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Jul 28, 2016 · People walk past the Olympic rings as the sun rises on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) Philip Hersh covered mainstream sports when he ...
About Philip. Philip Hersh spent 28 years as Olympic sports writer for the Chicago Tribune and has gone on to write about the Olympics and figure skating for icenetwork and NBC Olympics. He has covered 20 Olympics -- 12 Winter and 8 Summer -- seven soccer World Cups (four men, three women), 35 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 20 World Figure ...
Jul 10, 2020 · July 10, 2020 / Philip Hersh The International Skating Union sure doesn’t make it easy. In mid-May, it published two communications about significant changes to the scale of values and grades of execution used to score and judge singles and pairs skating.
March 23, 2024. MONTREAL — Isabeau Levito’s first world championships medal could not have come at a better time for herself and for U.S. figure skating. When she took the ice Friday night, Levito needed to win a medal to give the U.S. women a third spot at the 2025 World Championships in Boston. And, after getting second in Wednesday’s ...
Dec 20, 2021 · Writer shares a decade-plus of excellence. Journalist Phil Hersh recounts his top memories of figure skating in the 2010s decade. ArticleCentennial CelebrationMonday, December 20, 2021. By Phil Hersh. The most recent decade of figure skating began with a question over whether a man could (or should) win the Olympic singles gold without a ...
Dec 10, 2015 · Phil Hersh covered the Olympics for the Chicago Tribune for more than 30 years, a job he called the best in the newspaper world. Now he's saying farewell to that beat. As he retires from the ...
Philip Hersh. Actor: Red Cliff. Philip Hersh, originally from Montreal, Canada, knew he was headed for the entertainment industry when he vocally reproduced the sound of a police siren and caused his school bus to pull over.
