Sentences with phrase «triple axel»

And Robbie captures every bit of Harding's driving athleticism, the upshot of which was the first triple axel in Olympics competition history.

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.

She was once a competitive ice skater with serious promise, becoming the first American woman to land the notoriously hard triple axel jump in competition.

[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The audio of this story incorrectly states that Tonya Harding landed the first triple axel in Olympics competition history.

Famously known as the «good luck» earrings - as seen on U.S. Figure Skater Mirai Nagasu who wore these earrings when she made her historic triple axel jump at the Winter Olympics» 18.

You just witnessed a historic triple axel from Mirai Nagasu.

In case you're wondering what goes on behind the scenes during my shoots, this particular day I decided it was totally appropriate to channel my inner figure skater, attempting triple axels on pavement.

The sport's gatekeepers would surely have pushed her out at first chance were it not for the inconvenient fact that she could out - skate almost anyone; the first woman to pull off the insanely difficult triple axel, Harding rocketed up the rankings, as judges begrudgingly acknowledged her superiority.

With its convincing depictions of Margo Robbie [apparently] executing Harding's signature triple axel in mind - blowing competition figure skating sequences, «I, Tonya» (written by screenwriter Steven Rogers) adopts a narrative style that flips between direct - to - camera confessionals and straight - ahead drama.

Tonya asserts her dominance on the ice, mastering the nearly impossible triple axel, but rejecting the wholesome image of the sport with her heavy metal music and confrontational outbursts.

But I, Tonya is less interested in Harding the athlete than it is in Harding the image: the girl who, as a kid, starts wearing fake furs because it is clear that figure skating is an activity that demands you dress the part, who skates to rock music and other atypical fare (she landed that famous triple axel while skating to the music from Tim Burton's Batman), and wears purple lipstick.

Below is how the historic triple axel performance looked, as captured by a series of images by Getty photographers stationed at various points throughout Gangneung Ice Arena.

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.)

How Olympic U.S. Figure Skater Mirai Nagasu's earrings may have helped her land that legendary triple axel

Director Craig Gillespie is far more interested in Tonya's life outside the rink than in her celebrated triple axels on it.

According to Tonya Harding — the first American woman ever to land the seriously weird triple axel — nobody was ever judged harsher than Tonya Harding.

Despite winning the 1991 US Championships when she became the first woman to successfully execute the gravity - defying triple axel, Harding's place in sports history is one of ignominy because of her suspected complicity in the clumsy attempt by her abusive husband Jeff Gillooly (played by Sebastian Stan) to hobble her elegant rival Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Winter Olympics.

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.

I'm talking a tsunami of dancing — pirouetting, cartwheeling, tapping, triple axel spinning, head - over-heels hurtling — DANCING that just doesn't quit.

Tonya's famous triple axel forces judges to give her the scores she deserves, but there is a constant strain of dislike aimed at her, even when she's winning.

There is no doubt we come to understand more about Harding than the tabloid coverage of the time offered: her lower - class roots, which made her stand out among the other skaters, even as a child; her endurance of domestic abuse, first at the hands of her mother (Allison Janney) and then her eventual husband and conspirator Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan); her sheer talent, including a history - making triple axel.

Robbie's narration over a few key points (like her triumphant triple axel display) recall a few of Kidman's in Gus Van Sant's masterpiece.

Truck Driver Training takes place on triple axel Freightliner tractors with manual transmissions and full - sized trailers as well as full - sized passenger buses.

Harding is in the record books for also being the first woman to successfully execute two triple Axels in a single competition and the first to complete a triple Axel in combination with a double toe loop.

The slow - motion sequence splices together two landmark moments in the skater's infamously derailed career: the 1991 Skate America competition during which she lands her first triple axel jump and (after a judge orders her banned from competitive skating for life) a boxing match in which Harding is knocked down by her opponent, her body arcing across the air, blood gushing from her mouth as she hits the floor with a thunderous smash.

Tonya, who performed the first triple axel by a woman in competition was by all accounts one of the best.

In figure skating terms, this means that I, Tonya is attempting something closer to Harding's signature triple axel, compared to Disaster Artist's bunny hops.

Despite her terrifying mother and her mercurial husband, Harding becomes a skating sensation thanks to her athleticism and her mastery of the nigh - impossible triple axel.

Whenever I go out for an exhibition or a show, I insist that I do everything that I did as an amateur — the triple Axels and triple flips — everything.

The 24 - year - old figure skater became the first American woman to land a triple axel during Olympic competition, and it helped to earn Team USA a bronze medal in the team event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Mirai Nagasu has become the first American woman — and third overall — to land a triple axel in the Olympics, accomplishing the rare feat in the women's free skate at the team competition in Pyeongchang.

BALTIMORE — Most mathematicians are more interested in double integrals than triple axels, but one team of number crunchers is concerned that the International Skating Union's new rules for awarding marks for competitive figure skating may fall flat on their face.

Mirai Nagasu's triple axel was incredible to watch as she made history being the first US women to land the jump in the Olympics.

Tonya Harding is no angel, as the film makes clear, but we're also reminded of her grit, determination and accomplishments: The skater was the first American woman to execute a triple axel, in 1991.

Robbie's take as Harding is epic, from her broad smiles as she lands a triple axel to the pain expressed when her husband shoves her head into a wall.

Skates ready to glide through the ice, the only drama here is whether she can land that triple axel.

Harding, the movie reminds us, was a phenom, an athletic skater who was the first female to land a triple axel in competition, and, to this day, is one of only six women to do so.

Yet for millions, those triple axels were astonishing, and the ZZ Top song selections were a nice change.

It doesn't matter that she's the first woman to ever perform a triple axel during an international event, there's an artificial ceiling to her success.

By the time she reached the peak of her skills in the early 1990s, Tonya became the only American woman to land a triple axel, the most difficult triple jump in the sport.

In 1991, at the U.S. Nationals, she became the first American woman and only the second female in history to land a triple axel.

Synopsis: In 1991, talented figure skater Tonya Harding becomes the first American woman to complete a triple axel during a competition.

After conquering the triple axel — the mega-tricky jump which Harding was the first American woman ever to land — her electrified delight, arms outstretched, is a near - terrifying display of public vindication, of I - just - showed - them - that.

Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill - conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan.

An asthmatic chain smoker, Tonya Harding was the first American figure skater to conquer the triple axel at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

It's the triple axel of based - on - true - story movies.

And she was the first woman to land a triple axel.