Which US coach was it who disclosed confidential info about Gracie Gold? Including the fact that she threw the national team jacket into the bin? Just saying…it is not only Russia where the coach may feel they have had enough.
I cannot read Russian, so I cannot say what it reads like in the original interview. But in the English translation, personally I don't think it comes off like this, even if I wish he didn't say those things.
If you work in the government in the US, this is already the case. Every email I send, every document I create, every review I receive - it's all available for public consumption. When I was a teacher, parents could look up my observations, my evaluations, my VAM score.
Not sure where you work / worked in government. It sounds unpleasant! That has not been my experience as a federal employee. Are our salaries publicly available? Yes. But beyond that, the law generally protects our personal privacy. FOIA requests for reviews and evaluations would normally be withheld under exemption 6, which covers “all information about individuals” in "personnel and medical files and similar files" when the disclosure of such information "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” Personal information might be produced in litigation if you can convince a judge it’s relevant, but usually only under a protective order (meaning it’s not publicly available). While the federal government does release a lot of records, FOIA, the Privacy Act, and other statutes - and in my case, legal privileges - generally limit what can be disclosed and how.
Didn't Frank throw her team jacket in the garbage at a competition? Or am I totally disremembering?
I believe she flung her team jacket down after skating badly, told him to throw it out, he complied, and she later retrieved it.
Yes, as was reported by Christine Brennan at 2017 Nationals.
I’m not sure where he complained about her work ethic, but here I think despite the difficult situation he was pretty gracious about her:
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I agree that if he didn’t tell her first that he would no longer work with her, that was not great, to say the least.
). I don’t think I’ve ever been backstage at a skating competition, but I’ve frequently been backstage in theaters. Most of the time they’re full of people. An incident like that wouldn’t go unnoticed; in fact, it would travel like wildfire. So I’ve always assumed - perhaps wrongly- that when she threw the vest down and told him to trash it, there were witnesses.
As the Christine Brennan article makes clear, he was well aware of the much deeper, thornier issues.
What I find the most heartbreaking about that quote is that after Gold left Carroll, she fell into even deeper depression.
Gracious towards her? As in, telling the media that he won’t work with her any more without telling her first, you call that gracious? I don’t want to know what isn’t gracious then, in your view.I’m not sure where he complained about her work ethic, but here I think despite the difficult situation he was pretty gracious about her:
Carroll ends coaching relationship with Gracie Gold — Globetrotting by Philip Hersh
Frank Carroll said Sunday his coaching relationship with Gracie Gold will end as soon as the two can iron out legal issues related to his contract with the skater. Speaking exclusively to icenetwork, Carroll responded "No" to the question of whether he could see any way he would coach Gol
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But as a last word on curtains, to me they don’t necessarily connote privacy backstage. I wasn’t there & I could be wrong. Given the tone of the article (which struck me as less solid reporting and more “ooh, here’s some dirt on Gracie and Frank”) I guess I didn’t focus on that. And we’ll probably never know.
