We all know precisely the place the 1998 Olympic gold medalist is—calling all of the figure-skating motion at the continued 2022 Beijing Olympics alongside broadcasting associate Johnny Weir, the pair of them becoming a member of the NBC Sports activities household in 2013.
“It is like a long-lost soul mate that I met late in life,” she informed GQ of Weir in 2018. “I am unable to think about my life with out him.”
Lipinski grew to become the youngest-ever world champion at 14 in 1997 earlier than beating all comers on the Nagano Olympics at 15, additionally the youngest-ever determine skater to win Olympic gold. (She additionally bested her U.S. teammate and anticipated frontrunner Michelle Kwan, who completed second.)
“To exit and skate the way in which that I did, which was the way in which that I educated, that is how each skater hopes to carry out,” she recalled to E! Information forward of the Beijing Video games. “I keep in mind my legs shaking as they known as my identify and that had by no means occurred earlier than. I assumed, ‘Oh, what do I do now? I would like them!’ However to then have the ability to skate the way in which that I did, I am going to all the time keep in mind not a lot profitable, however the second the music ended and I used to be working throughout the ice, simply the reduction that I felt, the enjoyment that I felt to skate properly and have a very good exhibiting, however do it in entrance of thousands and thousands of individuals at an Olympic Video games.”
She met her future husband, producer Todd Kapostasy, when she offered an award to him on the Sports activities Emmys in 2015, they usually tied the knot two years later. They teamed as much as produce the 2022 Peacock documentary Meddling, about the 2002 Salt Lake Metropolis Olympics scoring scandal that resulted in two units of gold medals being handed out in pairs skating.
“Skating has undoubtedly made its mark in relation to scandals,” Lipinski informed E!. “Clearly Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, after which the 2002 judging scandal. Hopefully that is in our previous.”
