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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Potential spoiler alert here, so don't read this particular post if you plan to see the movie:

NP here.  Just saw the movie and had to chime in.  At the time of the occurance, I thought Harding was 100% guilty.  The movie (if you choose to see it, I understand if you do not) is convincing, in making Harding seem to perhaps not know about the exact plan.

If you tend to root for the underdog, you will like this movie, and how it was done.

I have to chime in about whether you could "tell" about "class" at the time.  Truth is, you would have had to be blind to not have been on team Nancy when this whole thing happened.  There was no doubt that Tonya was raised in a broken home (or whatever you choose to call it); and yes, you could actually tell by looking at them.  They were judged by how they carried themselves, however inaccurate (turns out, as we now know, Kerrigan's life was far from perfect).  In retrospect, it is hard not to be on Team Tonya now, having seen things play out. [/quote]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  She now says that she "overheard" her exhusband and his henchman discussing attacking Kerrigan but, of course, Tonya had nooooo idea what the exact plans were. Uh huh.

I've got a bridge to sell ya too, pp.

Seriously.  Google "Elaine Zayak 1994 comeback youtube" for the real scoop.  She talks about who the ladies in the locker room immediately suspected was behind the attack on Kerrigan.  She starts talking about that around 7:37 in the video.

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PP here.  For some reason, maybe I wasn't such a big skating fan, but I don't remember Zayak as a skater.  Nor do I recall Oksana, the first time (I think) I saw her was in the Swam Lake costume and I remember being so impressed (and glad she won - was winning later?). I don't think Zayak's interview sheds too much light on the attack.  Of course everyone thought it was Tanya, at the time, which tells me it probably was (i.e. that Tonya was involved in one way or another - the movie made it seem like Jeff would have done anything for her). I really appreciate how the movie portrays that side as a bunch of (as they put it) "boobs".  LOL.  Because that is what they were. I have seen on or two people like that in my life and they were almost exactly identical! LOL.[/quote]

Zayak's comeback story was overshadowed by the whole Harding henchmen fiasco.  But Zayak had quite an accomplished figure skating record in the 80's and when she came back 10 years later to skate at Nationals that was a pretty big deal...then Harding's people attacked Kerrigan and that was THE story.  Oksana is a skater from the Ukraine.  I don't recall if I saw her skate before the Olympics or not but she had brilliant performances at the Olympics.  I do think she deserved the gold even though Kerrigan was right up there with her.[/quote]

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