Harley Windsor

Before Harley Windsor and Katya Alexandrovskaya, most Australians' go-to memory of an Aussie on ice-skates was Steven Bradbury's incredible last-to-first ...

"She was always in the midst of things, there was always something happening. "He went to the ice rink, to Canterbury a couple of times, and, he said they cleared the ice rink for him. The Windsors sent messages and flowers, but Katya began to respond less and less. When they got to Germany for the Olympic qualifiers and the biggest skate in their lives, the pressure was on. The OWIA increased funding to $150,000 — so they had financial support, but now Harley and Katya were on their own, both away from home in a foreign location. They spoke quietly to each other, took their bows and left the ice. "No-one from the family, no-one came. There was lots of racist comments and people saying, 'Oh there must be, he, you know, he's so white, that there must be something in it for him to say that he's Aboriginal. And I looked at like, Katya and I looked at Andrei and we were like, 'did we just win?'," he says. She was the one that sort of got me from doing two double jumps to triples," Harley says. The unlikely pairing had taken on the best juniors in the world, and beaten them. I don't know, I don't want to blame anyone," he says.