Drawing of Brian Boitano's 1998 Winter Olympics Costume
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Boitano, Brian
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Partially finished pencil sketch on white paper of a man in a military costume. This sketch was drawn by donor Jennifer Langeberg Maugh as a preliminary sketch for Brian Boitano's costume for the long program during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Brian Boitano (b. 1963) was the first American figure skater to land a triple axel. He also invented the “Tano triple lutz” jump where he raises his left arm above his head while completing a triple lutz. He was a four-time U.S. National Champion (1985-88) as well as a two-time World Champion (1986 and 1988). His time skating in the Calgary Olympics was referred to as the “Battle of the Brians” due to the fierce competition between Boitano and Canadian figure skater Brian Orser. The gold and silver medals came down to a tie breaker which was won by Boitano because he received higher marks for technical merit by the two judges who had given Boitano and Orser tied scores overall. In December 2013, Boitano came out publicly as gay after being appointed by President Obama to the U.S. delegation for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Ice Skating
label: web subject
content: Olympics
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jennifer Langeberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0290.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0290
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0290.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing, costume
label: Object Name
content: drawing, winter olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40.5 cm x 30.4 cm; 15 15/16 in x 11 31/32 in