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US Olympic legend Nancy Kerrigan unrecognizable 30 years on from infamous attack which sparked ‘I, Tonya’ movie
Hollywood's take on Kerrigan's ordeal saw success at the Oscars a few years ago
FIGURE staking icon Nancy Kerrigan has been spotted in public ahead of the 30th anniversary of the infamous attack that nearly forced her to miss the 1994 Winter Olympics.
The Massachusetts native was struck in the legs with a police baton in a plot allegedly hatched by her rival Tonya Harding's bodyguard and ex-husband in January 1994 — which inspired the movie I, Tonya.
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Hardly recognizable from her days on the ice, Kerrigan, 54, could be seen running errands near her Massachusetts home in the pictures exclusively obtained by The U.S. Sun.
The photos showed the Olympic icon doing some grocery shopping and stopping by a CVS pharmacy on January 3.
The following day, the former Olympian was spotted enjoying a stroll with her dog.
Kerrigan sported a blue jacket and sunglasses as she walked her pooch.
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The assault on the figure skating Hall-of-Famer took place on January 6, 1994.
She was struck in the knee area on her landing leg by a masked assailant as she left an ice rink in Detroit, Michigan, after a practice session ahead of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
The culprit was later identified as Shane Stant, who had met Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, through co-conspirator Derrick Smith.
Eckardt and Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, had purportedly hired the two men to injure Kerrigan so she would have to withdraw from the upcoming US Championships and the Olympic Games.
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Oregon-born figure skating star Harding denied being involved in the plot.
However, she pleaded guilty to playing a role in cover-up efforts, having learned of the scheme after the attack.
The incident became one of the world's biggest sports scandals of the 1990s.
Kerrigan missed the Championships but recovered in time for the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.
And she claimed the silver in the individual tournament — finishing behind Ukraine's Oksana Baiul — adding to her Olympic bronze and silver medals from the 1992 Games in Albertville, France.
In 2017, her ordeal was the subject of the Hollywood blockbuster I, Tonya starring Margot Robbie, which saw Allison Janney — who played Harding's mother — win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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