Tonya Harding Says Media Spotlight Sank Her After Nancy Kerrigan Attack

[WoodysGirl]

Exactly 20 years have passed since champion figure skater Tonya Harding became infamous after her ex-husband was involved in an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan, and Harding is now saying the media attention just became too much for her.

"Trying to train in front of everyone was so much mania," Harding, now 43, said in an interview with for ESPN Films' "The Price of Gold." "Every time I'd jump they would all flash, I would fall on my face and hurt myself a couple of times. It just started becoming really impossible just to even concentrate on anything."

The media frenzy following the attack on Kerrigan, who was widely favored to win a medal at the Winter Olympics in 1994, brought the spotlight squarely upon Harding, who denied any involvement in the plot to attack Kerrigan to increase her own odds of getting Olympic gold.

"I just couldn't believe what was being said and stuff," Harding said. "I never met or talked to-didn't even know the other person involved," she said.

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[ABQCOWBOY]

Well, that's kinda how it works when you plan to take a led pipe to the knees of an Olympic Skater.

I'm sure nobody was more shocked about this, then was ole Tanya.

 

[03EBZ06]

I thought she was involved in scheme to attack Kerrigan then and I still do.

 

[casmith07]

Kind of funny how Kerrigan's career went fine and she became a well-liked personality in figure skating and Tonya Harding was boxing Paula Jones for money later.

 

[bounce]

I can't imagine how hard it was to land a jump with camera flashes going off. Probably only moderately more difficult than landing a jump after taking a tire iron to the knee.

 

[chagus]

Gee... ya think?

 

[kristie]

tonya harding is pathetic IMO.

 

[Rogah]

What with Nancy-Tonya and the Bronco chase, 1994 was a heckuva year. If the internet was widely used back then, I do believe all of society would have imploded upon itself.