Crime History: Skater Tonya Harding guilty in Kerrigan attack

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On this day, March 16, in 1994, U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during the Olympic tryouts in Detroit.

That January, a mysterious assailant clubbed Kerrigan in the knee, knocking her out of the competition.

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