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WEIR ANNOUNCES COMPETITIVE COMEBACK
Two-time Olympian and three-time U.S. cham-
pion Johnny Weir is coming back to compete next season.
“I’m here to announce, officially, my return to
competitive figure skating in hopes of being a mem- ber of the 2014 U.S. team at the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia,” Weir said in a press conference on Jan. 19. “I’m going to continue to work with Galina Zmievskaya, Viktor Petrenko and Nina Petrenko as my coaching team, and I will train at the Ice House in Hackensack, N.J.” Weir, whose last competitive result was a sixth-
Johnny Weir
place finish at the 2010 Olympics, plans to skate three hours a day, work out off the ice and re- gain his competitive mettle at summer competitions, including the Moran Memorial in Hackensack and the Mid-Atlantic Figure Skating Championships, held at New York’s Chelsea Piers. Both events take place in September. “My hope right now is that I can get at least one Grand Prix, even if it’s just Skate America,”
Weir said. “U.S. Figure Skating is aware of all this and is supportive of me. I’m not going into the competitive season with any airs; I’m just one of the people, no special treatment. “I don’t expect to come back immediately. It’s going to be a slow process and a beautiful
progression, hopefully, to come back as a national champion and a world medalist. Those are off in the distance. I don’t expect instantaneous results. I expect hard work this summer.”
SKATING GREATS TEAM UP TO FIGHT BREAST CANCER Spring-like weather, with temperatures hovering
around 60 degrees, added to the festive atmosphere on Jan. 7, when New York’s Citi Pond at Bryant Park hosted “The Skate Against Breast Cancer,” presented by Iced Pink Inc., a public charity promoting breast cancer awareness. The event, hosted by 1968 and 1972 U.S.
Olympian JoJo Starbuck, who won three U.S. pairs titles with partner Ken Shelley, and 2002 U.S. Olym- pic bronze medalist Timothy Goebel, drew a cast of Olympians including 2006 World champion and 2007 U.S. champion Kimmie Meissner; 2007 U.S. sil- ver medalist Emily Hughes; four-time U.S. ice dance silver medalists Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov; 1995 U.S. champion and World bronze medalist Ni- cole Bobek; and newly formed pair of Eve Chalom, two-time U.S. ice dance silver medalist and Jonathan Hunt, the 2003 World Junior pairs medalist. 2002 Olympic champion Sarah Hughes joined
Olympic medalists Sarah Hughes and Tim Goebel lent their talents to support “The Skate Against Breast Cancer” event in New York last month.
the co-hosts on ice to speak about her family’s fight against breast cancer and introduce sister Emily, and the finale featured dozens of young skaters from the New York area. The show, free to hundreds of spectators who gathered in the park, offered an entertaining
and diverse group of programs. “I get asked to do shows and things like this every so often and my office schedule doesn’t
really allow me to skate at all, so if I can do this kind of thing and still help out, I’m more than happy to do it,” Goebel, who graduated from Columbia University in May 2010 with a math- ematics degree, said. “I got to come and see all my former peers and it’s for a great cause, plus it’s fun to sort of get back to my roots and skating family.” Iced Pink Inc. donated net profits from the event to the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast
Cancer Hotline & Support Program at Adelphi University in Garden City, Long Island. Learn more about Iced Pink Inc. on its Facebook page,
http://www.facebook.com/IcedPinkInc — Lynn Rutherford
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PHOTO BY ANDREW WERNER
PHOTO BY LYNN RUTHERFORD
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