The four-time World champion is retiring from the show after 30 years of popular performances.
When Kurt Browning was 12 he was in an Alberta grocery store with his mother Neva when they ran into one of her friends.
“They’re giving you time from their life and that’s pretty darn precious stuff. So I try really hard to be open with people who love skating and I damn well try hard every time I step on the ice to give them a good show.” Although he strained an elbow shoveling snow at his Toronto-area home this past winter, Browning said it was not so much his body talking him into retirement as it was his heart.
Czechoslovakia’s Jozef Sabovcik had appeared to land a quad jump at the European Championships in 1986 but the leap was invalidated because of his landing. Browning thought Orser and Boitano were both capable of landing quads in 1988 but neither was willing to take on a high-risk jump unless they absolutely had to. Boitano struggled to stay on his feet while practicing the quad at the Olympics and Worlds.
“Brian Orser was one of my superheroes and he bought a vase, a black, tall vase,” Browning recalled. “And I thought, what an adult thing to do. He bought a vase and they’re going to ship it to his house and it’s going to be there when he gets home from Budapest and I’m like that’s so cool.” He was the Olympic favorite going into the 1992 Games only to finish sixth. He was fifth at the 1994 Games. It would be another 24 years before he really dealt with his Olympic disappointment.
“When a marriage ends, and mine ended very, very slowly, it ended very quickly one day and then took a long time to figure itself out after that,” Browning said. “There was a house fire, there were a lot of things going on. It was really, truly, for not only that, but for other reasons, a really tough, five to seven years of my life. And I was working extra hard because I was avoiding reality and doing all sorts of things and I wanted to just feel not even valued. I wasn’t looking for that.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” he admitted. “Well, like, will I do any more shows? Will I just sort of say, ‘You know what, I have my memories and I’m happy and now I can do choreography for other people,’ or I can host a show or I can take my skates and …
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