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By:
Lori
When: 12 Jan 13 16:32
27.22 vs 27.92 (Ana leads)
By:
Lori
When: 12 Jan 13 16:33
Big drify on Ana?
By:
RichyH
When: 12 Jan 13 16:34
That BDO Men semi Final averages, Mitchell doesn't even average that when it's just his Dog watching
By:
cjoffy1
When: 12 Jan 13 16:34
yeah the daughter is a proper annoying little c***
By:
TheMadness
When: 12 Jan 13 16:34
They're probably threatening Ana backstage now
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:35
ha ha Olly Croft is attacking her as if Ana is Nancy Kerrigan Laugh
By:
the silverback
When: 12 Jan 13 16:35
Good question Richy. Not sure.
By:
Lori
When: 12 Jan 13 16:36
Laugh That whole Kerrigan thing still makes me laugh every single time I think about it.
By:
RichyH
When: 12 Jan 13 16:36
This is pretty much 50/50 to me
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:36
Most definitely. Shut up Mitchell you nob
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:37
Completely bizarre Lori I was young when it happened but still remember it now
By:
Lori
When: 12 Jan 13 16:37
He does say that a lot
By:
RichyH
When: 12 Jan 13 16:37
Laugh
By:
RichyH
When: 12 Jan 13 16:37
What happened with Kerrigan?
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:37
Green's just bokked us
By:
the silverback
When: 12 Jan 13 16:37
haha Green.
By:
TheMadness
When: 12 Jan 13 16:37
Come on Ana. Slow play her Laugh
By:
noadis
When: 12 Jan 13 16:37
Good call on Rochdale HH, wd.  Followed your advice on the overs & the late goal made it all worthwhile Wink
By:
the silverback
When: 12 Jan 13 16:38
Did I misinterpret what he said.
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:38
Harding became notorious in conjunction with the January 6, 1994 attack on her competitor Nancy Kerrigan. The widely publicized attack took place during a practice session for the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. Her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her bodyguard, Shawn Eckhardt,[3] hired Shane Stant to break Kerrigan's right leg so that she would be unable to skate. He followed her to Detroit after failing to find her at her training rink in Massachusetts, and struck her on the thigh a few inches above the knee with a tire iron from a rental car.[25] Her leg was only bruised, not broken, but the injury forced her to withdraw from the national championship. Harding won that event, and they both were selected for the 1994 Olympic team. After Harding admitted to helping to cover up the attack, the USFSA and United States Olympic Committee initiated proceedings to remove her from the Olympic team, but she retained her place after threatening legal action.[26] She finished eighth in Lillehammer, while Kerrigan, by then fully recovered from the injury, won the silver medal.
The attack on Kerrigan and the news of Harding's alleged involvement led to a media frenzy of saturation news coverage. She appeared on the cover of both Time and Newsweek magazines in January 1994. Reporters and TV news crews attended her practices in Portland and camped out in front of Kerrigan's home. CBS assigned Connie Chung to follow her every move in Lillehammer. Counting 400 members of the press jammed into the practice rink in Norway, Scott Hamilton complained that "the world press was turning the Olympics into just another sensational tabloid event".[27] The tape-delayed broadcast of the short program at the Olympics remains one of the most watched telecasts in American history.[28]
On February 1, 1994, Gillooly accepted a plea bargain in exchange for his testimony against Harding. Gillooly, Stant, Eckhardt, and getaway car driver Derrick Smith all served time in prison for the attack.[29] Eckhardt was sentenced to 18 months in prison for racketeering but was released four months early in September 1995.[3]
Harding avoided further prosecution and a possible jail sentence by pleading guilty on March 16 to conspiring to hinder prosecution of the attackers.[30] She received three years probation, 500 hours of community service and a $160,000 fine. As part of the plea bargain, she was also forced to withdraw from the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships and resign from the USFSA.[31] On June 30, 1994, after conducting its own investigation of the attack, the USFSA stripped her of her 1994 U.S. Championships title and banned her for life from participating in USFSA-run events as either a skater or a coach.[32] The USFSA concluded that she knew about the attack before it happened and displayed "a clear disregard for fairness, good sportsmanship and ethical behavior". Although the USFSA has no control over professional skating events, she was also persona non grata on the pro circuit because few skaters and promoters would work with her. Consequently, she failed to benefit from the pro skating boom that ensued in the aftermath of the scandal.[27]
Harding continued to maintain that she was innocent and professed her disgust with the attack, even going so far as to get an angel tattooed on her lower back, allegedly as a symbol of her innocence[citation needed]. In her 2008 autobiography, The Tonya Tapes, she said that she wanted to call the FBI to reveal what she knew, but refused when Gillooly allegedly threatened her with death following a gunpoint gang rape by him and two other men she did not know. He subsequently changed his name to Jeff Stone and called the allegations "utterly ridiculous".[4] Eckhardt, who legally changed his name to Brian Sean Griffith following his release from jail, died of natural causes at age 40 on December 12, 2007.[3]
By:
me buddy
When: 12 Jan 13 16:38
What were this afternoons averages in the first semi,TA..
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:38
I fancy Lisa but not like that
By:
GoldCupWinner
When: 12 Jan 13 16:39
Couldn't see that option Lori. I just turned off auto spell checking altogether instead.
By:
Lori
When: 12 Jan 13 16:39
1.01 Didn't die of natural causes
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:39
Feck off Ashton
By:
TheMadness
When: 12 Jan 13 16:39
Come on Ana
By:
RichyH
When: 12 Jan 13 16:40
ffs
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:40
triffic stuff
By:
TheMadness
When: 12 Jan 13 16:40
He looks happy Laugh
By:
RichyH
When: 12 Jan 13 16:40
You just knew when Green said that we were  fookeed
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:40
Olly looked delighted there
By:
STEPTOES YARD
When: 12 Jan 13 16:40
crofty seething
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:40
Is Croft alive?
By:
Lori
When: 12 Jan 13 16:40
I presume he's going to kidnapp the daughter for letting the BDO down if she loses.
By:
cjoffy1
When: 12 Jan 13 16:41
the daughter is actually vile......
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:41
Ha ha ha Lori
By:
Lori
When: 12 Jan 13 16:41
Which is probably why she's losing.
By:
TheMadness
When: 12 Jan 13 16:41
Pretty good on the trebles Lisa
By:
happyhibee
When: 12 Jan 13 16:41
Does Charlie Slater live at lakeside?
By:
cjoffy1
When: 12 Jan 13 16:41
praying ana wins now so the little troll doesnt get any more tv time....
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