From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding, and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite being naturally gifted in the sport athletically.
Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to "the incident": the January 6, 1994 leg-bashing attack on her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan--who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure-skating community wanted in their representatives.
Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya's story from the beginning of her figure-skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented.
Besides Tonya herself, key people in her life give their perspective of their role in her life. Although they may agree on the broad issues at hand, such as that the incident did occur, they may vary widely in their recollection of the details.
These people are: her waitress mother Lavona Golden, who despite having paid for her expensive figure-skating lessons, was abusive toward her physically and emotionally, never believing she was good enough in any aspect of the word, and who pulled her from school to focus solely on the figure skating; Diane Rawlinson, her first and longest-serving coach, who, for good or bad, largely let Tonya be Tonya in the way she presented herself to the figure skating world; Jeff Gillooly, her first husband, and partner in a turbulent relationship on a need to be loved, perhaps without truly loving each other; Jeff's friend and Tonya's bodyguard Shawn Eckardt, a dim bulb who believed himself to be a bigger player in the big scheme of life than he actually was; and sports journalist Martin Maddox, a fictional character who provides general commentary of what the sports media as a collective wanted out of Tonya and the incident.
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Moi, Tonya
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Fair to Love Me
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Mark Batson:
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Devil Woman
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Hey Mama Keep Your Mouth Shut
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Shining Star
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Spirit In The Sky
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Shooting Star
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Romeo and Juliet
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The Four Seasons - Summer - 3rd Movement
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Antonio Vivaldi:
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Sleeping Bag
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Can't You See
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Just Dance
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Calvin Samuel:
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Dream A Little Dream
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Mysterious Night
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Party King
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William Bergman:
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Feels Like The First Time
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Little Girl Bad
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Free Your Mind
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Every 1's A Winner
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Goodbye Stranger
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How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
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Barracuda
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Get It Get It
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Gloria
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Gone Daddy Gone
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Chinese Province
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Jakko M. Jakszyk:
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25 or 6 to 4
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The Chain
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Hey Mama, Keep Your Mouth Shut
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Can't You See?
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Goodbye, Stranger
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How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
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Get It, Get It
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Kenny Moron:
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Gone, Daddy, Gone
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A Dante Symphony S109 1 Inferno DG
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Franz Liszt:
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Splitting Hairs
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West Dylan Thordson:
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The Passenger
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Iggy Pop:
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People are Still Having Sex
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Take a Shot at Love
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Norman Greenbaum:
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Can't You See?
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Toy Caldwell Jr.:
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Every 1's a Winner
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Errol Brown:
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Fair to Love Me (Mark Batson)
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Peter Nashel:
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Devil Woman (Cliff Richard)
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Peter Nashel:
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Shooting Star (Bad Company)
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Peter Nashel:
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Romeo And Juliet (Dire Straits)
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Peter Nashel:
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A Fair Shot (Peter Nashel)
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Peter Nashel:
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Free Your Mind (En Vogue)
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Peter Nashel:
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Goodbye Stranger (Supertramp)
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Peter Nashel:
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How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Chris Stills)
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Peter Nashel:
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The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
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Peter Nashel:
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The Incident (Peter Nashel)
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Peter Nashel:
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Barracuda (Heart)
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Peter Nashel:
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Gloria (Laura Branigan)
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Peter Nashel:
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Gone Daddy Gone (Violent Femmes)
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Peter Nashel:
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Dream a Little Dream of Me (with Paul Weston & His Music from Hollywood) (Doris Day)
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Peter Nashel:
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The Passenger (Siouxsie And The Banshees)
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Peter Nashel:
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Tonya Suite (Peter Nashel)
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Peter Nashel:
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