{"id":8047,"date":"2026-02-10T07:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:16:12","slug":"canadian-figure-skater-applies-for-late-homework-due-to-participating-in-the-winter-olympics-and-current-professor-approves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=8047","title":{"rendered":"Canadian figure skater applies for late homework due to participating in the Winter Olympics, and current professor approves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProfessor, can I postpone my homework? I was at the Winter Olympics yesterday.\u201d According to CBC Television, the Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets on August, figure skater Skissas recently became unexpectedly popular online due to such an email, being called \u201cthe most irresistible reason not to hand in homework\u201d by netizens and media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8048 aligncenter\" title=\"6b2f9992f1d68e8a9920508aa78a3f0fu5\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6b2f9992f1d68e8a9920508aa78a3f0fu5.jpg\" alt=\"6b2f9992f1d68e8a9920508aa78a3f0fu5\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6b2f9992f1d68e8a9920508aa78a3f0fu5.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6b2f9992f1d68e8a9920508aa78a3f0fu5-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6b2f9992f1d68e8a9920508aa78a3f0fu5-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nMadeline Skissas<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old student athlete Scissas, who is representing Canada in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in figure skating, also needs to finish her studies at McMaster University, Canada. This \u201cdouble identity\u201d has brought her a little trouble: she forgot a sociology course assignment.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Skissas wrote an email to Professor Satswich, who is in charge of the course, early Saturday morning after the competition ended, asking if she could postpone submitting this week\u2018s reflection report assignment. She said: \u201cI participated in the Winter Olympics yesterday and thought the assignment deadline was Sunday, not Friday.\u201d In the email, Skissas also attached a link to the Canadian Olympic Committee\u2018s press release confirming her participation. Subsequently, Skissas posted a screenshot of the email on social media, quickly attracting attention from netizens across countries.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Professor Satzwicz has approved the application to postpone the submission, putting a perfect end to the matter. In an interview, Professor Satzwicz said that Skissas was very low-key, never mentioning that she was a world-class figure skater, and that he \u201crespects the fact that Skissas did not ask for special attention on the grounds of this [participation in the Winter Olympics].\u201d The professor also said that Skissas was able to think about her studies during the Olympics, \u201cwhich shows her character.\u201d Skissas responded on social media on 8th that \u201cI didn\u2019t expect so many people to care about this matter. It seems this is the result of standing under the \u2018Olympic spotlight\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Canadian Olympic team\u2018s website, Skissas made his first appearance at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, helping the Canadian team achieve fourth place in the group competition. (Lee Guozheng)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProfessor, can I postpone my homework? I was at the Winter Olympics yesterday.\u201d According to CBC Television, the Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets on August, figure skater Skissas&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,261],"tags":[711,4317,4318,4315,4316],"views":15,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}