by admin | Mar 26, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Battered by injuries and burnt out by the demands of her sport, Deanna Stellato-Dudek retired in 2001 – before many of today’s elite figure skaters were even born. But this week, Stellato-Dudek achieved the unthinkable. With her partner Maxime Deschamps, the...
by admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Bisexual and pansexual figure skater Amber Glenn won the U.S. women’s figure skating championship on Jan. 26, becoming the first queer woman to take the gold medal. “Being the first openly queer women’s champion is incredible,” said Glenn in a post-competition...
by admin | Jan 31, 2024 | Representation, SEW
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has granted requests by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Skating Union to suspend Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for four years dating from before the 2022 Beijing Olympics, following her positive test for a...
by admin | Sep 26, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Nineteen months after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s positive doping test kept the 2022 Beijing Olympics’ team figure skating medals from being awarded, nothing has been resolved. Valieva’s eligibility still is being debated, and the medals remain in storage....
by admin | Feb 22, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The International Skating Union is following the World Anti-Doping Agency in appealing the decision not to ban Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva over the doping case that overshadowed the figure skating portion of last year’s Beijing Olympics. The ISU said...
by admin | Feb 8, 2023 | Representation, SEW
It’s a not-so-happy Olympic anniversary this week. A year ago, Russia won the team figure skating event at the Beijing Winter Games, powered by teenage phenom Kamila Valieva. But her subsequent positive drug testmarred the Games and left the team results in...
by admin | Sep 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In the 30-plus years I’ve covered Olympic figure skating, I thought I had seen and heard it all, from Tonya-Nancy to the French judge, from Russian cheating to, well, Russian cheating, most recently the Kamila Valieva scandal at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. But...
by admin | Sep 16, 2022 | Representation, SEW
This week, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency announced the completion of its investigation of Olympic figure skater Kamila Valieva without revealing its results but said that the next step in the excruciatingly delayed process would be to organize hearings in the case....
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The International Skating Union will raise the minimum age for competitors in senior events from 15 to 17 to protect skaters’ “physical and mental health, and emotional well-being”. The decision comes after the controversy surrounding Kamila Valieva...
by admin | May 3, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
The U.S. Center for SafeSport suspended 1988 U.S. Olympic pairs bronze medalist and renowned figure skating coach Peter Oppegard Monday after an investigation of allegations of physical abuse, according to emails obtained by USA TODAY Sports and two people questioned...
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