On June 30, 1994, Tonya Harding was banned for life from participating in figure skating events. She is currently competing on season twenty-six of Dancing with the Stars, titled Dancing with the Stars: Athletes. The season premiered on April 30, 2018 on the ABC network. The four-week season, the shortest ever, features a cast of current and former athletes.
Digging Deeper
Shortly before the 1994 national figure skating championships which were being held in Detroit, Nancy Kerrigan was hit in the knee in what would become known as the “whack heard round the world”. The attack was later shown to have been orchestrated by Jeff Gillooly, ex-husband of fellow figure-skater, Tonya Harding. Both women had been national champions, had stood on the world championship podiums and had participated in the previous 1992 Winter Olympics as well.
