Christine Brennan
USA Today columnist; CNN, ABC News, PBS and NPR commentator; best-selling author; speaker. https://t.co/94WdmtlX4P
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1 month ago |
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Christine Brennan
BOSTON — The red, white and blue skating party had just ended Saturday night. For the first time in history, the United States had won three of the four disciplines at a world figure skating championships, the last and least surprising of them coming with another majestic athletic masterpiece from American wunderkind Ilia Malinin. Then the fire alarm sounded at TD Garden. Everyone out. Even you, Ilia.
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1 month ago |
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Christine Brennan
Alysa Liu is as surprised as anyone by her world-title win in comeback from retirementBOSTON — On April 9, 2022, Alysa Liu announced her retirement from figure skating. She was only 16, but it strangely made sense. All the early mornings, the rigorous training, the unrelenting pressure, the moments of her childhood she was missing: it was time for her to do something else. She had become the youngest U.S. women’s champion ever at 13, then she won the national title again at 14.
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2 months ago |
usatoday.com | Christine Brennan
Olympic icon Peggy Fleming was visiting a friend in California on the morning of Jan. 30 when her husband Greg Jenkins called from their home in Colorado to tell her about a plane crash in Washington, D.C., involving members of the U.S. figure skating community, young skaters and their parents and coaches. As she watched the news on television, her mind raced to another place, another time, another tragedy. “What a flashback it was,” she said in a phone interview earlier this week.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
usatoday.com | Christine Brennan
Four days after he won his third consecutive U.S. figure skating title, Ilia Malinin normally would have put in four to six hours on the ice back at his home rink in Reston, Virginia. But on Thursday, he could manage only 30 minutes before he left and went home.  âI knew that I had to go to the rink today,â Malinin said in the phone interview Thursday night, âbut it got so bad that I had no strength, mentally or physically, to skate.
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Jan 30, 2025 |
msn.com | Christine Brennan
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