OlympicTalk · May 15, 2019
How Gracie Gold landed in Philadelphia, thoughts competitive return
The way Gracie Gold explains it, she was set up on a blind date while attending the 2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
“I was up in the stands just watching, just a mess,” said Gold, who took that Olympic season off to treat depression, anxiety and an eating disorder.
She was invited to watch the junior women’s free skate from backstage, where athletes meet their coaches after performing.
“They’re probably trying to make me feel important because I had a case of the sads,” said Gold, who was making her first public appearance at a skating event in a year. “It occurred to me later that this was a set up.”