{"id":14825,"date":"2018-04-25T19:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=14825"},"modified":"2020-04-30T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:58:52","slug":"skate-america-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/skate-america-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate America 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Colin-Sargent-final-xs-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"colin-sargent-final-xs\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Colin-Sargent-final-xs-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Colin-Sargent-final-xs-200x174.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Colin-Sargent-final-xs.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The 2018 Oscar for Best Supporting City goes to Portland, Maine, host site of \u201cSkate America 1986,\u201d which drives key scenes in <em>I, Tonya<\/em>. The way the movie tells the story, the Cumberland County Civic Center is where Tonya Harding got her first big break. The international event took place here in Maine from October 13-19, 1986. The superscript PORTLAND, MAINE appears on the footage depicting the CCCC, now known as Cross Arena. In a field of skaters, emerging star Tonya Harding won the long program and took second overall. To see the real Harding skate during the competition in our actual Civic Center, not the Hollywood one, visit youtube.com\/watch?v=BJuZuqr8nXQ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Nineteen eighty-six was the year we started <em>Portland Monthly<\/em>. We were just five months old when the Forest City hosted Skate America 1986. To set the mise en sc\u00e8ne, our magazine was mixing an astonishing interview with Marguerite Yourcenar with coverage of \u201cThe Velocity of Money in Portland,\u201d \u201cThe New Urban Cliff Dwellers,\u201d \u201cHot Young Artists.\u201d The top grossing film during Skate America was <em>Crocodile Dundee<\/em>, replacing <em>Top Gun<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Though Skate America 1986 was a global event, we went local with our coverage. In this column, I gave a shout-out to Skate America and our local hero Dr. Doug Brown of OA Center For Orthopaedics, acting physician for the event. (Dr. Brown was captain of his Bowdoin hockey team and Exeter\u2019s.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In the Skate America finals, Brian Boitano won the gold medal; Viktor Petrenko of the USSR took the silver. Kristi Yamaguchi was a newcomer, skating in the pairs division. In the end (or was it the beginning), Tiffany Chin of the U.S. beat Tonya Harding for the Gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">What\u2019s the takeaway? Portland is a twilight zone between before and after. Saints and strangers are among us right now. As readers, let\u2019s catch them as they take flight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/category\/editor\/\">Click here to\u00a0view past\u00a0<strong>Letters from the Editor.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-14825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-may-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18491,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825\/revisions\/18491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}