Bizarre Attack On Olympic Skater Nancy Kerrigan 20 Years Later

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan, right

Next week is the 20th anniversary of the odd clubbing of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, and The Believer has a sympathetic new article about the anti-hero in that drama, Tonya Harding.

That story, by Sarah Marshall, questions the narrative that followed the Jan. 6, 1994 attack on Kerrigan which The New York Times dubbed "Jealousy on Ice." A large man attacked Kerrigan that day, banging her leg and prompting her to utter the famous phrase, "Why me?" Continue