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Tonya Harding

dorispulaski

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Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater, retired boxer, and reality television personality. She has a son, Gordon. Her wikipedia article reports the details of the Nancy Kerrigan attack and its aftermath. As a skater, Tonya won 1991 U.S. Nationals, and won the silver medal at 1991 Worlds. She finished first at 1994 U.S.Nationals, but USFSA invalidated that win. In skating, she was the first woman to land a triple Axel double toe combination, and the first to land a triple Axel in the short program. She also was the first to land triple flip double loop in competition.

Tonya has lived a highly publicized life, starting with the documentary "Sharp Edges" made in 1986 (when Tonya was 15, and was competing at her first US Nationals) by filmmaker Sandra Luckow. The film was Luckow's senior-thesis project for her Film studies major at Yale University. Luckow was Harding's childhood friend, and the documentary followed Harding and her coaches to Uniondale, New York, as she competed in the February 1986 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. The film features interviews with Harding, her mother and coaches, discussing her career in figure skating. This video is available on Amazon. It had been aired in a partial form on cable TV in 1986/87, where I chanced to see it.

Most recently, Tonya's life was the subject of the 2017 black comedy, "I, Tonya," which received multiple Oscar nominations. The Golden Skate thread discussing the movie is here:
2017
https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?65433-I-Tonya&highlight=Tonya

Many of the details from "I, Tonya" were clearly taken from "Sharp Edges," including Tonya's mother LaVona appearing in a fur coat with a parrot on her shoulder.

Some less well known incidents in Tonya's life:

On October 29, 1996, Harding received media attention after using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to help revive an 81-year-old woman, Alice Olson, who collapsed at a bar in Portland while playing video poker.

She participated in Dancing With the Stars, finishing third, and won Worst Cooks in America, and donated her prize to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

On August 12, 2009, Harding set a new land speed record for a vintage gas coupe with a speed of 97.177 mph (156.391 km/h; 43.442 m/s) driving a 1931 Ford Model A, named Lickity-Split, on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Her setting of that land speed record was featured on an episode of "TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest..." that focused on "Record Breakers. Tonya became a commentator on that show in 2008.


Biographical Information & Social Media

Tonya's Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding

Tonya videos from her post-skating life
http://www.tonyaharding.org/movies/index.html

Tonya's Facebook
https://m.facebook.com/pg/TheTonyaHarding/videos/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0

Tonya's website.
http://www.tonyaharding.com



COMPETITIVE PROGRAMS

1985-1986

1985 Olympic Festival.SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXiHaW4c8Is

1986 US Championships documentary, "Sharp Edges" a movie, directed by Sandra Luckow as her senior-thesis project at Yale
Her figures, SO, and FS are included, but it Is not available on youtube at this time.

It can be viewed on Amazon Prime.

https://www.amazon.com/Sharp-Edges-Tonya-Harding/dp/B07F7Q8SMJ
Review of Sharp Edges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT88IwElpyA

1986-1987
1986 Skate America FS
Arthur Fiedler's "Best Of" Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJuZuqr8nXQ&list=PL652DE1A50195442A&index=22
1986 Skate America
99 Luftballons by Nena EX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c10kWro6pzk

1987-1988
1987 NHK SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC3xshNNvRQ
1987 NHK FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUUDmn0lvo
1987 NHK EX When You Wish Upon a Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU9K1W6w-Vw

1988-1989
1989 US Nationals SP
William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoM0Ith-j_Q
1989 US Nationals FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFdoiXH3cgc&list=PL004FFCD5F4C93D6F&index=12

1989-1990
1989 Skate America SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVUiAAY-yOo
1989 Skate America FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwFKjnJEXsI
1989 Skate America EX
"I've Had) The Time of My Life;" performed by Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsnUKwHUo90

1990 US Nationals SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKBR-JeVB4Q
1990 US Nationals FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWezStZakZE

1990-1991
1990 Olympic Festival FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivAE6r_L7kw

1990 NHK SP
"Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riqsndWW8yU
1990 NHK FS
"Send in the Clowns"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kelvlfRkZ8

1991 US Nationals FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIGoWGjetog

1991 Worlds SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPS1bhAj6c
1991 Worlds FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDcJQ1hZ32g

1991-1992
1991 Skate America SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgBpDDjZAx8
1991 Skate America FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOP3Dj0DraQ
EX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zswg1FPaDQI
Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C60t16rzg3Q

1992 US Nationals SP
"People Are Stll Having Sex" by Tone Loc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxoq6CiERf0
1992 US Nationals FS
Robin Hood soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqP_lTDFJTg

1992 Olympics SP
"People Are Stll Having Sex" by Tone Loc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-1CB8FTEqE
1992 Olympics FS
Robin Hood soundtrack; Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile) by Gato Barbieri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLawwiG3WFk
1992 Olympics EX
"Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzWMsH1xvy4

1992 Worlds SP
"Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1WMW6ZQWnQ
1992 Worlds FS
Robin Hood soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLzxXqhNIj4


1992-1993
1992 Skate Canada LP
Robin Hood soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0HnEE1LN4M
1992 Skate Canada EX
"Against All Odds" by Phil Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPBkA5H0JY

1992 ProAm Technical Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h71k-U5aBDU
1992 ProAm Artistic Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR9-5aKgYog

1993 US Nationals SP (no sound)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQA_PJS5syA
1993 US Nationals FS
Robin Hood soundtrack; Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile) by Gato Barbieri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMCk8pxx1tg

1993-1994
1993 Skate America SP
Much Ado About Nothing soundtrack by David Snell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ9jDIt7_mA
1993 Skate America FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyhLt-xJRbo

1994 US Nationals SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPEIbrKS8m4
1994 US Nationals FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3wfA4lrxNs

1994 Olympic SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RwYkr-NEE
1994 Olympics FS Part One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms5Xk2vobiM
1994 Olympics FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63flkf3S1bE

Later

1999 Pro Skating Championships SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3btztipAXAM
1999 Pro Skating Championshs FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN02COyzcZc

All Dancing With The Stars performances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol7jdjhh_MI

Tonya Harding Tells RuPaul How She Learned to Love Herself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlEAA0Iq58U

RuPaul Shares the Photo That Brought Tonya Harding to Tears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFLQY4JYmbI




COMPETITIVE HISTORY


1985–86CFSPFSFinal (TFP)
1986 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP]12566th
1985 U.S. Olympic Festival[SUP][37][/SUP]---5th
1986–87
1987 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP]---5th
1986 Skate America---2nd
1987–88
1988 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP]8945th
1987 NHK Trophy-233rd (3.8)
1988–89
1989 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP]4333rd
1988 Prize of Moscow News[SUP][35][/SUP]---1st
1989–90
1990 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP]32107th
1989 Skate America-111st (1.5)
1989 Nations Cup---1st
1990–91
1991 World Championships-222nd (3.0)
1991 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP]-211st
1990 NHK Trophy-222nd (3.0)
1990 U.S. Olympic Festival[SUP][37][/SUP]---2nd
1991–92
1992 World Championships-466th (8.0)
1992 Winter Olympics344th (7.0)
1992 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP]---3rd
1991 Skate America---1st
1992–93
1993 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP]---4th
1992 Skate Canada International---4th
1993–94
1994 Winter Olympics---8th (12.0)
1994 U.S. Championships[SUP][36][/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP]-111st[SUP][/SUP]
1993 Skate America3rd
1993 NHK Trophy-744th (7.5)
 
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dorispulaski

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I enjoyed rewatching Tonya's videos, especially those from the 1980's.

And I streamed Sharp Edges (the 1986 documentary about Tonya) from Amazon. Those of you who watched I, Tonya might well be interested. I was. Definitely worth the 99 cents I paid to watch it.
 

el henry

Go have some cake. And come back with jollity.
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Whatever you think about Tonya, what a career.

And what an amazing amount of work:clap:
 

dorispulaski

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....:slink: I thought LaVona with the fur coat and parrot was part of the comedy in I, Tonya, but it was for realz :jaw:
 
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demarinis5

Gold for the Winter Prince!
Record Breaker
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Thanks Doris. I was a fan of so many US skaters back in the day and Tonya was one of many ladies whose skating I enjoyed.
 
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