Haters comments are not valuable because they are biased. People like the poster above were criticizing Weir when he had to withdraw from the US nationals competition in 2003. Some said he is lying about his injury which is not true. It was Weir's first time senior competition experience and never had that kind injury situation and had no idea what to do.
Skaters get critisisms for this is incredible to me.
In Skate Canada 2005 when Weir got injury, strained his ankle after landed on his triple jump, he didnt stop the program and kept continuing it until the end , fought through the pain. He fought through several illnesses, injuries many times.

The Haters don't know Weir personally, making their own senario based on what they want to think.

What Weir is saying as a judge is normal. It's good to show figure skating world is not weak, sugar coating world. Because majority of people still consider figure skating is weak sport which is not.

Johnny talks too much. Plus, he's a major hypocrite. Picture it: US National Figure Skating Championships, Dallas Texas, 2003. A flamboyant yet graceful young skater steps out on the ice, leading after the short program. A few seconds in, he stumbles, and asks if he can start over. He does, stumbles again, and quite badly this time, then walks up to the judges and quietly asks them if he could withdraw from the competiton. The audience gasps, and the young skater leaves - in SHAME. Who was that skater? Johnny Weir. Why was it okay for him to withdraw from the competition? And then criticize Brandon for bowing out of something far less prestigious. Brandon is not a trained skater like Johnny either. And all that hoo-hockey about four Korean doctors carrying him off the ice is a BALD FACED LIE!!!! And at the time, Weir was NOT A PROFESSIONAL SKATER, but an Olympic-eligible skater. I'm so sick of people coming to Weir's defense when he's nothing but a loudmouthed twink whose fifteen minutes were up ages ago. I belong to a skating forum where there are nothing but fat, ugly, Entemann's eating freaks who obsess over everything Johnny Weir. Go to FSUNIVERSE.NET and listen to the psychotic losers wax poetic over EVERYTHING Weir says and does - it's PATHETIC. Even his bowel movements seem to move them to tears.

I think Johnny did the right thing by explaining why he would give lower scores to Brandon's team since they had to judge the rehearsal footage and didn't have the chance to judge an in-person performance. I also understand that Brandon may not have wanted to perform since he would have had to lift Keauna while he did not have his full strength, he could have really hurt her if he dropped her! That would have been worse for them both, so I think the right decisions were made all around even if some people were offended. It's true that the celebrities are not pro skaters though, and perhaps they should be given a little bit more slack when being judged given that they have so much less experience than the professionals do.

Weir is an athlete, and so is McLaughlin, so of course both of them would have this stance.
Even though this isn't the Olympics, it's still a show and a competition, you pull yourself together for the minute and a half that it takes. The judges can only judge the performances of that night. If there's no performance, it becomes kind of unfair to the others.

After what happened to the other professional skater (a sliced hand from her partner's trip and fall), I wouldn't want another professional hurt because she competed with her sick partner in a weakened state. The professionals have skated for years and practiced their routines for months, so they can go out and still perform even when not at their best, but these stars only had a week. I thought the taped version was pretty darn good. Now maybe they knew he wasn't that sick, but I don't think it's worth the chance of hurting himself or his partner and maybe he thought he would do worse than the taped version.

I understand where Weir is coming from -- you don't get to the Olympics without pushing your body to the limits and beyond for year after year; without the kind of obsessive determination that is a hair away from utter insanity.

But let's write a little reality check here: Smith is not a blasted professional athelete, and SWTS is not the Olympic Games. Weir could have made his point without being such a d-bag about it.

I'm a huge Johnny Weir fan but, sad to say, I'm becoming less of a fan after watching him critique these stars. Having him sign on as one of the judges is the main reason I decided to watch this show but I'm so disappointed in how critical he is. These aren't Olympic skaters and it's much harder to perform on the ice than it is to perform on the floor as in "Dancing With the Stars". He's downright nasty to Bethenny Frankel and I can't understand why. She's not great but she's certainly not as awful as Johnny makes her out to be. So my advice to Johnny is to lighten up before this experience ends up losing you some of your fans.