CW: Eating Disorders “It’s amazing what they’re doing there!”declared commentator Chris Howarth during the 2019 Grand Prix Final. “Turning ladies’ figure skating into another sport.” He was referring to four of the competing women – or, more accurately, girls, not one over the age of seventeen – and their coaching team, all hailing from Russia. Known colloquially as ‘Team Tutberidze’ after their famed figurehead of a coach, the group had dominated the women’s discipline for years.
