'Hopefully people watching this feel that there is space for them to come into figure skating and for them to be able to celebrate what makes them different.'
"Hopefully people watching this feel that there is space for them to come into figure skating and for them to be able to celebrate what makes them different."BEIJING — U.S. pairs skater Timothy LeDuc became the country’s first openly nonbinary Winter Olympian when they took the ice Friday night.The 31-year-old LeDuc and pairs partner Ashley Gain-Gribble placed seventh in their Olympic debut.
LeDuc wore a white shirt with sparkles and Cain-Gribble an ice blue dress as they performed to music by Ilan Eshkeri in a short program filled with smiles.“I think both Ashley and I have had to overcome so many different things, so many times, where people who told us no or we don’t belong,” LeDuc said.