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<\/p>\nThis Video of a 13-Year-Old Adam Rippon Proves Olympic Dreams Do Come True: WATCH<\/b>
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Adam Rippon talked about his Olympic dreams in this news clip shot when he was 13 and had just returned from his first trip to Europe to compete in the International Skating Union\u2019s Spring Cup, where he took first place.<\/p>\n
The young skater enthused to WNEP about his first plane and train ride and his trip to the Olympic museum.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you see all these things about other people who have won the Olympics, you think that you\u2019ve done a great thing but you\u2019re still far away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rippon, who won his first Olympic medal last week, was attacked by Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday night<\/a> for speaking out about Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s anti-gay<\/a> record.<\/p>\n Said Rippon earlier this week: \u201cBeing here at the Olympics it does give me a louder voice. And I\u2019ve got a big mouth and a loud voice. But it has given me a platform. I think it\u2019s so important that I use this platform to my advantage. I think that me using my voice has given my skating a greater purpose. I\u2019ve gotten so many messages from young kids all over the country that my story has resonated with them and it\u2019s incredibly powerful\u2026In the past week I\u2019ve heard a lot of people like, \u2018whoa, Adam Rippon should tone it down.\u2019 I can\u2019t tone it down. I\u2019m being me. And I\u2019m being myself. And I\u2019d be doing myself an injustice, and I\u2019d be doing an injustice to those kids who don\u2019t feel like they\u2019re comfortable to be themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n The post This Video of a 13-Year-Old Adam Rippon Proves Olympic Dreams Do Come True: WATCH<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n