Personal Best: From Skating Frustration to Triple Jumps
Mikayla Fabbro laughs that she misplaced her spinner, a figure skating tool that helps athletes stay in the spin, but on dryland. It was probably symbolic for Sudbury’s lone competitive…
Amazing 90 Year Old Figure Skater
"This is the story of an 90-year old lady that is closing in on her 100th year of life, but she has the spirit of a teenager. You don’t need…
Chinese Star Ice Skaters Overcoming Setbacks Without This
With the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics less than 15 months away, two-time world champion pair figure skaters Sui Wenjing and Han Cong face a race against time to compete as…
Ice skating outdoors is low risk with Covid-19 pandemic, just avoid this
From manufactured rinks in city parks, to lengthy swaths of iced-over rivers, Canada's outdoor public skating spaces may prove popular during the first full winter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health…
Meryl Davis on challenges, coaching changes and more in upcoming figure skating season
OC: We spoke about ice dance a bit earlier, but what are we watching for in general? What are the goals of teams this season? Davis: In ice dance, particularly a pre-Olympic…
What Being a “Fat” Figure Skater Taught Me About Being Confident in My Own Skin
I started taking figure skating lessons when I was only in kindergarten. Like every other parent with a skater that age, my mom's biggest concerns revolved around making sure that…
Katia’s law. Olympic figure skater’s death sparks new reporting system
They are already calling it "Katia’s law." The death last month of the Australian-Russian figure skater Katia Alexandrovskaya will leave a legacy for generations to come. Heeding the call for…
Podcast Interview with Kristi Yamaguchi by Guy K.
"Kristi Yamaguchi did win the Olympic figure skating championship in 1992 as well as the world championship in 1991 and 1992. She didn’t do too badly in pairs either–with Rudy…
Local Figure Skaters making the most of no ice time with off-ice training and more
As much as she misses “everything,” from school to skating, the off-ice training has made her feel stronger, she says. To work her skating skills, she has a spinner, which…
Bonnie Tinder and Figure Skating
This time it is Bonnie Tinder, who is the Founder & CEO of Raven Intel, a peer review site (similar to Yelp! or Glassdoor) for Enterprise Software Consulting. After spending…
