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‘I, Tonya’ skips Harding’s love of skating for fatuous irony

“I, Tonya” is a screwy mockumentary about Tonya Harding, the first female skater to execute two triple axels in one competition. More famously, of course, she was at the center of the 1994 scandal in which fellow Olympics hopeful Nancy Kerrigan was kneecapped. Nancy barely makes an appearance in the film,

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