I’m sure you know exactly where the 1998 Olympic gold medalist is. With the 2022 Beijing Olympics currently underway, he and broadcast partner Johnny Weir are capturing the attention of the figure skating world. The two joined the NBC Sports family in 2013.
“It’s like a long-lost soulmate that you meet late in life,” she told GQ in 2018. “I can’t imagine life without him.”
Lipinski became the youngest world champion in history at the age of 14 in 1997, and at the age of 15, she is also the youngest figure skater to win an Olympic gold medal, beating all participants at the Nagano Olympics. (She also beat out her U.S. teammate and expected front-runner Michelle Kwan, who finished second.)
“To go out there and skate the way I’ve been training, that’s the performance every skater wants,” she recalled to E! News ahead of the Beijing Games. “I remember when they called my name, my legs were shaking. I’d never felt anything like that before. I thought, ‘Oh, what should I do? I need legs!'” But then he learned how to skate like he did. Rather than winning, I will always remember the relief I felt the moment the music ended and I ran onto the ice, and the joy that I had skated well and performed well, and that I was able to do it in front of millions of spectators at the Olympics. ”
She met her future husband, producer Todd Kapostasy, while presenting an award at the Sports Emmy Awards in 2015, and they married two years later. They collaborated to produce the 2022 Peacock documentary Medling, about the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic scoring scandal that resulted in two gold medals being awarded in pairs skating.
“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.”
