Meet Adam Rippon, the figure skater who is the first openly gay male to qualify for the US Winter Olympic team

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• Adam Rippon earned a spot on the US Olympic figure skating team after placing fourth at Nationals.
• At 28, he's the oldest American figure skating Olympic rookie since 1936.
• He was the first openly gay man to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics in any sport.
• He didn't start skating until he was nearly 10.

In early January, after falling on a quadruple Lutz and turning two triples into singles, figure skater Adam Rippon ended the US Figure Skating Championships in fourth place.

His Olympic fate was in the air, but he soon learned that his dreams were finally coming true.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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