Figure-Skating Commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir Are Serving Olympic-Level Shade, and Twitter Users Are Here for It

Twitter users are living for their brutally honest reactions.

February 10, 2018

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If we learned anything about competitive figure skating from I, Tonya, it's that the judges can be pretty stuffy and conservative. It's a difficult sport that requires a lot of skill and demands our respect, but sometimes a bit of comedic relief can be a welcome change in a stressful situation like the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. That's why the Internet is living for the cutting commentary by former figure-skating Olympians and current BFFs, Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir.

The dynamic duo is famous for their skills on the ice as well as for their big personalities and precisely coordinated outfits. They appeared together as commentators for NBC at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games and have been working together since, always bringing their fashion game with their brutally honest opinions. (They even have an adorable shared Instagram account, where they post hilarious videos of themselves working together and generally being amazing together.)

Lipinski, who won gold in the 1998 Winter Olympics, and Weir, who placed fifth at the 2006 Winter Olympics, received both praise and criticism for their coverage on Friday during an unusually poor performance by Nathan Chen, an 18-year-old figure skater from Salt Lake City. He unfortunately fell during his first time on Olympic ice, and Weir and Lipinski were there to cover it. “That was the worst short program I have ever seen…from Nathan Chen,” Weir said after Chen was finished. And after the men's short program, Weir had this to say: "This men’s final group was an all-star list, but nobody skated up to their names."

Social media quickly exploded with comments about the pair's brutally honest reactions ("He's an announcer, not the skaters' damn publicist"), while other users were shook at just how brutal they were.

Weir actually hopped on Twitter to defend himself: "I’m a commentator, not a 'complimentator,'" he wrote.