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 | 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 | Dec 23, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mai Mihara did not make Japan’s figure skating team for either of the last two Olympics. Her lone world championships appearance was six seasons ago. At one point, she went 20 months between competitions. She began this year without a top-level victory since 2017. She...
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 | Jun 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King and the late Pat Summitt are among the nine individual women who will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame this summer, along with Michael Phelps and hurdling great Roger Kingdom. Others...
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 | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
NBC Olympics host Mike Tirico called on the International Olympic Committee to take action after Russian figure skating coaches “failed to protect” Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old star at the center of a doping scandal that dominated the second half of the Beijing...
by admin | Feb 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In what’s expected to be a groundbreaking display of technical ability, a young but mighty trio of Russian figure skaters are set to light up the ice at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Led by 15-year-old Kamila Valiyeva, 17-year-old reigning world champion Anna...
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