Last night's chapter of ESPN's documentary series 30 for 30 was assuredly one of the greatest of all time. The Price of Gold, directed by Nanette Burstein, took us aback to the winter of 1994 and the adverse adventure of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. Twenty years later, the Biggie vs. Tupac of women's sports still hasn't absent a atom of its ballsy ability to shock and terrify. Harding, who was kicked out of skating anon afterwards attaining all-around infamy, is defiant, unrepentant and even added in abnegation than she could've possibly seemed at the acme of the kneecapping aspersion that continues to ascertain her. Here are a few highlights:
22 Biggest Sports Controversies of 2013
Best amateur cliche put-down of Tonya Harding by a skating expert: "An animal duckling with a coiled hair from the amiss ancillary of the tracks."
Saddest moment: Footage of a adolescent Harding calling her calumniating mom afterwards a acknowledged antagonism and accepting castigated for a aberration during her routine. "What a bitch," Tonya says, blind up.
Best outfit: The hot blush dress Harding has to sew herself because she can't allow to buy a altered one. A adjudicator tells her that if she wears the dress to addition antagonism she'll be kicked out of skating. Harding responds, "I told them, if you can appear up with $5,000 for a apparel for me, again I will not accept to accomplish it."
Best quote: Harding on Kerrigan: "She's a princess. I'm a section of crap."
Best idiot: Harding's bedmate Jeff Gillooly. His name became a verb. His mustache should've become a noun: "A Keith Hernandez porn 'stache, alone sleazier."
Weirdest likeness: Shawn Eckhardt, the 300-pound aggressor who conspired with Gillooly to yield out Kerrigan, looks like a cretin adaptation of D. Boon from Eighties indie-rock greats the Minutemen.
Best beggarly babe who isn't Tonya Harding: Connie Chung, who ancestor up in the doc as a talking head.
Best off-ice feud: Harding's battles with her own hairstyles. She makes Hillary Clinton's early-Nineties hair wars attending like backyard squirt-gun fights. If she assuredly acreage on the astringent ponytail pull-back it's the hair agnate of acid your losses and affairs the troops out of Vietnam.
Best backbiting moment from an FBI guy: "You accept to be a addle-pate to expedition beyond the country to do a hit and put it all on Visa"
Best soul-wrenching GIF to be: "Why! Why! Why!" In the account of sports footage Kerrigan's afflicted bawl afterwards the advance is the Zapruder blur beyond with the Hindenburg disaster, if those films aswell had complete and a active annotation by the victim.
Best moment of quiet pathos: Kerrigan giving an ad-lib columnist appointment outdoors in cautiously falling snow anon afterwards her attack. If asked if she could brainstorm why anyone would try to aching her, she answers, afterwards missing a beat, "I can't anticipate that viciously."
Most surreal moment: Harding skating beyond the ice in mascara-smearing tears aggravating to get a do-over from the Olympic board at the amateur in Lillehammer, Norway, because her skate applique broke.
Most gangsta moment: Kerrigan makes her boastful acknowledgment to skating at the 1994 U.S. Nationals cutting the aforementioned dress she wore if she was attacked. Harding: "That's rude."
Most batty affair Harding says: Harding on Kerrigan's balmy breakdown afterwards missing out on the gold at the 1994 Olympics, six weeks afterwards getting attacked: "I've never said this before, but shut up."
Best heavy-handed symbolism: The blue-collar sociopath.
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