{"id":4638,"date":"2010-11-17T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2017-09-04T08:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:47:17","slug":"johnny-weir-launches-johnnygweir-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/2010\/11\/17\/johnny-weir-launches-johnnygweir-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Weir launches JohnnyGWeir.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Johnny Weir | \u00a9 Leah Adams\" href=\"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/6-10OlympicsS0011.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3242\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Johnny Weir\" src=\"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/6-10OlympicsS0011-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/6-10OlympicsS0011-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/6-10OlympicsS0011.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>With the debut of ABC&#8217;s <em>Skating with the Stars<\/em> just days away, three-time U.S. Champion Johnny Weir, a judge on the new reality skating show, launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.JohnnyGWeir.com\" target=\"_blank\">JohnnyGWeir.com<\/a>, his website with new features, including an expanded news page and fan  zone. Weir has had an official site, in cooperation with Figure  Skaters Online, since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Weir claimed his first senior national championship in 2004, and  successfully defended his title in 2005. In 2006, Weir captured his  third consecutive national championship, earning a spot on the U.S.  Olympic team. At his very first Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, Weir  placed an impressive second in the short program, and finished fifth  overall.<\/p>\n<p>Weir went on to win the bronze medal at the 2008 World  Championships\u2014the only medal won by a member of Team USA at that  competition\u2014as well as U.S. Figure Skating\u2019s 2008 Readers\u2019 Choice Award for Skater of the Year (Michelle Kwan Trophy), an award he would again claim in 2010, making Weir the only skater other than Michelle Kwan to win this trophy more than once.<\/p>\n<p>Also in 2010, Weir made the U.S. Olympic team for the second time and  represented his country in the Olympic Games in Vancouver, once again  capturing the hearts of millions. Post-Olympics, Weir has put his fame  to good use, balancing performances in skating shows around the world  with appearances at various benefits and charity events across the US.<\/p>\n<p>He is the star of his own reality series, <em>Be Good Johnny Weir<\/em>,  on the Sundance Channel, for which he won the 2010 NewNowNext Award for  Most Addictive Reality Star. Most recently, he was honored by the Human Rights Campaign-Seattle with the HRC Visibility Award.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can also access his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figureskatersonline.com\/johnnygweir\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.figureskatersonline.com\/johnnygweir\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Check out Weir performing at All That Skate LA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=4]<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<h5>Photos courtesy of Leah Adams<\/h5>\n<p><em>Figure Skaters Online strives to be an accurate source of    information related to the sport of figure skating. To report an error,    please e-mail the <\/em><em>news editor<\/em><em>. Include the article date       and title in your e-mail.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the debut of ABC&#8217;s Skating with the Stars just days away, three-time U.S. Champion Johnny Weir, a judge on the new reality skating show, launched JohnnyGWeir.com, his website with new features, including an expanded news page and fan zone. Weir has had an official site, in cooperation with Figure Skaters Online, since 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athlete-website","tag-johnny-weir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}