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I posted the link to Morgan's April 18th Substack post in 2 other threads yesterday and now feel that it's worth creating a separate thread for her writings on important topics in figure skating from her perspective.
morganmatthews.substack.com
Excerpt from the end:
She published her first blog post on April 4 - "Why I'm Writing About Figure Skating In 2024: https://morganmatthews.substack.com/p/2024-worlds-made-a-skating-fan-of
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Healing a Broken Sport: My Story
There is a common adage among figure skating coaches that a figure skater must be talented, hardworking, and wealthy to become a champion. Talented, hardworking, and wealthy. Has the world ever been anything but an oyster for such a young person? The other thing that coaches like to mention...
Her Substack: https://morganmatthews.substack.com/I left the sport to go back to school and construct a normal, healthy life. But I miss figure skating. And I wish every day that I could have gotten the help I needed and stayed in the sport so I could have realized my full potential. I love figure skating and want to find a way for athletes to work through their struggles without having to numb out, bow out, or exit this world entirely. I want to heal this broken sport.
I want to heal the brokenness in figure skating, but I don’t exactly know how. However, I’ve had a lot of time to think about it, so I’d like to write a series of posts that highlight some of the ways that healing is occurring in the sport, such as coaches training on injury treatment and nutrition, DEI efforts, and sub-disciplines like Solo Dance and Theatre On Ice. I hope that this will provide a starting point for deeper thought, and perhaps even action, especially from former figure skaters.
Much love,
Mo
She published her first blog post on April 4 - "Why I'm Writing About Figure Skating In 2024: https://morganmatthews.substack.com/p/2024-worlds-made-a-skating-fan-of
It’s been over a decade since I retired from competitive figure skating. I did some coaching post-retirement to put myself through college and I tried trial judging just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but neither of these roles felt quite right for me. I go to a practice session every few years just to see if my body still remembers what to do. I fall in love again each time my blades grace the ice, but am crushed with disappointment when my injured hip starts throbbing (I’m waiting to replace it so I can hopefully get <3 hip replacements in my life) and I cannot walk properly for days afterward. In short, it’s been challenging to find my place in figure skating since retiring from competition.
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