KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. figure skater Gracie Gold’s meltdown on the ice was over and done with Saturday night when her coach, the venerable Frank Carroll, emerged through the curtains backstage at the U.S. national championships holding Gold’s black warm-up vest.
He was on a mission. He was looking for a trash can.
Moments later, he found one, and stuffed the vest into it.
“That’s what I was told to do,” Carroll said curtly. “I asked her what she wanted me to do with it and she said, ‘Throw it away,’ so that’s what I did.