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Johnny Weir is one of the most popular and richest Figure Skater who was born on July 2, 1984 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States. Figure skater who appeared in his very own TV show titled”Be Good Johnny Weir. He was awarded his bronze award at the 2008 World Championships in the men’s singles contest and was two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist.
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For the first time in his career, Weir changed his free skating program mid-season shortly before the Olympics, from “a techno medley” written by Croatian pianist Maksim Mrvica to “Otoñal” by Argentine pianist Raúl Di Blasio, which Weir used the previous season. He stated that although he had performed the program well, he was bored with it and felt it lacked passion and power. Commentator and former Olympic gold medalist Dick Button agreed, stating that the newer program “was not good enough for him”. Weir’s coach and mother admitted that Weir felt nervous about competing at the Olympics, and was uneasy about competing against Plushenko, but he was called “the breakthrough personality of the Games”. It was the first time Weir’s father John Weir, who had difficulty traveling after a disabling car accident in 1984, attended one of his son’s competitions since Weir was a novice. Weir received death threats during the Olympics and received “nasty e-mails” for several months afterwards, personal attacks that “targeted his love for things Russian and even his sexual preferences”. According to Variety, Weir’s habit of wearing “retro Soviet CCCP sweatshirts” instead of USA clothing during the Olympics angered many U.S, supporters.
Weir was born on July 2, 1984 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, the eldest son of John Weir, a nuclear power plant engineer, and Patti Weir (née Moore), a nuclear power plant worker and home inspector. He is of Norwegian heritage, and has one brother, Brian “Boz” Weir, who is four years younger. Weir was raised in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, a rural town in Amish-dominated central Pennsylvania. Like his father, who had competed in English saddle events, he was “an accomplished rider” by the time he was nine years old, winning several equestrian competitions and competing in the Devon Horse Show with his “dapple gray Arabian horse-cross Shetland pony named Shadow”. Weir became so successful, despite his young age and small size, his family moved to Little Britain, Connecticut so he could train. He later stated that horse riding provided him with body awareness, which prepared him to be a figure skater.
He was engaged with Victor Voronov from 2011 until the year 2015.
| Name | Johnny Weir |
| First Name | Johnny |
| Last Name | Weir |
| Occupation | Figure Skater |
| Birthday | July 2 |
| Birth Year | 1984 |
| Place of Birth | Coatesville |
| Home Town | Pennsylvania |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Patti Weir, John Weir |
| Siblings | Brian Weir |
| Spouse | Victor Voronov |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
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In 1992, after Weir and his family watched Kristi Yamaguchi win a gold medal at the Albertville Winter Olympics, his parents bought him a pair of used figure skates, which he used to teach himself to skate on a patch of ice in the cornfields near their home in Quarryville. When the weather was warmer, he practiced jumps on roller skates in the basement of his family’s home. In 1994, he was inspired to further pursue figure skating after watching Oksana Baiul compete at the 1994 Winter Olympics, during the sport’s rise in popularity caused by the Nancy Kerrigan attack at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. For Christmas, his parents bought him a new pair of skates and a package of group lessons at the University of Delaware, 45 minutes from their home. He had a natural talent for jumping. By the time he was 12, he was performing single axels, which he learned after a week of lessons; by the time he turned 13, he learned all the single and double jumps, as well as his first triple jump, the salchow. Also when he was 12, he began training with Priscilla Hill, who had coached many skaters and won national medals as a competitive skater. According to sports writer Barry Mittan, Weir was two or three times older than when most elite skaters start training, although it did not “prove to be an obstacle for Weir”. Weir made the decision to quit equestrian, since he could not do both and his family could not afford both sports, and they moved again, to Delaware, so Weir could train with Hill.
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