Johnny Depp is a very talented actor who knows how to speak more than one language. [203], Weir took the next two seasons off from competitive skating, focusing on his personal life, figure skating shows, a singing career, and celebrity events. [152] Lysacek withdrew from Worlds due to injury; Abbott replaced him as well. Feb 17, 2010. 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 was not eligible for a bye into Nationals because he did not place in the top five at the 2013 Nationals or medaled at the 2010 Olympics or 2013 World Championships. "The Olympics are about how well you're able to perform in front of a huge audience, and it's not about whether you're gay or straight or who you're friends with or anything that's not related to the sport.". [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. "In Russia, just the sheer fact that you could be gay, you can get arrested, fined, and it's a terrible thing to even think of," he said. [13][19] For Christmas, his parents bought him a new pair of skates and a package of group lessons at the University of Delaware, 45 minutes from their home. [165] Despite his loss, Weir was chosen as favorite skater of the year by the readers of U.S. [73][74] He began the season, which reporter John Blanchette called a "minor calamity",[75] with "a series of disappointing finishes". 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. Luckily for viewers at home, Johnny Weir was there to describe the painful scene every step of the way. [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". John Garvin Weir[1] (/wr/; born July 2, 1984)[2] is an American figure skater and television commentator. "All I feel I can say is that was the. He came in first place in the free skate, which was described as "somewhat business-like and more suited for the strong technicians rather than the artistic skater Weir is known to be". Especially vintage Chanel. The IOC has said that the games "should be open to all, free of discrimination, and that applies to spectators, officials, media and of course athletes." [232] Weir's commentating style was met with fixed responses from figure skating fans and skaters. 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. Brian Montopoli is the national reporter and political analyst for CBSNews.com. [134] In between seasons, he amicably parted from his longtime coach Priscilla Hill, and replaced her with Galina Zmievskaya, who had coached 1992 Olympic champion Viktor Petrenko and Weir's idol Oksana Baiul. [66][65][67], The 2005 U.S. Nationals was the last time the 6.0 system was used at a U.S. Her choreographers worked with him, but most of the choreography was developed by Weir and Zmievskaya. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency . Nationals. Be Good Johnny Weir continued where Pop Star on Ice ended, following Weir as he attempted to earn a place on the 2010 U.S. Olympic team. [180][182] He successfully accomplished all his triple Axels in both programs. Outspoken Weir Will Be Quiet on Russian Law When he works as a figure skating analyst at the Sochi Games, Johnny Weir said he would not speak out against a Russian law that is viewed as antigay.. Weir hopes that his mere presence in Russia will speak louder than any vocal protest. Lysacek's total score was 169.89, which was the highest score, by almost 19.5 points, earned by a male skater at the U.S. Nationals, and over 50 points more than Bradley's final score of 219.21 points. 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. 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. Russia has seen an outbreak of violence against gay rights advocates, with LGBT supporters facing beatings from anti-gay protesters. Priscilla Hill was his first coach. His planned triple toe loop became a double jump, and he left off a double toe loop on his next two combination jumps. August 9, 2013 / 3:30 PM "If it takes me getting arrested for people to pay attention, and for people to lobby against this law, then I'm willing to take it," he said, adding: "Like anyone, I'm scared to be arrested. "I'm as normal as anybody as I know. Figure Skating. [46] He came in first place, the first to do so by qualifying at sectionals since Rudy Galindo in 1996. My relationship is as strong and as healthy as anybody that I know. [8][9][10] Weir was raised in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, a rural town in Amish-dominated central Pennsylvania. He went back to working with his previous coach, Galina Zmievskaya, and retained the same off-ice trainers, designers, and costume seamstresses as before. He earned 231.78 points overall,[142] and "significantly beat"[143] his personal best scores. Weir finished in sixth place overall. His other notable credits include 'Be Good Johnny Weir' and the Netflix drama ' Spinning Out.' Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. 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[comes up]she speaks Russian, and I speak Russian, and Tara doesn't speak Russian . [189], Weir came into the Olympics "a legitimate medal threat",[176] although he did not anticipate winning a medal and suspected that it would mark the end of his competitive career. [174], After the previous season, Weir became depressed and was ready to quit figure skating before the 20092010 season, but his mother talked him into continuing to compete and try to make the U.S. team for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. [180][181] He skated a clean short program and gave his best performance up to that point in the season, with 78.35 points. [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. [4] For the Grand Prix season, he was assigned the NHK Trophy in Japan and Trophee Bompard in Paris. [46] His scores ranged from 5.8 to 6.0, which included seven 5.9s for technical merit and a 6.0 for presentation, the first perfect score earned by a man at U.S. Nationals since Weiss earned one in 2000; all but two judges placed Weir in first place. Johnny Weir is fluent in Russian, and therefore was able to communicate with Russian figure skaters Kamila Valieva and Alexandra Trusova backstage. [25] Weir stated that along with his relative inexperience with competing and a growth spurt, he struggled with nerves during this period, which affected his performances. Please keep u/HomoCoffiens in your thoughts. [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. 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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 . In the short program, despite a fall,[156] he placed second, with 78.15 points. [71] The first half of his program was strong, with five triples in a row, but his foot pain caused him to change his circular step sequence, which resulted in a slip during the sequence and a fall during his opening triple Axel. 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. [15] He later said that horse riding had given him body awareness, preparing him for figure skating. [138] He was ranked seventh-best skater in the world. He joined NBC as a commentator beginning at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. [187] Longman also called Weir's free skate "oddly passive and stumbling". [146][149] Weir followed up his quadruple toe with a triple Axel-triple toe combination, a triple Lutz, and a triple Axel. . [203] The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) launched a protest against the tour, claiming that it was "a clear jab at his perceived sexual orientation",[203] but Smucker's, the tour's biggest sponsor, said that GLAAD's information was inaccurate, and that Stars on Ice did not have enough room for Weir. [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. Figure Skating, the governing body of the sport in the U.S., throughout his skating career. [136] He also changed his choreographer and training routine, and moved out of his family home in Newark, Delaware to an apartment in New Jersey in order to train with Zmievskaya. "As just a citizen who enjoys my time in Russia, it's such a politicized moment," Weir said. Figure Skating . [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. He won the event, taking in 64 percent of the fans' votes, via in-stadium voting, telephone, and the internet. Figure Skating Championships. [19] Also when he was 12, he began training with Priscilla Hill, who had coached many skaters and won national medals as a competitive skater. [4] He often designed his own costumes or worked extensively with his designers and later was known for his fashion choices as a broadcaster. [7][94], For the first time in his career, Weir changed his free skating program mid-season shortly before the Olympics, from "a techno medley"[95] written by Croatian pianist Maksim Mrvica to "Otoal" by Argentine pianist Ral Di Blasio, which Weir used the previous season. JW: . [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". [222] In October 2013, he retired from competition and joined NBC as a figure skating analyst at the Sochi Olympics. 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. It was the first time since 1994 that no American male won medals at the World Championships. 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. Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir didn't hold back expressing their opinions on the figure skating controversy. He also downgraded another triple jump to a double, and failed to complete a three-jump combination and double-jump combination late in his program. His first ballet teacher in Delaware Yuri Sergeev was a dancer for the St. Theres a Russian bus and an American bus Weir said matter-of-factly. Johnny Weir is possibly single. Earlier this season of Bravo's Project Runway, the designers were tasked. The 32-year-old is a three-time U.S. national champion, two-time Olympian and bronze medalist at the World Figure. He also said that the move taught him discipline and independence. Johnny Weir: It was a great honor to be a part of the winning and losing team. [44] He had to compete in the Eastern Sectionals again, coming in first place despite a fall and securing a spot in the U.S. He also doubled a loop jump and singled a flip jump. Lysacek came in second place, and two-time world champion, Stphane Lambiel from Switzerland, came in third. 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. Skating news related to the war. Weir has had coaches from Russia and is fluent in the language. Well, I can't wait to see what Weir and Lipinski say about Lipnitskaia once the women's individual competition starts. He finished third at the 2007 U.S. Nationals and replaced his long-time coach Priscilla Hill with Galina Zmievskaya for the 20072008 season. Meagan Duhamel retweeted this. [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. Weir received the best artistic scores, receiving 5.7s for presentation in his free skate. Johnny Weir with his ex-partner Victor . Weir had a classical skating style and was known for being "a very lyrical skater"[3] and "an entertaining artisan". [233], Weir and Lipinski were fashion analysts and correspondants for the Oscars, dog shows, the Kentucky Derby, the Super Bowl, and the 2016 Summer Olympics. The last time he made headlines was in 2016, when he reportedly "blamed Weir for ruining [his] relationship" with ice dancer Joti . [198], Although Weir was eligible to compete at the 2010 Worlds Championships, he withdrew due to a lack of training. He worked with choreographers Faye Kitariev and Viktor Petukhov to compose a Russian rock opera based upon Svetlana Pikous' song, "Yunona I Avos. 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. [140][141] He came in first place in the free skate, with 151.98 points and "a nearly perfect"[142] performance. After completing his free skate, Weir kissed his hand and pounded the ice with it as the audience gave him a standing ovation; he stated, "I was very thankful at that point, and I was thanking the ice in Atlanta for letting me do my best". He qualified to compete at the Grand Prix final, where he won the bronze medal. [32] He came in seventh place and fourth place in his two Grand Prix assignments during the 20012002 season, participated in the Goodwill Games and a team pro-am competition, came in fifth place at the 2002 U.S. Nationals, and came in fourth place in the 2002 Four Continents Championships. Weir retired from competitive figure skating in 2013. Born on 2nd July 1984, Johnny Weir's hometown is in Pennsylvania, USA. [25][29] He was the tenth American to win at Junior Worlds and the first American male skater since Derrick Delmore won in 1998. A Quebec gay rights group considered filing a complaint; the commentators later apologized on-air. Abbott's overall score was a personal best237.72 points, four points more than both Weir and Lysacek's personal best scores. 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[115] He did not begin to train for the season until August 2006; illness also hampered his training. Valieva is a phenom who already led the Russians to gold in the team figure skating event and is favored to win the individual competition this week. [62] He again did not include any quadruple jumps, choosing instead to emphasize his artistry, spins, and pirouettes. [102][103], At the World Championships, Weir "did not fare so well". [14] His family moved to New Britain, Connecticut, so he could train. They noted a jumping pass and stayed mum . Weir earned a personal best score of 156.77 points and 238.87 points overall. [71] His "respectable free skate"[72] pulled him up to fourth place. ", 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. He has come out as openly gay. As an NBC analyst and correspondent, Weir is estimated to earn $500,000 annually. 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 . [173] Its promotional commercial aired during the U.S. Nationals; Weir later expressed his opinion that U.S. [175] Weir came in third place, with a total of 237.35 points. "And if Russia wants to uphold the Olympic spirit, then every judgment should be made on the track, or in the swimming pool, or on the balance beam, and people's sexual orientation shouldn't have anything to do with it. The salary of figure skaters makes $2,000 to $45,000 depending on competitions and where they place. He did not include a quadruple jump but completed a triple lutz-triple toe loop combination and had higher-scoring spins than Lysacek. Figure Skating named Weir to the U.S. World Championships team. 10 Johnny Depp - French. Johnny Weir has used dating apps. His rival Lysacek, who had beaten Weir the last three times they had competed internationally, was seeking his first Nationals title. In 2001, he won the World Junior Championships. The following season (20002001), Weir competed as a senior for the first time, coming in sixth place at the U.S. Nationals. Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski weren't about to stick to skating as Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee returned to the ice, cleared to compete by the Court of Arbitration for Sport . Johnny became interested in figure skating when he was 11 years old while watching Oksana . [114] His free skating program, in which he portrayed the life of Christ, was the weakest of the season; Weir disliked his costume and his program did not go over well with spectators and judges. [173] He began the season with "something to prove";[175] despite his previous season's difficulties, he was ranked eighth in the world. [122] Weir came in fourth place in the free skate, with 135.06 points. Although Weir was born in the US, he became interested in Russia as a result of his passion for figure skating. Zmievskaya had a more Russian approach and focused on "drill sergeant-like demands for discipline and rigor".[226]. Unlike openly gay speed skater Blake Skjellerup of New Zealand, who hasvowed to wear a gay pride pin if he makes it to Sochi, Weir does not plan to broadcast his sexuality in Russia in a challenge to the law. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a. [19], The 20032004 season was "the turning point" for Weir;[40] Mittan called it "an amazing comeback". His footwork was difficult, but as the AP also said, he "appeared to just be going through the motions with it". Like the previous year, he competed in regional and minor competitions and came in fourth place at the U.S. Johnny Weir Condemns the Olympics Decision to Let Kamila Valieva Continue skate Weir has links with Russian coaches, and he's also fluent in Russian. [154] The Chicago Tribune said his free skate "wasn't memorable", and called it "conservative but relatively error-free". Check out our Cash budget Binders, 100% handcrafted budget stickers and also unique budgeting Pdf's to help you along your debt free journey! [111] He began working with ice dancer Marina Anissina, who choreographed both his short program and free skate. [26], Weir became eligible to compete in the Junior Grand Prix during the 19992000 season, coming in seventh and second place in his two Junior Grand Prix assignments. [116][122][125] Weir also said, "Evan didn't just beat me[h]e kicked my ass",[122] and called his free skate "probably the most difficult performance of my career thus far". Does johnny weir speak russian Remember who Johny is. [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". 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