Four minutes in Croatia may have changed Gracie Gold's fate at the 2017 U. S. Figure Skating Championships in Kansas City, Missouri, next week, and perhaps the trajectory of her career.
But Ouriashev, who had already received a heads-up call from Mitch Moyer, U. S. Figure Skating's senior director of high athlete performance, was ready to help.
"It's like she stayed with her problems herself after the worlds in Boston," said Ouriashev.
Most important, she adopted Ouriashev's -- and Carroll's -- viewpoint: Boston was a disappointment, but it wasn't the end of her career.