The two women couldn't be living more different lives, except for their mutual disdain for what became known as "The Whack Heard 'Round The World."
Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, former U.S. Olympic teammates whose names are linked forever in one of the most bizarre dramas in the history of sport, don't like to recall the saga that started Jan. 6, 1994, when Kerrigan was attacked on the knee in a bumbling plot concocted by Harding's live-in ex-husband and a few of his friends.
Over the next seven weeks, a surreal story of jealousy, vengeance and deceit played out in the sequined world of women's figure skating, leading the network news and captivating the nation as the conspiracy was revealed.
It's an unforgettable tale sure to be revisited endlessly over the next two months, with the U.S. figure skating nationals in Boston next week leading to the Winter Olympic Games next month in Sochi, Russia.
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