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I understand that because it was the off season some people might not know, I didn’t find out when it initially happened either.

This summer he said it was difficult to be straight in a homosexual dominated sport. Something I find to be particularly ignorant when you consider the vitriol that out skaters receive from the media. When you consider that some skaters are not allowed to be out. When you look at the total number of out figure skaters at the Olympics and see that number is 9, and that’s a record high.

Clearly this is him being tired of the insinuation that skating is gay, which is completely fair, but that doesn’t make his words any less harmful.

Perhaps he knows many more skaters who are gay, but the fact that they aren’t publicly out is telling.

Also personally I don’t see how saying that it’s a fairly homosexual dominated sport helps the point he’s trying to make

He can apologize but that doesn’t mean that I, or anyone else, has to forgive that.

Maybe one day I will, but not right now

“ A Fall is defined as loss of control by a Skater with the result that the majority of his/her own body weight is on the ice supported by any other part of the body other than the blades e.g. hand(s), knee(s), buttock(s), or any part of the arm (Rule 503, para 1).”

The third of the four images is especially damning because it’s obvious that the blade of Vincent’s right skate isn’t even touching the ice, meaning that part of his weight is being supported by the side of his foot / leg. His weight is so very clearly being held up primarily by his left arm, next by his right leg, and lastly, his left blade, which is visibly bearing SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN HALF of his weight.