• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    1011·
    2 days ago

    Not true, it was Tonya Harding’s boyfriend they had to worry about. All Tonya herself did was give them dirty looks during competitions.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
        181·
        2 days ago

        I was completely joking. Her boyfriend was the one that physically bludgeoned Nancy Kerrigan, but it certainly wasn’t because he’d suddenly developed a passionate interest in figure skating, I don’t think.

        • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I thought I was just continuing a bit in my other comment, but it seems you are serious… was Shane Stant, the one who broke her kneecap, Hardings boyfriend, behind her husbands back?

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            No, I was just confused between boyfriend versus husband. I didn’t pay enough attention to be properly aware of the details and made some mistakes in my summary. I think the other people with better knowledge in the comments here are the ones worth listening to.

            I tried to read up, to educate myself since I clearly am confused about aspects of it, and I got as far as:

            The attack was planned by Jeff Gillooly, then-husband of fellow American figure skater Tonya Harding, and his co-conspirator Shawn Eckardt.[1][2][3] They hired Stant and his uncle Derrick Smith to carry out the attack. Gillooly and Eckardt

            … and that was too many names, and I stopped caring.

    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Not true, it was Tonya’s bodyguard that was the true culprit. All the boyfriend did was lay out the plan, which would have been nothing without Eckardt executing it.

    • RedSnt@feddit.dkEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, she perfectly represents the values of USA in true mobster fashion.