With Rio Olympic Games coming up in August, it is only natural that I ask: have you ever travelled for a sporting event? In distant 1981 I travelled for about two hours by train for a national figure skating championship in the former Soviet Union where I then lived. In 1998 I drove for about 5 …
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I first wrote this article for Russian sport daily Sovsport.ru – here is a link to the original post (in Russian). This is a modified translation of the article for my readers on this side of the Atlantic. Can support of fifteen thousand fans truly give a «home ice advantage» and influence the judging? As I …
Last week world’s biggest annual figure skating competition came to Boston for the first time, bringing along the athletes from 37 countries and selling out the TD Garden arena several times in the course of the week. To cover the event, 350 members of the media came from all over the world. As a Boston blogger, I …