Definition: After a performance at a figure skating competition, the "Kiss and Cry" area is the place where the competitors and their coaches wait for the scores to be announced and posted. At elite ice skating events, the media and television focus on the "Kiss and Cry." Much emotion is sometimes displayed in the "Kiss and Cry" as the skaters wait and receive their scores.
Kiss and Cry
By Jo Ann Schneider Farris, About.com
Sasha Cohen and Coach John Nicks - Kiss and Cry 2006
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