Tara Lipinksi Performed A 'Big Lebowski' Skating Routine Without Spilling Her White Russian (VIDEO)

LOOK: Olympic Darling Pulls Off 'Big Lebowski' Routine

Tara Lapinski abides.

Sixteen years removed from winning a gold medal as a 15-year-old U.S. figure skater at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, Lipinksi is old enough to order a White Russian. Not long before the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the 31-year-old former Olympic champ managed not to spill that drink as she performed a skating routine inspired by "The Big Lebowski" for "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."

With this memorable skate in Rockefeller Center behind her, Lipinski will in Sochi as a figure skating analyst for NBC.

Here is a look back at the free skate routine from Nagano that made Lipinski the youngest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history. As the judges could see, it was a very complicated routine. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous.

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