Adam Rippon began as one of the notable stars from the Winter Olympics. Rippon is the first openly gay United States Olympic athlete, and he raised an issue with Vice President Mike Pence leading the American delegation considering his anti-gay policies throughout the years. Rippon is an electric personality, and people thought he had a chance to make a dent in these Olympics. What makes stars grow brighter is when they perform like badasses. Rippon did just that with a dynamic performance in the team skate.

(Note: This is when I would show the sweet video of him doing the damn thing, but I’m not getting SnoTapWI shut down over a figure skating video). Rippon delivered some great quotes after his performance referring to Mike Tricio as ‘Mike’ and talking about needing a ‘Xanax and a drink.’ (Look forward to BuzzFeed’s article about that being problematic later today, guys!).

big fuckin mood pic.twitter.com/TheXIBWnbv

— Flexington Ave Local (@Dr_TacoMD) February 12, 2018

It will be interesting to see if he can do it in other male figure skating competition, but I feel like this is the person to watch with figure skating unless you consider the out-of-nowhere story of Bradie Tidwell a bigger deal. Knowing the whole Pence thing, the media will make Rippon a star if they can.

Charlie.