Why did Shane Stant hit Nancy?

Why did Shane Stant hit Nancy?

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – In 1994, Shane Stant was the hitman hired by Tonya Harding’s camp to injure U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in a plot to keep her out of the Olympic Games. Stant clubbed Kerrigan in the knee with a collapsible baton. “To be hated all over was difficult,” he said.

What did Nancy get hit with?

On January 6, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan, an American figure skater, was struck on the lower right thigh with a telescopic baton by assailant Shane Stant as she walked down a corridor in Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

Why did Tonya attack Nancy?

So how was Harding involved? Kerrigan was her longtime rival — the one person in the way of her making the Olympic team. Harding’s desperation to win at all costs prompted Gillooly to set up the attack. (Though she didn’t admit it at the time, Harding later confessed in 2018 that she “knew something was up.”)

What happened to the man who attacked Nancy Kerrigan?

Stant, then 22, was hired by a close friend of Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, to carry out the attack. The men were arrested and served time. Stant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and spent 18 months in prison.

Did Tonya Harding want to hurt Nancy?

Tonya Harding has long denied she knew a plan was afoot to injure Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. That, actually, was not the case, Harding said in Truth and Lies: The Tonya Harding Story that aired on ABC on Thursday night.

Did LaVona throw a knife at Tonya?

Tonya Harding’s mother says steak knife incident never happened, denies former Olympic skater’s abuse allegations. “I didn’t abuse any of my children,” LaVona “Sandy” Golden said. The former Olympic ice skater and her mother LaVona “Sandy” Golden recall Harding’s childhood in Oregon.