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Kaitlyn Weaver hopes her coming out story finally breaks figure skating’s female archetype

It’s a sport laced with creativity, beauty and strength. Ice dance is poetry in motion, two skaters weaving gracefully across the ice surface together as one. Their precision and symmetry is something to marvel over. 

But figure skating is also littered with judgment — an international panel of judges scouring over every little detail, then providing their score.  

It was that suffocating weight of knowing she was being watched every second that kept Canadian ice dancer Kaitlyn Weaver hiding what she calls her little secret. Read More

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