Twenty years ago, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked in Detroit, where the U.S. figure skating championships were taking place. The blow of a metal baton to her knee was the start of one long, strange trip in a sport
The real question in revisiting the story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan is whether, contrary to all past indications, it holds any moral. This thorough step-by-step recounting of the 1994 tabloid drama suggests no, it doesn't. At the end, it
The scandal of the 1994 attack of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by associates of her rival, Tonya Harding, made the figure skating finals that year in Lillehammer, Norway, one of the most-watched televised sporting events in
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Harding's husband, Jeff Gillooly, conspired to whack Nancy Kerrigan out of competition at a practice session before the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the event that would determine the American delegates to that year's Winter Olympics