Tanith Belbin – Who is this beautiful lady?
While the Americans are competing for a medal in ice skating, there is one lady who is captivating the minds of many people for her stunning beauty. Tanith Belbin has search engines buzzing after ice skating competitions with people craving to know more about this 25 year old beauty who is getting signs around her competitions for marriage proposals.
Tanith began skating when she was 2 years old. By the time she was 11 she had won some awards and was fine tuning her skills.
Tanith Belbin was born in Canada but has dual American citizenship. Her hobbies are fashion design and broadcast journalism. Belbin moved to the United States from Canada in 1988 after she was unable to find her perfect ice skating partner. In the United states she partnered with Benjamin Agosto and the result has been four victories at the Nationals and a silver at the Worlds competition.
There was initially some dispute as how to get Belbin to join the 2006 Olympics since she was a Canadian citizen. After much petitioning, thanks to Senator Carl Levin and former president George Bush, a special act was enacted by Congress allowing her to gain American citizenship and compete for a potential medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics. The result: a silver at the 2006 Olympics.
Update: Unfortunately for Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto their chances of a medal did not materialize in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, placing fourth. She also demonstrated she is tech saavy by twittering her 7,000+ fans via twitter on her thoughts.
Photo: Tanith Belbin at press conference.
Author= flickr user [http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehogg/ Dave Hogg]
