On January 6, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan, an American figure skater, was struck on the lower right thigh with a baton by assailant Shane Stant as she walked down a corridor in Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Kerrigan had been practicing skating on …

Dec 3, 2021 · On January 6, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan was attacked after practice at the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan, in what would become one of the biggest sports scandals in history.

Jan 5, 2024 · On Jan. 6, 1994, champion figure skater Nancy Kerrigan sustained a knee injury just one month before the Olympics, with skater Tonya Harding being named as the culprit.

On January 6, 1994, an assailant used a police baton to strike Kerrigan on her landing knee; the attacker was hired by Jeff Gillooly, then-husband of her rival Tonya Harding. The attack injured Kerrigan, but she quickly recovered.

Dec 19, 2013 · The Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan affair began with unchecked ambition, unbridled greed and a whack to the knee. It ended with four men in jail, a broken shoelace and a highly publicized...

Sep 9, 2022 · It was the whack heard around the world and Nancy Kerrigan has been largely silent about it — until now. The now-retired Olympic medal-winning figure skater agreed to participate in the NBC...

Dec 10, 2016 · Just seven weeks before the 1994 Olympic Games, figure skating frontrunner Nancy Kerrigan was brutally clubbed in the knee as she left her practice rink in Detroit. The …

Jan 9, 2018 · -- Former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding says she was scared for her own safety after the infamous 1994 baton attack on her fellow Olympic figure skater and longtime competitor Nancy Kerrigan. “I was scared,” Harding told ABC News’ Amy Robach. “I mean, this had never happened [before].”

It all started on Jan. 6, 1994. Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by a metal-baton-wielding assailant as she left the ice after a practice session in Detroit. Originally favored to win the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the now-injured Kerrigan was forced to …

Jan 2, 2018 · Former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding says she “knew something was up” before the infamous 1994 baton attack was carried out on her longtime rival, Nancy Kerrigan.