It is perhaps a tired trope to say figure skating is founded on tears and tantrums. After all, competitors learn their fate in a place officially called the “Kiss and Cry Zone”.
If you want drama and divas, with the occasional whiff of controversy, it pays to know your Lutzes, Salchows and Axels, with their dizzying degrees of difficulty. Because there is nothing quite like dancing on ice at the Olympics for sequinned stories of daring and deceit. From Tonya Harding to Kamila Valieva, you watch in wide-eyed wonder but know you are never far from another #SkateGate.
