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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2014 20:50:17 GMT
U.S. champion Gracie Gold has a stress fracture in her left foot and will miss next week’s Grand Prix Final, the second-biggest international figure skating event this season. Gold, an Olympic team event bronze medalist, still hopes to compete at the U.S. Championships in Greensboro, N.C., in January and the World Championships in Shanghai in March (both to air on NBC). “The bigger picture is that I need to recover as quickly as possible,” Gold, 19, said in a press release. “My ultimate goals for this year are to win another U.S. title and make the podium at Worlds. These are the factors that my team and I used to make this very difficult decision.” Gold finished fourth at the Sochi Olympics and fifth at the 2014 World Championships in March. Three U.S. women will be selected for the World Championships team after the U.S. Championships. Gold’s absence at the Grand Prix Final means Olympic teammate Ashley Wagner will be the only American woman competing at the six-skater event for a second straight year. Wagner will take on four Russians — Yelena Radionova, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Anna Pogorilaya. Gold’s replacement hasn’t been named. Japan’s Rika Hongo is the first alternate.
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Post by Admin on Dec 24, 2014 21:19:51 GMT
@carlycgold Dec 16 Selfies with @mlauer and @graceegold Team USA figure skater Gracie Gold has had a stellar season, which included her first grand prix gold medal at NHK Trophy in Japan last month. We caught up with the Olympic bronze medalist — who had to withdraw from the Grand Prix Final due to a stress fracture in her left foot — and asked her to dump out the contents of her Nike gym bag. Here are a couple things she can’t leave home without. Workout Wear Ice skates: Of course. With elephant blade covers. Accessories Music: iPod and ear buds. Miscellaneous Tissue box cover: “I have a Ruma tissue box cover [in the shape of a bear] that a Japanese fan gave me. It was one of the first fan gifts I received. It sits on the boards, saving the rink from runny noses every day.” iPhone: How else can her buddy Taylor Swift get a hold of her? Makeup: “Every girl needs her makeup essentials: mascara, eos lip balm and red lipstick.” Bananagrams: “I always keep Bananagrams or a fun card game in my bag. It helps keep car rides and airports interesting and entertaining!” Magazine: “During the breaks between sessions I have time to catch up on celebrity gossip with magazines like People and US Weekly.” Band-Aids: “I always carry cute mustache Band-Aids.” Yamuna ball: “For sore and tired feet.”
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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2015 21:25:38 GMT
Gracie Gold just shared a cute video with her fans of her showing off her spectacular jumps set to Taylor Swift‘s “Shake It Off” on Instagram. “Feels good to be back,” the 19-year-old Olympic figure skater captioned with the video. Just weeks before, Gracie made the decision to withdraw from the Grand Prix finals in Barcelona, Spain which left Team USA one woman down. “The bigger picture is that I need to recover as quickly as possible. My ultimate goals for this year are to win another U.S. title and make the podium at Worlds. These are the factors that my team and I used to make this very difficult decision,” Gracie had shared in a statement.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2015 21:02:22 GMT
Olympic figure skater Gracie Gold is the L.A. Sportswoman of the Year. The Los Angeles Sports Council tabbed Gold -- the 2014 U.S. National champion and Olympic bronze medalist -- for the honor on Thursday. The awards will be presented March 15 as part of the L.A. Sports Awards (which can be seen on FOX Sports West/Prime Ticket on a date and time TBD). Gold joins Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout, who were named the L.A. Sportsmen of the Year on Wednesday. The 19-year-old Gold trains at The Toyota Sports Complex in El Segundo, where the Kings and Lakers practice as well. She made a big splash by winning nationals in Boston last year and then helped the U.S. team to bronze in the Olympics in Sochi. She finished fourth in the individual ladies skating competition. Gold is back on the ice training after recovering from a stress fracture in her left foot. She posted video of her return to the ice in El Segundo on Instagram recently, completing jumps to Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off." Gold is scheduled to defender her title at the U.S. Nationals Jan. 17-25 in Greensboro, N.C.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2015 21:01:37 GMT
Gold, who had just won Olympic bronze in the Sochi team event, reacted on Twitter with what almost any teenager would say. “Is this real life?!!“ Gold, now 19, said she noticed a couple of days after Swift’s original tweet that the singer followed her on Twitter. “I was, of course, already following her,” Gold said of Swift on Tuesday. Gold sent a direct message to Swift, thanking her for the tweet and the follow. “You’re essentially my hero and music idol,” Gold says now. One DM led to another, and Swift sent Gold her phone number. They began texting. Both Californians, they went out to dinner. They baked cookies at Swift’s home in New York. Swift visited Gold and other Olympic skaters at the Stars on Ice tour. “It’s kind of surreal, because it’s Taylor Swift, like the No. 1 female of 2014 with ‘1989,’” Gold said, referencing Swift’s latest chart-topping album. Last Thursday, Swift texted Gold, inviting her on a group day trip to Catalina Island, just off the California coast. “I said, duh, of course I’d love to,” said Gold, who was free after a morning skating session in preparation for the U.S. Championships next week. They yachted, ate lunch and had ice cream cones. Then they went back to Los Angeles to hang out. It was just one of those whimsical things,” Gold said. “Just a casual text from Taylor Swift, no biggie.”
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