On November 20, Beijing time, according to the French "Team Newspaper" and other foreign media determined, 29-year-old American figure skater Adam Ripon announced his retirement, career, he did not have particularly prominent achievements, won an Olympic bronze medal. However, Adam Ripon was also recorded in the annals of the Winter Olympics, because he was the first athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics to openly have a sexual orientation.
Adam Ripon, born on November 11, 1989, is 29 years old and 1.70 meters tall, he debuted in 1999 and the biggest honor of his career was at the Pyeongchang Olympics, where he helped the United States win a bronze medal in the figure skating team competition.
In addition, in 2010, Adam Ripon was the winner of the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. In 2012 and 2015, he won the honor of The American Figure Skating Championship.
In 2015, Adam Ripon came out in an interview, "Becoming a homosexual is not up to me, the only thing I can decide is that my mother has always taught me to treat everyone with respect, to work hard often, to be a kind person, and that's all the things I can decide." ”
Thus, when he participated in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, he became the first athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics to openly sexually, and from this point of view, Adam Ripon was commendable for his courage.
Of course, in the figure skating world, Adam Ripon is not the first person to come out, and the most famous figure skating gay skater in the United States is Johnny Will, who is known as "Lady Gaga on Ice". He had married same-sex boyfriend Viktor Volonov at the end of 2011, but divorced in early 2014.