When Le Gougne's allegation became public Friday, Gailhaguet said "I'm beginning to have enough of the fact that France is badly treated. Light must be shed on this. Gailhaguet said Le Gougne "has said and written that she has voted in all honesty and good conscience. In both competitions, he missed the gold by a narrow margin. The first time, it was to Scott Hamilton, and the second, it was to Brian Boitano. It's a shame to be so good at your sport but never truly win, just because there's always a better Brian.
Despite the disappointment of never taking home the coveted gold, Orser has moved on. He's now a well-known figure skating coach who helps others get their own successes instead of mulling over his own failures. After seventeen years of touring, he realized, in his own words, that he needed to grow up.
His determination has paid off. He went on to coach Japanese skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who ended up winning gold at the Olympics. Orser came out as gay in Currently, he is in a relationship with Rajesh Tiwari.
Rajesh Tiwari also directs the Brian Orser Foundation. If you know anything about Scott Hamilton, you'd know that he loved to do backflips. It was a defining feature of his career, mostly because it was something that he could do so well. Unfortunately for Hamilton, the move was illegal in U. Despite being hampered in this way, Hamilton was, first and foremost, a professional.
He managed to win four World Championships. If that wasn't enough, he also won four consecutive U. Those happened between and , and then in , he capped off his own record-setting career with a gold medal performance at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
In he defeated cancer, proving that there's nothing that can stop him. Hamilton's height has always been an interesting fact about him — he stands at only five-foot-four. This is because of a childhood condition, which has also caused him to have cancer.
He's also been an ambassador for the Winter Olympics since Few American figure skating pairs can boast the same amount of success as this brother-sister team from Massachusetts. Back in , the Carruthers dominated their Soviet opponents when they won the silver medal — despite the fact that Kitty Carruthers was suffering from tendinitis at the time. When they learned that they had won the silver medal, the brother and sister were so overwhelmed they embraced each other for a full minute as the crowd cheered.
While it might be strange to think of a brother and sister working together so much, it's actually relatively common when it comes to figure skating. Peter Carruthers is now married and has two children. He works as a broadcaster for several different skating events.
Kitty works as a coach in Houston. While they are no longer a double-bill act, the siblings still have a close relationship and often reunite for special occasions. They most recently participated in a TV special in , where they skated together again.
Kitty and Peter both still love skating, and while they can no longer dazzle audiences with their moves, the pair still appreciates their time on the ice. Even though being a professional ice skating duo can be tough, they both say they truly enjoyed their time on ice. While Viktor Petrenko might not have had the incredible career of some of the other performers and athletes on this list, his career is special for one reason: he represented not one but two countries in the Olympics.
He represented the Soviet Union before its dissolution. Once the Union split up, he was able to represent his country of birth, Ukraine. It during his time with the Unified team that he achieved the most success in his career -- in , at Winter Olympics in Albertville, Petrenko took home the gold medal and made his country proud.
Petrenko has retired from figure skating, but his love for the sport is still obvious to everyone. He still has a deep passion for ice skating and has remained involved with it in a number of ways. The Ukrainian star is now coaching numerous figure skaters, including ones who are already champions in their own rights. He has even coached a few people you'll find on this list.
Some of his most famous students are Oksana Baiul, who won gold two years after Petrenko did, and Johnny Weir, who was a three-time champion. You have to be a true lover of a sport in order to pass it down to the next generation. Janet Lynn, originally from Chicago, caught the hearts of millions of figure-skating fans around when, in , she slid onto the ice rink at the Sapporo Olympics.
While she only took the bronze medal home with her, she also had a great time. During her career, Lynn also had a long-running streak of being the United States national champion — a staggering five times. Her accolades don't end there — she has also won the silver at the World Championships in Bratislava. She might have never taken the top spot on the podium, but nobody can deny her skills. At one point, Janet Lynn was the highest-paid female athlete on the planet; how cool is that?
Lynn is not only a talented skater but also a spiritual person. She's a Christian who gives motivational lectures and is involved in a number of conservative initiatives. Not only was Shizuka Arakawa the second figure skater from Japan to take home a medal after performing at a figure skating competition, but she was also the very first Japanese skater to win gold.
The first name on that shortlist was Midori Ito, who won the silver medal back in Being the first person to win gold for your country is a great honor, and it's something no one can ever take from Arakawa. Arakawa is another competitive skater who has made a smooth transition to professional figure skating. She received yet another Olympic honor when she was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which she did with all the poise in the world.
Irina Slutskaya doesn't like to sit still. After winning the World Championship in , she did it again. This time it was her home city of Moscow. She's one of the most decorated Russian figure skaters of all time, and that's really saying something.
With fourteen medals weighing her down, you'd think it would be a little more difficult for her to pull off a triple lutz-triple loop combo — but she was actually the first woman in the world to do it. She was an ambassador for the Winter Olympics in Sochi in She was married twice, first to Sergei Mikheev and then to Alexei Govyrin. She has a total of three adorable children.
As one of the most well-known and beloved figure skating pairs in recent history, there's nothing that Davis and White can't accomplish together.
They have won Olympic gold at the Winter Olympics, where they also took bronze in the team event. They have a huge number of championships and medals, and they have also crowned World Champions on two separate occasions.
Not only did they achieve a high amount of success, but they did it over a long amount of time — the two are the longest-lasting figure-skating pair to come out of the States, competing together for more than ten years. While the two don't compete together anymore, there are still plenty of ways to see Davis and White together on the ice. They announced that they weren't going to compete any longer in , but they still perform together in a number of different shows.
While the two have been attached at the hip since they started skating, they never became romantically involved. They both have relationships with others. After dating him for six years, Davis got engaged to retired figure skater Fedor Andreev. White has been married to Tanith Belbin since The two still work together to create some stunning figure skating programs. Before Shizuka Arakawa won the gold medal for Japan, it was Midori Ito who was setting the international stage for victory for the Empire of the Rising Sun.
Ito, who hails from the city of Nagoya, was the first female figure skater ever to achieve seven triple jumps in one competition. But having that small accolade wasn't enough for Ito. Not only did Ito win the World Championships, but she also went on to win the silver at the Winter Olympics three years later. She is also one of the most winning names in the NHK, an international competition hosted in Japan every year.
When her career competing for figure-skating titles came to an end in the mids, Midori Ito kept herself busy in a wide variety of ways. She was the one who lit the Olympic torch in the Winter Olympics in in Nagano. However, Ito would later return to competitive figure skating in In , her career as a competitive figure skater reached its highest level when she was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
You probably already know about Kristi. She's a figure skater who dominated both the singles and pairs competitions, no matter where she went. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Lia Ryerson. In the early '90s, Tonya Harding was considered one of the best professional figure skaters in America. Now, she's is back in the spotlight thanks to the critically-acclaimed film about her skating career, called "I, Tonya.
Since his victory, he's remained in the skating community, and has coached many Olympic stars. Nancy Kerrigan was a fan-favorite leading up to the Winter Olympic Games. These days Kerrigan is still athletic, and recently competed on the 24th season of "Dancing With the Stars. Kristi Yamaguchi wore this iconic black and gold dress when she took home the Olympic gold medal in Even though she's a retired skater, her star power only continues to rise.
Alexei Urmanov was the Olympic male champion. Urmanov went on to coach fellow Russian figure skater Julia Lipnitskaia. Oksana Baiul rose above the drama to win the Olympic gold medal in Baiul is now preparing for the lead role in an upcoming feature film about Sonja Henie.
Elvis Stojko was a two time Olympic-medalist, taking home the silver in both and Today, Stojko still skates professionally around 70 times a year. In the first half of the following season, he placed fifth at Skate America and earned medals at three events — Piruetten, International de Paris, and NHK Trophy — before becoming French national champion for the first time. Candeloro finished off the podium at the European Championships but a month later he won the bronze medal at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
He ended his season with a silver medal at the World Championships in Chiba, Japan. He then toured with Champions on Ice in the United States and performed in other shows.
In France, he attracted sponsorships and television and print publicity. In the —98 season, Candeloro again placed fifth at the pre-Olympic European Championships but went on to win the bronze medal at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
He also appeared as Captain Sheng in a Disney television special based on the cartoon Mulan, with Michelle Kwan playing the title role. Candeloro has worked as a sports journalist. Early in his childhood Candeloro enjoyed swimming and elastic springboard. In , at age seven, he began taking weekly ice skating lessons. He stole one of his first pairs of skates.
His mother paid for them when the theft was discovered. In , Candeloro was involved in the development of a namesake rose, the Philippe Candeloro rose with Lyonnais rose breeder Jean-Pierre Guillot. In , he was one of the contestants during the second season of Danse avec les stars.
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