We know you know exactly where the 1998 Olympic gold medalist is as he and his broadcast partner call all the figure skating action at the upcoming 2022 Beijing Olympics. Johnny Weirthey joined the NBC Sports family in 2013.
“It's like a long-lost soulmate I met late in life,” she said. said GQ Veira in 2018. “I can't imagine my life without him.”
Lipinski became the youngest world champion in 1997 at the age of 14, and at the age of 15 he beat all comers at the Nagano Olympics and also became the youngest skater in history to win Olympic gold. (She also surpassed her US teammate to become the expected leader Michelle Kwanwho finished second.)
“To go out and skate the way I did, the way I trained, that’s what every skater hopes to do,” she said. recalled to E! News ahead of the Beijing Games. “I remember my legs shaking when they called my name, and that had never happened before. I thought, “Oh, what do I do now? I need them! But to then be able to skate the way I did, I will always remember not so much the victory, but the moment when the music ended and I ran across the ice, just the relief that I felt, the joy that I felt when I skated well and performed well, but did it in front of millions of people at the Olympic Games.”
She met her future husband, a producer. Todd Kapostasiwhen she presented him with an award at the Sports Emmy Awards in 2015, and two years later they tied the knot. They teamed up to produce the 2022 documentary Peacock. Interventionabout the results scandal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, which resulted in two sets of gold medals being awarded in pairs skating.
“Skating has definitely left its mark on scandals,” Lipinski told E!. “Obviously Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, and then the 2002 judge scandal. I hope this is in our past.”
