“I acquainted actual threatened,” he said Saturday. “I’m not accustomed to say how aggregate got through, but my abettor got belletrist and faxes and e-mails. I got belletrist at the ice rink, somebody begin my buzz number.
“All these crazy fur people. Security-wise, to break in a auberge would be actual difficult. There accept been threats adjoin me. I didn’t appetite to get hurt.”
Weir is administration a apartment with U.S. ice ballerina Tanith Belbin in the Olympic village. The longtime accompany accept their own bedrooms and bathrooms.
Belbin won Olympic argent in 2006 with accomplice Ben Agosto. A three-time civic champion, Weir, who accomplished fifth in Torino, was third at this year’s nationals to accretion the final atom on the U.S. team.
The men’s abbreviate affairs is Tuesday with the chargeless skate set for Thursday.
“I’m aloof an accessible being to aces on because I like fur,” he said. “It’s accessible to put your case adjoin an amateur who is activity to the Olympics. It’s a actual good, accessible affair for these activists.
“It’s a actual alarming thing. I’m a amount skater, I’m not some huge baby-kisser who gets these things all the time.”
