"he even wears matching blue overalls and a yellow T-shirt, cutting quite the Kevin-esque figure while landing those Axels - music of which he said was chosen to "bring joy and a playful style to the ice while still meeting every required element to show that skating as a male Olympic figure skater can be fun." (One extended step sequence features Guarino Sabaté bumping to EDM while "papaya" is repeated in Minionese.)"
"Jackie Wong, a skating analyst currently on the ground in Milan, says getting clearance to use certain songs was never a significant issue for figure skaters until a blowup in 2022. "They sued everybody under the sun, including NBC," Wong explains. "So that set off a chain reaction in the figure-skating world where people were asked to preemptively go through a whole process of music clearance. That process was never a thing before those two guys sued. It freaked a lot of people out.""
Spanish figure skater Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté, set to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics, will be allowed to perform a Minion short-form routine after Universal reversed an initial copyright denial. He performed the routine throughout the international season, wearing blue overalls and a yellow T-shirt and combining playful choreography with EDM elements and repeated "papaya" in Minionese. He credited supporters who reposted and shared his routine for influencing Universal's reversal, while two other musical elements remain uncleared. Jackie Wong notes a 2022 lawsuit over a cover of "House of the Rising Sun" prompted preemptive music-clearance procedures across figure skating.
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