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for 24 years figure skating was a dying sport the last major win being a 2002-2006 in the us it was slowly fading away from a nation most notably the women's field

when we think about modern figure skating the two countries that have always dominated is japan and russia despite their dominance in the 1990s but why did it seem that there was a sudden slow death of figure skating in USA following the salt lake city 2002?

This is only an analysis of the women's field though pairs and ice dance are also suffering their own drought.

part 1: drought at a quick glance

(for the olympics NOT TEAM EVENT)

Olympics:

Last Win: Liu (2026)

Before Blade Angels: Sarah Hughes (2002)

Time: 24 years

FCC:

Last win: Isabeau Levito (2026)

Before Blade Angels: Polina Edmunds (2015)

Time: 11 years

Grand Prix:

Last win: Alysa Liu (2026) Amber Glenn (2025)

Before Blade Angels: Sasha Cohen (2002)

Time: 23 years

Worlds:

Last win: Alysa Liu (2026)

Before Blade Angels: Kimmie Meissner (2006)

Time: 20 years

part 2: Why

Turning on the Sochi Olympics they only had one thing in mind would or would not the us end the figure skating drought. . The only chance of that season to get gold in any major four was the Sochi Olympics not only was it about getting gold, it was also about reviving the sport and ending the gold drought in the USA. All eyes were on the team Ashley Wagner, Gracie Gold and Polina Edmunds.

In the end all of them had no medals, it had seemed after 2002-2006, figure skating women;s single collapse. they did wonderfully but the USA federation only cared about the medals: gold, sliver and bronze.

1956 to 2002 figure skating in the USA was storm, the list was stacked if you were team USA you had a chance in the podium names like Michelle Kwan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Sasha Cohen, Sarah Hughes, Peggy Flemming... they were names that every figure skating fan knew.

Then suddenly seemingly it just stopped.

There were many reasons why.

The rise of Russia: After the Sochi Olympics, they were unbeatable. They dominated every discipline and Tutberidze Sambo 70 club is leading it (we can't get a post without some mention of the Russians) In 3 Olympics from 2014-2022 all gold was to Russia (2014 is debatable). Adelina Sotnikova, Alina Zagitova, Anna Shcherbakova, that was a 12 year stalling which is a massive chunk out of the 24 year gold drought. They were also winning literally everything. If not at least podium, the rise of 3A, Alina and Evgenia winning streak...they surpassed the USA and the rest of the world in technical ability.

Mounting pressure: Ever since 2002 and 2006. Each time girls had the entire weight of the nation and the figure skating federation to get gold or at the very least podium. Since figure skating is a sport where skaters usually peak at 15-17, these were teenagers with pressure. This caused mental health crisis and burnouts, ultimately leaving the sport. Each year that went by without any major gold, everyone got increasingly desperate each time the pressure became worse and worse. Leading to mistakes, falls, stumbles, and ultimately tears. 2002-2026 was not a good place to be if you were into figure skating as an American fan.

Title IX: Title IX changed sports in America. Girls wanted to go to team sports like volleyball, basketball, soccer, tennis. Figure skating was a lonely sport.

The new judging system: Unlike Japan and Russia. The USA was less faster to adapt to this new system their changing of their programs and how they were constructed needed time in order to adjust, this obviously took time and that sent a chain of events that led to the gold medal drought. These chain of events was losing competitions, people losing interests, mounting pressure on figure skaters to end this drought naturally losing due to the pressure and the cycle again and again.

Lack of motivation: Like Yulia Lipniskaya who single handedly started the boom of girls enrolling in figure skating schools. The drought also single handedly ended the boom of girls enrolling in figure skating schools. The evidence was clear, USA figure skating was failing and figure skating usually started early if you wanted to mark your name on the history there was a risk of removing a childhood, and that was a risk parents weren't willing to take. 24 years of a drought was too damning to ignore.

"American parents might be reluctant to accept that their child is going to give up their life at 5, 6, 7 for something we don't know if it's going to pay off or not." -Ashley Wagner

Part 3: Ending the drought

The Historic Gold: After finishing 6th in the Beijing Games in 2022, she quitted the sport. Then after stepping away from figure skating finding her own self. At 2024-2025 she returned to competition and won the 2025 world championships. THEN she won Olympic gold ending the 24 year drought leaving the winter games with not just the individual but also the team event.

The Blade Angles Influence: Isabeau Levito, Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu were a trio for the women's events. They were strong contenders with ultra c elements and depth. This broke the mold of the ice princess, making more new skaters. They won worlds, fcc, grand prix and also the Olympics, not just ending the drought in the Winter Games but also the major 4 competitions. They were authentic and they had the depth, consistency and the mentality to win.

Tyy for reading!!

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Salt Lake City 2002.

I would like to put an argument Salt Lake City 2002 changed figure skating the most out of ALLL the scandals I mean all the scandals have changed figure skating in some way but salt lake 2002 the judging corruption scandal changed figure skating the most. So how did it change figure skating?

Well first I think I should just go over the 2002 Bribing thing which isn’t that talked about but I thought I should mention this.

Salt Lake City failed four previous bid basically how the IOC ( international Olympic committee) choose the country to host the Olympics but they failed the four previous bids so they had 1.2 million worth of bribes of luxury goods, cash, medical procedures, vacation, and guns. In 1998, Salt Lake City journalists found a letter where Sonia Essomba was given 10,000 dollars for her tuition pay. But she wasn’t any student she was the daughter of a major IOC voter. This was a clear bribe.

if that wasn’t enough, a whistleblower named Mark Hodler a Swiss IOC committee voter. He claimed that the Salt Lake City allegations were in fact TRUE. On top of that, vote buying was a common practice among winning countries like 1996 Atlantic and 1998 Nagano Olympics. the reason why despite there was a clear bribing scandal. Was first 1998 there wasn’t just enough time to relocate this would be a logistical night mare. On top of that since it was a common way to vote but you basically was invalidating past Olympics. Then the corrupt officials also quit to show there was no more corruption ever. Ultimately it kind of worked. It was a pretty successful Olympics.

Nowww the major scandal that changed figure skating. ”skategate” or the Paris figure skating scandal was an infamous judging controversy. In Feburary 11, 2002 the main competition was the Russian pair Elena Berezhanaya and Anton Sikharulidze vs the Canadian pair Jamie Salé and David Pelletier. The Russian pair did a highly difficult and artistic routine but did a major mistake on their double axel, stumbling and over rotating on this jump. Meanwhile, the Canadian pair did a flawless emotional charged program routine and commentators thought they would be Olympic champions for obvious reasons.

But in the end 5 to 4 voted for the Russian pair. So Russia had gold and Canada had sliver. It almost split 2 to 2 for the Cold War side just a small detail to add. russia: Russia, China, Poland, Ukraine and FRANCE

Canada: USA, Canada, Germany and Japan

France is an interesting detail because they were a specific nation they broke Russia’s political alignment and assured them victory.

Sally Stapleford the British chair confronted the France judge Marie-Reine Le Gounge. In the hotel lobby she confessed that she was pressured by Didier Gailhauget the president of the french federation. basically the deal was in exchange of voting for the Russia pair in the pairs skating Russia would vote the french ice dance pair. this was a PR NIGHTMARE striping the credit the IOC and ISU had because of this judging scandal. this is how they “fixed it”

Two Olympic champions? They promoted the Canadian pair to also co Olympic champions sharing the gold medal with Russia. Russia was innocent in the fraud meaning they had NO idea what was going on behind the scenes. Then there was a second medal ceremony

Bans: they forked out bans to Le- Gounge and Gailhauget and banned them from the 2006 Olympics and banned for 3 years.

the most MAJOR change was the new judging system.

this is how they scored skaters:

0 - not skating

1- bad

2- unsatisfactory

3- mediocre

4- good

5- very food

6 - perfect

so perfect is 6. Hence the 6.0 judging system.

it was heavily flawed.

First this was a ranking system. For example of judge 1 voted a person like a 4.7 + 5.7, that’a 9.4. But if Judge 2 voted a person like 5.7 + 5.9 which is 11.6. So judge 2 would be first place and judge 1 would be second place.

They did not have to have the highest scores to if the majority 5 out of 9 judges scored then higher so bias is so easy to do, they would be first. the actual number did not fricking matter, they were just a ranking tool.

So basically to just recap if a first skater got like a 5.9, you had to give a latter skater no matter how well they did lower. this was critiqued for decades because it relied subjectivity, obviously each judge likes and favors different thing. Aside with that a backward figuring where judging switch around the scores to make who wins the competition. Lastly it was just too easy to rig. I don’t know how else to say it this was a bad judging system that had been in place since 1897. finally after 2 years in 2004, the finally changed the judging system which is called IJS. ISU judging system. Instead of a random ranking system there are 2 different halves: technical and artistry.

every technical element such as jumps, spins, and step sequences carries a base value depending on its difficulty level. a technical panel identifies the element performed . then a panel of up to nine judges awards a GOE from -5 to +5 based on how cleanly it was done.

this score captures the artistic and presentation aspects of the performance. judges award points across core artistic components

that's the new judging system

This indirectly caused the quad revolution, it changed how programs are built. Skaters were incentivized to add further difficulty and push athletic boundaries like jumping impossible jumps

Before this was anonymous judging now it was not that promoted accountability if there was mis score or they were scored unfairly this single rule change that took 2 years to make changed figure skating forever.

So that's my case on why this scandal specifically in a sport plauged with scandals because it's a judged sport is the most impactful out of all scandals.

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what if you deviated from the norm? what would happen if you went against the unspoken rules of figure skating? what are the (unspoken) rule of figure skating? and what happened in the 1994 attack?

tonya harding is a classic example of a women that doesn't fit the norm targetted and painted into a villian because of her aesthetic that doesn't fit the classic "ice princess" trope

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT ENDORSING THE ATTACK ON NANCY KERRIGAN THIS IS SIMPLY A CASE STUDY ON HOW THE MEDIA PAINTS WOMEN WHO DON'T FIT THIS VIBE AS THREATS

The unspoken rules of figure skating are the image of an ice princess.

Upper class aesthetic: skating was seen as expensive sport with the skates and the lessons and costumes it was natural to give an air of an upper class: immaculate buns, delicate pastel jewel toned chiffon dresses and skating to ballet or orchestral music

Elegance and artistry: the ice princess had a specific type of artistry that prioritized long balletic lines, fluid movement and natural flow

Off stage : off the ice you had to keep up with the ice princess vibe of speaking softly, not complaining about scores, be polite, avoid scandals and smiling constantly basically you had to keep up this act 24/7

Imaging : skaters that fit the ice princess narrative were pure dolls who triumphed through grace and poise they were historically packaged like a porcelain dolls

Now there's nothing wrong this image of the ice princess but it had a very very clear advantage over the judges who marked girls who fit this image.

back then before the 2002 judging scandal there was no cap for judging which meant artistry and presentation were favoured over technical difficulty which brings the conversation of should be award difficulty or artistry but aside from that back then scores were split 50-50 technical and presentation and is SPECIFICALLY evaluated traits like elegance, posture and musicality which is a classic trait of the ice princess trope. as well as artistry overrides technical difficulty because if two skaters had the same skill the person who had the most artistry would win again another advantage for the ice princess trope. unlike now there was no cap value for the hard jumps meaning jumps like the triple axel and the other jumps did not guarantee a victory (i mean even now but now having ultra c elements gave you a clear advantage) so standard, lower difficulty jumps were favoured because even if you had harder jumps you would still basically have the score. stumbles and minor mistakes for a high technical difficulty was punished severely and of course no one perfect

all of these factors led to the image of the ice princess to be highly favorable because even if you had diffculty that advantage would be snuffed out regardless on top of (better) scoring advantages you would also be more popular so no wonder skaters decided to go for the ice princess trope

tonya harding did NOT follow this trope.

long before the 1994 assault (which i will elaborate more on later) she was painted as a villian and a threat to the media why? because she did not fit this image

figure skating was a sport for the wealthy and even if people came from a regular or a work class background acting like you were part of the upper class was highly favorable as well one of the core pillars to the ice princess trope i mean an princess is wealthy. harding came from a poor background and didn't have enough money for costumes so she made homemade neon outfits which was "tacky" and "unpolished" because costumes determined how well you skated

harding also relied on explosive power as she was the first american woman to land a triple axel in competition and because of that she got underscored in artistry and grace again judges favored the ice princess trope and tonya having a strong triple axel did not fit the soft graceful vibe of the ice princess she openly resented this bias she famously stated a judge literally told her directly to her face "you just aren't the image we want to portray" on top of that her music wasn't classical or orchestral they were rock and roll and fun pop songs so her artistry score took a hit probably because of this bias

on top of that she also had "unladylike" and the media targeted her personal life and her habits she smoked, she swore, she fixed drag racing car this clearly violated the hyper feminine ideal of what a woman who skated should be which bleed into her daily life

already before the 1994 assault she was painted as a "hellion" while nancy was a "sweet heart" which locked her into a villain narrative by the public

On January 6, 1994 Nancy Kerrigan after practice session for the us figure skating championship at the Cobo Arena in michigan she was walking off ice and pass through a curtain into the back stage corridor when she was ambushed. the attacker, shane stant used a METAL BATON and striked her landing leg on her lower right thigh then stant immediately fled and escaped on a gateaway car briven by his uncle derrick smith and went away. the doctors found that her knee was severely bruised and her quadricepts tendons were damaged clearly not in shape to skate the bone did not break but due to swelling and pain she withdrawed from u.s. championship (which tonya won)

on mid january a plot was discovered the attacker had been hired for 6,800 dollars by shawn eckardt (hardings bodyguard) and jeff gillooly (hardings ex husband) it was originally a proposal to sever kerrigan's achillies tendon but ultimately decided on just damaging her knee so she was unable to compete for the 1994 olympics clearing the path for harding to win the gold medal they confess and point to tonya wether or not she knew about the attack is highly debatable because investigation pointed to tonya knowing about the attack

the olympic committee voted to take tonya off but she fought back with a 20 million lawsuit because she hadnt been charged or convicted they back down and allow her to go to norway

so both women compete in norway under intense media scrutiny and in a miraculous recovery kerrigan was able to go to the 1994 olympics and win the sliver medal with ukraine's oksana baiul won gold and harding making a mistake on her program having a broken shoelace mishap finished in 8th place

after the olympics she faces the legal system and on march 16 1994 she pleads guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to hinder prosecution meaning she was in on the plot and tried to hinder kerrigan she took a plea bargain with 3 years of probation, 500 hours of community service, a 100k fine and a banning her from skating

now in 2026 alyssa liu has won gold medal and she is not the image of the ice princes none of the ladies field fit the image of the ice princess not amber glenn who is an openly queer skater or isabeau levito who participates in silly skits and actually has a life outside of skating.

so what changed why are they so loved?

no subjective scoring: now you couldn't just score them worse because their costume was bad or you didn't like their style under current rules each step sequence jump spin had a fixed value meaning people would call you out if you had bias hence the "SHE WAS UNDERSCORED" allegations that made the judge be less biased to the ice princess mold

prioritizing mental health: skating in the 90s was not for the weak it was notorious for forcing skaters to abandon their personal life (clearly), health, body image and mental stability but now liu getting the gold medal was backed because of her comeback story of her leaving on her own terms and coming back on her own terms winning worlds in 2025 this is largely celebrated as a win for mental health

real personality: before women were constantly being picked apart like the bad girl vs the angelic ice princess the tabloid media pitted them against each other but today we celebrate indiviual personality her custom halo hair, her fun personality and her life outside figure skating this was seen as a breath of fresh air due to her carefree skating

tonya hardings perception of the media is still prevelant today in looking at hardings experience with the media we can see how the 90s view skating and how they view women who go against the norm she matters as a figure skating pillar not just on her triple axel but as how she was treated (before the 1994 scandal)

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the quad revolution is one of the most interesting things in figure skating where skaters push back against human limits, landing quads never to be seen before.

today we're going to take a deep dive into the quad revolution on exactly what is a quad, how hard it is, who are the main pioneers and what is the future of figure skating.

the basic definition of a quad is jumping in the air and spinning around 4 times and landing in one foot that's all skaters have only 0.65-0.7 seconds to complete on the rotation landing with a force 7 times their body weight. in order to achieve a quad you first need flawless triples, explosive powers AND I MEAN EXPLOSIVE POWER, fast snap like they're glued together in MILLISECONDS, tight axis straight, and very strong core force.

quads are very very difficult have to have a minimum of 10-12 years of training before ever coming CLOSE to landing a quad and even then the chances are slim in perspective a quad spinning is faster than a helicopter and imagine spinning so fast you can act as a human blender and humans cannot jump higher naturally than 0.7 seconds no matter what

safe to say people thought it was impossible and for good reason

The origins of the quad revolution can be traced back to canada's kurt browning who landed the first quad toe loop in competition in 1988 world championships safe to say it was insane even then I can probably count the number of male skaters that attempted quads with one hand so how did it end up today where skaters are now talking about fricking quints?

first in 2002 olympics in the pair skating had a judging scandal in which a the russian pair who skated impressively but made a mistake got gold and the canadian pair had a impressive and FLAWLESS skating in the end the russians got gold but the canadians got sliver then later it got found out that if the french judges voted for the russians later the russians would vote for the french during the ice dance segment so that basically was the deal but the most important part is the ISU judging system gave a transperant uncapped technical point to each jump which incentivized skaters to jump quads to build technical scores

in the 2010 quads were starting to creep up on skating as in 2010 olympics american evan lysacek won gold without completing any quads but russian evgeni plushenko did a quad triple combination and only won sliver he won by a narrow 1.31 points (same point difference as 2018 womens alina and evgenia btw just to add that) even with the quad advantage which was 9 points with the triple axel being just 8.2 points barely 0.8 points more it was wiped out because his second half of the program wasn't that good this continues the debate of who should win the quad jumper or the one with a clean jumps anyways, they held a general assembly and raised the points to 13 which made it so men had to jump quads to go the podium and with that it offical started

now 2016-present was the men quads as i like to call it the "quads arm race" and that was an insane time late 2015 boyang jin of china landed a quad lutz then shoma uno of japan landed a quad flip in april 2016 then yuzuru hanyu of japan landed a quad loop in september 2016 in just MERE months quads were landing left and right this forced the skaters to catch up and since now suddenly everyone was doing quads it forced them to add 2 then 3 then 4 then 5 or even 6 because quads are difficult they placed them in the front 2 minutes of the their program but the ISU combatted it by a 10% bonus rule so they did both this heavily changed how programs were design optimizing strength to land their mutiple quad program now we reach 2018 and we watched usa's nathan chen land a whopping SIX quadruple jumps in the pyeonchang olympics finally at 2022 usa's ilia malinin also known as quad god landed the infamous quad axel

now the woman's quad arms race from 2018- present miki ando of japan landed a quad salchow in 2002 but it was like basically impossibe to land another one for 16 years the person credited and traced back to the quad revolution is the russia's alexandra trusova and anna shcherbakova alexandra was named the quad queen she was the first woman to land a quad lutz and a quad toe loop anna followed after landing mutiple quad lutzes in competition by 2019 they used quads and were unbeatable in the senior realm infamous coaches like eteri tuberize saw this and added fuel to the fire building their training system on not power but low body weight targeting puberescent teenagers on building quads and quads not to be beaten russian skaters and skaters all over the world started training for quads in the iconic freeskate in 2022 beijing olympics alexandra landed FIVE quads in a single program and Anna landed two they both won sliver and gold following this adelila petrosian of russia was the first to land a quad toe loop and mao shimada of japan also lands quad salchows but post 2022 the women's field of quads has slowed down skaters opt for triples instead of quads in order to save themselves from injury, following the doping scandal of 2022 the isu raised the age limit of 15-17 as we mentioned girls quads are usually pre puberty so that quickly blocked out quads entering the senior curcuit and because the quad was centered in only russia's eteri tuberize camp the war in ukraine banning them quickly snuffed out international quads

what is the future for figure skating?

moving past quads now quints have entered the conversation the isu already have points made for possible quints with a score of 14 per quints or so american ilia malinin states his quint salchow and his quint toe loop are "pretty close" which is so insane like HELLO?? a quint btw a quint basically spinning five times in the air, 430 rpm, and impact of 15 times the body weight, and a quad has an impact of 7 times the body weight btw

anyways worried that the quads (and maybe quints) would turn an art form into a jumping contest they dropped the jumps of 7 to 6, falling in a jump you would basically only get 20% of the base value second excuetion of the same quad (and maybe quints) type like 2 salchows in a program scoring 70% of the base value

overall i think men's will usually only opt to do quads for flawless and clean programs and quints will probably be a one time thing for genetic anamolies like ilia malinin unless this somehow gets normalized too they will probably be just a history making rare weapon with only the amount of people i can count using my right hand unless this gets normalized too

as for the womens, most skaters are opting for flawless triples as of the seniors only to be around 17 of age focusing on maxing out GOE points and artistic excuetion

and that's all now you know all about quads.

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today alysa liu recently went into the met gala as a louis vutton house ambassador after her win in the olympics

we're going to talk about her partnership with louis vutton AND nike, as well her participation in the met gala and her possible future as an ambassador for luxury brands.

if you didn't know what the met gala is fundraising event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City held every year on the 1st monday of may it is "fashions biggest night" with a nice theme every year and this theme was "Costume Art" or "Fashion is art" basically they are to treat fashion as an art piece leading to references and it's most importantly open ended and creative.

OWN opinions: personally this theme fit the art style really good and it's definetly really creative in my opinion i saw some stunning looks on the met gala red carpet

Now after her win in the olympic 2026 milano cortina figure skating (congrattss!!) she has been invited to the met gala under Louis Vutton a prestigious french luxury fashion house. but there was some contreversy as it seemed that alyssa liu had not followed the theme as she wore a red dress with rose petals underneath her, people claimed it was "tacky prom vibes" and it was a "plain look" her stylist Katie Qian says this is an interpertaion of anatomy like cell tissues and vascularity

OWN opinions: personally in my opinion i think she looked great fashion in the end is still art and it is not a plain ass look let's be so fr critics in my opinion are used to seeing extravagant art pieces and beautiful colors while there is nothing wrong with these kinds of looks i think they did great, art isn't always like this besides Alysa likes the look and i think that's all we have to say about it

In 2026 Alysa Liu has partnered with many major brands like Louis Vutton of course, nike featuring the air max 95 and jacquemus moon shoe, sephora featuring her now iconic hair style, samsung the galaxy z flip7 olympic edition, lucky charms a giveaway, fortnight a brand ambassador, annnddd gillette venus for the shaving brand.

ON TOP OF THAT laufey's madwoman

Why are they choosing Alysa Liu all of a sudden?

Well there are like 3 reasons I can think off

First she's the first american woman in 24 years ending the "gold drought" this can give like a certain aura and vibe to her

Second the "Gen z icon" alysa is named as the gen z icon because of her deviation from the classic ice princess role she does not fit the mold and in that she is an gen z icon she has a very layback and chill style to her and she has an alternative aesthetic which makes her unique

Third more media traction this is the most obvious within her win she literally surged to 6 million instagram following that's probably 6 million potential cilents

Fourth her aura her aura modernizes the brands image and it's a way to connect with their gen z audience

Why does this matter?

it launches figure skating further into mainstream, it's not like a niche niche sport but it's defi not the most popular among the names of like soccer or basketball or whatever that's the most obvious reason

its also not just alyssa isabeau levito partnered with red bull kaori with omega... i think this is lowkey the start of athletes being on par with celebrities and alysa is currently the most mainstream attending the met gala

i feel like more athletes will attend prestigious events because sports is a very wide category and this is just the beginning. <3

Ty for reading if you got this far.