How to Stop on a Frozen Rink Without Running Into The Boards
I don’t know how many times I’ve needed to explain this to people: Running into the boards at the rink to cease forward momentum does NOT count as a proper stop. Also, in the absence of the boards, if...
View ArticleGolden Olympic Performances – Ladies Singles Figure Skating
Sonja Henie (Austria) – 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Being a 3-time Olympic, 10-time World and 6-time European champion, Sonja Henie held more World and Olympic titles than any other ladies figure...
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Dick Button (United States) – 1948 St. Moritz / 1952 Oslo At the 1948 St. Moritz Games, Dick Button became the youngest man to win the Olympic title in figure skating and the first to complete the...
View ArticleDancing on Ice Uk 30th January 2011
Last week, with a combination of the judge’s scores and public votes, actor Steven Arnold and England cricketer Dominic Cork found themselves in the bottom two and had to compete against each other in...
View ArticleDancing on Ice Uk 13th February 2011
This week the theme was West End musicals and the skill each celebrity had to perform was a jump which meant that they had to have both feet off the ice and hope they didn’t end up in a crash landing....
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