Let's talk about Tonya Harding

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  1. KingSpeed

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    A movie is being made about her. For all you Portlanders, what do you remember about her story? Any inside info?
     
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    Tonya grew up with few, if any, good role models in her life, and leave it there.
     
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    Jeff Galooley/Stone is a piece of chit.
     
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    Stood behind Tonya in line at a car repair shop about 20 years ago. Back in the day she had a world class derrière (an 11 outta 10) but had a voice that was worse than fingernails on a blackboard. She also acted like she deserved special treatment. Scenery aside, it was not a pleasant wait. I can only imagine what she could have achieved if all that talent hadn't been hampered by ten cent brain....
     
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    Who?
     
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    It's ice skating, man. What could she really have achieved?
     
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    I think she lived behind my HS (Jesuit) when all that shit was going down.
     
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    ^This. I've heard the name but I have no idea who she is or what she did.
     
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    I think pretty much everything is out there. In retrospect, I think the best thing about Tonya Harding was by the comedian Brett Butler..... "if your name's Tonya your probably not supposed to amount to much."
     
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    Just did a Wikipedia search on her, seems like one crazy broad. Fun fact, my dad attended David Douglas at the same time she did.
     
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    Remember the letter that was the downfall of Harding found at a downtown (Dockside) dive bar?

    For whatever reason developers opted to keep it:

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    Just curious, was she buying a tire iron?
     
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    She was the first US women skater to land a triple axel in competition. She was poor and from Oregon and made her own costumes. Someone bashed her main competition, Nancy Kerrigan, in the 1994 Olympics in the knee. Allegedly, her boyfriend arranged it. It was a HUGE story back then. Everyone tuned into that Olympics and neither Tonya or Nancy won. You should read up about it.
     
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    Didn't she take up female boxing at one point after skating dumped her?
     
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    Alledgedly? Jeff Gilooly/Stone plead guilty.
     
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    I believe she was returning one. Said something about it not getting the job done.......:dunno:
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    If you watched late night TV in the mid-90's, Amy Fisher/Joey Buttafuoco, Harding/Gillooly, and OJ Simpson were the jokes every night.
     
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    There's a good 30/30 on Netflix about her. Beyond that, I have no idea why there needs to be more said on the matter.
     
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    Yeah, she had her debut bout at Chinook Winds in Lincoln City.
     
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