Brian Boitano

Boitano would involve others in his pursuits to bring the sport to a new level. Following his Olympic gold he joined Katarina Witt to film a television special that won Brian an Emmy. Throughout the nineties he continued to produce—and often star in—programs for television, including A Skating Romance, and two equally successful sequels. His book, Boitano's Edge: Inside the Real World of Figure Skating, published in 1997, is currently in its third printing and considered by many to be one of the great books on figure skating.

Brian Boitano lives in San Francisco, where he is artistic director of his own company, White Canvas Productions (which he founded in 1995). He spends his time working for the betterment of professional figure skating, as well as working with his Youth Skate program, which provides skating lessons and scholar-ships to local children. He can also be heard occasionally as a skating commentator for PBS and ABC. In February of 2002, Boitano underwent an appendectomy, from which it took him some time to recover. That operation was followed by arthroscopic knee surgery in May of 2002.