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Take a Step-By-Step Tour Through the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan Saga

January 28, 2018 Jo Ann Schneider-Farris

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The Tonya-Nancy figure skating scandal may be considered the most bizarre story in ice skating history.  The story involves lying and cheating, comedy, denial, the FBI, a get away car, and even a hit man. It seems like fiction, but did really happen and changed figure skating forever.  Scroll through this step-by-step summary of what happened and enjoy “the […]

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“I, Tonya” Tells Figure Skater Tonya Harding’s Side of the Story

January 18, 2018 Jo Ann Schneider-Farris

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If you haven’t seen “I, Tonya” yet, by all means go see it. The bottom line is that it is probably the most realistic figure skating movie I’ve ever seen. The movie accurately shows what the figure skating world is really like; Tonya Harding just didn’t quite fit into that figure skating world.  She never […]

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Is American Figure Skating Fixed….Again?

January 13, 2018 Jo Ann Schneider-Farris

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Several years ago, I wrote an article saying that elite American figure skating was FIXED. but that article didn’t stay live long, since one of my children’s coaches contacted me immediately after I published my thoughts and told me that saying such things was not a good idea for me politically since, at the time, […]

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I’m So Happy For Alexa and Chris and Dalilah! 2018 Olympics!

January 7, 2018 Jo Ann Schneider-Farris

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In 2005, my three very young children auditioned for a local Colorado Springs youth ice skating show directed by DeeDee Knierim.  Cats On Ice was the first production that was a part of DeeDee Knierim’s Colorado Youth Theatre.  Her own children helped with the production and that is when I got to know 17 year […]

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Jordan Moeller’s Thoughts Put Figure Skating In Perspective

January 6, 2018 Jo Ann Schneider-Farris

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Figure skaters have a very special and unusual life, but elite competitive figure skaters have an especially privileged life. We that began to skate when we were little kids and moved to the elite level and had a chance to compete nationally and/or internationally sometimes forget how fortunate we are. We had parents that sacrificed time […]

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