Pulling a powerful potential enemy to your side is a political triple
axel if you can land it — but utterly infuriating to committed liberals (The arrangement eventually sputtered as Cuomo tacked left, and Dicker retired last year.)
Not exact matches
If «I, Tonya» is supposed to be a corrective to two decades of tabloid fascination with Harding and her role in the assault of figure skating competitor Nancy Kerrigan — as characters frequently break the fourth wall to tell us, either in faux - documentary interview sequences or in the middle of scenes — it doesn't quite stick the landing of that particular triple
axel.
Even
if much of it was to nurture the natural skating talent Tonya had (she was one of the only skaters in the world to consistently complete triple
axels), none of this happened without causing severe damage.
Who cared that she was the first woman to land a triple
axel in competition
if she didn't look pretty while she did it?