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Tonya Harding’s figure skating costume from “Nancy Kerrigan Attack” is being auctioned

The Olympic Games are just around the corner and one lucky fan could watch them in historic fashion.

Tonya Harding’s outfit from the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships – one day after she staged the infamous attack on Nancy Kerrigan – is being auctioned by Lelands.

The starting bid for the red sequined costume – which Lelands said “has no size or manufacturer’s label and is missing a small handful of beads around the neck” – which was also worn at the Lillehammer Games a few weeks later in 1994, was $3,000 and has been raised to $3,300 since Tuesday afternoon. The auction runs through June 29.

Tonya Harding performs at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. PHOTOG/IPOL/GLOBE PHOTOS, INC.
Tonya Harding (left) and Nancy Kerrigan, members of the U.S. Figure Skating Team in the ladies’ singles, pose at the 1992 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. AP

Harding was allegedly at the center of a conspiracy involving her husband, Jeff Gillooly, in which Shane Stant struck Kerrigan’s knee with a collapsible baton during competition in early January, forcing her to withdraw and paving the way for Harding to win the gold medal two days later.

“The ultimate goal was for her not to compete at nationals,” Stant, a close friend of Gillooly’s, told Inside Edition in 2018. “Initially, there was talk of cutting her Achilles tendon, which would obviously paralyze her. I didn’t think that was necessary. I wasn’t willing to do that on top of that.”

Both competed in the Olympics, with Kerrigan winning silver and Harding finishing 10th.

Tony Harding’s costume from the 1994 US World Championships and Olympic Games is being auctioned. Leland Locations

A month later, Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct the attack, after which she was stripped of her title and banned from the sport for life.

The story of the attack – from Harding’s perspective – was adapted for the screen in 2018: “I, Tonya” with Margot Robbie in the lead role of the former Olympian.

Kerrigan did not like the portrayal of Harding as a victim who was abused by her mother and Gillooly.

Nancy Kerrigan shortly after the attack by Shane Stant in Detroit in 1994. IntersportTV

“I was the victim. That’s my role in the whole thing. That’s all,” she told the Boston Globe in 2018. “At this point, it’s so much easier and better to just be … it’s not really part of my life.”

In the years that followed, Harding tried to expand her 15 minutes of fame as an actress, race car driver, reality show star, star boxer and wrestler.