Kristi Yamaguchi Reveals What Really Goes Down in the Olympic Village

We
know
you
know
exactly
where
the
1998
Olympic
gold
medalist
is—calling
all
the
figure-skating
action
at the
ongoing
2022
Beijing
Olympics
alongside
broadcasting
partner

Johnny
Weir
, the
pair
of
them joining
the
NBC
Sports
family
in
2013.

“It’s
like
a
long-lost
soul
mate
that
I
met
late
in
life,”
she

told GQ

of
Weir
in
2018. “I
can’t
imagine
my
life
without
him.”

Lipinski
became
the youngest-ever
world
champion
at
14
in
1997
before beating
all
comers
at
the
Nagano
Olympics
at
15, also
the
youngest-ever
figure
skater
to
win
Olympic
gold.
(She
also
bested her
U.S.
teammate
and
expected
frontrunner

Michelle
Kwan
,
who
finished
second.)

“To
go
out
and
skate
the
way
that
I
did,
which
was
the
way
that
I
trained,
that’s
how
every
skater
hopes
to
perform,”
she

recalled
to
E!
News
 ahead
of
the
Beijing
Games. “I
remember
my
legs
shaking
as
they
called
my
name
and
that
had
never
happened
before.
I
thought, ‘Oh,
what
do
I
do
now?
I
need
them!’
But
to
then
be
able
to
skate
the
way
that
I
did,
I’ll
always
remember
not
so
much
winning,
but
the
moment
the
music
ended
and
I
was
running
across
the
ice,
just
the
relief
that
I
felt,
the
joy
that
I
felt
to
skate
well
and
have
a
good
showing,
but
do
it
in
front
of
millions
of
people
at
an
Olympic
Games.”

She met
her
future
husband,
producer

Todd
Kapostasy
,
when
she
presented
an award
to
him
at
the
Sports
Emmys
in
2015,
and
they
tied
the
knot
two
years
later.
They
teamed
up
to
produce
the
2022
Peacock
documentary Meddling,
about the 2002
Salt
Lake
City
Olympics
scoring
scandal
that
resulted
in
two
sets
of
gold
medals
being
handed
out
in
pairs
skating.

“Skating
has
definitely
made
its
mark
when
it
comes
to
scandals,”
Lipinski
told
E!. “Obviously
Tonya
Harding
and
Nancy
Kerrigan,
and
then
the
2002
judging
scandal.
Hopefully
that’s
in
our
past.”

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