437: Whack-Gate: The Kerrigan-Harding Olympic Scandal
Cult Liter with Spencer Henry
Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
With all the recent Olympic chatter, I thought this week we’d take a look back at one of the most notorious scandals in Olympic history…enter Tonya Harding, who skated her way to infamy.
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Sources:
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/851/1476/1622192/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/movies/tonya-harding-i-tonya-nancy-kerrigan-scandal.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/06/sports/figure-skating-lines-blur-for-kerrigan-and-harding.html
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/let-the-cult-begin-20120721-22gxf.html
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jeff-gillooly
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/14/sports/figure-skating-gillooly-sentenced-to-2-years-in-jail.html
https://www.vulture.com/2017/12/a-fact-checked-guide-whats-true-and-whats-not-in-i-tonya.html
https://www.vulture.com/2017/12/the-cult-of-tonya-harding.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_of_Nancy_Kerrigan
https://web.archive.org/web/20180713135832/
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