Redneck Athlete of The Century

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I was just watching a program titled "20 Acts Of love Gone Wrong," on the "E" Channel. An LA Times Columnist named Bill Plaschke, called Tonya Harding the "Redneck Athlete of The Century." Another commentator said that she had "never seen an athlete make so many mistakes and get so many second chances, and then make the same mistakes."

There you have it. Tonya Harding is the worst behaved and most criminally inclined athlete of the century.
 

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HAHAHA. Yea right Tonya Harding. What about Michael Vick, Tank Johnson, Barry Bonds, and and Pacman Jones. These columnists are an absolute joke.
 

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Absolutely no mention of a certain former USC and Buffalo Bills running back with regards to the biggest criminal athlete of the past century is an exercise in futility.
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Lance Alworth

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I'm surprised they didn't mention John Rocker. He was found guilty of the unspeakable, heinous crime of telling the truth about what is wrong with this country.
 
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JoeV said:
Absolutely no mention of a certain former USC and Buffalo Bills running back with regards to the biggest criminal athlete of the past century is an exercise in futility.
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The program didn't mention O.j. Simpson, but did Rae Carruth. The aforementioned Bill Plaschke was much kinder to Carruth than he was to Tonya Harding. He said wistfully, "How could Rae look at that in his rear-view mirror."
 

Weltner

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Jack Johnson, the original,rotten,racist black "athlete".

Muhomo Ali(ar)
Mike Tyson
Hurricane Carter
Kobe
Deion Sanders
Jim Brown
Hollywood Henderson
Jackie Robinson
Duane Thomas
Dick Allen
Roberto Clemente
Pele
Several black players in the old ABA
Ray Lewis
Lawrence Taylor
John Carlos and Tommy Smith
Ben Johnson
John Thompson
Michael Graham( Brainless thug,and thug player for '84 NCAA "champ" Georgetown, ended up in jail,not surprisingly )

Just to name a few of thousands....

EVERY SINGLE black that hypnotizes a White Women,and 1)marries her, destroying her soul,or 2)impregnates her,then flees immediately,leaving her to raise the illegitemate,bastard mulatto devil( Textbook black african pathology - See: Kemp,Sean/Thomas,Derrick/Dorsett,Tony/Barkeley,Charles/Ervin g,Julius/Sanders,Deion/Walker,Herschel/ and on and on )



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ToughJ.Riggins

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Weltner said:
Jack Johnson, the original,rotten,racist black "athlete".

Muhomo Ali(ar)
Mike Tyson
Hurricane Carter
Kobe
Deion Sanders
Jim Brown
Hollywood Henderson
Jackie Robinson
Duane Thomas
Dick Allen
Roberto Clemente
Pele
Several black players in the old ABA
Ray Lewis
Lawrence Taylor
John Carlos and Tommy Smith
Ben Johnson
John Thompson
Michael Graham( Brainless thug,and thug player for '84 NCAA "champ" Georgetown, ended up in jail,not surprisingly )

Just to name a few of thousands....


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Ah, Hurricane Carter "of the Bob Dylan Song" was innocent. Every movie Hollywood makes is the 100% truth.
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* Skating magazine reported that at Skate America in 1991, Harding was stranded in heavy traffic just before her event was scheduled to begin, and had to hitch a ride with people who drove her backwards through traffic to the arena.
* In the short program at the 1993 U.S. Championships, Harding had to ask permission from the referee to restart her program after the back of her dress came unhooked as she began to skate.
* At 1993 Skate America, Harding stopped midway through her free skate and complained to the referee that her skate blade had become loose. She was allowed to resume her program after her blades were checked by a skate technician.
* In late 1993, Harding was scheduled to compete in a regional qualifying competition for the U.S. Championships. However, before the event, its organizers received an anonymous telephoned bomb threat against Harding, which led the United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA) to excuse her from having to qualify. Morry Stillwell, former USFSA president, later asserted in a Usenet posting[3] that the FBI had evidence that Harding herself participated in making the threat.
* The medal ceremony at the 1994 U.S. Championships had to be delayed because Harding could not be found backstage after the competition.
* At the 1994 Winter Olympics, Harding almost failed to appear on the ice when her name was called for the free skating because she was scrambling to replace a broken lace. The replacement lace turned out to be too short, and after missing the opening jump in her program she again had to ask the referee for permission to restart.

Many observers in the skating world, including Scott Hamilton,[4] felt that Harding was deliberately trying to sabotage her career by making excuses for failure. In addition to the incidents listed above, following her 1991 success, she went through a series of coaching changes (at one point she was even attempting to coach herself), and she arrived so late for the competition at the 1992 Olympic Games that her performance was affected by jet lag. In spite of the publicity she received about being handicapped by asthma, she also smoked.

Source: Wikipedia

Did she suffer from mental problems? bi-polar?
She sounds like she was depressed. She certainly had low-self esteem.
 
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