Figure Skating
I interviewed Scott recently for WBUR’s “Only a Game.” He and I go way back in the world of figure skating. Scott won Olympic gold, I was just happy to be there. In this interview...
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At spin class this morning, my friend Kristen Grossman (once an Olympic caliber diver) asked me why so many men are falling all over the ice at the Winter Games in PyeongChang. She said, “it makes the sport...
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The most memorable snapshot of the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships was that of Ashley Wagner on her backside laughing her butt off. Wiping out at center ice during the biggest figure skating event of the...
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There has been a lot said about “transparency” in regard to Boston’s bid to host the 2024 summer games. Some say there has been too little public discussion on whether or not this is a...
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Synchronized figure skaters perform together as a unit to a four and a half minute choreographed program to set music. I had the pleasure of meeting this weekend, The Esprit De Corps, a talented group...
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Ice is slippery. Figure skating is hard. Olympic pressure is massive. Only the strong survive, and the toughest will win. Adelina Sotnikova is figure skating’s new ice queen because she competed like a street fighter. The...
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They call Yu Na Kim “the queen” for a reason. The South Korean skater ruled the ice four years ago in Vancouver, and appears to have no intention of relinquishing her crown. The skater that took...
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You live by the quad and you die by the quad. The strongest field ever in in the men’s Olympic figure skating event succumbed to the pressure of the Olympic stage, and to their...
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Watching Evgeni Plushenko pull out of the Olympics moments before his short program was stunning. It doesn’t happen often in this sport. To see a skater glide over to the judging table and tell the referee “I...
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As fresh and as fun as the American teams are, they could not match the experience, strength, consistency and classic style of the resurrected super power of pairs skating. The Russians would rule, and it...
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