

We had publicity pictures taken at eight o’clock the night before the competition, when. Paul Theofanous wanted to get together to tell us how interested IMG was in our career, which made us feel added pressure. Then when they did skate, it looked to me almost as if they were making it up as they went along. Peter and Kitty Carruthers, the American pairs skaters who’d won a silver medal in the 1984 Olympics, hadn’t decided what program they were going to skate until the night before the competition. We were late for practices, we missed buses, the ice we practiced on wasn’t freshly made. Everything.Īll of a sudden, Sergei and I had to figure everything out for ourselves. We were used to having teammates, roommates, and a team leader who told us, Here’s when and where you eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. “First of all, in the professional ranks, there’s no organizational support.
