According to the article I came across today, it seems that the current US Figure Skating Champion Sasha Cohen isn’t decided whether she’s going to defend her title in the US Figure Skating Championships, which is just two months away.
“I’ve been keeping my options open and been training to stay in shape,” Cohen said. “But […]
Norwegian Sonja Henie won 10 world championships and 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals out of 4 appearances.
Her first gold was won during the 1928 Winter Games in Switzerland, also known as the 2nd Olympic Winter Games and was considered the first true Winter Games as it was not in conjunction with a Summer Games.
Henie was […]
Irina Slutskaya, a 27 year old Russian, holds the record of seven European titles, two world championships and a total of 40 gold medals, 21 silvers and 17 bronzes for all competitions she participated in.
Slutskaya started skating at the age of four and has been coached by Zhanna Gromova since she was six. She […]
O.K. , since nobody seems to think Figure Skating is a sport, much less want to cover it, I’ll do the readers a favor by writing the story.
Over the last couple of days, after a tough back-and-forth battle for first place between Sasha Cohen (U.S.) and Irina Slutskaya (Russia), many were stunned when Shizuka Arakawa […]
I thought long and hard about responding to my colleague’s (Aaron) post, Figure Skating is not a sport! On the one hard, it’s hard enough to follow the games and blog in a timely manner (not to mention that I have the ‘Technocrat Soapbox‘ to worry about as well), on the other, I feel quite […]
I’ve had this argument with my wife lately. She is an artistic type who happens to enjoy figure skating.
But it is not a sport! Any activity that winning or losing is based on the opinion of someone else does not qualify to me as a sport.
In freestyle skiing, style points are […]
Nathalie Pechalat of France fell on the ice (Source: NBC)
Lithuanians Margarita Drobiazko’s and Povilas Vanagas’ unfortunate accident (Source: NBC)
I am not trying to be an ass, but as you watch the pictures, try to play Strauss’ “Blue Danube” in your head, and you will get a sense of what happened at the Ice Dancing Competition […]
I’m not a huge fan of figure skating, still.
Canadian Jeff Buttle has won the bronze medal in men’s figure skating.
Russian Evgeny Plushenko won the gold medal while Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland won the silver.
Congratulations Jeff on winning a medal. This brings the total to 8 for Canada. 4 bronze, 3 silver and 1 gold (Jennifer […]
Okay .. I’m not sure if “unofficial” is the right word, but I thought it sticks out in case you are browsing this front page and looking for WORLDLY PARTICIPATION!
Yes! Vent your anger and frustration about (somewhat) STUPID comments by commentators! Before you do this .. keep in mind that I am not putting […]
Four years ago, Russian Figure Skaters, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sukharulidze, were in the eye of an Olympic Scandal storm. Tonight, the pair of Tatyana Totmiyanina and Maxim Marinin are Figure Skating Champions.
The scandal from 4 years ago resulted in two pairs of Gold Medalists (no Silver, 1 Bronze) at the Salt Lake City […]
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