We know we know exactly where the 1998 Olympic gold medalist is. He is currently convening figure skating action for the 2022 Beijing Olympics with broadcast partners. Johnny Weirthe pair joined the NBC Sports family in 2013.
“It's like a long-lost soulmate that you met late in life,” she said. GQ “I can't imagine my life without him.”
Lipinski became the youngest world champion in history at the age of 14 in 1997, and is also the youngest figure skater to win an Olympic gold medal at the Nagano Olympics, defeating all participants at the age of 15. (She also beat her U.S. teammate, who was expected to be the front-runner) Michelle Kwan, finished in second place. )
“To go out there and skate the way I've been training, that's the performance every skater wants,” she reflected to E! News ahead of the Beijing Games. “I remember hearing my name called and my legs shaking. I'd never had anything like that before. I was like, 'Oh, what should I do? I need legs!' But what made me able to skate like I did after that was not so much the victory, but the relief I felt as soon as the music ended and the feeling of being able to skate. I will always remember the joy I felt. Skating well and performing well, but doing it in front of millions of people at the Olympics. ”
She met her future husband, a producer Todd Kapostasi, when she presented him with an award at the 2015 Sports Emmy Awards, and they tied the knot two years later.They collaborated and he produced the 2022 Peacock documentary interferenceabout the scoring scandal that resulted in two sets of gold medals being handed out in pairs skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
“The skating world has definitely left its mark when it comes to scandals,” Lipinski told E! “Obviously Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan and the 2002 vetting scandal. I hope that's behind us.”
