Tara Lipinski

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone care what an on-air personality is bringing for a month in a cold climate with her kid? I’m sure NBC is paying the excess baggage fees. I also like how on the Traitors someone threw shade at her and Johnny for being dumb and ditzy. You don’t get Olympic medals without a work ethic 1000 times greater than those folks whose claim to fame is posing on a reality show in skimpy clothes or declaring loudly what a witch you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

Where is your Olympic gold that you are so comfortable crushing on her technique? SMH

She spends all day criticizing others' technique, when hers was not the best either. She could land the jumps but they were not textbook by any stretch.

So what? The best commentators in every sport were often not the best. Same with the best coaches in every sport. Having the most knowledge about a sport doesn’t necessarily mean you have the luck, physical gifts, etc. to be the best ever at it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

I’m guessing you are over 60 with your reference to Dick Button (who is deceased and stopped Olympic commentary in 2010). This happens in every sport, there comes a time where the older commentators retire to make way for more recently retired athletes who have more insight into the current state of the sport and are more recognizable names to the audience. Tara and Johnny do a great job.

+1. Dick Button and *SCOTT* Hamilton obviously contributed a lot to this sport, but they are from different eras. Tara and Jonny are closer to understanding the expectations and pressures of this era, but even they weren’t part of the quad era. That said, Tara set the tone for triple-triple jump combinations being an expectation, not just a possibility, for women. And Jonny was a pioneer on the artistic/component side for the men, paving the way for Jason Brown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She was wearing a tight dress with little mirrors on it and looked hot. I'd hit that.

+1. I’m in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

I’m guessing you are over 60 with your reference to Dick Button (who is deceased and stopped Olympic commentary in 2010). This happens in every sport, there comes a time where the older commentators retire to make way for more recently retired athletes who have more insight into the current state of the sport and are more recognizable names to the audience. Tara and Johnny do a great job.

I’m not the PP, but you seem to be implying that there is something wrong with being over 60. Do you hope to never reach 60? Or are you going to be DIFFERENT kind of 60 year old?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

I’m guessing you are over 60 with your reference to Dick Button (who is deceased and stopped Olympic commentary in 2010). This happens in every sport, there comes a time where the older commentators retire to make way for more recently retired athletes who have more insight into the current state of the sport and are more recognizable names to the audience. Tara and Johnny do a great job.

I’m not the PP, but you seem to be implying that there is something wrong with being over 60. Do you hope to never reach 60? Or are you going to be DIFFERENT kind of 60 year old?

Relax Gladys, I never said there was anything wrong with being over 60. I pointed out that the perspective of Dick Button, who died last year at age 95, might not be most relevant to the current state of the sport, and that if the PP preferred his perspective and commentary she was likely over the age of 60, which is not the demographic the network is aiming for. I’m in my late 40s and as a tennis fan since I was a kid I still appreciate John McEnroe’s commentary, but I understand that the 20 and 30 something fans don’t have the same appreciation and so in the not too distant future he will be retired from commentary. That’s the circle of life, not something I’m going to shake my fist at.

[Anonymous]

Their brand (she and Weir) is diva. It's figure skating. Divas. Drama. Hair. Makeup. Too much makeup. Bangles. Rhinestones. Jewelry. Gloves. And that's just the figure skaters, not the hosts. She won a gold medal, she can bring eleven suitcases if she wants to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

I’m guessing you are over 60 with your reference to Dick Button (who is deceased and stopped Olympic commentary in 2010). This happens in every sport, there comes a time where the older commentators retire to make way for more recently retired athletes who have more insight into the current state of the sport and are more recognizable names to the audience. Tara and Johnny do a great job.

I’m not the PP, but you seem to be implying that there is something wrong with being over 60. Do you hope to never reach 60? Or are you going to be DIFFERENT kind of 60 year old?

Relax Gladys, I never said there was anything wrong with being over 60. I pointed out that the perspective of Dick Button, who died last year at age 95, might not be most relevant to the current state of the sport, and that if the PP preferred his perspective and commentary she was likely over the age of 60, which is not the demographic the network is aiming for. I’m in my late 40s and as a tennis fan since I was a kid I still appreciate John McEnroe’s commentary, but I understand that the 20 and 30 something fans don’t have the same appreciation and so in the not too distant future he will be retired from commentary. That’s the circle of life, not something I’m going to shake my fist at.

Do you hear yourself?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

I’m guessing you are over 60 with your reference to Dick Button (who is deceased and stopped Olympic commentary in 2010). This happens in every sport, there comes a time where the older commentators retire to make way for more recently retired athletes who have more insight into the current state of the sport and are more recognizable names to the audience. Tara and Johnny do a great job.

+1. Dick Button and *SCOTT* Hamilton obviously contributed a lot to this sport, but they are from different eras. Tara and Jonny are closer to understanding the expectations and pressures of this era, but even they weren’t part of the quad era. That said, Tara set the tone for triple-triple jump combinations being an expectation, not just a possibility, for women. And Jonny was a pioneer on the artistic/component side for the men, paving the way for Jason Brown.

How long until Tara and Jonny are replaced by younger former skaters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

I’m guessing you are over 60 with your reference to Dick Button (who is deceased and stopped Olympic commentary in 2010). This happens in every sport, there comes a time where the older commentators retire to make way for more recently retired athletes who have more insight into the current state of the sport and are more recognizable names to the audience. Tara and Johnny do a great job.

+1. Dick Button and *SCOTT* Hamilton obviously contributed a lot to this sport, but they are from different eras. Tara and Jonny are closer to understanding the expectations and pressures of this era, but even they weren’t part of the quad era. That said, Tara set the tone for triple-triple jump combinations being an expectation, not just a possibility, for women. And Jonny was a pioneer on the artistic/component side for the men, paving the way for Jason Brown.

How long until Tara and Jonny are replaced by younger former skaters?

It happens in every sport, but they're still very popular and at the top of their game. I'd expect it to be quite a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

I’m guessing you are over 60 with your reference to Dick Button (who is deceased and stopped Olympic commentary in 2010). This happens in every sport, there comes a time where the older commentators retire to make way for more recently retired athletes who have more insight into the current state of the sport and are more recognizable names to the audience. Tara and Johnny do a great job.

+1. Dick Button and *SCOTT* Hamilton obviously contributed a lot to this sport, but they are from different eras. Tara and Jonny are closer to understanding the expectations and pressures of this era, but even they weren’t part of the quad era. That said, Tara set the tone for triple-triple jump combinations being an expectation, not just a possibility, for women. And Jonny was a pioneer on the artistic/component side for the men, paving the way for Jason Brown.

How long until Tara and Jonny are replaced by younger former skaters?

Tara and Johnny (and Terry) were the second team calling figure skating for NBC during the 2014 Sochi Olympics (live during the day as opposed to the prime time show). They were such a sensation that, the next season, 2014-2015, they replaced Tom Hammond, Scott Hamilton, and Sandra Bezic as the lead commentary team from then on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have never been a fan of Tara, even when she was a teen.

I feel now she focuses overly on the technique when her technique wasn't very good as a figure skater. She could land the jumps, but they weren't very high and she skated like she was still on roller skates which is where she started her career.

I feel she gives off teen vibes and she is living the childhood she didn't have because she was so busy skating....she comes across as very superficial to me.

I miss the days when Dick Button and Paul Hamilton did the commentary, they were more insightful and intelligent in their assessments.

I’m guessing you are over 60 with your reference to Dick Button (who is deceased and stopped Olympic commentary in 2010). This happens in every sport, there comes a time where the older commentators retire to make way for more recently retired athletes who have more insight into the current state of the sport and are more recognizable names to the audience. Tara and Johnny do a great job.

+1. Dick Button and *SCOTT* Hamilton obviously contributed a lot to this sport, but they are from different eras. Tara and Jonny are closer to understanding the expectations and pressures of this era, but even they weren’t part of the quad era. That said, Tara set the tone for triple-triple jump combinations being an expectation, not just a possibility, for women. And Jonny was a pioneer on the artistic/component side for the men, paving the way for Jason Brown.

How long until Tara and Jonny are replaced by younger former skaters?

It happens in every sport, but they're still very popular and at the top of their game. I'd expect it to be quite a while.

Agree—They’re actually considered young for Olympic sports commentators and they’re popular so will stick around a long time.

[Anonymous]

Feels like they have been on forever. I'd love to hear from a fresh voice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feels like they have been on forever. I'd love to hear from a fresh voice.

NBC tends to hang on to popular Olympic sport analysts for a long time—rowdy Gaines has been covering swimming since 1996 and Ato boldon has been covering track since 2008.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feels like they have been on forever. I'd love to hear from a fresh voice.

As another poster said, they started as the main skating analysts in the 2014-2015 season. Scott Hamilton started working as a TV analyst in 1985, so he lasted 30 years. I would say they will be around at least another decade.