Ice Skating - The WOW Report

#BornThisDay: Champion Skater, Rudy Galindo

By Stephen Rutledge on September 7, 2020 3:03 am

Photo via YouTube September 7, 1969 - Rudy Galindo: The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, … [Read more...]

Olympic Ice Skater Denis Ten Murdered in Kazakhstan

By James St. James on July 19, 2018 11:28 am

Ice skater Denis Ten, 25, who won Bronze in the 2014 Olympic games, was stabbed during an attempted robbery by two men in Almaty, Kazakhstan, who were trying to steal mirrors from his car. He was taken to the hospital where CPR was administered for 2 hours before he died. The … [Read more...]

#QueerQuote: ”Have Courage. Be Resilient. Be Olympic. ” – Eric Radford, the First Openly Gay Gold Medalist in Winter Olympics History

By Stephen Rutledge on February 12, 2018 9:00 am

In 2014, at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Radford stated: 'My concern was that I would be known as 'the gay athlete' if I came out at the Olympics, rather than Eric the medaling figure skater who happens to be gay, and I felt uncomfortable with that … [Read more...]

The WOW Wrap Up: Lana Del Rey, Sundance Favorites and Adele Conspiracy Theories

By Sarah Barenberg on February 7, 2018 10:00 am

Welcome to The WOW Wrap, an update of some news that’ll make you go, WOW! [Read more...]

#FirstLook: Margot Robbie is Chilling as Tonya Harding in, “I, Tonya” Watch

By Trey Speegle on October 25, 2017 8:16 am

You remember disgraced ice skating champion Tonya Harding? Well, I, Tonya is one of the most anticipated films of the year and the first trailer has Margot Robbie on the ice, skating to raucous applause, with some hints at shady dealings that need up ruining Harding's career. … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Statesman, Dag Hammarskjöld

By Stephen Rutledge on July 29, 2016 3:05 am

July 29, 1905– The considerably closeted Swede Dag Hammarskjöld was a real Renaissance man: a world class expert of economics, linguistics, literature, and history; an Olympic athlete in gymnastics, skiing, and mountaineering; a poet, and a bit of a theologian. Hammarskjöld … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Skater, Johnny Weir

By Stephen Rutledge on July 2, 2016 3:05 am

July 2, 1984– John Garvin Weir In February 2014, I was in my fourth month of cancer treatment. I don’t know if you kids are savvy to the ways of chemotherapy. I hope you never have to experience this wonder of the medical world. I did lose 50 pounds on the Amazing Cancer Diet, … [Read more...]