Skating with partner Ashley Cain-Gribble, Timothy LeDuc became the first openly nonbinary athlete to compete at Winter Olympics.
And hopefully people watching us feel that there is space for them to come into figure skating, and for them to be able to celebrate what makes them unique and different." "The fact that visibility is just growing, for other people to come, is huge. "There is a body stereotype, still," she said last month. "I know for me, being openly nonbinary is only possible because amazing queer people have come before me and laid the groundwork for me," LeDuc, 31, said Friday night. An Iowa native, they first told their parents at 18 that they were gay, then came out as nonbinary more than a decade later. LeDuc, whose pronouns are they/them, did not want the narrative to focus on the history ahead.
U.S. figure skaters Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc competed in the pairs free skate on Saturday at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
LeDuc made history by doing so, becoming the first publicly non-binary Winter Olympian. Also with a chance of medaling for the U. S. are Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, who took sixth place in the short program with a score of 74.23. Still to perform in the free skate are gold-medal favorites, including China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong set a short program record with a score of 84.41. The ROC had the next three top finishers as Evgeniya Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov took second with a score of 84.25, Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov placed third with an 82.76, and Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskiy finished fourth with a 78.59. They received a score of 123.92 in the free skate, which combines with their 74.13 in the short program for a score of 198.05. With six pairs remaining, they currently sit in second behind Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, who have a combined score of 211.89 after receiving a 76.10 in the short program and 141.04 in the free skate. The duo had some perfectly-executed elements, like their throw triple salchow, but stumbled on others.
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“We always had big skaters to look up to. After years of watching her sister, it was finally time for her to lace up skates at age 7. As Laurel watches her first mentor take the world stage, she is excited to see the light shine on figure skating in eastern Iowa. Now the Cedar Rapids native is off the Beijing, making history as the first openly non-binary athlete to compete at the winter games. Laurel Gammon is a figure skater with the Eastern Iowa Skating Club. Timothy was her first coach. Timothy is making a difference by becoming the first open non-binary athlete to compete in the winter Olympics. But Timothy has been making an impact in figure skating long before Beijing.
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"To see the people reaching out to both of us really means a lot," LeDuc said. According to Outsports, at least 186 openly LGBTQ athletes participated in the Summer Games. LeDuc came out as gay at the age of 18 and went public as nonbinary last year.
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The 31-year-old LeDuc and Cain-Gribble placed seventh in their Olympic debut. But overall, we never gave up, and that’s the main thing.” U. S. pairs teams notched two top-eight finishes, with Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier finishing sixth with 212.68 points and Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc eighth with 198.05 points. When the music ended, Cain-Gribble took a small jump in excitement. “Some good elements, some elements that I felt weren’t me at all. The pair of Cain-Gribble and LeDuc earned 123.92 points in their free skate to music from the W. E. soundtrack, which featured four Level 4 elements.
Team USA's Timothy LeDuc made history the moment they took the ice in the figure skating pairs short program at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The duo is making its Olympic debut after coming in first at the 2022 U. S. Figure Skating Championships. LeDuc and Cain-Gribble have been skating together since 2016. Team USA's Timothy LeDuc made history the moment they took the ice in the figure skating pairs short program at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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And LeDuc have struggled with feeling like they have to portray masculinity on the ice. For one, pairs skating often plays off a romantic storyline in their routines, where “the man comes in to save the woman,” LeDuc said. The leaders, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong from China, set a new world record for the highest score in a pairs short program with an 84.41. The top 16 pairs will advance to the free skating event on February 19. Instead, they said, they want people to recognize that “queer people can be open and successful in sports.” They’re also hoping that their and Cain-Gribble’s story can help inspire the next generation of skaters. LeDuc, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, competed along with skating partner Ashley Cain-Gribble in the pairs skating short program. Both members of the pair have also struggled with stereotypes affecting them individually as well.