Debi Thomas, a 1988 Olympic figure skating bronze medalist, was back on the ice in competition this past weekend at age 56. Thomas placed second in an eight-woman field at the world figure & fancy ...

Debi Thomas, figure skating sensation out of San Jose who came up short of Olympic gold medal, is now a doctor. Photo by Matt A. Brown. Special to the Chronicle ...

Whether it was earning an Olympic medal or a medical degree, Debi Thomas had a history of overcoming challenges. Now 48, and in the news for far less glamorous reasons, the ice princess who grew up… ...

Debi Thomas and her fiance, Jamie Looney, started a GoFundMe page to ask fans for help fixing their financial struggles. GENEROUS TEENS BUY 100 MCDONALD’S BURGERS FOR L.A. HOMELESS.

Debi Thomas from the United States is all smiles March 22, 1986 as she shows off her gold medal in Geneva. She won it for her performance in the ladies singles event of the World Figure Skating ...

World-class athlete turned doctor Debi Thomas is living in squalor in the Appalachian Mountains, an episode of OWN TV’s “Iyanla: Fix My Life” airing Saturday reveals. Motivational speaker ...

Debi Thomas began skating at the age of five, and won her first competition at nine years old. From then on she was hooked. At age 10 she signed with coach Alex McGowan, ...

Debi Thomas, the best African-American figure skater in history, couldn't find her figure skates. She looked around the darkened trailer, perched along a river in a town so broke even the bars ...

It is easy to be frozen out of a sport with an Ice Age mentality toward outsiders. And no one seemed farther from the cold heart of the figure skating establishment than Debi Thomas. She was a ...

Olympic medalist Debi Thomas, center, talks to the media, at the 2002 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002. Thomas earlier presented Carole Yamaguchi, ...

World-class athlete turned doctor Debi Thomas is living in squalor in the Appalachian Mountains, an episode of OWN TV’s “Iyanla: Fix My Life” airing Saturday reveals. Motivational speaker ...

Thomas said she had to file for bankruptcy because she wasn’t making enough through her orthopedic practice to pay the $20,000- to $25,000-a-month office expenses.