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# Adam Rippon Celebrates 30th Birthday with beautiful skate to ‘River
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/adam-rippon-celebrates-30th-birthday-with-beautiful-skate-to-river/
- Published: 2019-11-13T16:41:56.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-13T16:47:34.000Z
- Description: To celebrate his 30th birthday, Olympic figure-skating medalist Adam Rippon performed a stunning skate to Ben Platt’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s classic “River.”
- Author: Scene Editorial Team

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To celebrate his 30th birthday, Olympic figure-skating medalist **Adam Rippon** performed a stunning skate to Ben Platt’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s classic “River.”

“Today is my 30th birthday. I couldn’t be more grateful for everything and everyone in my life. Thank you for always sending love and positive energy my way. I hope I’m always able to do the same for you,” Rippon wrote on [Instagram.](https://www.instagram.com/p/B4u5Og1lNE4/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)

“I wanted to do something fun for myself so I asked one of my old skating choreographers, **Cindy Stuart,** to put this together with me. She is amazing. And **Ben Platt** is also amazing and when I heard him do a cover of this song I knew I had to skate to it,” Rippon added.

Bronze medalist [Rippon rose to fame during the 2018 Winter Olympics when he skated with pride for the United States while also standing up to notoriously homophobic Mike Pence](http://advocate.com/sports/2018/2/07/gay-olympian-adam-rippon-turns-down-meeting-mike-pence?ref=scenemag.co.uk) by refusing to meet with him.

Tony Award-winner Platt’s version of “River” appeared in Netflix’s *The Politician*, which dropped in September.