This is an ice rink with 20 skaters on! Does this look any less safe than a football pitch or gym? We need help to get our athletes training! Boris Johnson Oliver Dowden BBC Newsbeat thetheoneshowshow Loose Women ITV News Rob Smith Channel 4 News #sportnotlesiure

If masks are worn it should be ok to skate right? Jb

Ice rinks should be grouped with other sporting facilities, not casinos and beauty parlours. We are an Olympic sport and the skaters need to #getbackontheice

Hi, my name is Adrienne. I am 11 and was about to qualify for my National Championships. I only need some private ice to train! When am I going to be allowed to continue my sport? #sportnotleisure #overlookedolympicsport

This whole thing about people needing to justify that figure skating is a sport in Great Britain is bonkers. I guess 15 Olympic medals (20 medalists because of pairs and dance) were won in Olympic non-sports? And lurkers, don’t @ me with your hot takes about how it’s not a sport

Professor Russell Viner, President of the Royal College of Peadiatrics and a SAGE member said children were ‘very minor player in the transmission overall’ of the virus. As 90% of competitive ice skaters in this country are children why are they not allowed to train.

If it’s to dangerous to ice skate because of covid19 then surely it’s way to dangerous to go to school.

By the time we get skaters back on the ice the chasm of lost training will be so wide that the UK will take years to catch up again. Boris Johnson Oliver Dowden Matt Hancock UK Prime Minister BBC_HaveYourSay Department for Culture, Media and Sport

#womenssportdebate Which Olympic sport is the only one the Government won’t allow back to training - one where 80% of the membership is female - Ice Skating Boris Johnson Matt Hancock Baroness Berridge Oliver Dowden #sportnotleisure #backontheice #overlookedolympicsport

We could SAFELY work and earn U.K. economy some money! Get our ice skating coaches off benefits and back to work. We can’t work from home but we can return Covid safe and train our athletes Boris Johnson Matt Hancock Department for Culture, Media and Sport #sportnotleisure #backontheice #getscotlandskating

We need a British Figure Skating Championship this year, ice rinks are opening, competitions in the US and Russia, why is BIS so backwards, find a way use some initiative, why are we paying membership for nothing. #tolittletolate