Richard Callaghan: Making Estero a world skating Mecca

The 17-year-old Chinese girl does a camel spin as Richard Callaghan smiles and whoops, “Hoooooo.” It is all he can do to communicate. The worldrenowned trainer doesn’t know Chinese. She hardly knows English. “You learn how to demonstrate a lot. And I probably use some abnormal sign language,” he said, with a warm albeit self-deprecating smile.

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