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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not one of you remembers Tonya's lousy start of her routine and then her fake claim that her "laces broke"?  Or Tonya's involvement  in "America's Dumbest ___"?  This is not a person to praise.[/quote]

Yes.  I remember the lace thing vividly.  Her leg on the wall, her face screwed up.  It was embarrassing.[/quote]

Even she knew that she had no business being there.  [/quote]

OK, skating obsessives like me will correct you on this point: Tonya ROUTINELY did break laces because of the torque involved in hitting the big jumps she hit. You can see for yourself how she describes breaking a lace in the middle of one of her Skate America wins--when she's in the Kiss and Cry area (area where you await your scores and talk with your coaches), she marvels at the fact that she was able to land jumps after breaking a lace mid-program. She broke it on a triple flip, I believe, and was able to go on and land like three more jumps.

So yes, it was crazy, and ill-timed, but anyone who had followed Tonya's career knew that she had a habit of breaking laces with her huge jumps. [/quote]

Rewatch the video of her skating before that lace break.  There were no big jumps causing that lace to break.  She skated out onto the ice and aborted an attempted jump.  She skated a little more and then she skated over to the judges box crying.  It was not obvious at all what the hell had happened to her.[/quote]

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