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Interview: Steph Crugnola on Figure Skating at the Milan Olympics

Burn It All Down

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

* *CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of sexual and emotional abuse, as well as disordered eating, so please take care while listening.**


This episode was recorded on Thursday, February 12, at 3:30pm CT.


Jessica talks to Steph Crugnola, a former competitive figure skater and judge, about what we've seen so far in figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics and what to look forward to. They also dive deep into the multiple controversies in ice dance, especially everything around the French skaters Guillaume Cizeron, Laurence Fournier Beaudry, both their former partners, the school where they all train (IAM, Ice Academy of Montreal), and the International Skating Union (ISU).


If you'd like to listen to the episode BIAD did about he figure skating doping controversy at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic involving Kamila Valieva and her coach Eteri Tutberidze (mentioned in the interview with Steph), you can find it here: https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/episodes/238


You can find Steph at https://www.stephcrugnola.com/ and https://bsky.app/profile/crugglez.bsky.social.


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Still, no one is paying attention to IAM.

0:02.6

Everyone is focused on this French team, and IAM will continue to be perpetuating this abuse over and over and over again.

0:12.1

Nobody's talking about Atari this Olympic cycle.

0:14.8

And I'll suck you up and I'll switch you out and I'll play with your babies to your screaming shout.

0:23.3

Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

0:25.3

To burn it all down, the feminist sports podcast you need.

0:29.8

Jessica here.

0:30.7

I'm very excited about the interview that we're about to do.

0:33.6

But first, a couple things.

0:35.5

Our Kickstarter is well underway and the response has been overwhelming, is probably the right word.

0:41.6

As of this recording, we've raised over $22,000 with contributions from 287 people, and I get particularly emotional thinking about the 287 number.

0:52.1

That's beyond.

0:53.4

So thank you so much. The Kickstarter is still

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ongoing. We'd love to reach 25,000, so we're not that far away. If we do, that will guarantee

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enough money for six main episodes starting in June, guaranteed burn it all down content

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through the end of 2026. And as you can see by things like today's interview, your support has

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really lit a fire, pun intended, under us. So there's exciting bonus content already planned,

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and I'm sure plenty after that. If you haven't yet, please head over to our YouTube page and

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subscribe. This is our new thing we're trying out. Bonus content will end up there first because

1:26.6

it's easy to get it up there. And then sometimes we'll go to the audio feed like the amazing halftime analysis that Bren and Amira did earlier this week. It was incredible. And I was like, we got to get this on audio. But it's also on YouTube. We also have a monthly newsletter. You can find links to the Kickstarter or YouTube page and how to sign them for the newsletter. And our show notes are at our website, burn it all downpod.com. Okay, did it. Did

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housekeeping. Now on to the fun stuff. I'm so excited because today I am joined by Steph Croniola,

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