This clip combined her 1st attempt of the free skate, her re-skate, and the post-skate interview.

Hamar, NORWAY - 1994 Winter Olympic Games, Figure Skating, Ladies' Free Skate - Tonya Harding of the United States had skate lace problems when her original laces broke during the 6-minute warm up. Her team did not have a proper spare lace for this kind of an emergency and ended up using whatever they could find, which apparently was not long enough for her to properly tie her skate properly. In order to avoid being disqualified for not getting into her starting position within the 2 minutes after they announced her name, she would rush out ill prepared and started her routine. She would bail out of the opening triple Lutz and then go to the referee to show the referee her problem. She would be allowed time to fix her lace problem. It seemed that Tonya expected only a small break to change her lace and then go back out to skate, but the announcer came on and announced that she would be allowed to re-skate at the end of the group and immediately called out Josee Chouinard of Canada to skate.

Tonya would have her re-skate and would perform well enough to place 6th in the Free Skate. She would move up from 10th Place to finish in 8th Place overall. An interview with Tonya follows.

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