Goodness. I followed the link, and then looked up the winner. Her name was Kristen Treni, and after she won the show, she was so exhausted that she almost quit her professional skating career (she was 26 at the time). She turned down multiple professional skating opportunities in the weeks after the show, but finally recovered some energy and earned and accepted a leading role in High School Musical on Ice. That show, Skating's Next Star, must have been brutal ... if I'm reading it correctly, the whole six-week show, with competitions in a different category each show, was filmed in the period of several days. It sounds rather horrifying ... and then the emotional cost of being criticized in such a mean way. Whew.I think it must be this show - Skating's Next Star
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I never saw it or even recall it, but that's unfortunate that the judges were awful to them. I know some of the skaters were national level competitors!
Figure skater Treni wins role with Disney
Figure skater Kristen Treni out-performed 11 other contestants to win the television reality show "Skating's Next Star" and $25,000, but
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