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Adam Richard Rippon (born November 11, 1989) is a retired American competitive figure skater and media personality. He is the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, the 2010 Four Continents Champion, and 2016 U.S. National Champion. Rippon competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where he finished
- November 1999
- Skating Club of New York
- 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Who Is Adam Rippon?
- Early Life
- Skating Career
- Gay Olympian
- 2018 Olympic Performance
- 'Dancing with The Stars'
- Rippon on Instagram and Twitter
- Clash with Mike Pence
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Adam Rippon displayed immense early promise as a figure skater with back-to-back wins at the world junior championships. He missed out on berths with the U.S. teams for the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics but regained his standing in the sport with a win at the 2016 U.S. national championships. In 2018, Rippon became the first openly gay American man...
Rippon was born on November 11, 1989, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Discovered to be nearly deaf, he underwent corrective ear surgery before his first birthday. Rippon's parents divorced when he was 13, and he has noted that he is not close with his father. The oldest of six children, Rippon was raised in the blue-collar town of Clarks Summit, an envi...
Rippon's career got off to a very promising start when he won the 2007 junior Grand Prix Final title and followed by becoming the first male to win back-to-back world junior titles, in 2008 and 2009. He hoped to leverage that momentum into a spot on the U.S. team for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics but ended up being selected as an alternate. A silver ...
With his selection to the U.S. Olympic men's figure skating team in January 2018, Adam Rippon, who revealed his sexuality in the October 2015 issue of Skating, became the first openly gay American athlete to qualify for the Winter Olympics. Rippon was not the only acknowledged gay athlete at the PyeongChang Games; he was joined on the U.S. squad by...
Rippon made additional history with his Olympic debut in February 2018, becoming the oldest first-time Olympian to represent the U.S. in figure skating since George Hill in 1936. Competing in the men's free skate, Rippon delivered a flawless performance choreographed to Coldplay's "O" and the Cinematic Orchestra's "Arrival of the Birds," the latter...
In April 2018, it was announced that Rippon was joining the cast of a shortened run of Dancing with the Stars: Athletes. Paired with Jenna Johnson, he was to compete against fellow 2018 Olympians like Mirai Nagasu and Jamie Anderson, as well as notorious former figure skating champion Tonya Harding. Rippon and Johnson won the competition on May 21,...
Rippon found his social media fan base growing as his profile increased in the days leading up to the Olympics. Never shy about flaunting his physique, he has used Instagram to post shirtless pics, along with those featuring him posing with U.S. teammates. Twitter, on the other hand, has provided a forum for the skater to show off his sharp sense o...
The public got its first taste of Rippon's outspokenness in mid-January 2018, when he was asked by USA Today to comment on the selection of U.S. Vice President Mike Penceas head of the 2018 U.S. Olympic delegation to South Korea. "You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? I’m not buying it," said the skater. Rippo...
Learn about the life and achievements of Adam Rippon, the first openly gay American man to qualify for the Winter Olympics and a figure skating champion. Find out his early promise, his struggles, his comeback, his Olympic debut, his Dancing with the Stars win, and his social media presence.
The figure skater and TV personality reflects on five years since he made history as one of the first out Olympic figure skaters in 2018. He talks about the power of sport for LGBTQ+ people, the importance of allyship and his new podcast.
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Feb 8, 2018 · The 28-year-old athlete was the first openly gay U.S. athlete to qualify for a Winter Olympics, and he is the oldest figure skater since 1939 to make his first...
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Jan 28, 2022 · Adam Rippon even used that ploy back in 2018. Then Rippon — and the sporting world — discovered something very different. Rippon, who came out publicly in October 2015, was the first openly gay athlete to win a medal for the United States in the Winter Olympics, bronze in the team event.
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Sep 16, 2018 · Adam Rippon Is U.S.'s First Openly Gay Man To Qualify For Winter Olympics. In March, he gave a stirring acceptance speech as the recipient of the Human Rights Campaign's...
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