Hot Chocolate by mc_writer | T | 4181
Harry Styles is Britain’s great hope for an Olympic Men’s Figure Skating medal.
Who may or may not be in love with Liam Payne, who is one half of the best figure skating pair in the world.
The figure skating world is intense. Skaters need to deal with the pressure of judging, learning choreography,mastering difficult elements, not to mention having to handle the media circus.
Sometimes you just need time alone to skate.
And also, hot chocolate.

My Gold Medal Skater by VintageOT5 | T | 4643
Twelve years. It had been twelve long years of training and competing and practicing and skating, all about to pay off at the Sochi Winter Games. This is what they’d worked for for more than half of Harry’s life, and still all Coach Louis Tomlinson could concentrate on was how fucking good Harry looked in his skating costume.
Or the one where Louis is a besotted figure skating coach of a young Harry Styles, who is fresh on the scene, and Zayn Malik is the all-time reigning champion with an Irishman coach and a cute boyfriend.

Fire on the Ice by Kaname | T | 4701
All Louis wanted was to get through the 2022 Almaty Olympics with his bones intact and his neck straining under the weight of a very shiny, very well-deserved Gold medal.
He got neither of these things.
But he did get Harry.
(Louis is a hockey player, and Harry is an up-and-coming ice-skater that rescues birds.)

Taking Home The Gold by KayleeJohn | M | 8784
Harry is Team GB and Niall is Team Irish. Harry is cocky and Niall isn’t impressed. Harry doesn’t take no for an answer and Niall definitely doesn’t like sneaking around the Olympic Village with Harry, nope, no siree.

fireworks beneath our feet | nr | 9256
louis is a prodigy on the ice with nothing figured out in his own life. harry somehow gets caught up in his dreams of gold.
(or the one where louis fights his way back to the top and harry just happens to get tangled in along the way.)

Save Some Luck For Me by jaerie | E | 10746
Louis arrives at the 2018 Winter Olympics to make history as the first omega to win a gold medal at the games. Harry, his oiled up crush from the Summer Olympics, just happens to show up to sabotage him, but maybe helps him win in the end.

something in the way you move makes me feel like i can’t live without you | M | 21235
au. harry and louis are figure skating partners in the sochi 2014 winter olympics.

For you know I love you with all my soul by dolphinaaaa | nr | 28677
Louis began to ice skate when he was 4 at the Doncaster dome under his mother’s worried supervision. 20 years later he is world champion of pair figure skating with his partner and wife Eleanor Calder. They are on their way to their ultimate goal: the Olympic gold. Nobody seems to be able to stop them.
Yet a new young and fresh couple comes to the circuit. They are training under the same coach. And Louis has to admit, they are good, they are really good. But it isn’t Louis’ main problem. His main problem seems to be the young man in this new pair, the self-confident, teasing and diabolically gorgeous Harry Styles.

the one that leads me on through by colourexplosion | E | 69414
Louis was certain that he was done with his tenuous connection with fellow skater, Harry Styles. But then, you know, the universe throws a wrench in all that when Simon takes Harry on for the next season.
OR
an AU in which the members of one direction are actually figure skaters

Belated Bling shout-out to the headpieces worn in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony! Modeled here by ballet dancer Diana Vishneva.

Dear NBC, thank you for adding extra bling effect to Tatsuki Machida’s costume. Just in case it wasn’t Bling-y enough. 

We’re glad the Russians have a sense of humor about their Opening Ceremony Bling Malfunction ;)

Sassy bling: upon further inspection, the sultry Valentina Marchei actually has a little bit of multi-color bling in her costume. Plus she always wears the sparkle-tights! But why the nude gloves?? Did her and Adelina Sotnikova plan their outfits together???

Johnny Weir asks Tara Lipinski, “too butch?” about his outfit. Take a look inside the closets of Tara and Johnny on NBC.

another one!

virtue + moir // canadian platonic — a playlist >> 

songs inspired by everyone’s fave canadian ice dancing duo

long live - taylor swift
i said remember this moment in the back in my mind, the time we stood with our shaking hands, the crowds in stands went wild

shut up and dance - kina grannis  
we took the floor and she said, ‘don’t you dare look back, keep your eyes on me’

kiss me - ed sheeran
and your heart’s against my chest, your lips pressed to my neck

i choose you - sara bareilles
tell the world that we finally got it all right

dancing with our hands tied - taylor swift
people started talking, putting us through our paces. i knew there was no one in the world who could take it, i had a bad feeling… but we were dancing

gimmie love - carly rae jepsen
i toss and turn but still i can’t sleep right, i should’ve asked you to stay

hold each other - great big world
i appreciate the break because i love what we got now

smash into you - beyonce
i know what we have is worth first place in gold

alone - jessie ware
i could watch you watch me forever

dress- taylor swift
all of this silence and patience, pining and anticipation, my hands are shaking from holding back from you

still falling for you - ellie goulding
no one can lift me, catch me the way that you do, i’m still falling for you

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Ralph Lauren Team USA 2014 Winter Olympic Uniform….

-Everydayisfashionweek-

Gracie Gold —- Team USA, Figure Skating

Shirtless, Muscley, Bearded Canadian Bobsledders

THANK YOU CANADA

Emanuel Rieder — Team Italy, Luge

Ski-Jumping Sloth - Olympic Sloths

The final Sloth of the Olympic Sloths Series! (At least for now…) I had a heckuva time deciding what sport to go for here - I knew it had to be a winter olympic sport, but I’d already done all the ones with unique costumes/uniforms. I was left with Bobsleigh, Luge, Skeleton, Speed Skating, and the Various Skiings (Alpine, Slalom, Cross Country and Jump). Most of those all wear variations on the same outfit - Skintight lycra - and most of them also have a head- and face-obscuring helmet and visor/goggles.

I sketched and sketched and sketched and could never quite get the iconic poses for most of them down. Ski Jump was one of the first I tried and rejected. I narrowed it down to Alpine Skiing, Crosscountry Skiing and Speed Skating. I asked around and showed some folks the sketches. Crosscountry skiing was in the lead, until my sister went “what about ski jump?” So, to humour her, I gave Ski Jump another go.

I should honestly know by now that my sister is always right.