Tonya Harding, Triple Axle on an Ice Ring

It is January 6, 1994, at the Tony Kent Center in Dennis, Massachusetts. At the end of the day, skater Nancy Kerrigan completes her training session with a loop jump, then leaves the ice for dry land. She covers her blades with slippers, and steps behind the backstage curtain on the tips of her skates. On her way to the locker room, she sees a man coming towards her from the other end of the deserted corridor. As he reaches her, he wordlessly deploys a telescopic baton and violently hits her in the leg. Nancy collapses, screams for help: her trainer barely has time to run in that the man has already vanished. There is no doubt this was a premeditated act: a single blow has been struck, aimed at the skater’s now red and swollen knee...

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