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Athletes in the Registered Testing Pool, who are "at the highest level of sport," are required to participate in the ISU Whereabouts program: they must provide a location where they will be for a specified hour of each day, every day of the year, at least 24 hours in advance. If they are not at...

Junior Pairs is down to 8 and two groups.

SAP Center allows outside food and beverages: no smuggling necessary! In 2018, we were allowed to bring in paper bags from the Whole Foods next door - not sure how that intersects with the new miniature clear bag policy. Maybe the "reasonable amounts of food" mentioned in the arena FAQ is...

There were 12 Senior Pair entries on the day that the public tentative schedule was made. There are currently eight Senior Pair entries.

Skate Austria is hosting an international called "Ice Challenge Next Gen" in conjunction with CS Ice Challenge. Senior Pairs are on the schedule as well as Junior Women, Men, Dance, and Pairs. If Kam and O'Shea are competing there, that sidesteps the problem of not obtaining an NQS score/not...

"No contact directives" prohibit any form of communication through any medium with a specific individual during an investigation. They aren't the same as legal restraining orders; the parties are allowed to be in the same physical space, but are instructed to avoid each other and not speak to...

Tom Wehrle is the brother of Amber Wehrle Kole, former U.S. senior pairs skater with Nick Kole. The nephew mentioned in the video is Amber and Nick's oldest, Mason. Tom's work on the JGP and before that his excellent backstage videos from U.S. Nationals demonstrated an understanding of skaters'...

Access to USOPTC is always tightly controlled and USOPTC essentially locked down due to Covid. No visitors, guests, media, tours, etc. Vendors need to provide photo ID and proof of vaccination.

North Korean athletes will be allowed to participate pending individual approval by the IOC. North Korea as a NOC will not be allowed to participate in Beijing in the same way that Russia has been “banned” from the last two Olympics.

The IOC allocates a certain number of athlete credentials to each sport and then each sport decides how to allocate them. There are five “additional athlete quota” spots that would go first to the host country if they didn’t qualify an entry in that discipline and then to “incomplete teams” in...

The announcement included a provision to apply for an extension to the filming deadline under extraordinary circumstances such as a rink closure, a skater testing positive or having a mandatory 14 day quarantine due to a household member testing positive, etc.

The Center for SafeSport can sanction minors. Their names and sanctions are provided to their NGB, but aren't published in the public database (or aren't supposed to be published...). IIRC, a later SwimSwam article reported that the Center clarified that if an individual sanctioned as a minor...

Ladwig was elected in April 2018 and became AAC chair in May 2018. When he ran and was elected, he only intended to do two years. Full disclosure: I didn't personally hear him say that until some time during the late summer-early fall of 2018. Ladwig is still on AAC and on other committees as an...

Most of the abuse occurred in Buffalo and Rochester, NY where Callaghan was teaching (and Maurizi was training) in the late 70s and early 80s. The arbitrator is prohibited from considering any material other than what was entered into evidence: his decision was in accordance with SafeSport...