Georges Laraque, former NHL player (big old bruiser to boot!) is currently on tour trying out the new sporting love in his life - Figure Skating! Great story.

"All the gay websites couldn't figure out why I was such a jerk that I wouldn't talk about it," Weir wrote. "But pressure is the last thing that would make me want to 'join' a community. ... The massive backlash against me in the gay media and community only made me dig my 'closeted' heels in further."

Yuna Kim is in LA, and happy to go mostly unnoticed.

I didn't watch last night, but here was Evan's question:

"Asked by Olympic gold-medal figure skater Evan Lysacek how she felt about unsupervised Internet use, Navarrete said the Internet is important.

"I do believe that Internet is an indispensable, necessary tool for the present time," she said through an interpreter. "We must be sure to teach them the values that we learned as a family.""

Hrm... question seemed a bit close to his recent Twitter fight.

Canadian pair skater Craig Buntin retired earlier this week. Partner Meagan Duhamel had already teamed up with Eric Radford, per Skate Today and has been working with him for a few months now.

Finnish skater Susanna Poykio has decided to retire from skating, primarily because of lower back troubles. She has stated that she will concentrate on her studies. Poykio is an five-time Finnish champion.

Perez Hilton is linking to a petition to get Johnny Weir on Stars on Ice. I would love to see Weir in the show, but doubt it would happen...

Olympic gold medal-winning ice dancer Sergei Ponomarenko has been arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence, according to the Morgan Hill Times.