In case anyone else missed this short item last month with quotes from Charlie White:
olympic ice dancers talk body peace!
December 19, 2012 at 10:05:00 AM
by Ashley Insalaco
http://www.seventeen.com/health/fitness/olympic-ice-dancers-talk-body-peace?src=soc_twtr
Excerpt:
" ... when we were teenagers, we were really short and going through an awkward phase."
Instead of getting down on themselves for being short, though, they used it to their advantage and learned lifts that taller skaters couldn't do. "You don't have to fit that perfect mold in order to become a champion," White said.
Apparently the DF lift they kept in their FD was at the request of judges.
Charlie and Colin Firth
Just an anecdotal comment. I pop over to another skating webpage every once in a while just to see what its members are talking about. A recent thread of conversation in the Davis & White section concerned Charlie’s resemblance to British actor Colin Firth. Being a big fan of Firth myself and being a big fan of the original BBC production of Pride & Prejudice, I remarked on this resemblance of a young Colin Firth to Charlie after the 2011 Skate America SD performance where Charlie was costumed as a 19th century gentleman in his Puccini waltz SD. Clearly Charlie had no idea who Colin Firth was by the blank look he gave me. It appears that Charlie is not a big movie buff at least of this genre. Firth has since won an Academy Award for his performance in The King’s Speech, so perhaps Charlie will now recognize him, but Firth is now a much older version of the young, dashing Mr. Darcy, and Charlie has a much friendlier, open and sunny version of life than did the inscrutable Mr. Darcy.
DJ the dog makes an appearance.