Interview: Steph Crugnola on Figure Skating at the Milan Olympics

* *CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of sexual and emotional abuse, as well as disordered eating, so please take care while listening.**

This episode was recorded on Thursday, February 12, at 3:30pm CT.

Jessica talks to Steph Crugnola, a former competitive figure skater and judge, about what we've seen so far in figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics and what to look forward to. They also dive deep into the multiple controversies in ice dance, especially everything around the French skaters Guillaume Cizeron, Laurence Fournier Beaudry, both their former partners, the school where they all train (IAM, Ice Academy of Montreal), and the International Skating Union (ISU).

If you'd like to listen to the episode BIAD did about he figure skating doping controversy at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic involving Kamila Valieva and her coach Eteri Tutberidze (mentioned in the interview with Steph), you can find it here: ⁠https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/episodes/238⁠

You can find Steph at ⁠https://www.stephcrugnola.com/⁠ and ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/crugglez.bsky.social⁠.

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