{"id":10422,"date":"2014-01-15T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:40:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-15T18:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:40:06","slug":"espn_makes_victim_of_tonya_harding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/15\/espn_makes_victim_of_tonya_harding\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Makes Victim of Tonya Harding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: “Just weeks before the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer<\/a>, figure-skating darling Nancy Kerrigan was whacked on the knee by an unknown assailant wielding a club,” shortly after a practice session on the ice. She was coming off the ice, and the assailant ran up and whacked her on the knee, injuring her severely. <\/p>\n

This “attack later revealed to have been plotted by the husband of Kerrigan\u2019s rival, Tonya Harding. The tabloid-ready story had all the hallmarks of a soap opera: A classically beautiful brunette from the Northeast,” very aristocratic-looking, Kerrigan — and then you had on the other side, Tonya Harding, “trailer trash.” Well, that\u2019s what the Northeastern sect would think. A “scrappy blonde tomboy from the wrong side of the tracks ” is how ESPN describes her. <\/line><\/p>\n

“A back-stabbing plot to literally eliminate the competition. And six weeks for Kerrigan to come back from her injury and go for Olympic gold against Harding.” So 20 years later, “Price of Gold, a documentary premiering 9 p.m. Thursday on ESPN, is taking a new look at the scandal so bizarre that nothing in sports has topped it since. ‘Occasionally athletes try to injure a competitor on the field, but it certainly never happens off the field,\u2019 says Price of Gold director Nannette Burstein.<\/p>\n

“‘For it to have occurred in a sport that\u2019s all about grace and poise and beauty seemed particularly shocking.'” Now, if you were gonna do a documentary on this episode, upon whom would you focus? If you\u2019re gonna pick one (if you\u2019re not gonna focus on both of them, if you\u2019re gonna pick one), who would you focus on? (interruption) You would? You would focus on the perp? (interruption) Well, okay, that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing.<\/line>