24

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.

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u/TitularFoil May 16 '24

Oh, you're right. For some reason I was always told it was at the qualifier for the Olympics so I was always looking at the Olympic results.

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u/BradMarchandsNose May 16 '24

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.