Gold, the fourth-place finisher at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, struggled mightily last season, failing to medal at either of her Grand Prix events and placing sixth at the 2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships -- the first time she finished outside the top two at that event.
After the free skate, her coach at the time, Frank Carroll, told icenetwork reporter Philip Hersh, "She has been in a deep, deep, deep depression."
Prior to those U.S. championships, Gold talked to Hersh via telephone and stopped short of saying she was depressed: "I never felt I was in an actual depression and I needed a psychologist. I was fine out of the rink. It was just in the rink and in skating (that) I wasn't myself."
Following the event in Kansas City, she and Carroll parted ways, and a couple of weeks later she announced she had commenced training with Marina Zoueva in Canton, Michigan.
Gold also announced Friday she will not compete in the Japan Open, an invitational team competition that will be held Oct. 7 in Saitama, Japan. She is scheduled to compete at Cup of China and Internationaux de France in this fall's Grand Prix Series.
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