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In a way, the music said it all. To many, that sums up this whole Tonya-Nancy melodrama, which has gripped America since Nancy Kerrigan was whacked on the knee Jan. On Feb. But in his opening remarks, Simms shrugged and admitted somewhat disgustedly:. Simms was right.

When Margot Robbie read the script for I, Tonya , a biopic of the notorious ice skater Tonya Harding, she assumed the story was complete fiction. In , the skater was famously implicated in a plot to take down her nemesis Nancy Kerrigan after a man attacked Kerrigan with a baton. We were on location for the W shoot in Snug Harbor, a bucolic Staten Island enclave founded in the early s as a haven for old sailors. A self-described redneck from Oregon, Harding was the antithesis of the traditional superstar figure skater. She was rough and flashy, and her skating was powerful and athletic rather than graceful and balletic. Riveted by the script, Robbie immediately agreed to star in and produce the film—despite that fact that she had never figure skated in her life. And now I actually really miss it.

It was nominated for a slew of awards at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild shows, and also got three Oscar nods. The film would have gotten a lot of attention regardless, but because it was released around the same time the Winter Olympic Games came on lots of figure skating! The movie tells a slightly different story about Harding than many of us are used to hearing, which has led a lot of people to wonder how accurate I, Tonya really is.

Remember Joyce McKinney, the American Mormon beauty queen at the centre of a sex scandal back in the s, who said she would be prepared to ski naked down Everest with a rose between her teeth to please her lover? Well, unless Donald Trump actually does so on the slopes of the Yongpyong Alpine Centre, hand-in-hand with a similarly unattired North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as the highlight of the Pyeongchang Opening Ceremony, then the upcoming Winter Olympics will have no chance of pushing Premier League football, Six Nations rugby and other assorted major domestic sporting spectacles off the back pages of the British tabloids. Okay, so North and South Korea marching together and sharing a women's ice hockey team may be something of a political breakthrough in snowman's land but what the Games need to go really global is another sensation like that of years-ago leading up to Lillehammer. Then Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, United States team-mates and occasional room-mates, became names forever linked in one of the most darkly bizarre episodes in sporting history, certainly the most notorious scandal the Winter Olympics has ever known, begging the pardon of the mass doping in Sochi four years ago.