What is Star Skater Gracie Gold Up Too?
The way Gracie Gold explains it, she was set up on a blind date while attending the 2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
“I was up in the stands just watching, just a mess,” said Gold, who took that Olympic season off to treat depression, anxiety and an eating disorder.
She was invited to watch the junior women’s free skate from backstage, where athletes meet their coaches after performing.
“They’re probably trying to make me feel important because I had a case of the sads,” said Gold, who was making her first public appearance at a skating event in a year. “It occurred to me later that this was a set up.”
A backstage group convinced her to swap phone numbers with Frenchman Vincent Restencourt, a former world junior medalist turned coach. Gold had begun to dabble in coaching herself. Restencourt offered her a weeklong gig at his rink.
“I’ll just fly somewhere for a week, make some money, just get out in the world,” Gold said. “Remember, I fell off the face of the earth for quite a while.”
But when she got to IceWorks in Aston, Pa., another group convinced her to relocate there from Arizona. Not to coach, but to …
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