mikey
10-01-2002, 06:03 PM
http://www.bladesonice.com/mag/blaweb1.htm
Did anyone else see this reported anywhere, and I just missed it?
Pair Skater In Neck Brace
by Alexandra Stevenson
It is October 1 and Tiffany Sfikas sits at home in Chicago confined by a neck brace, the sad result of her pair skating partner's rage. Doctors have advised her against skating, at least temporarily, and her international career has collapsed into ashes.
Pair skating can be dangerous. As Sfikas can witness, that danger can be mental as well as physical, and incurred off, as well as on, the ice. Sfikas, 25, is an effervescent blonde American who won the last two British pair championships with Andrew Seabrook and was aiming to retain that title with another Briton, Mike Aldred, in December. ... That incident occurred on September 7 in the apartment she shared with Aldred and other skaters near the Swindon ice rink in England. It was reported to the police who questioned and then arrested Aldred. The police classified the matter as domestic violence. Aldred denies the charge. ... "If he had later apologized, that would be something else, but it's like he doesn't even remember what he did," says Sfikas. "He started breaking furniture and throwing it around the room in the leased flat. We had paid a seven hundred pound (over a thousand dollar) deposit on it. It was horrible. And then he threw me. ... "That Monday Mike wasn't the man that I or my flat mates knew. He became volatile and violent. I had heard stories but I figured at 31 he had matured. I had even agreed to marry him. I'm very, very glad I had postponed going that route." ... Apparently Aldred became enraged with Sfikas' residency problems, which have plagued her since she teamed up with Seabrook.
Did anyone else see this reported anywhere, and I just missed it?
Pair Skater In Neck Brace
by Alexandra Stevenson
It is October 1 and Tiffany Sfikas sits at home in Chicago confined by a neck brace, the sad result of her pair skating partner's rage. Doctors have advised her against skating, at least temporarily, and her international career has collapsed into ashes.
Pair skating can be dangerous. As Sfikas can witness, that danger can be mental as well as physical, and incurred off, as well as on, the ice. Sfikas, 25, is an effervescent blonde American who won the last two British pair championships with Andrew Seabrook and was aiming to retain that title with another Briton, Mike Aldred, in December. ... That incident occurred on September 7 in the apartment she shared with Aldred and other skaters near the Swindon ice rink in England. It was reported to the police who questioned and then arrested Aldred. The police classified the matter as domestic violence. Aldred denies the charge. ... "If he had later apologized, that would be something else, but it's like he doesn't even remember what he did," says Sfikas. "He started breaking furniture and throwing it around the room in the leased flat. We had paid a seven hundred pound (over a thousand dollar) deposit on it. It was horrible. And then he threw me. ... "That Monday Mike wasn't the man that I or my flat mates knew. He became volatile and violent. I had heard stories but I figured at 31 he had matured. I had even agreed to marry him. I'm very, very glad I had postponed going that route." ... Apparently Aldred became enraged with Sfikas' residency problems, which have plagued her since she teamed up with Seabrook.