Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American skater, actress, and sports commentator. As a former competitor in the women's singles, she was the 1998 Olympic champion, 1997 World Champion, two-time Champions Series champion (1997-1998), and US national champion 1997. She is the youngest ever to win a World Skating title, having done so at age 14 year, 9 months and 10 days.
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Biography
Early life
Lipinski was born on June 10, 1982, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of Patricia (nÃÆ' Â © e Brozyniak), a secretary, and Jack Lipinski, an executive and oil lawyer. He spent his first years in Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
Lipinski started ice skating in 1988, learning his early techniques from roller skating coaches in the Philadelphia area. His first major competition was the 1990 Eastern Regional Championship for a roller skating where he finished second. In the 1991 Roller Skating Championship of the United States, he won the primary female freestyle at the age of nine.
In 1991, his father's job required the family to move to Sugar Land, Texas. However, training facilities are not available there. In 1993, Lipinski and his mother moved back to Delaware, where he had previously practiced. He then moved to Detroit, Michigan, to train with Richard Callaghan.
Competitive career
Lipinski first became famous on a national level when he won the 1994 US Olympic Games competition, which at the time was a junior-level competition. She became the youngest female skating gold medalist and the youngest athlete in every discipline to win gold. Later that season he finished fourth at the 1995 Junior World Championships and second at the junior level, behind Sydne Vogel, at the 1995 US Championships. Lipinski was trained by Jeff DiGregorio at the University of Delaware. In 1995, he became the subject of media attention, creating "Tara-Mania" by the media.
After finishing fifth place at the 1996 Junior World Championships, Lipinski changed the coach, joining Richard Callaghan in Detroit. Later in the season, at senior level, he finished third in the 1996 US Championships and qualified to compete in the senior-level World Championships. Lipinski was second in the qualifying round for Midori Ito, but fell twice in the short program, barely making a cutoff for the long program. Lipinski gathered to land seven triple jumps, including a triple salchow/triple loop combination, completing 11 in the long and 15th program overall. Later that year, the International Skating Union chose to raise the minimum age to participate in the World Championships to 15. Lipinski, 13 years old at the time, was defeated and remains qualified for future events, along with other skaters already competing in the Championships The world before the new age requirement is introduced.
At the end of 1996, at the US Post Challenge, Lipinski became the first female skater to land a triple/triple loop jump combination, which became her signature element. In early 1997, Lipinski suddenly won the US Championship and, at the age of 14, became the youngest man to win a title over Sonya Klopfer who won it in 1951 at the age of 15. Lipinski also won the 1997 Champion Series, once again becoming the youngest woman ever to win the title. He went on to win the World Championships, once again becoming the youngest man to win the title.
The following season, Lipinski finished second to Michelle Kwan at Skate America and, while suffering a bad cold head, to LaÃÆ'     à © Hubert in the Trophà © Ã… © e Lalique. With Kwan sidelined with a toe-related fracture injury, Lipinski retained his Final Series Champion title (now known as the Final Grand Prix). In 1998 US citizens, Kwan and Lipinski met again, but after falling on the third flip in the short program, Lipinski ended the short program in 4th place with Kwan in the first place. Although he got seven times as much in the long program, he completed the second overall for Kwan.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Lipinski launched his short program into music from the animated film Anastasia , placing the second to Kwan. In a long program, Lipinski performs seven-fold, including a triple loop/triple loop combination of historic and, ultimately, triple toe/half loop/triple Salchow sequences, to defeat Kwan for a gold medal. She became the youngest women's Olympic skating lady and youngest individual gold medalist, a record that has stood since Norway's Sonia Henie won the same event at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Petersburg. Moritz, also at the age of 15. (In 2014, Yulia Lipnitskaya, six days younger than Lipinski at the time of her Olympic victory, became the youngest Olympic gold medalist in skating women by winning gold with the Russian team in a team event, not an individual event like Lipinski.) Lipinski is training in Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Professional career
On March 9, 1998, Lipinski announced his decision to withdraw from the 1998 World Figure Skating Championships, citing a serious gland infection that required him to have two molars extracted, constant fatigue, and possible mononucleosis.
On April 7th, 1998, Lipinski announced his intention to become a professional in an interview with Katie Couric on the Today Show . He cites the desire to spend more time with his family, have time for school, and to compete professionally against other Olympic champions. However, given the opportunities available to newly crowned Olympic champions, Lipinski takes a full tour schedule, publicity appearance, and engagement acting, though it requires constant travel. He was criticized by some, like Christine Brennan, for his decision to retire from the competition at a very young age, which equated the skating circuit as "joining the circus". However, this criticism is labeled as a "small attack" following Lipinski's defeat of the winner Kwan is expecting at the Nagano Olympics.
In the spring and summer of 1998, Lipinski toured with the Champions on Ice. He then toured with Stars on Ice for four seasons. Lipinski appealed to a younger audience, attracting new fans to what has traditionally been an adult-oriented event. He signed a contract with Stars on Ice reportedly as a coup for the tour, which at that time went well, with some performances routinely sold out several months earlier. Choreographer Sandra Bezic commented, "Tara reminds us why we do this - idealism, true love skating.There is a real sweetness there that keeps us all going, 'Yeah, I remember'". Lipinski generally receives favorable reviews and is popular with fans, sometimes signing autographs for hours after every show.
Lipinski's decision to change the pro coincides with changes in the business climate for the skating industry. After the 1998 Olympics, many of the professional skating competitions that sprang up after the 1994 Tonya Harding spectacle were turned into pro-am format or completely stopped when the audience lost interest. Lipinski did not want to compete in a new pro-am event, and shortly after he became a professional, he broke the existing $ 1.2 million contract to appear on a USFSA-sponsored TV show. Instead, he only plays in the remaining all-pro competition, which is primarily a team event like Ice Wars . Another very famous individual victory came at the World Professional Figure Skating Championship 1999; at the age of 17, he became the youngest person to win the event.
Professional skating career Lipinski is hampered by a series of hip injuries. In August 1998, Lipinski suffered hip injuries in practice for Stars on Ice. In September 2000, he underwent surgery to repair a torn labrum on his hip. He said his hip problem has been misdiagnosed for several years. Lipinski suffered another hip injury in 2002 during a Star show on Ice at St. Louis, when he fell hard on his right hip as he jumped, and then tore his muscles around the bruised area the next day.
Many people have pointed to the repeated stress of practicing a combination of Lipinski triple loops made during his competitive days as the main cause of his hip problem. Lipinski himself has issued a contradictory statement about the timing, causes, and severity of the wound. After surgery in 2000, he stated in interviews that the real reason he has turned professional is that he initially suffered an injury to his hip in the summer of 1997 and that he has been slamming the entire Olympic season with tremendous pain, denied it before. account of the original injury that occurred in the summer of 1998 rather than in 1997. In a 2010 statement on his website, Lipinski denied that his hip injury was a factor in his decision to retire or that he suffered certain pain during his amateur career beyond "the norm for any athlete ".
Lipinski participated in training for the fifth season of the Stars on Ice tour in the fall of 2002 but withdrew from the tour before it began. She was increasingly unhappy with life on tour; he felt isolated from the ice friendship in the older skater on the tour; and his injuries caused friction with show producers and other cast members. He then wrote on his official website, "It was very difficult the last two years of the tour for me, I was emotionally drained and hurt, I have never been treated like that in my entire life." In subsequent interviews, he also expressed his irritation with the artistic direction of the show at that time. For example, reviewers have specifically highlighted the rap ensemble performed by Lipinski with Kristi Yamaguchi and Katarina Witt on the 2001-02 tour.
Television and movie career
Lipinski has made some television appearances, which have included guest roles at a number of prime-time performances, Touched by Angels , Sabrina, The Young Magicians , Malcolm at the Central , Veronika Cabinet , Lines Who Is That < , Sky 7 , and Stay Standing ), and cameo in the theatrical movie Vanilla Sky . Lipinski also played a short supporting role at The Young and the Restless in 1999, starring in Ice Angel's TV movie in 2000, and played in the independent film The Metro Chase . In addition, he has become a celebrity guest at VH-1's The List , Fox's Beach Party, some Nickelodeon production, and Girls Behaving Badly has appeared in various magazine covers as well as every major talk show. In 1999, CBS featured prime-time special, Tara Lipinski: From This Moment On .
Lipinski made an appearance on The Today Show on March 18, 2011, where she slid into Ben Harper's "Forever".
In October 2013, it was announced that Lipinski will be a commentator and analyst at NBC, NBC Sports, and Universal Sports during the Sochi Winter Olympics. As a result of the positive reviews for the event, Lipinski and fellow analyst Johnny Weir were invited to emerge as fashion commentators for Access Hollywood at the 86th Academy Awards with host Billy Bush. In September 2014, Lipinski and Weir were promoted to NBC's main skating broadcaster with Terry Gannon after more than a decade Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic and Tom Hammond at the helm. This promotion means NBCSN's B team from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics will comment on every major skating event aired on NBC's network including the Figure Skating Grand Prix: Skate America and the Figure Skating National Championship of the United States. Before promotion, Lipinski, Weir, and Gannon only performed five Grand Prix events and the Final Grand Prix, while Hamilton, Bezic, and Hammond got bigger events like the National Championships.
NBC has increased Lipinski and Weir's exposure in making them "fashion and lifestyle experts" for Kentucky Derby since 2014, and by 2016, the couple were announced as "cultural correspondents" for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The couple has also made comments for 2018 Winter Olympics. Lipinski and Weir have been portrayed as having "chemistry... bringing art and making their conversations truly shine... [tempting] interesting to listen to and they are excellent tutors, giving random sledding in obscurity along the way. "
In July 2016, Lipinski became an executive producer for a potential upstream drama series centered on figure skating.
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Personal life
In December 2015, Lipinski announced his engagement to Todd Kapostasy, a television producer. They married on June 24, 2017, in Charleston, South Carolina. Lipinski broadcaster partner Johnny Weir was a bride at her wedding.
Figure skating
Program
Results
Eligible
GP: Champions Series (Grand Prix)
Professional
- 1998 I'm Going Skate TV: Pertama
- 1998 Ice Wars: 1st (Tim USA) 1998 Jefferson Pilot Financial Championships: Pertama
- 1999 Tim Ice Wars: 2nd (Tim USA) 1999 Ice Wars: 1st (Tim USA)
- 1999 Grand Slam Super Teams of Skating: Pertama
- Become Profesional Dunia 1999: Pertama
- 2001 World Ice Challenge: 1st (Tim USA)
- 2002 Ice Wars: 1st (Tim USA)
- Tara Lipinski: Ice Queen , Bill Gutman
- Tara Lipinski: Superstar Ice-Skater , Stasia Ward Kehoe
- Tara Lipinski (Sports Superstar) , Richard Rambeck
- On Ice with Tara Lipinski , Matt Christopher
- Tara Lipinski (Biografi Olahraga Juara) , Annis Karpenko
- Tara the Road to Gold , Wendy Daly
- Tara Lipinski (Cool Athlete) , Jill Wheeler
- Tara Lipinski (Women Skating Legends) , Boyd Jones Vedder
- Tara Lipinski (Session Hour) , Terri Dougherty
- Tara Lipinski: Star Player , Barry Wilner
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Tech Skating
Lipinski is noted for his consistent athletic abilities including a number of difficult jump jumps. He completed triple loop/triple loop and triple toe/half loop/triple Salchow. This combination is very rare to this day. The Lipinski leap is very tight in the air with very fast rotation, and its double Axel technique becomes very popular among many skaters for years to come.
Movies and TV
Lipinski has appeared in several television series, movies, and other programs. In addition, it has several technical parts.
Selected filmography
Achievements
Philanthropic work, support and publication
Together Shaquille O'Neal and Denzel Washington, Lipinski is the national spokesperson for Boys and Girls Clubs of America. She is also a spokesperson for Campaign for Smoking Children and Leukemia Children Foundation. Lipinski is also involved with the anti-drug campaign of the Office National Drug Control Policy. The announcement of its anti-drug public service was broadcast nationally on TV and in theaters in 2000.
She is also dedicated to helping needy children, through the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Child Care Circle, a philanthropic organization for national children's hospitals. She has also supported the Children's Research Hospital St. Jude, and many cancer research efforts.
Its support portfolio includes McDonald's, Charles Schwab, Chevrolet, Snapple, DKNY, Minute Maid, Capezio, Mattel, Sup Campbell, Autoweb.com, Kellogg's, Coca-Cola, Kleenex, Kodak, Hallmark Cards, Office Depot, Smuckers, Target, and others. -lain. Lipinski is also on the runway for Limited Too !. Lipinski has two official printed books: Totally Tara - An Olympic Journey and Triumph On Ice . In addition, there are many unofficial bios, including:
Awards and Recognition
A year before his victory at the Olympics, the US Olympic Committee called Lipinski the Female Athlete of the Year. Lipinski is very proud of the recognition he has received from fans. In 1999 and 2000, she was voted Best Female Athlete at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. In 1999, he won the Best Female Athlete at the inaugural Fox Teen Choice Awards. She received a similar award from Teen People magazine and Teen . He has been recognized by the American Academy of Achievement, the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Foundation, and many other organizations. In 2006, Lipinski was the youngest ever to be inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
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External links
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