While the cameras were fixated on the quad-jumping prodigies, a 23-year-old Italian law graduate quietly stole the show with a shark attack on ice. Here is the backstory you won't hear on the official broadcast.
She is the oldest American woman to skate at the Olympics in a century. She just won Team Gold. Yet, her most powerful move in Milan wasn't her triple axel—it was her refusal to play the game on anyone else's terms.
In Milan, the applause wasn't for a triple axel. It was for a son who, just one year after a devastating tragedy, found the courage to skate with the ghosts of two World Champions by his side.
