[In a recent documentary, Gabi Papadakis revealed that she had gotten pregnant around Worlds 2021 and felt really guilty about it, being an athlete.
She admitted waiting about 2 weeks to tell the coaching staff and guillaume at IAM because she felt like there was no other choice and they said to deal with it and come back; hence she got an abortion. It severely impacted her mental health and once again proves that it is ignored in the sport]
(This is a rough translations the docu was in French then translated to Russian)
Now this is not just an issue in skating but in so many sports that women are involved in, just the mistreatment of women’s feelings: physical, mental and emotional. And if we’re talking specifically again about figure skating, once again we see non-supportive coaching environments which seem like a given no matter what country it is.
I think ice dance is at its best when it's campy, dorky, and weird. I really liked Papadaki's & Cizeron's 2019-20 RD because they brought that delicious weirdness back to competition.