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Adam Rippon (conceived November 11, 1989) is an American figure skater. He is the 2010 Four Continents champion and 2016 U.S. national champion. Prior in his vocation, he won the 2008 and 2009 World Junior Championships, the 2007– 08 Junior Grand Prix Final, and the 2008 U.S junior national title. Rippon was chosen to speak to the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. This made him the principal straightforwardly gay American competitor to fit the bill for any Winter Olympics. That year he won an Olympic bronze award as a major aspect of the figure skating group occasion, subsequently turning into the main straightforwardly gay U.S. competitor to win an award at the Winter Olympics..

Individual life

Adam Rippon was conceived on November 11, 1989, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The most seasoned of six kids, he was conceived with serious hearing misfortune however experienced surgery at Yale University just before his first birthday celebration, enabling him to hear consummately.

On October 2, 2015, Rippon freely turned out as gay

In February 2018, Rippon raised worries about Vice President Mike Pence being driven the US assignment to the 2018 Winter Olympic opening function due to Pence's history of help for hostile to gay enactment and arrangements

Early career

Rippon began to skate when he was ten years of age; his mom skated and conveyed him along to the arena. He was instructed by Yelena Sergeeva from 2000 to 2007.

In the 2004– 05 season, Rippon won the silver decoration at the Novice level at the 2005 U.S. Titles. After Nationals he was allocated a spring universal task, Triglav Trophy in Slovenia 2005, and contended in the Junior division, completing first and winning the gold decoration. In the 2005– 06 season, he appeared on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit. He contended at the 2005– 06 ISU Junior Grand Prix occasion in Croatia and set sixth. At the 2006 U.S. Titles, he completed eleventh at the lesser level. In the 2006– 07 season, Rippon did not contend on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. He set sixth on the lesser level at the 2007 U.S. Titles. Following the occasion, he cleared out Sergeeva and started working with Nikolai Morozov in February 2007 at the Ice House in Hackensack, New Jersey

2017– 18 season

Beginning his season solid with a bronze award at 2017 CS Finlandia Trophy, Rippon at that point went ahead to win silver decorations in both of his Grand Prix assignments, 2017 NHK Trophy and 2017 Skate America. His situations at these occasions qualified him for his second Grand Prix Final. Amid his free skate at Skate America, Rippon's shoulder left place while executing a quad lutz, yet he could proceed with his execution without ceasing. On January 7, 2018 Rippon was one of three men chose to speak to USA in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, despite the fact that he set fourth at nationals. This made him the United States' first straightforwardly gay competitor to fit the bill for any Winter Olympics.