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For the hopefuls
SESSION II
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When she did bother to come inside, it was for the outfits. My mother sewed every skating dress I had ever worn, and she liked to see what the other girls were wearing. It was this that made her buy yards of crushed velvet: red for good luck, pink for girls, green because it was a color she had always wanted to wear but made her look like a leukemia patient. She perused years of costumes in coffee table books, the spangly history of figure skating shimmering by. She couldn’t name the skaters, but she knew whether their costumes were lycra or jersey knit. I told her that costumes had been more important when skating was still on the six-point system, and judges could make arbitrary decisions on what made a 5.8 or a 5.9. At the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, after it was revealed that Judge Marie Reine La Gougne had given the Russian pair Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikhauralidze the gold over the Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier because she was coerced by Russian skating officials, the International Skating Union moved to make the scoring system less penetrable to corruption, ruling that domination would come less through artistry than the accumulation of perfect moves. Now that every movement had been given a particular point value, what mattered most was performance, not appearance. But she sewed tiny pearls to a dress for me anyway.
The afternoon she realized her work was too subtle to be seen from the bleachers, my mother went out to the car to empty her mind.
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