Tag: Olympic Games

From Household Words: The Olympics of Motherhood

by Jacquelyn Thayer Sweden’s Magda Mauroy Julin, the woman who captured figure skating gold at the 1920 Summer Olympics, is generally remembered through two pieces of trivia. She was, until the 2022 Olympics, the only woman to win a skating…

The Circular Worth of a Body of Work

by Jacquelyn Thayer We’ve written previously on the systemic circularity of funding in figure skating: money can help breed success; success yields the money that may be denied to those athletes who need it most. It is certainly a dollhouse…