Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Tonya Harding had talent, but the world of figure skating wanted nothing to do with her. She was called “white trash.” And when Nancy Kerrigan was bashed in the knee just before the 1994 Winter Olympics, Ms. Harding became a villain. Now, 24 years later, her narrative is being revisited — and she is back in the spotlight. Guest: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who interviewed Tonya Harding (now Tonya Price) for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The V-Line.
0:09.0	Today, the world of figure skating wanted nothing to do with her.
0:14.0	She was called White Trash.
0:17.0	And then, Nancy Carrigan was bashed in the knee, and she became a villain.
0:24.0	Now, 24 years later, her narrative is being revisited.
0:32.0	It's Wednesday, January 24th.
0:39.0	You're not Tonya Hardy.
0:40.0	Oh, you're not anymore?
0:41.0	No, I'm Tonya Price.
0:43.0	Would you like to be listed as Tonya Price?
0:45.0	Like, when I write a piece?
0:47.0	Well, everybody knows me as partying.
0:49.0	Right. Did you ever feel like, why won't you say it away?
0:55.0	No.
0:56.0	Or did you know it would never would?
0:58.0	I knew that this would be with me for the rest of my life.
1:12.0	In December, my colleague, Taffy Brodesser Ackner, took a flight to Portland, Oregon,
1:17.0	where she rented a car and drove North to Vancouver, Washington.
1:22.0	That's where she met Tonya Hardy for the first time.
1:26.0	So I went out to meet her.
1:29.0	We went to a bar in restaurant that she likes.
1:33.0	The skating themed bar and a pair of her signed ice skates hangs over the bar.
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