It’s a comic oversight that a sport famed for sequins and an irrational fondness for Celine Dion has never made a Grand Prix stop in Vegas. Thankfully, someone within the ISU decided the time was right to bring the drama and sparkle of Skate America to the land of imagined hot streaks and glitter glaze… Read More Stars, Stripes, and Slots: Skate America 2019
Baby legends in the making. … Read More Spit Takes from Junior Worlds 2019
The skaters may be pint-sized but the drama will be extra large. … Read More Think of the Children: A Junior Worlds Preview
The best programs you won’t see at the World Figure Skating Championships this year.… Read More Off the Podium
Never was a story of more woe than this of a stationary lift scored 4 levels too low.… Read More Schrödinger’s Placement: Four Continents 2019
Stars n’ Stripes Tracksuits For All!… Read More Hot Takes: US Nationals 2019
Canada loves dramatic shirt buttoning and the Kiss & Cry lives up to its name. … Read More Hot Takes: Canadian Nationals 2019
11 months and a world away from the triumph of the Olympic Team Event, what does the future hold for figure skating in Canada?… Read More 2019 Canadian Nationals: A Preview of the Grim, Frosty Future?
Daisuke Takahashi is back with a silver medal at Japan nationals. But how do you qualify the success of a comeback in the current climate of men’s figure skating?… Read More On the Return of Daisuke Takahashi
Trying to make sense of the chaos at Russian Nationals? You, me, and the 9,000 other people watching the bootleg stream of RussNats while hyperventilating into paper bags and/or screaming in confusion. … Read More Hot Takes: Russian Nationals 2019