Posts under ‘Figure skating’

And some people think you have to be a pansy to figure skate. No wonder so many of those guys have buns of steel . . .

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Gay.com has an interview with former Olympic figure skater Ryan O’Meara, who apparently came out in an Arizona magazine recently (I couldn’t find anything about it on Google). Anyhow, O’Meara was on the 2006 U.S. Olympic team for ice dancing; he and his partner, Jamie Silverstein (a woman, as the Olympics don’t allow same-sex partners), [...]

American skater Johnny Weir won his first world figure skating medal by finishing third at the championships in Sweden. Canada’s Jeffrey Buttle took the gold and France’s Brian Joubert the silver.

In a free skate where one top contender fell completely apart and two others had repeated flaws, Johnny Weir’s conservative but nearly error-free skating won [...]

Outsports fave Johnny Weir is second after the men’s short program at the world championships in Sweden, behind Canada’s Jeffrey Buttle. Weir is shooting for his first medal in international competition.

Weir was absolutely brilliant in Friday’s short program. It was his best skating since 2006, when he made an Olympic bus molehill into a psychological [...]

U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir was asked by the New York Times about his sexual orientation and he came off with a classic response.

“There are some things I keep sacred,” Weir said. “My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.”
Getting more serious, Weir continued: “If I [...]

From an interview in Chicago’s Windy City Times with Michael Weiss, a competitive figure skater now doing ice shows:

WCT: Figure skating is often stereotyped as a “gay” sport. Do you have any comment on that?

MW: Like with any stereotype, it’s about not understanding the sport. Figure skating certainly has its share of gay people [...]

Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek had a finish at the United State Figure Skating Championships in St. Paul, Minn., that was unbelievably close.

Defending champion Evan Lysacek and former three-time champion Johnny Weir did the near impossible: they finished the competition with exactly 244.77 points each. The tie was broken and the championship awarded to [...]