Why? Why? Why?

Just after leaving a training session on the ice in Detroit, Michigan, on January 6, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan was assaulted in the leg by a man wielding a telescopic baton. Television cameras captured the immediate aftermath of the attack as Kerrigan sobbed, “Why? Why? Why?” As it later developed, the assault was paid for by the ex-husband of her rival, Tonya Harding, in order to prevent Kerrigan from participating in the 1994 Figure Skating Championships, which would determine the roster of the US Olympic figure skating team for the Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Though Kerrigan did go…