Former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding is selling a book, called "The Tonya Tapes" in which she offers, for the first time, an account of why she didn't go to the authorities in 1994 when her rival Nancy Kerrigan was injured in an attack orchestrated by her husband, Jeff Gillooly. Here she is explaining it on Today:
According to Harding, she planned to go to the FBI to report Gillooly, but Gillooly and two other men then kidnapped her, held her at gunpoint, raped her and told her that they would kill her if she didn't help them lie to the authorities.
Today host Meredith Vieira responded to that with the obvious question: Why has it taken her 14 years to tell anyone about this incident? Harding answered that she was ashamed. I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of people watching the interview will conclude that this claim is nothing more than a publicity stunt aimed at selling books.
According to Harding, she planned to go to the FBI to report Gillooly, but Gillooly and two other men then kidnapped her, held her at gunpoint, raped her and told her that they would kill her if she didn't help them lie to the authorities.
Today host Meredith Vieira responded to that with the obvious question: Why has it taken her 14 years to tell anyone about this incident? Harding answered that she was ashamed. I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of people watching the interview will conclude that this claim is nothing more than a publicity stunt aimed at selling books.
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Ice skating has a tough time finding it's niche in the United States. Sure, every four years for a week it becomes big news during the Winter Olympics but otherwise the athletes of the ice find it tough to get a mention beside the big boys of American sports. Making it worse, the rare times they do get attention it tends to have nothing to do with their athletic acheivements. 
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