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Patrick Chan Withdraws from Grand Prix Event Due to Muscle Tear
Canada's Patrick Chan, world silver medalist and big-time medal contender this season, has withdrawn from next week's Rostelecom Cup Grand Prix event due to a muscle tear in his calf, according to The...
Skating and Eating Disorders
I'm not really trying to ruin your weeks, it's just that a lot of depressing skating stuff is out there right now. Jennifer Kirk (perhaps better known to skating fans as "Jenny") has a great blog on ...
Kerrigan Award and Update
Boston.com has an article about Nancy Kerrigan. She'll be receiving an award at "Tradition," a sports fundrasier. The article is about how good Kerrigan was under pressure in 1994. Nothing too new ...
Jeffrey Buttle Lays it Out
2008 World Champ Jeffrey Buttle of Canada explains his decision to retire last year in the Los Angeles Times. Here is an excerpt: I started competing at an early age, about 6 years old, and that beca...
"This is my Louis Vuitton, and this is my fur. Deal with it."
One of my old journalism school classmates, Andrew Harmon, has a great article in the Los Angeles Times today about the evolution of U.S. male figure skating fashion. Here's an excerpt: Skaters used...
Johnny Weir Interview
Asahi.com has part one of a two part interview with America's Johnny Weir, who was in Japan last weekend for the NHK Trophy (where he finished second). Part two of the interview appears tomorrow. Her...
And the Skating World Waits With Cynical, I mean Baited! Breath...
So, Figure Skating Mystery has brought us a translation of an interview with the president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, Valentin Piseev. The topic? The ongoing story of a figure skating...
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