--- title: Vincent Zhou Fires Back at a Reporter's Figure Skating Diss description: American Winter Olympics 2018 skater Vincent Zhou had a comeback for the sports reporter who tweeted that figure skating is not a sport. canonical: https://time.com/5155831/vincent-zhou-twitter-feud/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-13T17:27:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:36.680Z og:title: Vincent Zhou Just Fired Back at a Reporter Who Said Figure Skating Isn't a Sport og:description: "Do your job, and we'll do ours" og:url: https://time.com/5155831/vincent-zhou-twitter-feud/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23bc76850a627837/69892755cf40a88437c4b4f2/gettyimages-902462330.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships - Day 5 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vincent Zhou Just Fired Back at a Reporter Who Said Figure Skating Isn't a Sport twitter:description: "Do your job, and we'll do ours" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23bc76850a627837/69892755cf40a88437c4b4f2/gettyimages-902462330.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Vincent Zhou Just Fired Back at a Reporter Who Said Figure Skating Isn't a Sport by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 13, 2018 5:27 PM UTC  Vincent Zhou skates in the Smucker's Skating Spectacular during the 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the SAP Center on January 7, 2018 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Vincent Zhou skates in the Smucker's Skating Spectacular during the 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the SAP Center on January 7, 2018 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)Matthew Stockman—Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 13, 2018 5:27 PM UTC After FOX 4’s Weekend Sports anchor took to Twitter to say that figure skating is not a sport, [Olympic figure skater Vincent Zhou](http://time.com/5090778/team-usa-2018-winter-olympics-figure-skating-lineup/) responded by offering some advice. “I have the utmost respect for figure skaters, only a few people in the universe can do it and they deserve my praise. But it’s not a sport,” Edward Egros said on Twitter, echoing the sentiment of another user. It was enough a statement to catch the attention of Zhou, the 17-year-old making his Olympic debut as one of the fresh faces of [USA’s figure skating team](http://time.com/7986/meet-team-usa-maia-and-alex-shibutani/). Zhou, who counts the triple-axel mastering [Mirai Nagasu and internet enchanting Adam Rippon](http://time.com/5146168/adam-rippon-mirai-nagasu-friendship-olympics-2018/) as teammates, fired back. “Your job is to be a sports reporter. Figure skating is not a sport to you. Stick to reporting on “real sports”, do your job, and we’ll do ours,” he wrote. Zhou will be competing on Feb. 16\. “I feel like I’m ready to skate the two biggest programs of my life,” Zhou said in a [news conference on Tuesday](http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/youngest-us-olympian-vincent-zhou-ready-stay-moment-and-soak-everything). “I’ve been preparing extensively for my eight minutes on the ice.” See the exchange below. > [](https://twitter.com/EdwardEgrosFox4/status/962942702345228289) > [](https://twitter.com/govincentzhou/status/963345726318182401) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5155831/vincent-zhou-twitter-feud/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5155831/vincent-zhou-twitter-feud/"},"headline":"Vincent Zhou Just Fired Back at a Reporter Who Said Figure Skating Isn't a Sport","datePublished":"2018-02-13T17:27:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:36.680Z","description":"\"Do your job, and we'll do ours\"","url":"https://time.com/5155831/vincent-zhou-twitter-feud/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","onetime","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23bc76850a627837/69892755cf40a88437c4b4f2/gettyimages-902462330.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23bc76850a627837/69892755cf40a88437c4b4f2/gettyimages-902462330.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships - Day 5","caption":"2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships - Day 5","creditText":"Matthew Stockman—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5155831/vincent-zhou-twitter-feud/","name":"Vincent Zhou Just Fired Back at a Reporter Who Said Figure Skating Isn't a Sport"}}]}] ```