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British Ice Skater Breaks Mould With Same-Sex Teammate
The Guardian
|September 13, 2025
A British ice dancer and her skating partner are to become Finland's first same-sex team to take part in a competition after a rule change by the country's governing federation.
Millie Colling, 20, who was born in Gateshead and moved to Finland at the age of six, and Emma Aalto, 19, will compete in a qualifier for the national championships next month after pressing for an amendment to the rules to allow them to enter.
The pair said they were "best friends that want to skate together". Their request was supported by their coach, Neil Brown, who helped persuade the federation to approve new rules that refer to ice dance partners as Skater A and Skater B instead of man and woman.
Colling, an art student, enrolled at skating school a year after moving to Finland, and Aalto, a fashion student, has been skating since she was five. They met two years ago.
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