Tonya Harding Goes for the Knee

In a crime too strange for fiction, a figure skater tries to take out her competition.

January 6, 1994

One of the most sensational sports stories of the 20^th century plays out on this date when ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked in a corridor just off the Cobo Arena ice rink in Detroit. Kerrigan was struck in the right knee with a metal baton just two days before the start of the U.S. Ice Skating Championships, a precursor for the Olymp…