In the story she was poor so she had to make her own costumes to skate in. But she could really skate after she lost she confronted a judge of the event. Evidently they did not judge by just how you skate. It is also how you look and the song you skate to.

I kind of believe that the judge was a stuck up bitch. But her coach could not find her a sponsor to pick up the expenses. Plus the mother was a waitress and gave the coach all the money she made for lessons.

The fbi got the mother to wear a wire.

My wife’s friend’s son is a lawyer and is in the fbi now. I have not said 5 words to him. But I like his mother.