Johnny Weir (Olympics)

A two-time Olympian, three-time U.S. national champion and world bronze medalist, Johnny Weir serves as a figure skating analyst at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. This is Weir’s seventh time covering the Games for NBCU.

He has served as an Olympic correspondent three times (2024 Paris, 2020 Tokyo and 206 Rio) and as a figure skating analyst three times (2022 Beijing, 2018 PyeongChang and 2014 Sochi). Weir also hosted the Closing Ceremony four times (Paris, PyeongChang, Tokyo, and Beijing).

Weir serves as a figure skating analyst for NBC Sports’ figure skating coverage, including the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, World Championships and the ISU Grand Prix Series alongside play-by-play announcer Terry Gannon and 1998 Olympic gold medalist Tara Lipinski. In October 2014, the trio was named NBC Sports Group’s lead figure skating announce team following their critically acclaimed commentary at the Sochi Olympics, which helped the network post the 10 best weekday daytime audiences in its history. They work together for the fourth consecutive Winter Games, while Weir and Lipinski mark their seventh Olympics working together, including three times in the summer.

In March 2025, The Boston Globe wrote: “Lipinski and Weir always do it right on the broadcasts. Their candor and banter make viewers feel like they’re invited to listen in on an authentic conversation between incredibly knowledgeable friends.”

Weir’s broadcast experience includes his own series Be Good Johnny Weir, for which he won the 2010 NewNowNext Award for “Most Addictive Reality Star,” and documentary film Pop Star On Ice, both of which aired on The Sundance Channel and Logo Network.

Fast Facts

• 7^th Olympics assignment for NBC Olympics, serving as figure skating analyst for the fourth time (previously 2022 Beijing, 2018 PyeongChang and 2014 Sochi Winter Games).
• Was a correspondent at the 2024 Paris, Tokyo and 2016 Rio Olympics, and worked four Olympic Closing Ceremonies.
• Serves as an analyst for NBC Sports’ figure skating coverage.
• A two-time Olympian, three-time U.S. national champion (2004-06), and world bronze medalist (2008).
• Over his 16-year career, Weir won a total of six medals in 10 national championship appearances. Placed sixth in men’s figure skating at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and fifth at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics.
• In Dec. 2020, Weir was elected to the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2021 and has been honored twice by fans with the U.S Figure Skating/Skating Magazine Readers’ Choice Award for “Skater of the Year” (2008, 2010).

• Served as a fashion and lifestyle correspondent for NBC Sports Group at the Kentucky Derby from 2014-16 and 2018, at the Beverly Hills Dog Show in 2017, and the National Dog Show every year since 2015.
• Was a reporter for NBC’s pre-game coverage of Super Bowl XLIX, the most-watched show in U.S. TV history with an average of 114.4 million viewers.
• Worked for Access Hollywood on its coverage of the 2014 Academy Awards.

• Joined a star-studded cast as contestant on The Traitors Season 4 on Peacock.
• Be Good Johnny Weir, his own series, won the 2010 NewNowNext Award for “Most Addictive Reality Star,” and documentary film Pop Star On Ice, both of which aired on The Sundance Channel and Logo Network.

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