Sentences with phrase «female ice skater»
For those of you who don't know, Tonya Harding was the first female ice skater to land a triple axel in competition, but her legacy has been mostly overshadowed by her role in the assault on a fellow skater, Nancy Kerrigan.
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We talk about the strength of female roles this year, discussing Margot Robbie's turn as Olympic ice skater Tonya Harding in «I, Tonya.»
As a result, despite being the first American female skater to land the triple axel, something that is incredibly hard to do, she was not the type of person who the ice skating world wanted to represent them in international competitions.
Tonya didn't possess many of the qualities the snobby figure skating world expected from its stars — she was more athlete than ice capades — but her talent was undeniable when she became the first American female skater to ever land a triple axel at the 1991 World Championships.