Listen to Gabb (@tegomass) as she sits down with Alysa Liu (USA) who is making a comeback to competition after taking a break from skating! We discuss a bit before she retired (or so we thought!), her time off, and the process of coming back!
Interview - Hannah Lim & Ye Quan
Episode 56: World Championships 2021 and COVID-19 - Transcript
Lae: As you may be able to tell - this is part 3 of our Worlds coverage for this year in Stockholm [Sweden.] In this, we will mostly be focusing on the organization of the competition itself - this has obviously been a running theme of In The Loop's coverage of this competitive season and, sadly, we're going to be revisiting a lot of the themes we've already discussed across all of our episodes this season.
Episode 55: World Championships 2021: Ice Dance and Ladies - Transcript
Episode 54: World Championships 2021: Pairs and Men - Transcript
Kite: And he couldn't go to the gym obviously so he was using chainsaws as weights-
Evie: and car batteries. Chainsaws and car batteries.
Kite: Never change, Keegan. Also, Keegan in a cowboy hat with that giant Canadian flag during the dance event was probably like the best thing that happened this weekend.
Episode 53: 20/21 National Championships and COVID-19 - Transcript
Kite: This is an episode about the four big national [championships] - Russian, Japanese, US, and Canadian. We're going to be focusing on the Russian and Japanese Nationals in particular but we are not going to be following our usual format of discussing the performances and the results and instead, we're going to be devoting this episode to assessing how these events coped with the COVID restrictions and the impact their actions, or inaction had on the skaters and the rest of the season.
Episode 52: COVID-19 and the 20/21 Season (featuring interview with Tim Koleto) - Transcript
Kat: Becs, I don't know about how you but I have really not watched a lot of figure skating at all this season.
Becs: I think this is the least figure skating I've watched in like a decade, almost. Granted there hasn't been as much, but even considering I didn't watch a single program until Cup of China, that's like a solid 8 months that I didn't watch figure skating.