{"id":270234,"date":"2019-03-28T14:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1027758"},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:30:57","slug":"figure-skater-mariah-bell-addresses-disturbing-hate-she-received-in-light-of-slashing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/figure-skater-mariah-bell-addresses-disturbing-hate-she-received-in-light-of-slashing-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Figure Skater Mariah Bell Addresses &#8220;Disturbing&#8221; Hate She Received in Light of &#8220;Slashing&#8221; Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.528735632184\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"24.505747126437\">\n<p>U.S. figure skater <strong>Mariah Bell<\/strong>&nbsp;has had it up to here with the haters blaming her for&nbsp;South Korean rival&nbsp;<strong>Lim Eun-soo<\/strong>&#8216;s injury.<\/p>\n<p>During a&nbsp;warm-up at the World Championships last week, Bell, 22, skated past the 16-year-old,&nbsp;made contact and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1025569\/u-s-figure-skater-accused-of-slashing-teen-rival-in-sports-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">left her with a&nbsp;slashed leg<\/a>.&nbsp;Lim received medical attention and was able to compete while wearing a bandage.&nbsp;She finished fifth, while Bell came in sixth.<\/p>\n<p>The International Skating Union (ISU) ruled that the&nbsp;incident, which brought back memories of the <strong>Tonya Harding<\/strong>&#8211;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nancy_kerrigan\">Nancy Kerrigan<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/888407\/nightmare-on-ice-how-tonya-harding-became-the-forever-villain-to-nancy-kerrigan-s-olympic-hero-in-one-whirlwind-month-of-madness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feud<\/a> in the &#8217;90s,&nbsp;was an accident. Meanwhile, Bell and her loved ones have received a slew of nasty comments about the ordeal on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I told Eunsoo in Japan, the incident at practice was very unfortunate and I meant absolutely no harm (sic),&#8221; Bell wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bvj6gMtnPFPDT3EE8sBFyDF3hAnwmt2dazwalo0\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> on Thursday. &#8220;Our training environment is professional and supportive, and I&#8217;ve never changed locker rooms or training times or anything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-2-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"33\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019221\/rs_1024x759-190321090500-1024-Mariah-Bell-Lim-Eun-soo-skaters.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Mariah Bell, Lim Eun-soo, Eunsoo Lim\" alt=\"Mariah Bell, Lim Eun-soo, Eunsoo Lim\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Koki Nagahama\/Getty Images; Matthew Stockman &#8211; International Skating Union (ISU)\/ISU via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>&#8220;The comments that my friends, family and I received on social media were hateful and disturbing and hopefully this situation raises awareness and causes people to think twice before hitting &#8216;tweet&#8217; or &#8216;post,'&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Bell added, &#8220;I learned a lot about my inner strength last week, and I&#8217;m excited to continue to train in the lead up to Beijing in 2022.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1027758\/figure-skater-mariah-bell-addresses-disturbing-hate-she-received-in-light-of-slashing-incident?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. figure skater Mariah Bell&nbsp;has had it up to here with the haters blaming her for&nbsp;South Korean rival&nbsp;Lim Eun-soo&#8216;s injury. During a&nbsp;warm-up at the World Championships last week, Bell, 22, skated past the 16-year-old,&nbsp;made contact and left her with a&nbsp;slashed leg.&nbsp;Lim received medical attention and was able to compete while wearing a bandage.&nbsp;She finished fifth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 04:20:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}