Brian Boitano

Brian Anthony Boitano ( born October 22, 1963 in Sunnyvale, California) is an American former figure skater, who started in a single run. He is the Olympic champion of 1988 and the 1986 FIFA World Cup and 1988.

Life and career

In 1982, Boitano managed to land the first American to do a triple axel. He was runner-up in 1984 at the national championships, which secured him a place on the Olympic team. In his first Olympics, he finished sixth in Sarajevo. In 1985, he won his first of four national championships. At the first World Cup after the resignation of his compatriot Scott Hamilton, he won bronze behind Alexander Fadeev and Brian Orser his first World Cup medal. Just one year later, Brian Boitano in Geneva World Champion, before Orser and Fadeev. In 1987 he presented the leap that was to become his trademark, in which he raised the " Tano Triple Lutz", a triple Lutz his left arm over his head. In the season 1986/87 and later at the World Championships 1988 he attempted a quadruple jump, but did not land it clean, two times he came on both legs to stand. In 1987, Boitano at the World Championships in Cincinnati a home game, but crashed while attempting his fourfold ride Berger and Brian Orser had to defer. The event contributed much to the rivalry between Boitano and Orser, which was to reach its climax at the Olympic Games in 1988 in the "Battle of the Brians " ( Battle of the Brians ). Boitano was known as Springer early in his career and mainly helped to bring the sport to a higher level technically. Only at the failure of the defense of his world championship title in 1987, he focused more on improving his artistic skills. After this defeat at home decided Boitano and his coach Linda Leaver, that something had to be changed, Boitano wanted to be a 1988 Olympic gold medalist. In order to improve his artistic skills, he hired choreographer Sandra Bezic to design a program for the Olympic season for him. Bezic created a program with clear lines, the accented runs the skills of 1.80 m Boitano. The short program was based on Giacomo Meyerbeer's ballet Les Patineurs and the freestyle on the soundtrack to Napoleon. The program was well received and Boitano and his coach and choreographer were convinced of the strength so that they decided to risk a quadruple Rittberger. At the national championships Boitano received from eight of the nine judges a 6.0. His freestyle was flawed, but he won and went as a national champion in the Olympic Games, as well as his great rival Brian Orser of Canada.

The Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988, when it came to the "Battle of the Brians " as the media called the spectacle, the culmination of Boitanos career were. The compulsory figures finished second ahead of Boitano Orser, Orser won the short program before Boitano and so were the two before the long program almost equal to. Boitano won the freestyle and thus the gold medal, with five to four judges votes in his favor. After the Olympics, Boitano as well as Orser took part in the World Cup and also Boitano could beat the Canadians.

After he finished his amateur career and turned professional. He dominated the professional competitions, winning ten of them in a row, including five World Championships. 1990 Boitano appeared in the dance film Carmen on Ice; for his portrayal of Don José, he got an Emmy in the category Outstanding Performance in Classical Music / Dance Programming. For the Olympic season 1993 /94 Boitano was reamateurisieren. The ISU adopted to make this possible a clause that " Boitano rule" according to which professionals could let reamateurisieren again. At the national championships to Boitano Scott Davis was beaten, but managed a nomination for the Olympic Games in Lillehammer. In the short program he missed his triple Axel combination for the first time in his career and so had no chance to medal. He was still a good freestyle and finished the tournament in sixth place. He then moved back to the pros. He started together with Katarina Witt, the three years of successful U.S. tour Witt and Boitano Skating, at its appearance tickets at Madison Square Garden was sold out even. Boitano was the 1996 World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame and.

In December 2013, he was named Barack Obama as part of the official U.S. delegation for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. This took Brian Boitano as an opportunity to come out as gay. He is quoted as saying in a published opinion of USA Today: "I am a son, a brother, an uncle, a friend, an athlete, a cook, a writer. And being gay is just another part of me. "

Reception

In the episode The Spirit Of Christmas 2 of the animated series South Park, he solves the problem of who is more important at Christmas: Jesus or Santa Claus. In the movie South Park: The Movie - bigger, longer, uncut him is the Song ( German: "What would Brian Boitano do ?") Dedicated to " What Would Brian Boitano Do? ".

Results

Filmography

  • Blades of Glory (German: Blades of Glory ), 2007 (USA)
  • Brian Boitano: Canvas of Ice, 1988 ( USA), together with Katarina Witt
  • Carmen on Ice, 1990 ( Germany ), together with Katarina Witt and Brian Orser
Winter Olympic Games 1985 World Figure Skating Championships 1986 World Figure Skating Championships 1987 World Figure Skating Championships 1988 World Figure Skating Championships Single skating List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Axel jump Lutz jump Loop jump 1989 World Figure Skating Championships Emmy Award 1983 World Figure Skating Championships 1984 World Figure Skating Championships U. S. Figure Skating Championships Sport-Informations-Dienst Ulrich Salchow Hayes Alan Jenkins Manfred Schnelldorfer Robin Cousins Alexei Urmanov Evan Lysacek Gilbert Fuchs Henning Grenander Fritz Kachler Felix Kaspar Henry Graham Sharp Hans Gerschwiler Alain Giletti Donald McPherson (figure skater) Alain Calmat Emmerich Danzer Tim Wood (figure skater) Jan Hoffmann Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov Charles Tickner Kurt Browning Elvis Stojko Todd Eldredge Brian Joubert Jeffrey Buttle Daisuke Takahashi Patrick Chan Sherwin Badger Chris Christenson Robin Lee Bradley Lord Monty Hoyt Thomas Litz Scott Allen John Misha Petkevich Kenneth Shelley Terry Kubicka Christopher Bowman Timothy Goebel Johnny Weir Jeremy Abbott Ryan Bradley Max Aaron
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