On Edge

Description for ON EDGE: BACK ROOM DEALING, COCKTAIL SCHEMING, TRIPLE AXELS, AND HOW TOP SKATERS GET SCREWED by Jon Jackson with James Pereira: During the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, figure skating nearly lost its edge. The Russian gold medal debacle in the Pair Event publicly revealed the hidden world of bribery and collusion that is standard operating procedure across the sport. In ON EDGE, former Olympic level judge and competitive figure skater, Jon Jackson, bares the facts of the figure skating world—the image-making and social climbing, the prescription drug abuse, the affairs, the delusions of grandeur, and power-hungry scheming. He takes readers on a journey spanning 20 years through the private hotel rooms and hospitality suites where the culture thrives and multiplies, culminating in the days, weeks, and months following the Salt Lake City gold medal scandal. Rebelling against this culture of nightly cocktail parties, where judges predetermine the next day's winners, Jack