Despite my seemingly everlasting skating fandom, I have never seen a figure skating competition live and what better way to induct myself into it, than cover one from behind the scenes at the 2023 U.S. Figure Skating Championships?
In an internal memo, an Air Force commander has asked his subordinates to get ready, especially by practising their target shooting, because the US and China risk going to war.
The winter storm forced a lot of event cancellations, but it did not stop the U.S. Figure Skating Championship at Bridgestone Arena from staying on schedule.
Positive COVID-19 tests have forced three more U.S. skaters to drop out of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, following four others who have already had to withdraw from the competition.