Former Olympians Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir condemn the decision to allow Russian skater Kamila Valieva to compete following a failed drug test. [97][102] Reporter Gwen Knapp stated, however, this his artistry was best in the field. Both two-footed their quadruple jump (Weir attempted a quadruple toe), both had similar entrances into their jumps, and both completed seven triples. [104][106] He came in seventh place overall; Lambiel won the gold medal, Brian Joubert came in second, and teammate Lysacek, despite a hard fall during the warm-up, won the bronze medal. [116][117], Weir was in second place after the short program at Cup of Russia, less than two points behind Joubert. Controversial Russian star Kamila Valieva's turn in the Winter Olympics' women's figure skating short program Tuesday was greeted on American TV with the sounds of silence. Goebel finished in second place and Lysacek came in third place. Weir began his short program with three successful jumping passes. 1 min read Johnny Weir said he cried following his commentary of. [19][23] Also in his first year of skating (1997), Weir finished fourth as a juvenile in the Junior Olympics and won first place in the South Atlantic Regionals, also as a juvenile. 10 Johnny Depp - French. He is a two-time Olympian ( 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics ), the 2008 World bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2001 World Junior Champion, and a three-time U.S. National champion (2004 . [192][194] He also held a press conference to respond to "offensive" remarks made by two Canadian sports commentators about him. He stepped out of his first triple Axel and fell again on his second, injuring his knee to the point that he had to withdraw. Nationals. As an NBC analyst and correspondent, Weir is estimated to earn $500,000 annually. The reason for her divorce was due to domestic difficulties. Earlier this season of Bravo's Project Runway, the designers were tasked. Nationals. [217], Weir's two Grand Prix slots were the Rostelecom Cup and Trophe Bompard in Paris. Weir continued to train with Hill and with Tarasova in Simsbury for the 20042005 season. He also said that the move taught him discipline and independence. [7][20] According to sports writer Barry Mittan, Weir was two or three times older than when most elite skaters start training, although it was not an obstacle for him. [144][134], Despite severe back pain, Weir felt better trained going into the U.S. Nationals than ever before. [143] Weir also won the gold medal at Cup of Russia, beating Lambiel by over 11 points. Figure Skater Johnny Weir is Overhauled and Confident", "Weir Fired up to Win Fourth U.S. National Title", "Recharged Weir Determined to Take Back Skating Title", "Fit to be Tied: Scoring Anomaly Spices up Lysacek-Weir U.S. But I'm also not afraid of being arrested. Although Weir was hesitant at first, he agreed to introduce the progam during the 2006 Olympic season. [160], Despite battling a cold, Weir came in second place at the NHK Trophy, earning a total of 236.18 points. [19] In the summer of 2003, he trained with Russian coach Tatiana Tarasova for six weeks at the International Skating Center in Simsbury, Connecticut. Weir first became interested in figure skating when he was 11-years-old, after seeing Russian phenom Oksana Baiul take gold in the 1994 Olympics. Figure Skating: Three New Faces Set for Turin; Weir Wins Title, Olympic Vets Fail in Long Program", "Weir Wins Third Straight U.S. Weir served as a judge, along with Olympic gold medalist Dick Button and Canadian figure skating choreographer Laurieann Gibson, on Skating with the Stars in 2010, which lasted only one season. "I can speak Russian," he says, "I can speak French. [173] Its promotional commercial aired during the U.S. Nationals; Weir later expressed his opinion that U.S. Figure Skating, due to his performances during the season and at the 2006 Olympics, and despite his past successes, began to actively support Lysacek over him. He joined NBC as a commentator beginning at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. [223][224], Weir had two coaches in his competitive figure skating career, Priscilla Hill, who was, unlike many figure skating coaches, was "nurturing and gentle"[225] and Russian Galina Zmievskaya, who had a different approach to coaching than Hill. In the free skate, he successfully accomplished all his jumps at the beginning of the program, but performed a double Lutz instead of a triple, and his triple flip turned into a single. [58][59] Weir's trip to Japan marked the first time he came "face-to-face"[60] with Johnny's Angels, a group of figure skating fans who supported Weir emotionally and financially. The salary of figure skaters makes $2,000 to $45,000 depending on competitions and where they place. 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Weir considers Russia to be "the most magnificent place in the world," as he put it in an interview with CBSNews.com. 2 min read. [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. His two Grand Prix wins made him eligible to compete at the Grand Prix Final in Turin, Italy, where he came in fourth place. Weir's friend and fellow skater Sasha Cohen helped him contact Tarasova, who waived her fees for him. Figure Skating Challenge in Boston. 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. He taught himself to speak and read the language. His roommate was his "longtime friend",[193] American ice dancer Tanith Belbin. [213], In the fall of 2011, Weir began to quietly train for a possible return to competitive skating. [63] Weir later said that his win in Paris "signaled my ascendancy on the international stage". [138] At Worlds, Weir was in second place after the short program. [151] Stephen Carriere, the 2007 World Junior champion, came in third place with 228.06 points. [46] He came in first place, the first to do so by qualifying at sectionals since Rudy Galindo in 1996. Weir, along with Goebel and Lysacek, were chosen to represent the U.S. at the 2005 Worlds Championships. He earned 217.70 points overall; the gold medalist, Brian Joubert from France, earned 15 points more than Weir. [4][56] He was ranked fifth-best skater in the world. - , . Television commentators would bring up his sexual orientation during his performances, causing him to publicly address homophobic remarks by commentators during the 2010 Olympics. [146] Weir won the short program, with 83.40 points, 1.35 points separating he and Lysacek. Figure Skating Championships: Results", "World Figure Skating Championships Men Results", "2001 MasterCard Skate Canada International: Men Result", "2002 Four Continents Championships Men Result", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Weir&oldid=1141885331. He told reporters that he felt homesick and nervous moving to a large city and living on his own for the first time in his life, resorting to sleeping with a kitchen knife next to his bed. 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. "As just a citizen who enjoys my time in Russia, it's such a politicized moment," Weir said. [34], Philanthropist Helen McLoraine, who had helped support Weir and other skaters financially for many years, fell leaving the rink after a skating session in Dallas and died, something that added to his sense of "personal failure andpainful loss". In January 2012, he announced his return, in the hopes of competing at the Sochi Olympics; he insisted that it was not a publicity stunt, and expressed his intent to retire after the Olympics. NBC commentator Johnny Weir called it . [190][191] He stayed at the Olympic Village in Vancouver, despite wanting to stay at a hotel, for security reasons. His costume choices and outspokenness caused conflicts with U.S. [67] His performance was solid but subdued; he struggled with the landings of his triple Axel and triple flip jumps. He admitted that his Grand Prix season was "disastrous"[121] and that he had not been skating well going into the 2007 U.S. Nationals in Spokane, Washington. [187] Weir accomplished three clean triple jumps, but he popped his planned second triple Axel and struggled completing the final jump of his triple-triple combination jump. [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. "Because that's what I'm trained to do and that's what I've devoted my life to.". 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. Commentator and former Olympic gold medalist Dick Button agreed, stating that the newer program "was not good enough for him". [75][91] He later told reporters, "For this one, they kind of sat back and had their cognac and their cigarettes and they were relaxing and watching", compared fellow competitor Ryan Bradley's faster-paced choreography to "a vodka-shot-and-a-snort-of-coke kind of thing", and then said, "Uh, sorry for all those drug references". ", "They're athletes, they're there to compete," the president said. In the free skate, Weir skated immediately after Lysacek, whose performance made the crowd leap to their feet. He had received "very serious threats"[192] from anti-fur activists for wearing fox fur trim on the left shoulder of his free skate costume during U.S. Nationals. [24], During the 19971998 season, Weir won regional and other minor competitions as a novice in single skating and came in third place in the novice division at the U.S. National Championships. You can't fault Johnny Weir for looking shocked on live national television Monday night. [115], In the short program, both Weir and Lysacek skated clean programs and were essentially tied going into the free skate,[115][122] although Weir had better footwork and Lysacek had better jumps. Figure Skating named Lysacek, Weir, and Carriere eligible to compete at the Worlds Championships. He earned 231.78 points overall,[142] and "significantly beat"[143] his personal best scores. They have been firm in their stance that she. In his free skate, he earned 152.75 points, a new personal best score. It was the first time since 1994 that no American male won medals at the World Championships. [98] According to Variety, Weir's habit of wearing "retro Soviet CCCP sweatshirts" instead of USA clothing during the Olympics angered many U.S. Russian figure skating star Kamila Valieva broke into tears after she posted an impressive performance in the women's short skating program in her first appearance since the controversial doping . 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. Weir received the best artistic scores, receiving 5.7s for presentation in his free skate. NBC has correctly used LeDuc's pronouns on social media. With the help of Russian figure skaters Kamila Valieva and Alexandra Trusova, he was able to communicate in Russian. [76] He was told by judges at the beginning of the season, after debuting his short program, which was designed for the new scoring system, that it was not difficult enough, so he had to rework it. Meagan Duhamel retweeted this. Weir ought to put the Russian LGBT community before his new career at NBC and speak out about the LGBT Russians who are being arrested, jailed, beaten, raped, tortured . The following season (20002001), Weir competed as a senior for the first time, coming in sixth place at the U.S. Nationals. Gay Olympic hopefulBlake Skjellerupplans to defy anti-gay Russian laws. [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 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. Weir is a collector of Russian Cheburashka memorabilia. He is a two-time Olympian, the 2008 World bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2001 World Junior Champion and a three-time U.S. national champion (from 2004 to 2006). [127] He came in 10th place in the free skate, earning 132.71 points, and earned 206.97 points overall. At the 2006 U.S. Nationals, Weir was the first male skater to win three consecutive U.S. titles since Brian Boitano almost 20 years previously. [206][207], In early 2011, with the publication of his autobiography, Welcome to My World, he officially came out. Russia has had a hold on Johnny Weir since he was a boy. ", The White House this week canceled a planned meeting between Mr. Obama and Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin over a number of issues, chief among them Russia's decision to grant Edward Snowden temporarily asylum; in a statement, the White House also pointed to a lack of progress in engaging Russia on "human rights and civil society in the last twelve months.". Weir skated in the final ISU-sanctioned competition of the season, the 2004 Marshall's World Figure Skating Challenge. When the weather was warmer, he practiced jumps on roller skates in the basement of his family's home. His other notable credits include 'Be Good Johnny Weir' and the Netflix drama ' Spinning Out.' In his profile, he says he's a sports commentator at NBC and his. [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. He also competed in the Cup of Russia in Moscow, although not for points towards the Grand Prix final. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Despite falling on the simplest jump in his short program, a triple flip, Weir was placed first going into the free skate. He is a two-time Olympian (2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics), the 2008 World bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2001 World Junior Champion, and a three-time U.S. National champion (20042006). [75][76], Weir's short program this season was based upon an interpretation of Camille Saint-Sans' The Swan, which was traditionally danced and skated to by women. In 2014, Weir designed Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu's costume for his free skating program, worn during the Sochi Olympics. Johnny Weir (born John Garvin Weir on July 2, 1984 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania) is an American figure skater. [153] He did not include a triple-triple combination, and his quadruple jump was downgraded to a double. The 15-year-old Russian figure skater, who on Monday was ruled eligible for the 2022 Olympics women's singles competition after a positive drug test surfaced last week, finished first in the . Weir announced the news with a tweet : "I'm married! It was stunning to watch. [167][168][165] It was Weir's lowest result in the short program as a senior skater at a Nationals in his career. After Valieva's performance Tuesday, the broadcasting duo were curt in their analyses of her skate. He was the third alternate at the 2000 Junior Grand Prix final, coming in sixth and second place at his two Junior Grand Prix assignments, but won, at the age of 16, the gold medal at the World Junior Championships. [155], Weir started off the 20082009 season, when he was ranked seventh-best in the world, struggling with skate boot problems; his blades were not aligned properly on the new skates he purchased over the summer and did not have the time to break in replacements. Though he is married to a man, Johnny Weir, who will work as an analyst at the Sochi Games, said he would not speak out against a Russian law viewed as antigay in the West. His planned triple toe loop became a double jump, and he left off a double toe loop on his next two combination jumps. 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. 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