Twenty years ago, Tonya Harding became a household name after she was implicated in the "whack heard around the world" on her figure skating USA teammate, Nancy Kerrigan. To this day, there may not be a bigger scandal in modern sports history.
Now, two decades later, the scandal is the focus of ESPN's latest documentary in the network's "30 for 30" series. "The Price of Gold" opens with Nancy Kerrigan shrieking through tears, "Why me? Why?" after a man (who we all now know was a friend of Harding's ex-husband) kidnapped her after a practice prior to the January 6, 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships….
"The Price of Gold" aired on January 16, 2014 at 9PM on ESPN.
[In the spring of 2018, Tonya Harding was a contestant on a reality TV show called "Dancing With the Stars." She came in third.]
Taylor Bigler, The Daily Caller, January 8, 2014
Now, two decades later, the scandal is the focus of ESPN's latest documentary in the network's "30 for 30" series. "The Price of Gold" opens with Nancy Kerrigan shrieking through tears, "Why me? Why?" after a man (who we all now know was a friend of Harding's ex-husband) kidnapped her after a practice prior to the January 6, 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships….
"The Price of Gold" aired on January 16, 2014 at 9PM on ESPN.
[In the spring of 2018, Tonya Harding was a contestant on a reality TV show called "Dancing With the Stars." She came in third.]
Taylor Bigler, The Daily Caller, January 8, 2014
While Nancy Kerrigan's father died and in the same month, one Harding from Colorado had died and while Nancy Kerrigan was picked for the dancing show, yet another Harding from Colorado, this time Harding's brother died of a heart attack.
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