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RE: Does Tonya Harding Deserve a Makeover From the History Books?

in #sports7 years ago

I remember, even at my young age at the time this happened, thinking how ridiculous people's obsession with this was. It's telling that the arguably most important story during the time, the Whitewater Scandal, is a sidenote on one of the covers you show above. People have always reliably been more obsessed with sporting events and other tribal rivalries than the rulers who ruin their own lives. Bread and circuses.

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Yeah, the coverage was terrible. You couldn't get away from it at the time. It was everywhere and we just wanted this dumb story to be done already. I sure never saw myself writing something about it, but plenty of additional information to add in there since 1994. And a story like this ripens with age.

I must have been too young when this happened to remember. Crazy story... all for fame?

All for winning.