Adam Rippon Archives - uSports.org https://usports.org/tag/adam-rippon/ Sports News & Views Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:37:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Megan Rapinoe, Giants Rookie Saquon Barkley Among 16 Athletes To Be Featured In ESPN Magazine’s ‘Body10’ Issue https://usports.org/megan-rapinoe-giants-rookie-saquon-barkley-among-16-athletes-to-be-featured-in-espn-magazines-body10-issue/ https://usports.org/megan-rapinoe-giants-rookie-saquon-barkley-among-16-athletes-to-be-featured-in-espn-magazines-body10-issue/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:37:00 +0000 http://usports.org/?p=54343 BRASILIA, BRAZIL - AUGUST 12: Megan Rapinoe #15 of United States goes up for the ball against Sweden in the second half as Carli Lloyd #10 of United States looks on during the Women's Football Quarterfinal match at Mane Garrincha Stadium on Day 7 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 12, 2016 in Brasilia, Brazil (Photo: Getty)
Olympic skater Adam Rippon and New York Giants rookie running back Saquon Barkley are among the 16 athletes who will appear in ESPN The Magazine’s upcoming Body10 issue. Saquon Barkley, Adam Rippon Included In ESPN Magazine’s Body10 Issue The issue — set to be released on June 29 — is intended to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Body […]

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BRASILIA, BRAZIL - AUGUST 12: Megan Rapinoe #15 of United States goes up for the ball against Sweden in the second half as Carli Lloyd #10 of United States looks on during the Women's Football Quarterfinal match at Mane Garrincha Stadium on Day 7 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 12, 2016 in Brasilia, Brazil (Photo: Getty)

Olympic skater Adam Rippon and New York Giants rookie running back Saquon Barkley are among the 16 athletes who will appear in ESPN The Magazine’s upcoming Body10 issue.

Saquon Barkley, Adam Rippon Included In ESPN Magazine’s Body10 Issue

The issue — set to be released on June 29 — is intended to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Body Issue, which ESPN unveiled to pay homage to athletes’ physical forms. Athletes thus generally strip down for the issue. The photos from the issue will be available on ESPN’s digital platforms starting Monday.

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The other sports stars featured in the issue include football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, Seattle Storm teammates Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart of the WNBA, and Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns. 

Houston Astros pitcher Dallas Kuechel — a Cy Young Award winner — and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig are also in the issue, as are U.S. women’s soccer team stars Megan Rapinoe and Crystal Dunn.

Los Angeles Galaxy forward Zlatan IbrahimovicWWE star Charlotte Flair.  

Two Olympic medallists are also featured in the issue: track star Tori Bowie and cross-country skier Jessie Diggins. 

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Barkley, 21, was drafted by the Giants as the second overall pick this year out of Penn State. He was a Big Ten champion and a two-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year.

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Gay Figure Skater Adam Rippon Slams Mike Pence, Leader Of 2018 US Olympic Delegation https://usports.org/gay-figure-skater-adam-rippon-slams-mike-pence-leader-2018-us-olympic-delegation/ https://usports.org/gay-figure-skater-adam-rippon-slams-mike-pence-leader-2018-us-olympic-delegation/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:32:42 +0000 http://usports.org/?p=47616 US Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon
United States Vice President Mike Pence will be leading the American delegation at next month’s Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and one athlete is unsurprisingly unhappy with this selection. Adam Rippon Winter Olympics Comments News Figure skater Adam Rippon — who is reportedly the first openly gay U.S. athlete to qualify for the Olympics — slammed the decision for Pence, […]

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US Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon

United States Vice President Mike Pence will be leading the American delegation at next month’s Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and one athlete is unsurprisingly unhappy with this selection.

Adam Rippon Winter Olympics Comments News

Figure skater Adam Rippon — who is reportedly the first openly gay U.S. athlete to qualify for the Olympics — slammed the decision for Pence, an outspoken anti-LGBT politician, to lead Team USA at the Games on Feb. 9.

“You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? … I’m not buying it,” the 28-year-old skater told USA Today.


Rippon added he does not wish to speak to Pence during the usual meet-and-greet session between the delegation and athletes, which occurs before the opening ceremony.

“If it were before my event, I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they aren’t a friend of a gay person but that they think that they’re sick. … I wouldn’t go out of my way to meet somebody like that,” Rippon said.

The Pennsylvania native continued ripping Pence by saying the Vice President doesn’t have “a real concept of reality.” Rippon specifically commented on Pence’s continued support of Donald Trump despite the President’s offensive comments, like the most recent ones in which he described nations like Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as “s—hole” countries.

“To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he’s a devout Christian man is completely contradictory,” said Rippon. “If he’s okay [Pence] with what’s being said about people and Americans and foreigners and about different countries that are being called ‘shitholes,’ I think he should really go to church.”

Rippon won the U.S. Nationals in 2016. He was also the only one to ever win the World Junior Figure Skating Championships twice in a row — in 2008 and 2009. He also holds the titles of Junior Grand Prix Final (2007), U.S. Junior Championship (2008) and Four Continents Figure Skating Championship (2010).

He was born with severe hearing loss but underwent surgery at a very young age, and can thus now hear perfectly. He came out as gay in October 2015.

Rippon also said he refused to go to the White House should he be invited.

When asked what being a gay athlete today was like, he said: “It’s exactly like being a straight athlete, only with better eyebrows…Growing up, I really didn’t have a lot of role models. And I said, if I was ever given the chance and the platform, I would share my story….Because I don’t really care what other people think of me.”

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