Tonya Harding's Still a Brat Two Decades Later

Twenty years ago today, Nancy Kerrigan was attacked with a metal rod to her knee while leaving Detroit's Cobo Arena two days before the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championship. The assailant was an associate of Jeff Gillooly, ex-husband of Kerrigan's main competitor, Tonya Harding.

The ensuing media frenzy turned the Winter Olympics into must-see TV, with almost half the country watching the women's short program six weeks later. Harding continued to deny any involvement with the attack as a narrative of jealousy, greed and incompetence built up around her. She ultimately pleaded guilty to a felony of hindering the prosecution of the attackers and was sentenced to three years' probation, 500 hours of community service and a $160,000 fine.