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Disqualified valiyeva and her consistent greatness. if she wasn't coming in top three, katy, this wouldn't be an issue but her skating is so far ahead of the pack, it has put this glaring asterisk over one of the biggest, most beautiful of all winter events we heard from scott hamilton say what so many in the skating community are feeling right now. take a listen. >> i've never seen anything like this. i think a positive drug test, you don't compete. and the fact this is going on and everybody else has to sacrifice their olympic moments for an athlete that came in testing positive seems ludicr...

That you are the most successful when you're just yourself. 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.

John curry was a legend and an icon, notjust for the skating community, but for queer people around the world. curry was born in birmingham in 1949, where he grew up with his parents and two brothers. as a child, dancing was curry�*s first passion. i had asked if i could take ballet lessons. i'd been told, no, i couldn't. and then when i asked to go ice skating, i was told i could because ice skating is protected by the umbrella of "sport", you see, so it was quite acceptable. who said no? my father. that openness and the bravery and the confidence and the courage comes from a very deep plac...

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. 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.

Just yourself. 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.