by Frank Coffey
Appendix B
COMPETITIVE HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS
1994 National Senior – 1st
1993 National Senior – 4th
1992 World Championships – 6th
1992 Olympic Winter Games – 4th
1992 National Senior – 3rd
1991 Skate America – 1st
1991 World Championships – 2nd
1991 National Senior – 1st
1990 NHK Trophy – 2nd
1990 Olympic Festival – 2nd
1990 National Senior – 7th
1989 Nations Cup – 1st
1989 Skate America – 1st
1989 National Senior – 3rd
1988 Prize of Moscow News – 1st
1988 National Senior – 5th
1987 NHK Trophy – 3rd
1987 La Coupe Excellence – 1st
1987 National Senior – 5th
1986 Skate America – 2nd
1986 Olympic Festival – 3rd
1986 National Senior – 6th
1985 Olympic Festival – 5th
1984 National Junior – 6th
Appendix C
NOTABLE QUOTATIONS ON THE HARDING/KERRIGAN AFFAIR
“I haven’t done anything wrong.”
—Tonya Harding
“Legally, Harding has the right to skate in Lillehammer. But she shouldn’t be there. She and her associates are an embarrassment to this country and an embarrassment to the standards of sportsmanship and fair play.”
—Dan Shaughnessy
The Boston Globe
“Tonya Harding is not a murderer, nor is she a criminal, nor is she an accomplice to a crime…. In the eyes of the law, Tonya Harding is innocent. Believe me, the FBI and the Multnomah County district attorney’s office would be happy to add her shiny blonde scalp to their collection.”
—Alex Beam
The Boston Globe
“This is not a beyond-reasonable-doubt-type prosecution. Obviously some subjective judgments will have to be made on what is sportsmanship. But there is also a lot of objective material.”
—William Hybl
Chairman, USFSA investigative panel
“Tonya Harding proves that you don’t have to be a Barbie doll to succeed in this sport. Tonya certainly is not a Barbie doll. She’s a fighter.”
—Michael Rosenberg
Harding’s former agent
“As they say around Tonya Harding’s hometown of Portland, Oregon: ‘TIM-berr!’ She has cut herself down. She has cleared herself from the Olympic forest….”
—John Jeansonne
Newsday
“I am embarrassed and ashamed that anyone close to me would be involved.”
—Tonya Harding
“I had no prior knowledge on the planned assault on Nancy Kerrigan.”
—Tonya Harding
“I am responsible, however, for failing to report things I learned about the assault when I returned home from nationals.”
—Tonya Harding
“She (Tonya) wouldn’t even hurt a fly if she couldn’t help it. She was never vicious.”
—LaVona (Harding) Golden
Tonya’s mother
“I’ve seen her mother slap her and knock her off a chair.”
—Pat Hammill
whose daughter competed with Harding
“What a bitch.”
—Tonya Harding
(at age 15, on her mother)
“She (Tonya) wouldn’t jeopardize her career like that.”
—James Golden
Tonya’s stepfather
“She’s a very driven girl, but I don’t think she’s capable of anything like that (the attack). Even if she’s as innocent as the driven snow, this will affect her reputation forever, and it’s very sad.”
—JoJo Starbuck
Professional figure skater
“She’ll never have her sponsors. Not the way the media has destroyed her.”
—LaVona Golden
“Not much anymore. It breaks my heart to say that.”
—LaVona Golden
on the gold medal’s worth to Harding
“To be honest, going to jail will be good for Jeff. At least they’ll give him three squares, a roof over his head and maybe some training. And he can’t go back to Tonya.”
—John Gillooly
brother of Jeff Gillooly
“Perhaps Kerrigan can defeat Tonya in accounting rooms in tournaments, with media favoritism and Eastern seaboard hype, but she will never defeat Tonya on the ice, at figure skating.”
—Team Tonya fan club newsletter
(excerpt from unsigned article)
“We’re not so cut-throat as a sport that we don’t recognize the right thing to do.”
—Carol Heiss Jenkins
coach of the Kerrigan/Harding
competitors, on the decision to name
Kerrigan to the Olympic team
“We might not like what she did, and we might think it is bad judgment, but it is not a crime unless there is some affirmative act on her part to conceal, to harbor someone in flight, to accept money for not talking.”
—Robert Goffredi
Portland criminal lawyer, explaining
why Harding’s admission of withholding
information about the Kerrigan case
was not a criminal act in Oregon
“She’s guiltier than hell.”
—James Golden
Harding’s estranged stepfather
“Please believe in me.”
—Tonya Harding
Appendix D
Excerpts from the United States Figure Skating Association’s Code of Conduct (which Tonya Harding signed prior to competing in the Nationals in Detroit in December):
“I will exemplify the highest standards of fairness, ethical behavior, and genuine good sportsmanship in all my relations with others.”
“I understand that if my acts, statements, or conduct are considered detrimental to the welfare of figure skating by the appropriate authority, I may be subject to penalties imposed by the USFSA (United States Figure Skating Association).”
“I understand that the penalties that may be imposed may include, but are not limited to, loss of future international selections and loss of participations in USFSA-sponsored events.”
“Any person whose acts, statements or conduct is considered detrimental to the welfare of figure skating is subject to loss of the privilege of registration by the USFSA … loss of membership privileges, suspension and expulsion.”
Members of the United States Figure Skating Association’s Investigative Panel (whose recommendation to the USFSA will likely be decisive in determining whether Tonya Harding will compete in the Olympic Games):
WILLIAM HYBL, CHAIRMAN: Former interim president of the United States Olympic Committee; former special White House counsel serving under Ronald Reagan; current president of the El Pomar corporation.
COL. KEN SCHWEITZER: Athletic director of the United States Air Force Academy.
DR. NANCY PIRO: Chairman of the USFSA Ethics Committee.
DR. SHARON WATSON: Executive Director of the Los Angeles Children’s Planning Council.
JIM CYSAN: A former figure skater, now a medical student, who will serve as “athlete representative” for the panel.
Appendix E
Organizations with jurisdictional responsibilities in the Tonya Harding case:
The United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA)
20 First Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80906
(719) 635-5200
President: Claire Ferguson
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC)
1750 East Boulder St., Colorado Springs, CO 80909
(719) 578-4529
Executive Director: Harvey Schiller
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Chateau de Vidy, CH 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: 011-41-21-253-271
President: Juan Antonio Samaranch
About the Authors
Joseph Layden is the award-winning executive sports editor of the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union.
Frank Coffey, a former magazine and book editor, is a New York City writer with twenty fiction and non-fiction books to his credit. The author of four novels, he has also written for television and feature films, as well as for numerous magazines and newspapers. His most recent book is 60 Minutes: 25 Years of Television’s Finest Hour.
Suspects in the Nancy Kerrigan assault case: Shane Stant, left, and Derrick Smith, center, in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Oregon, on January 21, 1994. (AP Photo/Jack Smith)
Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, leaves FBI headquarters in Portland, Oregon, on January 26, 1994 after six hours with investigators. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
Figure skater Tonya Harding practices in Portland on February 18, 1994, despite backlash from the skating community due to her involvement in the assault on fellow figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. (AP Photo/Jack Smith, file)
American figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan, left, and Tonya Harding during an Olympic practice session at Hamar Olympic Amphitheater in Hamar, Norway, on February 22, 1994. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
Nancy Kerrigan arrives with her head held high to compete in the figure skating women’s freestyle program in Hamar, Norway, at the 1994 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/NewsBase)
Tonya Harding competes in the figure skating women’s freestyle program in Hamar, Norway, at the 1994 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/NewsBase)
Nancy Kerrigan competes in the figure skating women’s freestyle program in Hamar, Norway, at the 1994 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/NewsBase)
Former Olympic skater Tonya Harding is shown in this February 1994 photo. (AP Photo)
Tonya Harding, left, leaves the Camas/Washougal Courthouse with lawyer Steve Thayer on February 24, 2000, in Camas, Washington, after pleading innocent to the assault of her boyfriend, Darren Silver. (AP Photo/John Klicker)
Tonya Harding at the premiere of I, Tonya, a film based on her life, in Los Angeles on December 5, 2017. (Rex Features via AP Images)
