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Channels with Peter Kafka

Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir want to make figure skating great again

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Figure skating commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir talk with Recode's Peter Kafka about the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Lipinski and Weir, both former professional skaters, got their start as commentators at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, and explain why the official ban on Russian participation this year will not take away from the drama of their sport. Unlike in the 1990s, Lipinski says, there are no household-name figure skaters, meaning it's up to her and Weir to be the stars. Plus: How the commentators use social media and why Weir is not looking forward to the Tonya Harding movie "I, Tonya." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

0:33.3

That's me.

0:34.0

I'm part of the Vox Media Podcast Network coming to you from Snowy, New York City.

0:39.0

I'm here today with figure skating royalty, Tara Lipinski, a Jani Weir.

0:43.2

This conversation is part of the podium. It's a podcast collaboration between NBC Sports Group and Fox Media.

0:48.8

Beginning in January, we'll bring you athlete profiles, daily updates, and exciting stories from the Winter Olympics

0:54.5

in Pyong Chang, South Korea. Thanks for coming in on a Saturday to chat. Do you guys

0:59.2

normally work on a Saturday or is this a special event for you? No, it's the norm for us. Figure

1:04.2

skating is on every single weekend. Are you not watching? But we actually record all of our

1:10.4

I'm making a face. Yes,

1:12.6

sometimes I watch. We are always in Stanford recording on the weekend. So, you know, we don't

1:20.1

have the normal 9 to 5 Monday through Friday. It's usually Saturday or Sunday.

1:24.2

It could be Sunday at 3 in the morning. It's whatever, because we watch via satellite

1:28.7

from events all over the world and do our voiceovers from Stanford. So have a schedule.

1:35.1

So Stanford is NBC Sports HQ. They do all the streaming out of there and the events happen

1:40.1

all around the world. So that answers my first big question, which is what do you guys do when

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