Source: Good News Network
20 years ago today, American Tara Lipinski became at age 15 the youngest gold medalist in Winter Olympics history when she won the ladies’ figure skating title at Nagano, Japan. Lipinski began as a roller skater 10 years earlier, learning the moves from coaches in her Philadelphia hometown and winning the US Championship for her age group when she was 9.
On ice five years later, she became the youngest ever to win a World Figure Skating title, at the age of 14 years, 9 months, inspiring headlines of “Tara-Mania”. WATCH her gold medal performance… (1998)MORE Good News on this Date:
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