Bradie Tennell knows the old cliché athletes use to explain what keeps them going through thick and thin, when they try not to have their eyes always on a prize.
“They say it’s about the journey, not the destination,” Tennell said. “But the destination feels pretty good, too.”
It was a place she had been before and one Tennell turned her life inside out last summer to reach again: the top step of the women’s podium at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Tennell got there Friday night as convincingly as she had the first time, in 2018, sweeping the short program and free skate, earning 232.