The two-time Olympian won golden successful Sarajevo successful 1984, the archetypal American antheral to apical the podium since David Jenkins successful 1960. Also arsenic four-time World Champion, Hamilton went connected to circuit professionally and spent years arsenic a TV commentator for CBS and NBC.

Hamilton spoke candidly astir battling testicular crab aft a 1997 diagnosis—"It was aft I survived that I felt I could endure anything," helium told Coping magazine—and being treated for a reoccurring benign encephalon tumor.

"Every clip I've gotten knocked down, I've been capable to get up," helium told People successful 2015. "Skating teaches you however to get up, due to the fact that you autumn down a lot. I would impulse anybody to upwind the storm, due to the fact that connected the different broadside of it volition beryllium thing great."

Hamilton and his woman Tracie are parents of four, including 2 children they adopted from Haiti successful 2014.

He besides inactive has the skating costume helium wore for his gold-winning show and showed it off from his location successful Tennessee during an quality connected NBC Sports' "Olympic Ice" during the Beijing Games. 

At the 1988 Calgary Games, the three-time Olympian earned his American flag-appliquéd skates a spot successful the National Museum of American History with his golden medal-winning performance, successful which helium became the archetypal Olympic champion to land all six kinds of triple jumps. (He was already the archetypal skater ever to execute the feat during the 1983 World Championships.)

The autochthonal Californian has been a popular civilization fixture ever since. He won an Emmy for Outstanding Performance successful Classical Music/Dance Programming for the 1990 special Carmen connected Ice; got an unexpected but life-changing shout-out successful the opus "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" successful 1999's South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, then hosted the Food Network show What Would Brian Boitano Make?; and had cameos successful the movies Ice Princess and Blades of Glory.

When President Barack Obama named him to the U.S. delegation to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, helium besides took the accidental to travel retired arsenic gay, thing helium told reporters helium hadn't needfully planned to bash publically but was inspired to bash as part of the pushback to anti-gay authorities passed successful Russia.

"I don't consciousness that I tin correspond the state without revealing this unthinkable broadside of myself," Boitano said successful a statement. "This is an important moment, and to correspond my state successful Russia, it's a level that is truthful important for me."

He remains a go-to adept erstwhile the large events travel up, and has contributed to NBC Sports' sum of the Beijing Olympics.

The 1992 Olympic golden medalist actually archetypal recovered occurrence arsenic a pairs skater, teaming with Rudy Galindo to triumph U.S. juniors successful 1986 and satellite juniors successful 1988.

But going solo was the move, arsenic her triumph successful Albertville would confirm. Afterward Yamaguchi toured arsenic a pro for years and founded the Always Dream foundation, which provides backing for after-school programs and different acquisition essentials for underprivileged children.

She's made galore TV and movie cameos, authored a best-selling children's book, released a fittingness video, created an active-wear enactment and, past but not least, successful 2006 she became the archetypal Olympic fig skating champion to triumph Dancing With the Stars.

Yamaguchi has been joined to erstwhile hockey subordinate Bret Hedican since 2000 (they met-cute astatine the 1992 Olympics arsenic members of Team USA) and they person 2 daughters together.

Already a bronze medalist astatine the 1992 Albertville Olympics, Kerrigan couldn't assistance but end up particularly celebrated aft being clubbed successful the knee portion getting acceptable for the 1994 U.S. Championship successful Detroit, an onslaught spearheaded by teammate Tonya Harding's ex-husband.

After making a triumphant metallic medal showing astatine the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics a period later, Kerrigan's beingness became a whirlwind of endorsements, hosting Saturday Night Live and different all-star perks (and non-perks, specified arsenic being caught connected a blistery mic calling the Walt Disney World Parade the "corniest thing" she'd ever done).

Kerrigan skated professionally and became a fixture connected the speaking circuit, made galore TV appearances and authored the book Artistry connected Ice. In the outpouring of 2017 she finished sixth on Dancing With the Stars.

During her tally connected the ballroom competition, Kerrigan opened up astir suffering six miscarriages successful 8 years after she and hubby Jerry Solomon welcomed their firstborn, Matthew, successful 1996. In 2005 they had son Brian, with the assistance of IVF, and daughter Nicole was calved successful 2008. "We fought hard for this family," she said connected DWTS. "I privation to accidental to my kids done this dance, 'Never springiness up...Keep trying.'"

Ahead of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Kerrigan told NewsNation's Morning successful America (while talking astir a caller NFT representation of her arsenic a superhero, astir arsenic zeitgeisty as it gets) that, with Brian competing successful gymnastics and Nicole successful ballet school, she's appreciating her ain parents' past enactment much than ever. "Nobody gets to the apical by themselves," she reflected. "It takes a squad of radical and effort. You whitethorn beryllium retired determination performing by yourself, but somebody's driving you, someone's taking you and organizing...They're conscionable moving truthful hard that, arsenic a parent, I recognize each that my parents did."

OK, possibly not precisely a favorite when she made her second Olympic squad successful 1994, nor is she precisely a hero today, but acknowledgment to hindsight and a thought-provoking instrumentality connected her communicative successful the 2017 biopic I, Tonya, Harding isn't a villain anymore either.

After winning the U.S. championship a period prior, she finished a disappointing eighth astatine the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, her agelong programme dramatically interrupted by a breached skate lace. And past successful June, her national rubric was vacated after an probe into the attack connected Nancy Kerrigan found that Harding's ex-husband and several associates were down the crippled to incapacitate her rival capable to support her disconnected the Olympic team. Harding insisted she knew thing astir it until aft the onslaught had occurred. 

The takes were unkind. For years Harding was relegated to punchline presumption and did punchline-y things, similar make a enactment tape, vie successful personage boxing matches and get arrested for punching her fellow (she pleaded guilty and spent 3 days successful jail).

But aft Margot Robbie's Oscar-nominated show arsenic the Portland, Ore.-bred skater, nine seemed to unclench a bit. In 2018, Harding finished 3rd connected an all-athlete play of Dancing With the Stars and successful 2019 won the 5th personage variation of Worst Cooks successful America, donating her $250,000 prize to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

She's been joined to 3rd hubby Joseph Price since 2010 and is ma to lad Gordon, calved successful 2011.

The nine-time U.S. champion (tied for the all-time grounds with the late Maribel Vinson, a 1930s-era Olympian) came up abbreviated successful her bids for Olympic gold, earning metallic successful 1998 and bronze successful 2002 and past pulling retired of the 2006 Games with an injury, but has remained 1 of the astir famous-ever faces of U.S. fig skating.

During the Champions connected Ice Tour successful 2002 months aft the Salt Lake City Olympics, for which she was earning a tour-high $1 cardinal and getting lasting ovations, Kwan told the Los Angeles Times of the audience's reception to her, "It's much a reassurance, not similar a pity. Reassurance like, 'Hey, you know, it doesn't matter, life's not perfect,' benignant of attitude....They recognize the symptom [of losing]. That's the incorrect word. That that's the mode beingness goes sometimes. You person to benignant of motion your shoulders and determination on."

With astir 2 decades of hindsight nether her belt, she told People in 2021, "Getting the accidental and having the grant to correspond the state was thing else...There was thing similar it."

Kwan was a run surrogate for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, and she executive-produced the 2021 YouTube special Recipe for Change, a food-centric gathering of Asian-American chefs, celebrities and activists meant to assistance amended viewers astir their cultures' contributions amid a reported emergence successful anti-Asian hatred crimes.

And each sorts of excitement is afoot now: In December, Biden nominated Kwan to beryllium the adjacent U.S. Ambassador to Belize, and past period she revealed she had welcomed her archetypal child, a girl named Kalista Belle Kwan.

We cognize you cognize precisely wherever the 1998 Olympic golden medalist is—calling each the figure-skating enactment at the ongoing 2022 Beijing Olympics alongside broadcasting spouse Johnny Weir, the brace of them joining the NBC Sports household successful 2013.

"It's similar a long-lost psyche mate that I met precocious successful life," she told GQ of Weir successful 2018. "I can't ideate my beingness without him."

Lipinski became the youngest-ever satellite champion astatine 14 successful 1997 before beating each comers astatine the Nagano Olympics astatine 15, also the youngest-ever fig skater to triumph Olympic gold. (She besides bested her U.S. teammate and expected frontrunner Michelle Kwan, who finished second.)

"To spell retired and skate the mode that I did, which was the mode that I trained, that's however each skater hopes to perform," she recalled to E! News ahead of the Beijing Games. "I retrieve my legs shaking arsenic they called my sanction and that had ne'er happened before. I thought, 'Oh, what bash I bash now? I request them!' But to past beryllium capable to skate the mode that I did, I'll ever retrieve not truthful overmuch winning, but the infinitesimal the euphony ended and I was moving crossed the ice, conscionable the alleviation that I felt, the joyousness that I felt to skate good and person a bully showing, but bash it successful beforehand of millions of radical astatine an Olympic Games."

She met her aboriginal husband, shaper Todd Kapostasy, erstwhile she presented an award to him astatine the Sports Emmys successful 2015, and they tied the knot 2 years later. They teamed up to nutrient the 2022 Peacock documentary Meddling, about the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics scoring ungraded that resulted successful 2 sets of golden medals being handed retired successful pairs skating.

"Skating has decidedly made its people erstwhile it comes to scandals," Lipinski told E!. "Obviously Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, and past the 2002 judging scandal. Hopefully that's successful our past."

Even for the dedicated fig skating fans whose viewing of the sport isn't relegated to the Winter Games each 4 years, Hughes seemingly came retired of obscurity to predominate successful Salt Lake City successful 2002, winning golden successful her Olympics debut with an infectiously joyful agelong program. (Seriously, the representation of the look successful her eyes arsenic it registered that she was successful the mediate of giving the show of her beingness inactive resonates.)

You'd beryllium forgiven for not initially betting connected the 16-year-old, though. She was the 1998 U.S. inferior champion, but was lone the reigning bronze medalist astatine the 2001 World Championships erstwhile she made her archetypal U.S. Olympic team. And adjacent erstwhile she got there, she was 4th successful the abbreviated program. Michelle Kwan, who was in the pb heading into the agelong program, yet took bronze.

In fact, Hughes remains the lone American woman to person won Olympic fig skating golden but no nationalist oregon satellite titles.

She went connected to be Yale, past instrumentality schoolhouse astatine University of Pennsylvania, and is a practicing lawyer successful New York. She served as a typical of erstwhile archetypal woman Michelle Obama's Let's Move! Campaign and was portion of the U.S. delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics successful 2018. Last year, she meticulously documented her acquisition freezing her eggs connected her website, noting that erstwhile the process was over, "Really looking guardant to getting backmost connected the crystal erstwhile I get the all-clear."

The 2006 nationalist champion earned metallic astatine the 2006 Olympics successful Turin, Italy, and past took 3 years disconnected from competition—though not from skating, performing connected circuit and at events specified arsenic the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting.

She almost made it to Vancouver successful 2010, ending up arsenic a squad alternate aft coming successful 4th astatine the U.S. Championships, but past yet retired aboriginal that year.

Cohen made galore TV appearances and she graduated from Columbia University in 2016 with a grade successful governmental science. Having already published a memoir, Fire connected Ice, erstwhile she was 19, she's been beauteous unfastened astir the aggravated unit she faced portion competing.

"As a teenage athlete, you're hyper-focused connected making and winning the Olympics, past often forced to discontinue astatine an aboriginal age," she told US Figure Skating Fan Zone successful 2021. "You spell from being truly bully astatine thing successful the spotlight with a ton of support, property and sponsorships, to being idiosyncratic of yesterday."

Last twelvemonth she hosted Sasha Sessions: A Team USA Podcast, successful which she interviewed guests including activists, artists, journalists and fellow Olympians specified arsenic Apolo Ohno, Adam Rippon and Laurie Hernandez.

Cohen married hedge money manager Tom May successful August 2016 but they divorced successful 2018. Celebrating her day successful October 2019, she wrote connected Instagram, "I deliberation I'm a small wiser, much resilient, and person to figuring retired (and prioritizing) the things that truly substance successful life." And successful January 2020 she welcomed lad Dashiell with fiancé Geoffrey Lieberthal.

Following Brian Boitano's triumph successful 1988, U.S. men's fig skating experienced a spot of an Olympics lull, with Paul Wylie's metallic successful 1992 and Timothy Goebel's bronze successful 2002 the lone grounds the American fellows were inactive fielding (rinking?) a team.

After just missing the podium successful 2006, finishing fourth, two-time nationalist champion Lysacek ended that golden medal drought successful Vancouver successful 2010 (where helium shared immoderate of the spotlight with his impeccably tailored Vera Wang costumes).

He finished 2nd connected Dancing With the Stars that outpouring and was named the U.S. Olympic Committee's SportsMan of the Year.

After retiring from skating, Lysacek began a vocation successful commercialized existent property (he besides worked for Wang for a time successful New York), and successful 2019 married real property developer Duangpatra Bodiratnangkura in a ceremonial successful Bangkok, Thailand.

"I cannot explicit capable however fortunate I consciousness to person recovered my cleanable lucifer successful this unthinkable girl," helium told People of his then-fiancée. "She's bonzer successful each mode and she makes maine a amended man."

The three-time nationalist champion ne'er medaled in his trips to the Olympics successful 2006 and 2010, but his creator flare and glam-rock benignant retired connected the crystal always swept the honorary gold. 

Hence the combined 17 suitcases Weir said helium and longtime NBC broadcasting spouse Tara Lipinski were bringing to Beijing successful 2022. "It's not arsenic galore arsenic we've brought successful the past, truthful I deliberation we're maturing," helium told E!'s Daily Pop. "Or we walk excessively overmuch clip unneurotic and I cognize precisely what's successful her closet already."

The duo's chemistry and expertise person made their commentary must-watch parts of award amusement reddish carpet coverage, high-end canine shows, Super Bowl pre-game segments, the Kentucky Derby and—twist!—the Rio Summer Olympics successful 2016. But astatine this clip of year, their archetypal love, fig skating, is all-consuming.

"You springiness america a surface with fig skating connected it, and we'll some beryllium retired of our seats," Lipinski told E!. "I volition beryllium grabbing his hand."

Off the ice, Weir and Victor Voronov joined successful 2012 but then messily divided up hardly 2 years later. Weir remembered Lipinski being determination for him erstwhile they worked their archetypal Olympics unneurotic successful Sochi successful 2014.

"I was going done a truly nasty divorce, and the lone idiosyncratic I had to spell done it with maine was Tara," helium told GQ in 2018. "And for a caller friendship, that's a batch to expect idiosyncratic to enactment connected her shoulders. But Tara was up with maine arsenic agelong arsenic I needed her to beryllium up with me; she helped propulsion maine done work. Somehow, astatine the aforesaid clip my beingness was falling apart, we were crushing it astatine work, and we were winning hearts crossed America. That bonded america truthful quickly."

After earning metallic successful Vancouver, the six-time nationalist and two-time satellite champions won the United States' first-ever golden medal successful crystal dancing in Sochi, wherever they besides shared successful squad bronze. They whitethorn person breached a fewer shipping hearts erstwhile they insisted that they were not a romanticist couple, but the longtime partners were over the moon about making history.

Davis won Dancing With the Stars months aboriginal and she and White deed the accumulation circuit earlier yet retiring successful February 2017. She married retired Russian-Canadian fig skater Fedor Andreev in June 2019, taking their vows successful a scenic ceremonial successful Provence, France.

"We conscionable kept taking heavy breaths and trying to instrumentality it successful due to the fact that I deliberation that was 1 of the astir impactful moments," the bride told Town & Country. "We'd been dating for a agelong clip and we've loved 1 different for a agelong time, and yet the acquisition of sharing that infinitesimal with each different was truthful beautiful. It's astir apt my favourite representation ever up to this point."

A small cold, but wedding days volition bash that to a person, adjacent an Olympic golden medalist.

White joined retired Canadian-American crystal dancer Tanith Melvin successful 2015 and they person a lad together. White has announced plans to unfastened the Michigan Ice Dance Academy successful 2022, and some helium and Davis stay sought-after voices connected the taxable of skating and high-level competition.

"It's an absorbing acquisition arsenic a erstwhile athlete, arsenic an Olympian, due to the fact that erstwhile I was successful it, it each made sense," Davis said successful an Instagram Live session for Olympics.com erstwhile the Beijing Games were astir a twelvemonth away. "That's the satellite that you're in; that's the absorption you have. And present I ticker these unthinkable athletes and I deliberation to myself, 'I don't cognize however I dealt with those nerves. I don't cognize however I had that focus.'"

The 2016 nationalist champion didn't marque the podium skating individually astatine the 2018 Winter Olympics successful Pyeongchang, but helium did stock in the U.S. team's bronze—and glided distant with America's bosom each the aforesaid with his passion, musicality, style, spirited societal media posts and wide joie de vivre.

He surely caught Sally Field's son's eye, Sam Greisman tweeting retired a snippet of an speech betwixt helium and his Oscar victor ma successful which she encouraged him, "Sam... he's insanely pretty. Find a way."

After Pyeongchang, Rippon skated connected implicit to Dancing With the Stars and won the full thing, and ended up on TIME's database of the "100 Most Influential People of 2018." Ever since he's been balancing his enactment successful amusement (guest-hosting RuPaul's Drag Race, appearing successful Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" video) and quality rights activism.

He joined husband Jussi-Pekka Kajaala on Dec. 31, 2021.

Talking about what helium wanted to spot from the Beijing Olympics, Rippon, who is present coaching first-time Olympian Mariah Bell, told E! News successful January, "What I anticipation that the assemblage remembers is that each these athletes are quality and erstwhile we speech astir them and we observe them, that they're going to spot the mode radical speech astir them. Just retrieve that these are radical who worked their full lives for these moments whether it goes the mode they privation it to oregon not. They enactment incredibly hard and they enactment their blood, sweat and tears and clip into these moments."

The two-time nationalist champion and CoverGirl spokeswoman shared the bronze with her chap Americans successful the inaugural squad lawsuit astatine the 2014 Sochi Olympics. But portion she was considered a favourite to marque the squad again for Pyeongchang successful 2018, alternatively she pressed intermission connected her vocation to instrumentality clip to heal.

She has since become adjacent much well-known for her contributions to the ongoing speech astir the toll this level of contention tin instrumentality connected athletes' intelligence health. Speaking frankly astir her struggles with an eating disorder, anxiousness and depression, Gold recalled her lowest moments to the New York Times in 2019, explaining, "You privation radical to spot your symptom truthful they spot you request help, but you don't privation to inquire for help. So you unrecorded successful this benignant of unspeakable limbo."

Along with Michael Phelps, Lolo Jones, Sasha Cohen and more, Gold participated successful the 2020 documentary The Weight of Gold, astir the assorted intelligence wellness challenges Olympic athletes face. Her effort to marque the 2022 U.S. Olympic squad fell abbreviated erstwhile she finished 10th astatine nationals, but Gold joined the amusive on Kevin Hart's Winter Olympics Tailgate Party, portion of Peacock's 24/7 sum of the Beijing Games, and she's moving connected a memoir.

The three-time nationalist champion shared squad bronze at the 2014 Sochi Olympics but she missed making the U.S. squad successful 2018—and Wagner didn't hesitate to stock her frustration, telling reporters she was "absolutely furious" astir her scores astatine the U.S. Championships that January.

"What you spot is what you get with me, and I pridefulness myself connected being honorable and open," she said afterward connected TODAY. "I deliberation astatine the extremity of the day, based connected the enactment criteria, they perfectly made the close telephone with this team." She inactive questioned the consistency of the scoring, but yet accepted the results.

Recalling being asked however she felt just after uncovering retired the results, Wagner said, "I deliberation that I was conscionable heartbroken. I mean, devastated. I had worked 22 years for that moment, and I had enactment retired thing that I felt truthful arrogant of."

She talked to NBC Sports in October astir her latest chapter, studying science astatine Northeastern University with hopes of opening her ain therapy signifier 1 day and surviving in Boston with boyfriend Alex Clark, a mediate schoolhouse subject teacher.

Wagner besides was teaching a play Skate and Sculpt people astatine a section rink and did immoderate younker coaching. "I consciousness similar I americium a part-time therapist, part-time method coach," she explained. "It's a bully saccharine spot to enactment progressive successful the athletics but not excessively involved." She's besides been portion of NBC Sports' U.S.-based Beijing Olympics coverage.

But arsenic for competing, she acknowledged, "I ne'er loved skating. I saw it arsenic an opportunity, a means to an end. When I was done, I was truly done."