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Ceremonies involving valiyeva is settled. they say the harm is not irreparable but as you can imagine, much of the skating community disagrees. scott, your fellow skaters have been vocal. johnny weir said he can't condone it. tara lipinski said it will leave a permanent scar on our sport. i saw her yesterday. she is on fire about this. rippon said send her home. what do you think? >> i've never seen anything like this. i mean, they're competing under roc because of the drug scandal they had in sochi, and it's rampant. it's like, you know, better performance through science is never expected ...

Russia as their olympic committee, it's probably ma what they deserve. it hurts the athletes and all sport when you take athletes like valiyeva out of skating. you know, it lowers the bar. you know, you want to keep raising the bar. you want to keep those amazing talents in front of people sharing faster, better, stronger. it's a shame that this whole doping scandal has overtaken, you know, the figure skating event because, you know, when i skated, we never knew of anything like this. it just didn't exist. or at least we didn't know about it, right. >> scott, we're out of time, but i agree. i ...

So, thank you, mrjohn curry, thank you for letting me know as a little kid that it was ok to use my arms when i skate. thank you for being a trailblazer for the queer community and for the skating community. you taught us not to just perform for the world, but to perform for ourselves. and thank you for letting me be the queen that i can be on the ice.

And european champion in figure skating. but off the ice, the impact his life and career had on sport and the lgbt+ community was even greater. this is his story. when i see and i think ofjohn curry, i think of somebody who helped me see that you are the most successful when you're just yourself. growing up on the ice and in skating rinks, i would hear many wonderful stories about the artistry ofjohn curry. as a competitive skater, that would guide me right along. later in life, i would find myself in the same gay clubs here in new york city that he had frequented. john curry was a legend and ...

THE public are being encouraged to have their say on plans to refurbish a skatepark in Northwich