ATLANTA — Nancy Kerrigan is spending the afternoon trying to organize her son's closet, getting rid of old clothes, trying to find space for new ones and cleaning up the toys that cover the floor.
"That's what my life is now," she said with a laugh. "Coming and going and organizing."
Ten years after the whack heard 'round the world, Kerrigan bears little resemblance to the pitiable young woman who sat on the ground, clutching her knee and sobbing, "Why me?" She's happily married with a 7-year-old son and has a wide range of interests that have broadened her world far beyond skating. She acts. She sings. She paints.
On Friday night she was inducted into U.S. Figure Skating's Hall of Fame, an honor that has everything to do with her own accomplishments and nothing to do with that infamous attack.
"It's so great after so long that somebody remembers and is recognizing me for (skating)," she said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "At the time, it was very overshadowed."
Kerrigan was the U.S. champion in 1993, and she's one of only five U.S. women to win two Olympic medals. She won the bronze at the 1992 Olympics, and a silver two years later. She also won silver and bronze medals at the world championships.
But for all of her accomplishments, most people will always associate her with Tonya Harding and the attack that almost kept her out of the 1994 Olympics.
Hoping to clear Harding's way to gold and glory, Harding's live-in ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, hired a hitman to attack Kerrigan at the 1994 national championships.
The incident made headlines around the world. Kerrigan had to withdraw from nationals, and the injury jeopardized her Olympic hopes.
Over the next six weeks, Kerrigan worked harder than she ever had before. She got treatment for her knee. She did physical therapy. And when she was able to skate again, she trained with a vengeance.
"You're so much stronger than you ever imagined was possible," Kerrigan said. "Hopefully I'll never be so strong again."
Though Harding has always denied knowledge of the attack, most suspect she knew something. Kerrigan always took the high road, never saying anything about the attack or criticizing Harding.
"There's always times you want to say something," Kerrigan said Friday. "But I have to look back at my life and at myself and be proud. After that happened, I just wanted to move on."
But the rest of the world wouldn't let her.
She turned professional after the Olympics and had a lucrative career with the ice shows. She married Jerry Solomon, her agent, in 1995, and they have a son, Matthew, who is now in first grade.
She's done television specials, had parts in movies and even recorded a couple of songs.
But the part of her life that gives Kerrigan the most joy is motherhood.
Reading bedtime stories to a child may sound like a simple pleasure, but Kerrigan delights in it. Her mother is blind and her father worked long hours to pay for her skating, so Kerrigan never had anyone to read to her.
"To me, it seems like a luxury," she said. "You have someone at night and every day to be reading to you. He loves it, and it's so neat."
