Shae-Lynn Bourne: The woman who gave Ilia Malinin his voice
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MILAN — At 10:48 p.m. local time Friday night in Italy, 10:48 and 50 seconds to be precise, Ilia Malinin, the two-time World champion, will take his first steps into a Milano Cortina Olympic Games free skate that will secure him the gold medal. Malinin will skate to an innovative, deeply personal and ambitious program entitled, “A Voice.” Shae-Lynn Bourne gave him that voice. Bourne, a former World champion ice dancer for Canada, has been one of figure skating’s most sought-after choreographers for more than a decade. But what has attracted Malinin and Olympic champions Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu to Bourne is her ability to help the world’s top skaters tell their...