WSJ 2/14 articles: skating couples, Nathan Chen, Korean skaters

[UMBS Go Blue]

Not sure if this has been mentioned in other threads yet, but there was a flurry of skating-related articles in today's WSJ.

My colleague actually alerted me to it because she got a WSJ mobile phone notification along the lines of "How do Olympians Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue stay together on the ice? They broke up off the ice."

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Nathan Chen article

Skating couples article, featuring Chock/Bates, Hubbell/Donohue, Virtue/Moir, Scimeca/Knierim, among others

North-South friendship among Korean skaters

 

[Debbie S]

Looks like the first two were published online today and won't appear in print until tomorrow. The only article in today's paper is on the North and South Korean pairs teams and their (friendly) interaction off the ice. The author noted that all NK athletes are being escorted/monitored to prevent them from defecting. There is another article about the North Korean cheerleaders - they are not allowed to interact with anyone and if they talk even to each other about the lifestyle/development in South Korea, they are imprisoned.

 

[Wyliefan]

Oh man, that's awful.

 

[Yazmeen]

The Chen article is cute - he's apparently a basketball fanatic and adores Lebron James and Steph Curry.

 

[Sylvia]

The Chen article is cute - he's apparently a basketball fanatic and adores Lebron James and Steph Curry.

Here's Nathan's photo with Stephen Curry after San Jose Nationals: https://www.instagram.com/p/BduHh9AAUIV/?hl=en&taken-by=nathanwchen

The Wall Street Journal's 2018 Olympics-related videos are free to watch:

Episode 6 - Olympian Jason Brown Breaks Down Figure Skating’s Six Jumps:
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/py...ix-jumps/666BD1F2-0AB0-417B-846C-B45354AD4EE5

https://twitter.com/WSJSports/status/963170031633862656
"Homemade Highlights are back for Pyeongchang, with one mission: to make as many Coldplay jokes as possible"

Episode 8 - Homemade Highlights: Team Figure Skating
Watch American Olympians Adam Rippon, Mirai Nagasu and the 'Shib Sibs' as [spoon] puppets
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/py...-skating/3217DD75-F58B-4E24-A9DA-39CA78D8FCFE

An earlier WSJ video about solo ice dancing was posted and discussed in this GSD thread: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/ice-dances-problem-not-enough-men-wsj.103201/

 

[LilJen]

The Chen article is cute - he's apparently a basketball fanatic and adores Lebron James and Steph Curry.

Ahem. Who WOULDN'T adore Steph Curry? (Lebron, well. . . )