The Price of Gold
Winning is everything when you come from nothing
The world couldn't keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer - Nancy Kerrigan, the elegant brunette from the Northeast, and Tonya Harding, the feisty blonde engulfed in scandal. Just weeks before the Olympics on Jan. 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 through Harding's turbulent career and life at the spectacle that elevated the popularity of professional figure skating and has Harding still facing questions over what she knew and when she knew it.
- Year: 2014
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: ESPN Films
- Keyword: olympic games, assault, figure skating, sports documentary, woman director, olympic sport, olympics
- Director: Nanette Burstein
- Cast: Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Darin De Paul, Ann Dewig, Richard Tatum
