27: The Price of Gold: The Nancy Kerrigan / Tonya Harding Story

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🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The world couldn't keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer - Nancy Kerrigan, the elegant brunette and Tonya Harding, the feisty blonde engulfed in scandal. Just weeks before the Olympics on January 6, 1994 at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Kerrigan was stunningly clubbed on the right knee by an unknown assailant and left wailing, "Why, why, why?" As the bizarre "why" mystery unraveled, it was revealed that Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, had plotted the attack with his misfit friends to literally eliminate Kerrigan from the competition. Now two decades later, The Price of Gold takes a fresh look at the worldwide spectacle that elevated the popularity of professional figure skating and has Harding still facing questions over what she knew when she knew it.

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0:35.0	it as my favorite thing ever. What are we talking about today? Oh, we're talking about the
0:47.8	price of gold. We're talking about the price of gold and my high school best friends, Nan
0:52.8	and Ton. As I referred to them in high school during this controversy. Nancy Kerrigan and
0:57.4	Tony Harding for those keeping track. I mean, I never heard a scream like that. It's just
1:03.9	an awful horrified type of scream. What happened? What happened? She said somebody hit me.
1:11.6	There we go. And hit her several times once twice. I'm not really sure. There's been
1:18.7	a violent attack on an American athlete. Nancy Kerrigan was attacked as she left the
1:23.4	ice. It was such a bizarre story that you just kind of went, what? I'm trying to get
1:29.3	a description to the lady now. There must be some mistake that just doesn't happen. Security
1:34.2	is high. They're doing a thorough investigation to try and find the man who did it. NBC is now
1:39.5	breaking the story that Tonya Harding authorities are focusing their attention on Tonya Harding
1:43.8	and the clock design to steal Olympic gold. I mean, the rumors were just flying immediately.
1:48.6	Wouldn't it be wild if Tonya had something to do with this? There had never been in the
1:53.5	history of sports, anything like this. They mentioned Tony Kentarina in this a handful
2:13.0	of times where Nancy used to do her, like, that's where she trained. This was the skating
2:18.0	rink in my town. Oh my God. Did you go? Yeah, of course. And my friends Sue and Allison
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