My Hobby is to Read About Skaters’ Hobbies 

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By Matteo Morelli As a new season starts, the ISU is busy gathering information to add to the skaters’ bios, capturing any relevant updates or changes to their skating career. If you have never seen one before, it works almost as a “passport”: it includes information such as date of birth, home town, coaching team […]


Smart & Dieck: Building Momentum on Ice

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By Matteo Morelli Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck completed their second season after joining forces as a new partnership representing Spain. Both of them are experienced ice dancers. Joining forces, they quickly went from a first season understanding how their partnership could work, to achieving important results in this second season just ended. In Tallinn, […]




Remembering Michelle Wojdyla – Photographer, Mentor, Friend

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by Daphne Backman On February 1, 2025, I received the heartbreaking news that Michelle Wojdyla had passed away. I’ve started this article so many times and had to stop, restart, scrap it, and start over because I was trying too hard to make it perfect, to not forget anyone she helped or to include every single […]