figure skating’s culture of abuse continues to transcend accountability.

The obscure sport was rocked by a series of scandals pre-COVID, but the global crisis is no excuse for figure skating’s leaders to continue to downplay its own crisis.

Figure skating is a strange sport, to put it mildly. Emerging from obscurity only during the Winter Olympics every four years and resigned as a typically Tonya Harding-related punchline the majority of the time, the sport largely operates in the shadows, playing out in front of a perpetually shrinking, scarily engaged niche audience. 

The sport’s irrelev…