This Week In Skating / June 13, 2022

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EPISODE NOTES

June - Pride Month

• U.S. Figure Skating has begun its Instagram series for Pride Month. On Thursday, Eliot Halverson chatted with A.J. Sass, an adult and synchro skater and novelist who explores various aspects of gender identity. 

• U.S. Figure Skating also posted a story about transgender adult skater

• Skate Guard, a website that posts the history of figure skating that is hosted by Ryan Stevens, has been posting some LGBTQ+ figure skating history this month.

Mental Health Awareness Month - May

• Last month was mental health awareness month. Through Connections Academy, Karen Chen gave a talk about mental health. The talk was supposed to be at the end of May, but ended up being rescheduled for early June. 

ISU Congress  

The 58th ISU Congress wrapped up in Phuket, Thailand on June 10.

• Russia and Belarus was able to participate in the ISU Congress
• Elections
• Jae Youl Kim of Korea was elected as the new president 
• Benoit Lavoie of Canada was elected as the new vice president for figure skating  
• Patricia St. Peter, Tatsuro Matsumura, Susanna Rahkamo, Gyorgy Elek and Maria Teresa Samaranch​​ were elected to the ISU Council as figure skating members
• Eric Radford was elected as the ISU Athlete Commission member 
• Age Proposals
• The ISU Congress approved the age limits for singles, pairs and ice dance
• The proposal to increase the age of ISU office holders from 75 to 80 was rejected.
• Summary of other significant developments
• Removal of requirement for women to wear a skirt in ice dance  
• Program component categories will be reduced from five to three (skating skills, composition and presentation). ISU will increase component coefficients in figure skating.
• Qualifying rounds will begin at the 2025 World Championships 
• The base value of a jump sequence will be 100% of the value of the jumps in that sequence. It was previously 80%
• Split judging panels for grade of execution (GOEs) and program components will be tested and reported on at the next ISU Congress
• There will be a separate Olympic Qualifying Competition
• Press Releases from the ISU Congress
• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• Day 5 (Elections)

Event Results

• Hollins Trophy, Canterbury, Australia
• Skate Dallas, Allen, Texas
• American Contemporary Skating Festival went on this weekend. On Ice Perspectives was there and is posting some videos from it.

General Skating News

• Nathan Chen is releasing a memoir in November to be followed by a children's book in February. His memoir will be available starting Nov. 22 - you can pre-order the book on his website.

Photos from the Stars On Ice and Ice Dreams Tours

• Stars on Ice US Tour (Figure Skaters Online)
• Stars on Ice US Tour (Ice-dance.com)
• Stars on Ice Canadian Tour (Figure Skaters Online)
• Stars on Ice Canadian Tour (Ice-dance.com)
• Ice Dreams Tour (Figure Skaters Online)