I am with you," he said into our camera, "I wish. Brian Montopoli is the national reporter and political analyst for CBSNews.com. [176] At the Rostelecom Cup (previously Cup of Russia), he came in fourth place overall, after placing third place in the short program and sixth place in his "error-filled"[177] free skate, with a cumulative score of 198.55 points. He earned 146.20 points in the free skate and 220.25 points overall, beating his runner-up Timothy Goebel by over 20 points. [170], In June 2009, Weir's documentary Pop Star on Ice premiered during the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco and aired at film festivals around the U.S.[171][172] In January 2010, it premiered in Manhattan and aired on the Sundance Channel, which funded its filming and production. He earned a score of 207.99 points overall. [97] He earned 136.63 points in his free skate, coming in fifth place overall, for a total of 216.63 points. [190][191] He stayed at the Olympic Village in Vancouver, despite wanting to stay at a hotel, for security reasons. [48] He also won the free skate, even though he did not include a quadruple jump. Priscilla Hill was his first coach. Weir, along with Goebel and Lysacek, were chosen to represent the U.S. at the 2005 Worlds Championships. He also received 5.8s and 5.9s in his technical score. [112] The costume he wore for his short program, skated to "King of Chess" by Silent Nick,[113] was described as "a black-and-white chess-themed costume that was restrained by his standards". "I strongly disagree with this decision," Lipinski told NBC's Mike Tirico. Weir had a classical skating style and was known for being "a very lyrical skater"[3] and "an entertaining artisan". Weir finished in sixth place overall. 1 min read Johnny Weir said he cried following his commentary of. Be the first to know about all the best fashion and beauty looks, the breathtaking. [96] Weir received death threats during the Olympics and received "nasty e-mails" for several months afterwards, personal attacks that "targeted his love for things Russian and even his sexual preferences". National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall Of Fame Inductee, 2013, Weir did not compete in the 201011 and 201112 season, This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 10:18. He had a shaky landing on his triple flip, but his circular and straight-line footwork sequences were well-done, and he performed three level four spins. [102] Reporter John Crumpacker stated that Weir was "out of sorts for his long program and skated abysmally as he went from second place to fifth". The Olympic charter bars political gestures during the Games, which means that an athlete could theoretically be sanctioned for speaking out against the anti-gay laws, though it seems unlikely that the International Olympic Committee would take such a step. Lysacek and Weir both scored the same on their triple Lutz-triple toe loop combinations, 11.60 points, although Weir lost points on a two-footed landing on his triple flip. [202] In March 2010, CNN reported that Stars on Ice denied charges that they did not hire Weir for the year's tour because Weir was not "family friendly enough". [105] Weir toured again with Champions on Ice in-between seasons, his longest tour with them to date; he chose Frank Sinatra's "My Way", "for its obvious symbolism", as his performance number. [200] The Christian Science Monitor reported that the audience was confused over Weir's scores in the free skate and disagreed with them. "It doesn't matter if you are gay or straight. Weir arrived late to the stadium for his free skate, blaming it on missing the bus from the athletes' village and not being told of a schedule change, which put him 90 minutes off his routine. [216] He later told reporters that he was nervous, that his legs felt stiff, and that the competition was the hardest thing he had done in his career. [4] He was one of two skaters to skate a clean short program with a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination, a "scratchy triple Axel",[44] and the best spins in the field. Figure Skating . Johnny Weir is fluent in Russian. [82] His performance and swan costume were parodied in the 2007 comedy Blades of Glory, starring Jon Heder and Will Ferrell. The two-time Olympic figure skater and current NBC analyst loves everything about the country: its language, its people, its history,. [4] For the Grand Prix season, he was assigned the NHK Trophy in Japan and Trophee Bompard in Paris. [62] He again did not include any quadruple jumps, choosing instead to emphasize his artistry, spins, and pirouettes. [224] He was teamed up with sports commentator Terry Gannon and fellow figure skater, Olympic gold medalist, and good friend Tara Lipinski; their instant comedic chemistry and harmony was a success and they have worked together ever since. [184][185], Weir placed third overall at the 2010 U.S. Nationals, with 232.09 points. [209] Weir announced his withdrawal from the 20112012 season in June 2011, explaining that he was unable to adequately train for competition because of his "many obligations",[210] but expressed his intention to compete in Sochi. Former Olympians Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir condemn the decision to allow Russian skater Kamila Valieva to compete following a failed drug test. [22] Rudden and Weir won the South Atlantic Regionals and qualified for the Junior Olympics in juvenile pairs that first year, and in intermediate pairs the following season. His roommate was his "longtime friend",[193] American ice dancer Tanith Belbin. Reactions from non-Russian, non-Ukrainian skaters and elites. [144] He opened his program with a strong triple Axel-triple toe loop combination and underrotated his triple Axel, but successfully completed five more clean triple jumps. [4] He often designed his own costumes or worked extensively with his designers and later was known for his fashion choices as a broadcaster. Weir opened his free skate with a triple Axel-triple toe loop combination and included five other triples, but stumbled coming out of his second triple Axel and missed his triple flip late in the program. "[134] For his free skating program, he worked with Yoav Goren of the pop group Globus, who helped him create a routine to the group's song, "Love is War". Figure Skating reprimanded both Weir and his mother Patti Weir for his drug references and other statements made during Nationals, but he, along with Lysacek and Savoie, who came in second and third place, were selected to represent the U.S. at the 2006 Winter Olympics, all for the first time. [18][17][13] In 1994, he was inspired to further pursue figure skating after watching Oksana Baiul compete at the 1994 Winter Olympics, during the sport's rise in popularity caused by the Nancy Kerrigan attack at the 1994 U.S. He used music from "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga, someone he admired, for his short program; she provided him with versions of the song without lyrics. Weir finished fifth place at the 2009 U.S. Nationals, the first time since 2003 that Weir did not qualify to compete at the Worlds championships. Her choreographers worked with him, but most of the choreography was developed by Weir and Zmievskaya. But I'm also not afraid of being arrested. Gay Olympic hopefulBlake Skjellerupplans to defy anti-gay Russian laws. Skating last, his program was "elegant yet loaded with solid jumps",[48] including eight triple jumps and two combination jumps: a triple Axel-triple toe and his triple Lutz-triple toe. Weir, 21, who grew up on a Pennsylvania farm, showed up at practices for these Olympics wearing a CCCP jacket of the former Soviet Union. Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) February 17, 2022 Johnny and Tara similarly didn't speak when Kamila got the top score in her short program on Tuesday. How does that happen? The former Olympic figure skaters Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir condemned the decision to allow the Russian Olympic Committee figure skater Kamila Valieva to continue competing in the Beijing Olympics after she tested positive for a banned drug. Weir was the only American male in medal contention after his short program in Turin,[97][100] skating "well but not brilliantly". The Olympic figure skater and Greenville resident was nearly voted off ABC's "Dancing with the Stars . [54] He toured with Champions on Ice the summer of 2004, with Cohen, Irina Slutskaya, Elena Sokolova, and his "skating hero",[55] Evgeni Plushenko. (Weir has stiff competition in his quest; the team will be selected in January.) - , . [166] Weir needed to excel during the free skate to win a bronze medal, but instead popped his first triple Axel, doubled his planned triple loop, and fell on his triple flip. Weir fell on his opening triple Axel in his short program, but successfully completed a triple Axel-triple toe loop combination, four more triple jumps, and high-quality spins. [3][19], By the time he was 12, Weir was performing single Axels, which he learned after a week of lessons; by the time he turned 13, he learned all the single and double jumps, as well as his first triple jump, the salchow. During NBC Sports' coverage of the women's free skate competition at . Feb 17, 2010. Nationals. Zmievskaya had a more Russian approach and focused on "drill sergeant-like demands for discipline and rigor".[226]. [48] He was also the youngest male skater, at the age of 19, to win the U.S. Nationals since Todd Eldredge won in 1991, also at the age of 19. [187] Longman also called Weir's free skate "oddly passive and stumbling". [220], Weir did not register for a qualifying event that would have made him eligible for the 2014 U.S. Nationals, ending his bid to compete in Sochi. [151] Stephen Carriere, the 2007 World Junior champion, came in third place with 228.06 points. [87][88][25] In December, Weir competed in the made-for-TV skating competition Marshalls U.S. [198], Although Weir was eligible to compete at the 2010 Worlds Championships, he withdrew due to a lack of training. Weir was praised for being one of the few figure skaters who spoke his mind, even when he knew it would get him in trouble with federation officials and judges. 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Check out our Cash budget Binders, 100% handcrafted budget stickers and also unique budgeting Pdf's to help you along your debt free journey! -. ", There has been growing outrage over Russia's anti-gay laws, with figures includingStephen Fry,Harvey Fierstein and Jay Leno evoking Nazi Germany, which held the 1936 Olympic Games under Hitler's leadership; President Obama told Leno this week that American and other nations would not tolerate gay athletes being singled out by Russia, which he said has "a big stake in making sure the Olympics work. Published on February 17, 2022 09:17 AM Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir kept their typically entertaining and insightful commentary light during Russian skater Kamila Valieva's free skate. [140][141] He came in first place in the free skate, with 151.98 points and "a nearly perfect"[142] performance. He may have been more fluent in Russian than Olympic Committee officials, but Weir translated what they said to medal winner Aleksandra Trusova. When 15-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva took to the ice Tuesday in her purple chiffon skating dress to warm up for the women's short program, NBC analysts Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski . Johnny Weir is fluent in Russian, and therefore was able to communicate with Russian figure skaters Kamila Valieva and Alexandra Trusova backstage. [65][66][4] With his two Grand Prix wins, Weir became the top qualifier for the Grand Prix final but had to withdraw because of a foot injury. Johnny Weir held a press conference Wednesday in Vancouver to address remarks made by two veteran sports commentators during the Olympics suggesting that his fabulousness (our word) is a bad . Johnny Weir's instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/johnnygweir/ Like the previous year, he competed in regional and minor competitions and came in fourth place at the U.S. Nationals. John Garvin Weir[1] (/wr/; born July 2, 1984)[2] is an American figure skater and television commentator. [138] At Worlds, Weir was in second place after the short program. Weir also two-footed the landing on his triple flip, which was supposed to be part of a combination jump but was not because he eliminated a double-toe loop. When Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva performed after failing a pre-Olympics drug test, he was uncharacteristically quiet. He had a natural talent for jumping. He joined NBC as a commentator beginning at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. [118] Weir competed at the Grand Prix Final, but had to withdraw after the short program due to an injury to his right hip from a fall. Weir strongly opposes calls to boycott the Games over the anti-gay laws, which he said would only hurt athletes who have trained their whole lives to compete; "Would the Olympics be in Saudi Arabia, in Palestine, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Mars, I would go," he said. 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[119][120] Weir later said that he was embarrassed by his withdrawal, done after "trash-talking"[121] Lysacek for also withdrawing due to an injury. The normally loquacious NBC commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir barely said a word during the drug-scandalized 15-year-old's performance. Well, I can't wait to see what Weir and Lipinski say about Lipnitskaia once the women's individual competition starts. He competed at the 2012 Finlandia Trophy, attempting a quadruple jump in both his short program and free skate for the first time, and coming in fourth place overall. Weir considers Russia to be "the most magnificent place in the world," as he put it in an interview with CBSNews.com. Weir was born on July 2, 1984, in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, the eldest son of John Weir, a nuclear power plant engineer, and Patti Weir (ne Moore), a nuclear power plant worker and home inspector. Not only is he a two time U.S. Olympian and three-time US national champion, but also a pop-culture icon. [181][183], At the Grand Prix final, all six qualifiers, including Weir, had skated in at least one previous final; Golden Skate called it "one of the most equally matched fields in several years". "This is a slap in the face to the Olympic. [102][103], At the World Championships, Weir "did not fare so well". [162][161][25] Four days later, he was the only American to perform in a charity skating show in Seoul, performing with South Korean champion Yuna Kim; while there, he was hospitalized with the flu and lost eight pounds in one day. Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski were uncharacteristically quiet during Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's performance Tuesday morning after the announcers expressed outrage and. His primary source of income is his career as a figure skater and sports commentator. [186] Sports reporter Jer Longman of The New York Times, who said that Weir's costume overwhelmed his skating, thought that he "seemed cautious during his jumps before relaxing with a head-bopping playfulness". First published on August 9, 2013 / 3:30 PM. [64], Weir came in second after Plushenko at the Cup of Russia, the first time they competed against each other after the implementation of the IJS. [25], In the 20022003 season, which figure skating reporter Lou Parees called "disastrous" for Weir,[4] he skated in one international competition, the Finlandia Trophy and withdrew from the Cup of Russia. I am with you," he said into our camera, "I wish you strength now and hope that tomorrow will be better than today. [210] In January 2012, Weir married his partner Victor Voronov, a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and whose family was from Russia, in a civil ceremony in New York City, five months after the state legalized same-sex marriages. Johnny Weir has an estimated net worth of $4 million as of 2020. He two-footed his quadruple toe loop, doubled a planned triple-triple combination jump, popped another triple Axel combination, and later in the program, fell on a triple loop. [42][46][48][49][50] Weir also stated, about his performance: "It was a cool feeling to be written off and then come back to show them what I am made ofI hope I shut up everyone who counted me out". At the 2008 U.S. Nationals, he tied for first place with Evan Lysacek, both with a combined score of 244.77 points, but Lysacek was named the U.S. champion because following ISU regulations, he won the free skate. He won the event, taking in 64 percent of the fans' votes, via in-stadium voting, telephone, and the internet. The last time he made headlines was in 2016, when he reportedly "blamed Weir for ruining [his] relationship" with ice dancer Joti . Weir was placed in third, but "a human input error"[71] during the input of Chinese skater Li Chengjiang's scores was corrected, putting Weir slightly behind Li and in seventh place after the short program. [153] He did not include a triple-triple combination, and his quadruple jump was downgraded to a double. Weir, 37, was a few years behind on the circuit, competing for Team USA in 2006 and 2010. [136] He designed his own costumes and worked closely with his choreographers again. [19] In the summer of 2003, he trained with Russian coach Tatiana Tarasova for six weeks at the International Skating Center in Simsbury, Connecticut. He was instructed by Yuri Sergeev, a dancer for the St. Petersburg Ballet, taught himself the Russian language, conversing with Zmievskaya in Russian, and compared himself to Russian skater Evgeni Plushenko. 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[comes up]she speaks Russian, and I speak Russian, and Tara doesn't speak Russian . [116][117], Weir was in second place after the short program at Cup of Russia, less than two points behind Joubert. [98] According to Variety, Weir's habit of wearing "retro Soviet CCCP sweatshirts" instead of USA clothing during the Olympics angered many U.S. [78], Weir's free skate was "not without flaws",[92] so his short program carried his victory. Weir earned a personal best score of 156.77 points and 238.87 points overall. [53] Weir, however, came back from seventh place after the short program[53] by completing eight "elegant triples"[53] in his long program, like he had done at U.S. Nationals. He was in first place after the short program, again overcoming his nerves and earning a personal best score of 83.28, almost six points ahead of Weiss, who came in fourth place overall. "On the ice we are all the same," she said. [51] He came in fifth place; teammate Michael Weiss came in sixth. [92] U.S. [124], Weir was not able to successfully defend his title, coming in third overall; Lysacek came in first place, and Bradley came in second place. He was the youngest U.S. National champion since 1991, in 2006 the first skater to win U.S. Nationals three times in a row since Brian Boitano in the late 1980s, and the first American to win Cup of Russia in 2007. February 15, 2022, 11:35 AM NBC figure skating commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir, both former Olympians in the sport, did not shy away from the controversy surrounding Kamila Valieva. He later admitted that the pressure of being the defending champion bothered him, and said that it was difficult skating after Lysacek, especially after hearing that Lysacek had earned over 90 points in his element scores alone. area. ""I love Russia for what Russia is. 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