FIRE ON ICE THE EXCLUSIVE INSIDE STORY OF TONYA HARDING Championship figure skating, despite its surface appearance of pristine elegance, is a ferociously competitive sport, full of bitter rivalry and personal antago-nism. Olympic glory means everything: fame, money, and the admiration of millions. Every skater who goes for the gold has drive and tremendous competitive spirit, but few more than Tonya Harding. In Fire on Ice, you will learn about Harding's hardscrabble childhood—a childhood racked by abuse, money problems, and unceasing pressure and belittle-ment by her mother. And you will learn how Tonya Harding made herself into one of America's best skaters. Here is a young woman whose fierce ambition may, in the end, be her downfall. Her story is a tale of sacrifice and overcoming obstacles, of the strength of competition and the blindness of ambition. In the thinning ice over which Tonya Harding now glides and perhaps always glided-we cannot help but see an American story, and all of America is watching it.