Figure Skating

Figure skating world championships are postponed - Los Angeles Times

2011-03-14T23:26:00.001-07:00

Figure skating world championships are postponed - Los Angeles Times

Accepting that Tokyo could not host the World Figure Skating Championships next week, the sport's governing body stepped up efforts Monday to find a new venue and dates for its marquee event.

The International Skating Union is expected to announce a backup plan this week after giving up hopes — initially shared with Japanese organizers — to proceed as planned after Tokyo's Yoyogi stadium escaped damage in Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Instead, the ISU made the inevitable ruling — backed by federations including those of the United States, Canada and France — to postpone the March 21-27 worlds and the World Team Trophy scheduled to be held in Yokohama on April 14-17.

ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta said it took into account "critical developments" in Japan, including emergencies at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

"The ISU's primary concern (is) for the safety of all participants, spectators and members of concerned entities as well as the travel advisories from many governments to avoid travel to Japan until the situation is settled," Cinquanta said in a statement, one day after expressing skating's sympathy at Japan's "monstrous natural disaster."

Though Cinquanta said rescheduling in Tokyo was still an option, officials at ISU headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, spent the day in calls with potential replacements.

ETC.

Roeser testifies in lawsuit

Clippers President Andy Roeser testified Monday that former general manager Elgin Baylor was in agreement on the team's key decisions in the months before being fired.

Roeser, named in a wrongful termination lawsuit by Baylor, who claims age discrimination by the team and owner Donald Sterling, said on the stand in a Los Angeles civil court trial that Baylor also was supportive of the team's failed effort to extend star player Elton Brand's contract and to sign free-agent point guard Baron Davis in 2008.

Baylor's attorney has claimed the team wrongfully trumped Baylor's duties by allowing then-coach Mike Dunleavy to handle major personnel decisions such as the acquisitions of Marcus Camby and Ricky Davis.

The attorney, Alvin Pittman, said in questioning that Baylor was "completely undermined" and "excluded from important meetings."

Roeser rejected those characterizations on the stand.

Baylor rejected team offers to serve as a "retired" consultant who could draw a pension, and also declined an offer to work as general manager for one more season, Roeser testified.

Dunleavy and Sterling could appear Tuesday as the trial continues.

—Lance Pugmire

World champion Sebastian Vettel has extended his contract with Red Bull Racing for two more years until 2014, the Formula One team said.

The 23-year-old German had a contract until the end of the 2011 season with an option for 2012.

He last year became the youngest driver to win the championship, and with teammate Mark Webber helped Red Bull also win the constructors' title.

Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek won the 2010 Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States.

Lysacek also won the USOC Sportsman of the Year award this year.

Figure skating officials consider canceling worlds - Erie Times-News

2011-03-14T00:10:00.001-07:00

Figure skating officials consider canceling worlds - Erie Times-News

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Germany announced Sunday it will not send a team to next week's world figure skating championships in Tokyo, and international skating officials were weighing whether to even hold the event after the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the country.

Germany, the United States and several European countries have advised citizens not to travel to Japan, and the German Ice Skating Union said in a statement it would follow that recommendation. The first German skaters would have left Wednesday for worlds, which are scheduled to begin March 21 at Yoyogi stadium in Tokyo.

U.S. Figure Skating said it was monitoring developments in consultation with the International Skating Union and U.S. Olympic Committee. The United States is sending 15 skaters to worlds, with Meryl Davis and Charlie White favorites to become the first Americans to win a world title in ice dance.

The ISU initially said Yoyogi stadium had been undamaged by Friday's earthquake, and the worlds would begin as planned. But it said Sunday it was considering canceling the event because of the "very worrisome" nuclear crisis and the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns.

More than 180,000 people have been evacuated and there are fears of radiation contamination.

States of emergency have been declared at six reactors, including three at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex 170 miles from Tokyo. France has suggested people leave Tokyo in case radiation reached the city.

The ISU said it "respected" the Japanese skating federation's desire to go ahead with worlds in Tokyo.

"However, the recent developments since Saturday, in particular the developments in the Fukushima nuclear plant, are very worrisome," the ISU said in a statement Sunday, "and also resulted in travel advisories from many countries to avoid traveling to Japan until the situation is settled."

The ISU said it is waiting for more information from Japanese authorities, and would have another statement by Monday morning at the latest. The last time the world figure skating championships were canceled was in 1961 following the plane crash that killed the entire U.S. team.

"I feel like I can skate with the best skaters in the world and I was really anxious to show that off and perform on that stage with them, as their peer as opposed to the third spot for the U.S. men," Bradley said. "So it's a little devastating, for sure. But things are so bad over there it kind of puts it in perspective."

Asian Champions League soccer games scheduled for this week in Japan have already been called off, and Japan soccer authorities suspended all 19 J-League first and second division games this weekend. Baseball games in Tokyo, Chiba and Yokohama also were called off.

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“The show must not go on: Too soon for figure skating worlds in ravaged Japan - Los Angeles Times” plus 1 more

2011-03-12T23:20:00.001-08:00

“The show must not go on: Too soon for figure skating worlds in ravaged Japan - Los Angeles Times” plus 1 more

The show must not go on: Too soon for figure skating worlds in ravaged Japan - Los Angeles Times

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It was only hours after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit Japan that the International Skating Union issued a statement saying "the local conditions will permit"' the figure skating union to "regularly conduct" the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo, an event scheduled to begin with official practices March 20, which is a week from Sunday.

The ISU's assessment had me thinking of the way Shakespeare pilloried the amorality of such decisions.

"Thrift, thrift, Horatio!'' Hamlet says in Act I, Scene II of the eponymous play. "The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the wedding tables.''

Hamlet is referring to the haste with which his mother remarried after the death of her husband, Hamlet's father.

Has the heartless irony of saving money even in a time of grief also clouded skating officials' brains?

Because there is no way to "regularly conduct'' a world championships while Japan will be burying its dead and likely still searching for its missing from the tragedy that struck the country Friday.

And it is time for skating officials to realize that.

The world championships must be postponed, moved or simply canceled.

Whatever that costs the ISU and the Japanese Skating Federation is insignificant compared to the horrifying numbers coming out of Japan.

Japanese media have estimated the death toll from the two-pronged disaster at between 1,300 and 1,700. Tens of thousands of people are missing or unaccounted for. Hundreds of thousands more have been evacuated from their homes.

There is a threat of radioactivity from accidents at Japanese nuclear reactors. And a threat of more damage from aftershocks so severe that they should properly be called earthquakes.

According to the website of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta told reporters Saturday at a speedskating event in Germany "the danger of radioactivity near Tokyo means there is a new situation to evaluate. We need new information ... but we will have it only next week after talking to the Japanese federation.''

Cinquanta also said there was no "Plan B'' for the event, "but we are thinking of [the idea].''

He should also think about the emotional impact on the Japanese skaters who would be among the favorites at the world meet -- reigning world champions Daisuke Takahashi and Mao Asada and 2007 world champion Miki Ando.

And how would spectators feel about attending such a lighthearted event with death and chaos still in the air?

Sporting events have taken place relatively soon after terrible catastrophes. The 2008 Beijing Olympics, for instance, began just 88 days after after an earthquake in its Sichuan Province killed nearly 70,000 people. The 1986 World Cup soccer tournament took place nine months after a massive earthquake in Mexico killed an estimated 10,000.

One can say it was heartless to hold those events as planned, but at least some months had passed in each case.

That is not the case with the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships.

It would be cruel, immoral, unsafe and -- to put it in terms sports officials should grasp -- simply impractical to let this event take place as scheduled.

"The time is out of joint,'' Hamlet said as he assessed setting right the situation he faced.

So it is now in Japan, even if the cause is not a single murder but a thousandfold deadly natural event.

It is the time for skating officials to do the right thing.

There can be no World Figure Skating Championships in Japan this month.

Photos, from top: The devastation in Minamisanriku, Japan, a port town where 10,000 people remained unaccounted for Saturday (credit: Associated Press / Kyodo News); International Skating Union President Ottavio Cinquanta speaking to reporters Saturday (credit: Uwe Lein / Associated Press).

Riverside Figure Skating Club set for annual show to the tune of love - Post-Bulletin

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Love is in the air at Riverside Arena, in the form of a "power of love" theme for the 37th annual ice show this weekend with the Riverside Figure Skating Club.

More than 40 girls from various skating levels will put on their colorful costumes and show off the skating skills they've learned this year during shows Saturday and Sunday.

"The girls get really excited," said Coleman Weber, a club board member. "It's a lot of work, especially this last week."

Featured songs include: "Seasons of Love," "Love Shack," "Can't Buy Me Love" and "All You Need is Love."

The basic and intermediate groups skate one number, while the intermediate group, "Razzettes," and the advanced groups skate more than once. Along with the groups, there are some featured solos and three solos from seniors in high school.

Professional skaters are also part of the annual show. Read about it in Friday's print edition of the Austin Post-Bulletin.

ISU says Tokyo world figure skating venue intact - Big Hollywood

2011-03-11T23:33:00.001-08:00

ISU says Tokyo world figure skating venue intact - Big Hollywood

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Tokyo Fire Department rescue workers arrive at Kudan Kaikan in Tokyo as...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The International Skating Union says the figure skating world championships in Tokyo will go ahead as scheduled on March 21 after the venue escaped damaged in the earthquake Friday.

ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta said the union would continue to monitor potential logistical problems presented by airport closures and any other problems in Tokyo but had been told they could be overcome.

"The ISU received an e-mail message from the head office of the Japan Skating Federation (JSF) informing that one of their representatives had visited Yoyogi stadium and considered it suitable to host the World Figure Skating Championships 2010/11," Cinquanta said in a statement. "The said communication from the (JSF) informs that the situation in Tokyo is settled and seems to be in-line for conducting the championships."

The arena was built 50 years ago in the Shibuya district as a venue for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Cinquanta said a futher statement would be issued in coming days.
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Olympic Figure Skating Scandal Grows - ABC News

2011-03-10T23:13:00.000-08:00

Olympic Figure Skating Scandal Grows - ABC News

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By Cynthia Faulkner

S A L T L A K E C I T Y, Feb. 13

Sources within the International Skating Union have told ESPN/ABC Sports figure skating reporter Christine Brennan that a collaboration between the French and Russian judges helped spark the controversy that has the skating world and the Winter Olympics abuzz.

The Canadian Olympic delegation on Tuesday requested an investigation into why Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won the gold medal when many observers feel that Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were more worthy.

Brennan, one of the world's leading authorities on figure skating, says that reliable sources within the ISU told her that the French judge, Marie Reine Le Gougne told ISU members that she was forced to vote for the Russians by her union.

It was allegedly part of a deal that would trade a vote for the French ice dancing team of Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, who will compete later in the Olympics, for a vote for Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze.

Rosemary Thompson, a reporter with CTV, said she managed to reach Le Gonya at her hotel, but the French judge said she had been told not to speak to the media.

"When (figure skating officials) investigate, I think they're going to find out that the French judge worked a deal with the Russians," Brennan said.

"There's absolutely no doubt that the Canadians should have won. Their 'Love Story' program was just marvelous. The performance was perfect.

"The Russian pair made small errors including a small mistake on one jump. To me it's clear. It should have been crystal clear for the Canadians."

Brennan said she watched the tapes again and the Canadians' performance only gets better.

Shocked, And Still Shocked

"I was shocked the moment I saw the scores and I'm still shocked," she said. "I ran into three international judges, all of them judging at the Olympics, within three minutes after the competition. 'This is an outrage,' they said in unison. I've never seen judges come up to a reporter — as opposed to going away from them — and say this is an outrage."

Figure Skating Club peforms 'Glee' - Traverse City Record-Eagle

2011-03-08T23:09:00.001-08:00

Figure Skating Club peforms 'Glee' - Traverse City Record-Eagle

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March 7, 2011

Figure Skating Club peforms 'Glee'

BY LISA PERKINS lperkins@record-eagle.com The Record Eagle Mon Mar 07, 2011, 07:35 AM EST

TRAVERSE CITY — Just days before heading to the World Figure Skating Championships in Toyko, 2011 U.S. national bronze medal ice dance champions Madison Chock and Greg Zuerlein will give a guest performance during the Traverse City Figure Skating Club's ice show, "Glee Takes the Ice." Performances of the ice show will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 11, and at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at Centre Ice in Traverse City.

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Worthington Figure Skating: magicians on ice - Worthington Daily Globe

2011-03-05T23:18:00.001-08:00

Worthington Figure Skating: magicians on ice - Worthington Daily Globe

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The "Magic on Ice" performers
Photo Courtesy of Nicole Kempema The performers in the Worthington Figure Skating recital "Magic on Ice" pose with their flowers and medals after their performance at the Worthington Arena on Sunday.

WORTHINGTON — The skaters put on recitals rather than compete in matches and they all wear different costumes rather than a single team uniform, but that doesn't mean that figure skating isn't a sport.

If one were to doubt the athleticism of the participants in the Worthington Figure Skating recital on Sunday, the easy way to find out would be for them to try it for themselves.

"A lot of people think it looks pretty easy when you sit back and you watch it, but it's really not," said Lisa Scholtes, the skating director for the program. "It's definitely a sport."

Sunday's recital — titled "Magic on Ice" — marked the end of the season for Worthington's figure skating program.

A total of around 40 skaters aged between five years old through high school age performed in the event, choreographing the skills they learned throughout the season to different songs with the overall theme of "magic."

"It was kind of like the finale of their season," Scholtes said. "They show off all the skills that they've learned through the season, and they do it to a song — hence why it's called a recital, I guess."

The songs ranged from "Magic" by B.o.B and "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by The Police to "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Disney's Cinderella and "Hedwig's Theme" from the Harry Potter movies, with the skaters showcasing different moves based on their level of skating ability.

"To a routine they'll do going backwards, frontwards, spins and some jumps — depending upon the level," Scholtes said.

When the skaters first become involved in the program at the Snowplow Sam level, they first learn the basics of standing on skates, moving forwards and beginning to learn how to go backwards. As they progress they start to learn the more difficult moves.

"You ask some of the parents, and the parents are amazed at some of their kids, especially the ones in Snowplow Sam," Scholtes said. "They go from not even being able to stand on ice skates to the time they have their recital being able to go forwards and go out on the ice without any help, and they can do it all on their own. It's pretty amazing."

The program takes skaters through the United Skates Figure Skating Association levels of certification, which ranges from Snowplow Sam at the bottom to freeskate at the top.

Different instructors teach different session to skaters at different levels. This year's teachers were Haley Kruse, Jenn Scholtes and Rachel Jones, with Shelby Kingery helping as an assistant.

The teachers are usually college aged and sometimes are high schoolers that have been involved in the program for a long period of time.

"I've had quite a few kids that have gone from Snowplow Sam all the way up to freeskate," Scholtes said. "A lot of the ones who will stay start from elementary school and go from elementary all the way through high school. And then in high school they tend to get a little too busy — by that time they're either getting ready to graduate or something."

The figure skating season in Worthington is broken up into two sessions that are six to seven weeks long each. The fall session starts in November and ends with a recital just after Christmas, and Sunday's recital marked the end of the winter session.

The Worthington program focuses on developing the skills of its participants and doesn't have a competitive aspect, but skaters in the program who are looking for more of a challenge are able to the opportunity by also joining the figure skating program in Luverne.

"We don't do competitions here, but Luverne does competitions," Scholtes said. "We aren't in that part of it here, but if they really want to compete then I recommend them to get over to Luverne where they have the chance to compete. Then they compete up in the (Twin Cities) and different competitions around the area… But, you know, it's costly — it's kind of up to the parents as to what they want to pay."

Sunday's program featured a pair of sisters from the Luverne program as guest skaters — Alyssa and Brooke Nattress and Riley and Lexie Severtson.

They performed competition-winning numbers during the program and came back for an encore dressed as "The Incredibles" from the Disney/Pixar movie before all of the skaters received medals and a flower to end the event.

Even if skaters in the program aren't interested in competitive figure skating, there have been a few that have pursued skating down a different avenue — ice hockey.

"Some of the girls that are on the girls' hockey team were figure skaters too for a while before they decided to play hockey," Scholtes said.

Skaters that have pursued this option in the past include current Worthington girls' hockey team members Taylor Heidebrink and Betsy Thompson.

Transitioning between the two sports isn't unusual, with skaters transitioning their skills from one sport to the other.

"I know a lot of places — like I know up north — will recommend that they start out in figure skating first and then go into hockey because then they kind of learn more of the fundamentals," Scholtes said. "It does pay off.

"But you don't always hear of people wanting to hear that because they all kind of think figure skating is kind of like too girlish, or whatever, or it's not a sport. It really is, it's a sport. It takes a lot of talent for these kids to be able to get out on the ice and to do what they do."

The Worthington program isn't unusual in that there are far more girls than boys involved, but there have been a fair number of boys participating in the program in the past.

Some of the boys will participate in the program and also take part in recitals, but there are also some who will take the classes but they or their parents will choose for them not to take part in performances.

Some boys will get involved in the program as a way to get skating experience before taking up hockey.

"Some of the boys will take ice skating lessons from us first and then they'll end up going into hockey too," Scholtes said. "It's kind of an easier way for them to get into the sport, I think, without making a huge, huge commitment I think for some parents."

People usually become aware of the program by finding advertisements through the Community Education Center, and through radio commercials. For anyone who is newly aware of the program, it's not as if it just sprung up overnight.

"This program has been around for 18 years," Scholtes said. "So it's not like something that's just been started."

For anyone looking for a better way for their kids to take advantage of the winter than they did this year, the program will start up at the same time next year.

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ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2011 Preliminary Rounds Men and Ice Dance - Sports Features

2011-03-04T23:21:00.001-08:00

ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2011 Preliminary Rounds Men and Ice Dance - Sports Features

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POSTED: Monday February 28th 2011
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The ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships kicked off in Gangneung, Republic of Korea, on Monday with the Preliminary Rounds for Men and Ice Dance. The Preliminary Rounds take place before the official competition starts. In total 30 Men and Ladies, 20 Pair Skating couples and 25 Ice Dance couples compete in the Short Program/Short Dance. As there are 19 entries in the Pairs event in total, no Preliminary Round is necessary.

Men, Preliminary Round

27 Junior Men competed in the Preliminary Round, and 14 proceeded to the Short Program. There are only 16 Direct entries (instead of 18) for the Short Program as Kazakhstan and Brazil didn't use their quota.

With Keji Tanaka and Ryuichi Kihara two Japanese skaters finished first and second in the Preliminary Round. Russia's Artur Dmitriev came third.

Tanaka turned in a clean performance to "The Bolt" by Dmitri Shostakovich that was highlighted by two triple Axels and six more triple jumps. The 16-year-old earned a new seasons best with 128.56 points. "It was my best performance this season so far. But this isn't yet the real competition, so hopefully I'll be able to skate as well in the short and free program", Tanaka commented.

Skating to "The Man in the Iron Mask", Kihara produced a triple Lutz-triple toe, five more triples and two double Axels to score 123.07 points. However, he crashed on crossovers after the second jump but recovered instantly. "I was overexcited, but I don't really know what happened. Actually, I was more relaxed after the fall", the 18-year-old said. "I was pretty nervous as this is my first time at Junior Worlds, so I'm happy to show what I'm able to do", he added.

In spite of struggling with equipment failure, Dmitriev pulled off a triple Axel and four more triples in his routine to Gypsy music, but singled the other Axel. In the warm up, the heel of his left skating boot had started to come off and as he was not able to fix it completely, it was still loose during his performance. The 18-year-old picked up 110.86 points. "I made a few mistakes, because of my problem with the boot", Dmitriev explained. "It was a completely different feeling to skate. I couldn't do the (triple) Salchow at all and the Axel was hard, but at least I managed to do one."

Ice Dance, Preliminary Round

19 Ice Dance couples competed in the Preliminary Round and 11 of them qualified for the Short Dance. Hungary didn't use its Direct entry, so there were only 14 Direct entries instead of 15.

Gabrielle Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron of France came first ahead of Slovakia's Nikola Visnova/Lukas Csolley and Spain's Sara Hurtado/Adria Diaz.

Papadakis/Cizeron delivered a strong performance of their Tango Free Dance to score a seasons best of 74.27 points. The French surpassed their previous seasons best by 9.06 points. "It was a good performance for the qualifying, we did everything we wanted to do. Now the competition will start", Papadakis said. "We skated better at the French Championships, but internationally it was our best performance of the season so far", she continued.

Visnova/Csolley's performance to "Notre Dame de Paris" was very solid and earned them a seasons best of 66.67 points. "We made no mistake, but we can skate better than that. We could have had more speed", Visnova commented. "The qualifying was a good preparation for Friday (the Free Dance)", she added.

Hurtado/Diaz' dance to "Be Italian" featured innovative lifts, but he fell in the circular step sequence. The couple collected 64.42 points. "I don't really know why I fell. It was just a lazy leg maybe", Diaz said. "The rest of the program was good, but we felt that the music was a bit slower than usual and we waited for it to pick up. The preliminary round makes the competition longer for us, but it is a good practice", Hurtado noted.

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Andrei Rogozine in medal hunt at world junior figure skating championship - Calgary Herald

2011-03-03T23:06:00.001-08:00

Andrei Rogozine in medal hunt at world junior figure skating championship - Calgary Herald

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GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Canada's Andrei Rogozine is sitting in medal position following Thursday's men's short program at the world junior figure skating championships.

The 17-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., picked up a personal-best 67.27 points to trail only Keegan Messing of the United States (72.58) and Russia's Artur Dmitriev (68.91).

Rogozine was sixth at last year's world junior championships.

"My short program has been going well everyday in practice and I just went out there and did it,'' said Rogozine, who won two junior Grand Prix stops this year and was third in the Grand Prix final.

"I was really happy with myself, I felt like I had a lot of energy in that skate and did all the stuff and it went well.''

Liam Firus of North Vancouver, B.C., is 24th heading into Saturday's free skate.

In Thursday's pairs final, Canadian junior champions Natasha Purich of Sherwood Park, Alta., and Raymond Schultz of Toronto, were fifth, while Toronto's Brittany Jones and Kurtis Gaskell of Guelph, Ont., finished sixth.

China's Wenjing Sui and Cong Han won gold, while Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia grabbed silver and Japan's Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran took home the bronze.

"The fifth place caps a great first season together for Natasha and Raymond,'' said Skate Canada high performance director Michael Slipchuk. "And to have two teams in the top-six earns us a third spot for next year.''

In the dance event, Nicole Orford of Burnaby, B.C., and Thomas Williams of Okotoks, Alta., sit ninth after Thursday's short dance, while Toronto's Kelly Oliveira and Jordan Hockley of Whitby, Ont., are 14th.

The free dance and the women's short program, where Alexandra Najarro of Richmond Hill and Vanessa Grenier of Sherbrooke, Que., are competing, are slated for Friday.

ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2011 Preliminary Rounds Men and Ice Dance - Sports Features

2011-03-02T23:04:00.001-08:00

ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2011 Preliminary Rounds Men and Ice Dance - Sports Features

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Men, Preliminary Round

With Keji Tanaka and Ryuichi Kihara two Japanese skaters finished first and second in the Preliminary Round. Russia's Artur Dmitriev came third.

Ice Dance, Preliminary Round

19 Ice Dance couples competed in the Preliminary Round and 11 of them qualified for the Short Dance. Hungary didn't use its Direct entry, so there were only 14 Direct entries instead of 15.

Gabrielle Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron of France came first ahead of Slovakia's Nikola Visnova/Lukas Csolley and Spain's Sara Hurtado/Adria Diaz.

For more information, full entry lists and results please see: www.isu.org and http://www.wjfc2011.com/new2011/main/main.php

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Olympic Figure Skating Scandal Grows - ABC News

2011-02-27T23:08:00.001-08:00

Olympic Figure Skating Scandal Grows - ABC News

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By Cynthia Faulkner

S A L T L A K E C I T Y, Feb. 13

Rosemary Thompson, a reporter with CTV, said she managed to reach Le Gonya at her hotel, but the French judge said she had been told not to speak to the media.

"When (figure skating officials) investigate, I think they're going to find out that the French judge worked a deal with the Russians," Brennan said.

"There's absolutely no doubt that the Canadians should have won. Their 'Love Story' program was just marvelous. The performance was perfect.

"The Russian pair made small errors including a small mistake on one jump. To me it's clear. It should have been crystal clear for the Canadians."

Brennan said she watched the tapes again and the Canadians' performance only gets better.

Shocked, And Still Shocked

Tonya Harding: Retired Figure Skating Icon Gives Birth to Baby Boy - Bleacherreport.com

2011-02-26T23:12:00.001-08:00

Tonya Harding: Retired Figure Skating Icon Gives Birth to Baby Boy - Bleacherreport.com

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Tonya Harding, 40, Welcomes Her First Child

For a while there, it looked like we were never going to get any Tonya Harding news that wasn't either scandalous or just downright pulpy. One supposes that this is what happens when one's legacy is built on a conspiracy to club a rival in the knee.

To be sure, we've all made our fair share of quips about Harding over the years, primarily because she's given us every reason to. But these days, things are decidedly more optimistic. Not too long ago, reports came out that she was pregnant with her very first child. And last Saturday, the 40-year-old retired figure skater gave birth to a baby boy.

Neither Harding nor her husband, Joseph Price, have yet to make any public comments. But a close friend of Harding's told The Oregonian that, "Everybody's healthy and happy."

"She's always wanted a baby. She was told she could never have a child...and guess what? It really is a miracle and she really is very happy."

That about says it. This is also where a cliche about Tonya Harding starting a new chapter would go. And in all honesty, that about says it too.

Indeed, it's been almost 20 years since Harding's ex-husband hired somebody to give Nancy Kerrigan a metal pipe to the knee. It caused a media frenzy, and Harding has been a villain ever since.

With Harding now starting life as a mother, maybe, just maybe, people can get over it.

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<h1>Tonya Harding: Figure Skating Diva Gives Birth to Baby Boy - Bleacherreport.com</h1>
<p>2011-02-25T23:13:00.001-08:00</p>
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She's found love, in husband Joseph Price (who hasn't put a hit out on anyone yet, what an improvement!), and has done a good job of staying out of the limelight in recent years. </p> <p>For those unfamiliar with Harding, allow me to refresh your memory. In 1994, Harding was a full-fledged figure skating star, the first skater to land a triple axel in competition. She and fellow American Nancy Kerrigan were favored to take home medals at the '94 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. </p> <p>But then, a fateful decision changed everything. Harding and ex-fiancee Jeff Gillooly agreed to take a hit out on Kerrigan, not to kill her, but to injure her so badly that she couldn't compete in the Olympics. So, they hired Shane Slant to do the deed, which he attempted to complete.</p> <p>But while Stant managed to hurt her knee (a deep bone bruise, nothing broken or torn), he also boosted her national profile and made her a sympathetic figure. </p> <p>He also made Harding the villain of the 1994 Games, the woman who'd literally tried to take out her competition. After finishing eighth in those games, things quickly spiralled out of control for Tonya.</p> <p>She was in and out of tumultuous relationships, appeared on FOX's Celebrity Boxing, and gave the world a sex tape no one wanted to see. </p> <p>Fortunately, she's mellowed in recent years, and hopefully, she and Price will continue to stay away from metal pipes and live happily with their newborn son. </p> <p>To check out more Swagger, take a look at <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/615829-50-sports-names-that-make-us-giggle">50 Sports Names That Make Us Giggle</a>. </p> <p><b><br /></b></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>Tonya Harding Welcomes a Baby Boy! Former Figure Skating Cham Tonya Harding Becomes a Mom! - Showbizspy.com</h1>
<p>2011-02-24T23:22:00.001-08:00</p>
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It really is a miracle and she really is very happy."</p> <p>It's the first child for Harding, who is married to <strong>Joseph Price</strong>, 42, and lives in Washington.</p> <p>Recent <a href="http://www.showbizspy.com/article/226836/tonya-harding-too-broke-to-pay-her-rent.html">reports claimed</a> Tonya is so hard up that she's living with her sister-in-law.</p> <p>"Tonya should be celebrating the arrival of her first child, but instead she's complaining that she's nearly broke, fat and cramped in a home she doesn't want to live in," a source told American tabloid the <em>National Enquirer</em>.</p> <p>Harding was the first woman to land a triple axel in competition. She became notorious when her then-husband and her associates were convicted of attacking a skating rival</p> <p>Tonya — a commentator on truTV's <em>The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest</em> — and Joe wed last June in a private ceremony in Clark County.</p>  <p>Tags: <a href="http://www.showbizspy.com/article/tag/tonya-harding" rel="tag">tonya harding</a></p>  </div> <p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>Figure Skater Tonya Harding and Husband Welcome Baby Boy - Pop Eater</h1>
<p>2011-02-23T23:21:00.001-08:00</p>
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<h1>1961 U.S. Figure Skating team remembered - msnbc.com</h1>
<p>2011-02-22T23:22:00.001-08:00</p>
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Ries Ice Rink in Parma, the tragedy and movie were on the minds of young skaters practicing their sport.</p> <p>"If that was my coach on that plane or anyone I knew from figure skating on the plane, how horrible that would be," said figure skater Alexis Hipkins of Parma.  "It makes me appreciate the people that I have at the rink."</p> <p>Skating fans took in the movie at Cinemark Movie Theater in Valley View.  Jack Lamprecht's family knew members of the team who died in the crash.</p> <p>"I am here to relive some of those glory days and pay my dues to those people who went down in that plane crash," said Lamprecht.</p>  <p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2011 - Sports Features</h1>
<p>2011-02-21T23:14:00.001-08:00</p>
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Chinese Taipei hosts an ISU Figure Skating Championship for the first time in history. All reigning World Champions in the four disciplines are competing in the event.</p> <p>Overview over the top contenders</p> <p><br />The Ice Dance event will see the season debut of reigning World and Olympic Champions Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN). World and Olympic silver medalists Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA) are ready for the challenge after winning the Grand Prix Final with a seasons best score of 171.58 points. A group of up and coming young teams are aiming for the podium as well: Grand Prix Final bronze medalists Vanessa Crone/Paul Poirier (CAN/seasons best 154.42 points), U.S. silver medalists Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (seasons best 144.81 points), Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN/seasons best 142.34 points) and 2009 World Junior Champions Madison Chock/Greg Zuerlein (USA/seasons best 139.05 points).</p> <p>Reigning World Champion Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) leads the Men and will face a stiff challenge by Grand Prix Final bronze medalist Takahiko Kozuka (JPN). Takahashi got a seasons best of 234.79 points while Kozuka scored a seasons best of 248.07 points. 2010 Four Continents Champion Adam Rippon (USA/seasons best 233.04 points) is hoping to defend his title. Others to watch out for are Jeremy Abbott (USA/seasons best 218.19 points), 2010 Four Continents bronze medalist Kevin Reynolds (CAN/seasons best 218.65 points), Armin Mahbanoozadeh (USA/seasons best 211.17 points) and 2010 World Junior Champion Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN/seasons best 207.72 points).</p> <p>2010 World Champion Mao Asada (JPN) headlines the Ladies' field. The Japanese Champion got a seasons best of 148.02 points. The challenge should come from current Grand Prix Final Champion Alissa Czisny (USA), who has achieved the highest seasons best so far with 180.75 points, as well as from Japanese Champion Miki Ando (seasons best 174.47 points) and Japan's Akiko Suzuki (seasons best 173.72 points). Other medal contenders include U.S. silver medalist Rachael Flatt (USA/seasons best 162.86 points), Mirai Nagasu (USA/seasons best 167.79 points) and Canadian Champion Cynthia Phaneuf (seasons best 156.24 points).</p> <p>2010 World Champions Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN) are aiming for their fifth Four Continents title. The current Grand Prix Final silver medalists have posted a seasons best of 189.93 points. Competition should come from Canadian Champions Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (seasons best 175.48 points), U.S. Champions Caitlin Yankowskas/John Coughlin (seasons best 166.72 points) and Junior Grand Prix Final Champions Narumi Takahashi/Mervin Tran (JPN/seasons best 165.47 points). Other contenders include Amanda Evora/Mark Ladwig (USA/seasons best/162.85 points), Paige Lawrence/Rudi Swiegers (CAN/seasons best 161.15 points) and Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN/seasons best 158.53 points).</p> <p>Please note that for the seasons best total scores only the ISU Grand Prix competitions (senior and junior) have been taken into consideration, not other international competitions or National Championships.</p> <p>Prize money</p> <p>The ISU awards a global prize money of US$ 250,000 at the Four Continents Championships to skaters/couples placed 1st to 12th. The prize money is awarded to winners and placed skaters/couples as follows:</p> <p>Men and Ladies  <br />1st place US$ 15,000<br />2nd place US$ 9,000<br />3rd place US$ 6,000                                                                    <br />4th place US$ 4,500                                                                    <br />5th place US$ 3,250<br />6th place US$ 2,500<br />7th place US$ 2,250<br />8th place US$ 2,000<br />9th place US$ 1,750                                                <br />10th place US$ 1,500<br />11th place US$ 1,250<br />12th place US$ 1,000                                                                </p> <p><br />Pairs and Dance (per couple)<br />1st place US$ 22,500<br />2nd place US$ 13,500<br />3rd place US$ 9,000<br />4th place US$ 6,750<br />5th place US$ 5,000<br />6th place US$ 3,750<br />7th place US$ 3,500<br />8th place US$ 3,000<br />9th place US$ 2,500<br />10th place US$ 2,250<br />11th place US$ 1,750<br />12th place US$ 1,500</p> <p>The schedule of the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2011 is as follows:</p> <p>Thursday, February 17: Short Dance, Pairs Short Program</p> <p>Friday, February 18: Men Short Program, Pairs Free Skating, Free Dance</p> <p>Saturday, February 19: Ladies Short Program, Men Free Skating</p> <p>Sunday, February 20: Ladies Free Skating, Exhibition Gala</p> <p>For more information, full entry lists and results please see: www.isu.org and http://www.figureskating.com.tw/2011FCC/eng/default.html</p> <p># # #</p> <hr class="clear_content" /><p><strong>Keywords</strong> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/International%20Skating%20Union">International Skating Union</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/ISU">ISU</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/Four%20Continents">Four Continents</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/Figure%20Skating%20Championships">Figure Skating Championships</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/Taipei">Taipei</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/Chinese%20Taipei">Chinese Taipei</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/"></a></p> <hr class="clear_content" /><p><strong>Name:</strong> Selina Vanier<br /><strong>Organization:</strong> International Skating Union<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 41216126666<br /><strong>URL:</strong> www.isu.org</p> <hr class="clear_content" /><p>Please refer all questions to the company listed above issuing the press release. 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<h1>“Sports shorts  - Arizona Daily Star” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-02-20T23:20:00.001-08:00</p>
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Ando hit all of her jumps in the free skating program, including a perfectly executed triple lutz and double loop, to score a total of ...</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/sports/Documentary-Film-Honors-50th-Anniversary-of-1961-US-Figure-Skating-Tragedy--116414669.html">Documentary Film Honors 50th Anniversary of 1961 US Figure Skating Tragedy - Voice of America</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span>  </p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"><p><em>[<a href="http://fivefilters.org">fivefilters.org</a>: unable to retrieve full-text content]</em></p>On February 15, 1961, tragedy struck when the plane carrying the United States figure skating team, coaches and family members perished en route to Brussels, Belgium, killing all passengers.   The American squad was on its way to the 1961 Figure Skating ...</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>“ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2011 - Sports Features” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-02-19T23:05:00.001-08:00</p>
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Chinese Taipei hosts an ISU Figure Skating Championship for the first time in history. All reigning World Champions in the four disciplines are competing in the event.</p> <p>Overview over the top contenders</p> <p><br />The Ice Dance event will see the season debut of reigning World and Olympic Champions Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN). World and Olympic silver medalists Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA) are ready for the challenge after winning the Grand Prix Final with a seasons best score of 171.58 points. A group of up and coming young teams are aiming for the podium as well: Grand Prix Final bronze medalists Vanessa Crone/Paul Poirier (CAN/seasons best 154.42 points), U.S. silver medalists Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (seasons best 144.81 points), Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN/seasons best 142.34 points) and 2009 World Junior Champions Madison Chock/Greg Zuerlein (USA/seasons best 139.05 points).</p> <p>Reigning World Champion Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) leads the Men and will face a stiff challenge by Grand Prix Final bronze medalist Takahiko Kozuka (JPN). Takahashi got a seasons best of 234.79 points while Kozuka scored a seasons best of 248.07 points. 2010 Four Continents Champion Adam Rippon (USA/seasons best 233.04 points) is hoping to defend his title. Others to watch out for are Jeremy Abbott (USA/seasons best 218.19 points), 2010 Four Continents bronze medalist Kevin Reynolds (CAN/seasons best 218.65 points), Armin Mahbanoozadeh (USA/seasons best 211.17 points) and 2010 World Junior Champion Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN/seasons best 207.72 points).</p> <p>2010 World Champion Mao Asada (JPN) headlines the Ladies' field. The Japanese Champion got a seasons best of 148.02 points. The challenge should come from current Grand Prix Final Champion Alissa Czisny (USA), who has achieved the highest seasons best so far with 180.75 points, as well as from Japanese Champion Miki Ando (seasons best 174.47 points) and Japan's Akiko Suzuki (seasons best 173.72 points). Other medal contenders include U.S. silver medalist Rachael Flatt (USA/seasons best 162.86 points), Mirai Nagasu (USA/seasons best 167.79 points) and Canadian Champion Cynthia Phaneuf (seasons best 156.24 points).</p> <p>2010 World Champions Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN) are aiming for their fifth Four Continents title. The current Grand Prix Final silver medalists have posted a seasons best of 189.93 points. Competition should come from Canadian Champions Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (seasons best 175.48 points), U.S. Champions Caitlin Yankowskas/John Coughlin (seasons best 166.72 points) and Junior Grand Prix Final Champions Narumi Takahashi/Mervin Tran (JPN/seasons best 165.47 points). Other contenders include Amanda Evora/Mark Ladwig (USA/seasons best/162.85 points), Paige Lawrence/Rudi Swiegers (CAN/seasons best 161.15 points) and Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN/seasons best 158.53 points).</p> <p>Please note that for the seasons best total scores only the ISU Grand Prix competitions (senior and junior) have been taken into consideration, not other international competitions or National Championships.</p> <p>Prize money</p> <p>The ISU awards a global prize money of US$ 250,000 at the Four Continents Championships to skaters/couples placed 1st to 12th. The prize money is awarded to winners and placed skaters/couples as follows:</p> <p>Men and Ladies  <br />1st place US$ 15,000<br />2nd place US$ 9,000<br />3rd place US$ 6,000                                                                    <br />4th place US$ 4,500                                                                    <br />5th place US$ 3,250<br />6th place US$ 2,500<br />7th place US$ 2,250<br />8th place US$ 2,000<br />9th place US$ 1,750                                                <br />10th place US$ 1,500<br />11th place US$ 1,250<br />12th place US$ 1,000                                                                </p> <p><br />Pairs and Dance (per couple)<br />1st place US$ 22,500<br />2nd place US$ 13,500<br />3rd place US$ 9,000<br />4th place US$ 6,750<br />5th place US$ 5,000<br />6th place US$ 3,750<br />7th place US$ 3,500<br />8th place US$ 3,000<br />9th place US$ 2,500<br />10th place US$ 2,250<br />11th place US$ 1,750<br />12th place US$ 1,500</p> <p>The schedule of the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2011 is as follows:</p> <p>Thursday, February 17: Short Dance, Pairs Short Program</p> <p>Friday, February 18: Men Short Program, Pairs Free Skating, Free Dance</p> <p>Saturday, February 19: Ladies Short Program, Men Free Skating</p> <p>Sunday, February 20: Ladies Free Skating, Exhibition Gala</p> <p>For more information, full entry lists and results please see: www.isu.org and http://www.figureskating.com.tw/2011FCC/eng/default.html</p> <p># # #</p> <hr class="clear_content" /><p><strong>Keywords</strong> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/International%20Skating%20Union">International Skating Union</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/ISU">ISU</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/Four%20Continents">Four Continents</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/Figure%20Skating%20Championships">Figure Skating Championships</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/Taipei">Taipei</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/Chinese%20Taipei">Chinese Taipei</a> · <a href="http://www.sportsfeatures.com/presspoint/tag/"></a></p> <hr class="clear_content" /><p><strong>Name:</strong> Selina Vanier<br /><strong>Organization:</strong> International Skating Union<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 41216126666<br /><strong>URL:</strong> www.isu.org</p> <hr class="clear_content" /><p>Please refer all questions to the company listed above issuing the press release. 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<h1>Tributes continue for lost 1961 U.S. figure skating team - Indianapolis Star</h1>
<p>2011-02-18T23:36:00.001-08:00</p>
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<h1>“ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2011 - DAY ONE - Sports Features” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-02-17T23:30:00.001-08:00</p>
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The ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2011 are being held in Taipei for the first time in history.</p> <p>Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN) dance to the lead</p> <p>Olympic and World Champions Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir of Canada danced to lead ahead of World and Olympic silver medalists Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA) and Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje.</p> <p>Virtue/Moir debuted their program to the Waltz "Night and Days" and to the Tango piece, "Schenkst du beim Tango mir dein Herz" as they hadn't competed yet this season due to Virtue recovering from injury. The Olympic Champions put out a smooth performance and earned a level four for the twizzles, both sections of the Golden Waltz and the lift while the side by side footwork was a level three. The Canadians scored 69.40 points to edge out Davis/White for first place by less than one point. "It's a great start. We weren't sure what to expect. The moment we stepped on the ice for practice, we had that spark and drive. We're hungry for it, for sure. It doesn't take that much to get right back into the competitive feel", Virtue explained. "We laid down a really solid skate, so we're happy", Moir said. "This (Four Continents) was really our goal and the World Championships; to have another world title is our goal. Our programs this year are tougher than the ones in the past", he added.</p> <p>Davis/White's classical Waltz program to "La Boheme" and "La Traviata" featured a level-four rotational lift and difficult footwork, but the twizzles were a little shaky and the first segment of the Golden Waltz had a level three. They posted a seasons best at 69.01 points. "Throughout the entire year, we have consistently gotten level four. It must have been a little mistake that we didn't notice", White said about the level three. "I think we've done it (the program) better. We got season's best internationally for that. I think we could have sold it more but technically I thought it felt pretty good. In the free dance, we're going to want to come out a little stronger", he continued.</p> <p>Defending Four Continents Champions Weaver/Poje delivered an elegant performance to "At Last" and "Dancing Cheek to Cheek" and were the only couple to receive a level four for all elements. With 65.45 points, they improved their seasons best significantly. "We hope to improve this performance by a lot for the next competition. But we're so happy that we've been able to achieve all the level fours, because we've been working on that so hard. It's been a very difficult challenge, but we're happy that we can do that kind of performance under pressure and even when we're not feeling at our best", Weaver said.</p> <p>Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) follow in fourth with a solid performance (62.04 points), just ahead of Grand Prix Final bronze medalists Vanessa Crone/Paul Poirier (CAN) with 61.66 points.</p> <p>Qing Pang/Jian Tong grab Pairs Short Program</p> <p>China's Qing Pang/Jian Tong won the Pairs Short Program with the two Canadian teams Paige Lawrence/Rudi Swiegers and Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford following in second and third.</p> <p>Pang/Tong laid down a solid performance to "The Pearlfishers" by Georges Bizet, hitting the triple toe, a high triple twist and throw triple loop. They achieved a level four for the lift and death spiral and picked up a seasons best of 71.41 points. However, they had an overtime deduction. "We got a seasons best and feel great about it. We wanted to raise the levels of our elements and did quite well. We hope to skate even better in the long program", Tong said.</p> <p>Lawrence/Swiegers' fun program to "City Slickers" included a triple twist, triple toeloop, a throw triple Lutz and a level-four step sequence. The Canadians scored 59.98 points. "Rudi and I came here and just wanted to have fun on the ice and skate a personal best. We're happy with how it turned out and we're hoping that we can continue on sucessfully tomorrow", Lawrence told the press conference. Swiegers proved great sportmanship when he gave his skating boot to competitor Mark Ladwig (USA), whose boot broke midway through the Short Program. "When we saw Mark standing on the ice and the camera zoomed in on his boot I saw that the heel was broken off. I knew the only thing I could do to help out my friend was to take my skate and offer and see if he could need it", Swiegers explained.</p> <p>Duhamel/Radford went for a side by side triple Lutz, but she fell. The Canadian silver medalists recoved to produce a difficult lift, footwork and throw triple Lutz. Their routine to "Concerto pour une voix" by Saint-Preux also featured a triple twist and the team posted a new seasons best with 59.92 points. "First of all it is a triple Lutz. It is very difficult", Duhamel noted. "It's been a monkey on my back this jump in the short, all year. I haven't missed any Lutz yet this week (in practice). I thought it was good and before I knew I was on my butt. That's when you tell yourself, ok, forget about it let's move on, you've a lot of other stuff to do", she said.</p> <p>Caitlin Yankowskas/John Coughlin (USA) are sitting in fourth place (55.25 points) and Canadian Champions Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch came fifth (54.41 points). Amanda Evora/Mark Ladwig (USA) who were able to finish their performance are currently ranked sixth (52.23 points).</p> <p>The ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships continue Friday with the Men's Short Program, Pairs Free Skating and the Free Dance. 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Ries Ice Rink in Parma, the tragedy and movie were on the minds of young skaters practicing their sport.</p> <p>"If that was my coach on that plane or anyone I knew from figure skating on the plane, how horrible that would be," said figure skater Alexis Hipkins of Parma.  "It makes me appreciate the people that I have at the rink."</p> <p>Skating fans took in the movie at Cinemark Movie Theater in Valley View.  Jack Lamprecht's family knew members of the team who died in the crash.</p> <p>"I am here to relive some of those glory days and pay my dues to those people who went down in that plane crash," said Lamprecht.</p>  <p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>Plane crash anniversary elicits emotions in U.S figure skating community - Los Angeles Times</h1>
<p>2011-02-17T00:16:00.001-08:00</p>
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And for the next 50 years, she locked away her feelings about what happened, never discussing it even with <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB000571" title="Brian Boitano" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/brian-boitano-PECLB000571.topic">Brian Boitano</a>, whom she coached to the 1988 Olympic gold medal.</p><p>"I didn't know how to deal with it," Leaver said. "I kept it deep inside me."</p> <br/> Leaver was 17, a high school senior in Tacoma, Wash., when she learned a plane crash had killed the entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team on its way to the world championships in Prague in what was then Czechoslovakia.<p>Sixteen people accompanying the skaters — coaches, officials, family members — and 38 passengers and crew members also died when the Sabena flight from New York plunged into a field while trying to land at its scheduled stop of Brussels. There were no survivors.</p><p>It was, at the time, the worst air disaster involving a U.S. sports team. The press coverage was enormous. <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEPLT003488" title="John F. Kennedy" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/presidents-of-the-united-states/john-f.-kennedy-PEPLT003488.topic">President Kennedy</a> expressed his condolences.</p><p>Bill Hickox, 18, of Berkeley, the pairs skater who often was Leaver's escort at post-competition parties, was on the flight. So were the Hadleys, sibling pairs team Ila Ray, 18, and Ray Jr., 17, with whom Leaver shared training ice at Seattle's Civic Arena three days a week, as well as the Hadleys' stepmother, Linda, 31.</p><p>During the U.S. championships in Greensboro, N.C., late last month, U.S. Figure Skating marked the 50th anniversary of the tragedy by inducting all 34 members of the world team traveling party into its Hall of Fame.</p><p>A reception also was held that included family and friends of those who died as well as members of the tight-knit figure skating community. At one point , Leaver felt so overwhelmed she had to leave.</p><p>"For a long time, all those memories had not come back to the forefront," she said. "I was finally confronted with everything right then. I sensed it was the same way for a lot of people."</p><p>She wasn't alone.</p><p>"The sound of the words 'February 15th' makes you cringe," said Joan Sherbloom Peterson of Orange, whose sister, Diane, was among the dead.</p><p>A nation whose skaters had become the best in the world suddenly was faced with the sad task of rebuilding. Yet within months, a memorial fund was established that would turn part of the 1961 team's legacy into financial help for those who followed, including <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEHST000675" title="Peggy Fleming" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/peggy-fleming-PEHST000675.topic">Peggy Fleming</a>, who would win Olympic gold in 1968.</p><p>"It was like a phoenix rising from the ashes," Boitano said.</p><p>The celebration of that renaissance, as well as a remembrance of the lives lost, is central to the film "RISE," a U.S. Figure Skating project that will have a nationwide theatrical showing Thursday, including at a number of Regal, AMC and Cinemark theaters in the Los Angeles area, with all ticket proceeds going to the memorial fund.</p><p>A new book, "Indelible Tracings," also tells the story. 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<h1>“Tributes continue for lost 1961 U.S. figure skating team - Indianapolis Star” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-02-15T23:10:00.001-08:00</p>
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Those journeying to the World Championships in Prague would remain in Philadelphia before departing by bus for New York the following afternoon. </p><div id="body-content" readability="185.32738669238"> <p>That Valentine's Day at Idlewild Airport, sometime around 7:30 p.m., the 18 skaters and six coaches who made up the U.S. figure-skating team boarded a Boeing 707, Sabena Airlines Flight 548, bound for Brussels, Belgium. Their mood was so joyful that someone suggested they pose for a photo on the jet's portable staircase.</p> <p>That black-and-white photograph would capture their smiles, their anticipation, their optimism. But by the time it was developed, they were all dead.</p> <p>Fifty years ago this week, that plane plummeted into a Belgian cabbage field. All 72 people on board, plus a farmer on the ground, were killed.</p> <p>And while it might seem counterintuitive, or even ghoulish, the tragedy helped produce-or at least sustain-a rich tradition of American figure skating.</p> <p>Many of the superb U.S. skaters who have followed benefited from a memorial fund established that year to honor the victims. Many more learned from European coaches such as Italy's Carlo Fassi and Britain's John Nicks, who were brought to the United States to replace the dead.</p> <p>"It's possible to look at the terrible tragedy and see it as the start of a legacy," said Nikki Nichols, a former skater who has written a new book on the crash called Frozen in Time.</p> <p>Ron Ludington, the guru of the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club - where both Johnny Weir and Kimmie Meissner trained - has been to every World Championships since 1956.</p> <p>Except one.</p> <p>Ludington, who lived in Connecticut in 1961, had just gone through a divorce. Low on cash, he decided not to make the trip to Prague.</p> <p>Conversely, Douglas Ramsay finished fourth at the national championships and wasn't supposed to go. But the third-place finisher, Tim Brown, became ill in Philadelphia, so Ramsay took his place.</p> <p>By 1961, the older generation of U.S. skaters, such as Carol Heiss and David Jenkins, the 1960 Olympic gold medalists, had retired. A new crop, and the coaches who had nurtured it, boarded the plane that night.</p> <p>Those that did so included three members of American skating's royal family: Laurence and Maribel Owen, and their mother, Maribel Vinson Owen, a nine-time national champion.</p> <p>Maribel Vinson Owen coached her daughters. Her oldest, Maribel, had won the U.S. pairs title that year skating with Dudley Richards, who also traveled to Prague.</p> <p>Laurence, meanwhile, at 16 the national women's champion, may have been the most promising skater of the bunch.</p> <p>"She was just coming into her own," Nichols said. "That was an era when television was just starting to recognize skating. Laurence was a wonderful skater and a beautiful girl who would have been a breakout star. "</p> <p>Bill Pipp made the trip, too. A champion skater in Allentown, he had become a successful coach in California. Back home, he had a promising 12-year-old pupil named Peggy Fleming.</p> <p>Other passengers included Larry Pierce and Diane Sherbloom, the reigning ice-dancing champions; Robert and Patricia Dineen, ice dancers who decided not to bring along their 9-month-old son; and Stephanie Westerfield, the runner-up to Laurence Owen.</p> <p>Their itinerary was simple. They would fly out of New York at 8 p.m. After arriving the next morning in Brussels, they were to make connections to a flight that would take them behind the Iron Curtain, to Prague.</p> <p>By all accounts, Nichols said, the long, dark trip across the Atlantic was uneventful. As the jet neared the Belgian airport, perhaps just 25 miles away, ground control lost contact.</p> <p>It was just before 9 a.m. in the village of Berg. Farmers were readying the fields for planting in the spring. A Catholic priest was walking outside his church when he heard the desperate drone of a plane's engine.</p> <p>"I saw a flash," he later told investigators. "Then the plane started to lose height."</p> <p>Everyone on board, all 61 passengers and 11 crew members, presumably died instantly when it exploded on impact. A farmer was killed when debris hit him like mortar shrapnel.</p> <p>Kendrick Kelley, a U.S. skating judge who already was in Europe, hurried to the site when he heard the news. 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<h1>“Plane crash anniversary elicits emotions in U.S figure skating community - Los Angeles Times” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-02-14T23:12:00.001-08:00</p>
<style type="text/css">                          h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;}                          div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul {                                         list-style-type:square;                                         padding-left:1em;                         }                                  div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote {                                 padding-left:6px;                                 border-left: 6px solid #dadada;                                 margin-left:1em;                         }                                  div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li {                                 margin-bottom:1em;                                 margin-left:1em;                         }                           table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active, ul#summarylist li a {                                 color:#CCFF00;                                 font-weight:bold;                                 text-decoration:none;                         }                                 img {border:none;}                   </style> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"> <table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"> <a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating" title="(http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating)">“Plane crash anniversary elicits emotions in U.S figure skating community - Los Angeles Times” plus 1 more</a> <br /> <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/FigureSkating-BingNews">  </a> </h1> </td> <td width="1%" /> </tr> </table> <hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0" /> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="1" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-figure-skating-crash-20110215,0,3489591.story?track=rss">Plane crash anniversary elicits emotions in U.S figure skating community - Los Angeles Times</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span>  </p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;">Linda Leaver could not handle the news she got in a phone call from a friend on Feb. 15, 1961.<p>So she locked herself in her room for four days. And for the next 50 years, she locked away her feelings about what happened, never discussing it even with <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB000571" title="Brian Boitano" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/brian-boitano-PECLB000571.topic">Brian Boitano</a>, whom she coached to the 1988 Olympic gold medal.</p><p>"I didn't know how to deal with it," Leaver said. "I kept it deep inside me."</p> <br/> Leaver was 17, a high school senior in Tacoma, Wash., when she learned a plane crash had killed the entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team on its way to the world championships in Prague in what was then Czechoslovakia.<p>Sixteen people accompanying the skaters — coaches, officials, family members — and 38 passengers and crew members also died when the Sabena flight from New York plunged into a field while trying to land at its scheduled stop of Brussels. There were no survivors.</p><p>It was, at the time, the worst air disaster involving a U.S. sports team. The press coverage was enormous. <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEPLT003488" title="John F. Kennedy" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/presidents-of-the-united-states/john-f.-kennedy-PEPLT003488.topic">President Kennedy</a> expressed his condolences.</p><p>Bill Hickox, 18, of Berkeley, the pairs skater who often was Leaver's escort at post-competition parties, was on the flight. So were the Hadleys, sibling pairs team Ila Ray, 18, and Ray Jr., 17, with whom Leaver shared training ice at Seattle's Civic Arena three days a week, as well as the Hadleys' stepmother, Linda, 31.</p><p>During the U.S. championships in Greensboro, N.C., late last month, U.S. Figure Skating marked the 50th anniversary of the tragedy by inducting all 34 members of the world team traveling party into its Hall of Fame.</p><p>A reception also was held that included family and friends of those who died as well as members of the tight-knit figure skating community. At one point , Leaver felt so overwhelmed she had to leave.</p><p>"For a long time, all those memories had not come back to the forefront," she said. "I was finally confronted with everything right then. I sensed it was the same way for a lot of people."</p><p>She wasn't alone.</p><p>"The sound of the words 'February 15th' makes you cringe," said Joan Sherbloom Peterson of Orange, whose sister, Diane, was among the dead.</p><p>A nation whose skaters had become the best in the world suddenly was faced with the sad task of rebuilding. Yet within months, a memorial fund was established that would turn part of the 1961 team's legacy into financial help for those who followed, including <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEHST000675" title="Peggy Fleming" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/peggy-fleming-PEHST000675.topic">Peggy Fleming</a>, who would win Olympic gold in 1968.</p><p>"It was like a phoenix rising from the ashes," Boitano said.</p><p>The celebration of that renaissance, as well as a remembrance of the lives lost, is central to the film "RISE," a U.S. Figure Skating project that will have a nationwide theatrical showing Thursday, including at a number of Regal, AMC and Cinemark theaters in the Los Angeles area, with all ticket proceeds going to the memorial fund.</p><p>A new book, "Indelible Tracings," also tells the story. Patricia Shelley Bushman's painstakingly detailed research brings back the vibrant personalities of those on the plane.</p><p>It also brings back the emotions.</p><p>"I think the anguish was enough to inhibit communicating about this for 50 years," said U.S. Figure Skating historian Ben Wright, 89, friend to many of those who died. 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Lee, the chief secretary of the Chinese Taipei Skating Union. "It helped us select the best candidates to contribute to the success of this international event."</p> <p>Organizers for this international event to take place in Taipei City received applications from more than 500 students looking to fill the 165 positions ranging from event announcers to help desk volunteers. Given the various degrees of proficiency needed for these positions, the hiring committee needed a way to measure the English language skills of all applicants to ensure that the skill level of the volunteer matched the need of the position they were assigned.</p> <p>"Successfully hosting a high profile event can change the international perception of a city and hosting international guests is often the most difficult task," said David Hunt, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of ETS's Global Division. "The global recognition of the TOEIC test makes it an ideal tool in this situation by setting a language standard and ensuring participants and guests are understood and well received."</p> <p>With more than 6 million TOEIC tests administered globally in 2010, the TOEIC test is the largest and most widely used English-language assessment for the workplace. In addition to the 10,000 organizations worldwide that use the test, organizing committees at international events often use the TOEIC test to set English language standards for employees and volunteers. Recent events include the 2014 FIFA World Cup volunteers in Brazil's state of Minas Gerais, the 2010 Shanghai World Expo in China, and the G20 Summit in Seoul, Korea.</p> <p>"We are excited to be working with the Chinese Taipei Skating Union in their effort to set English-language skill standards for this international event," said T.J. Shao, Chairman of Chun Shin Ltd. "Placing importance on international communication will ensure the success of this event and will help build Taiwan's reputation and business globally."</p> <p>For more information on the TOEIC test and other services provided by the TOEIC Program visit <a href="http://www.ets.org/toeic">www.ets.org/toeic</a>.</p> <p><em>About ETS<br/></em> At nonprofit ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for people worldwide by creating assessments based on rigorous research. ETS serves individuals, educational institutions and government agencies by providing customized solutions for teacher certification, English-language learning, and elementary, secondary and post-secondary education, as well as conducting education research, analysis and policy studies. 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<h1>Philip Hersh: U.S. figure skating pair Mary Beth Marley and Rockne Brubaker going places fast - Los Angeles Times</h1>
<p>2011-02-13T23:31:00.001-08:00</p>
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It was not only their first international competition but also their first competition period, although calling it that was a bit of an exaggeration.</p> <p>They would compete in Torun against only one opponent, a very weak Bulgarian team whom the U.S. pair beat by 63 points.</p> <p>And that was the easy part.</p> <p><a href="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d8341c60fd53ef0147e28948fa970b-pi" class="c9"></a> Marley, 15, skated in Poland with a 103-degree fever and came back to her Southern California training base still washed out by the illness, which didn't bode well with the U.S. Championships just three weeks away in North Carolina.</p> <p>But the first-year pair from suburban Chicago -- she is from Downers Grove, he from Algonquin -- also brought back a score good enough to qualify for participation in major international competitions.  </p> <p>Which is a good thing, because they will suddenly find themselves at such a meet next week.</p> <p>Marley and Brubaker learned Friday that they were going to the Four Continents Championship in Taipei as replacements for Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett after Barrett needed 42 stitches in his right calf for a cut made by Denney's skate blade.</p> <p>"Things work out for a reason," Brubaker said when I reached him by phone Saturday afternoon. "I feel bad for Caydee and Jeremy but I'm happy we're going."</p> <p>After finishing fourth at nationals, Marley and Brubaker thought they might get one of the three U.S. places at Four Continents, especially because the top two teams would be returning to Asia a month later for the World Championships in Tokyo.</p> <p>But the top three teams all decided to go to Taipei, so Marley and Brubaker settled for the satisfaction of knowing how far they had come since she had a tryout with him last August.</p> <p>"One of the things Mr. Nicks [their coach, John Nicks] said afterward is this is really going to set you up well for next year," Brubaker said. "That is what we kind of came to do -- get ourselves out there, let people know we're here. Next year, our goals will be a little bit different."</p> <p>Before U.S. Figure Skating named its Four Continents team, I had asked Brubaker what going to that event would mean.</p> <p>"It would be a nice bonus," he said, "a way to put our faces on the [international] scene. Sometimes when people see you for the first they don't know how to judge you."</p> <p>Brubaker, 24, finished second at Four Continents last year with Keauna McLaughlin, who decided soon after to retire from competitive skating. They had failed to make the 2010 Olympic team after staggering into fifth place at last year's nationals.</p> <p>Brubaker, a two-time U.S. champion with McLaughlin, was prepared to take a year off until USFS high performance director Mitch Moyer suggested Marley as a possible partner.</p> <p>Now he and Marley are rushing to retrain their competitive programs before leaving Sunday for Four Continents. The pairs event begins Thursday.</p> <p>"We have been skating since nationals, but it mainly has been to work on individual elements," he said. "Four Continents was so close to nationals that we were more concerned about having the programs still ready if something happened that sent us to worlds.</p> <p>"We trained our programs today and didn't feel out of shape. I think we'll be just fine."</p> <p>From tryout to Torun to Taipei. Marley and Brubaker are going places fast.</p> <p>"If anyone had suggested to me last August that this could happen, I would have stared in disbelief," Brubaker said.</p> <p>-- Philip Hersh</p> <p><em>Photo: Mary Beth Marley and Rockne Brubaker perform their short program at January's U.S. Championships in Greensboro, N.C. 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<h1>“Meier's career ends, Amodio's just starting with gold medals at European Figure Skating Champs - Minneapolis Star Tribune” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-02-12T23:23:00.001-08:00</p>
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style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span>  </p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;">Linda Leaver could not handle the news she got in a phone call from a friend Feb. 15, 1961.<p>So she locked herself in her room for four days. And she locked away her feelings about what happened for the next 50 years, never discussing it, not even with <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB000571" title="Brian Boitano" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/entertainment/brian-boitano-PECLB000571.topic">Brian Boitano</a>, whom she would coach to the 1988 Olympic figure skating gold medal.</p><p>"I didn't know how to deal with it,'' Leaver said. "I kept it deep inside me.''</p><p>Leaver was 17, a high school senior in Tacoma, Wash., when she learned a plane crash had killed the entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team, many of whom were her friends, on its way to the 1961 World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.</p> <br/> Sixteen people accompanying the skaters — coaches, officials, family members — and 38 passengers and crew also died when the Sabena flight from New York plunged into a field while trying to land at its scheduled stop at Brussels, Belgium.<p>It was, at the time, the worst air disaster ever involving a U.S. sports team. The press coverage was enormous. President John F. Kennedy expressed his condolences.</p><p>Bill Hickox, 18, of Berkeley, Calif., the pairs skater who often was Leaver's escort at post-competition parties, was on the flight. So were the Hadleys, sibling pairs team Ila Ray, 18, and Ray, 17, with whom Leaver shared training ice at the Civic Arena in downtown Seattle three days a week, as well as their stepmother, Linda, 31.</p><p>A little more than two weeks ago, during the 2011 U.S. Championships in Greensboro, N.C., U.S. Figure Skating marked the upcoming 50th anniversary of the tragedy by inducting all 34 members of the world team traveling party into its Hall of Fame and having a commemorative reception that included family and friends representing those who died as well as members of the tight-knit figure skating community who had known them.</p><p>Near the end of the formal part of the reception, Leaver found herself so overwhelmed she had to leave.</p><p>"For a long time, all those memories had not come back to the forefront,'' she said. "I was finally confronted with everything right then. I sensed it was the same way for a lot of people.''</p><p>Some have repressed their feelings for half a century. Some have felt it every year.</p><p>"The sound of the words `February 15th' makes you cringe,'' said Joan Sherbloom Peterson of Orange, Calif., whose sister, Diane, an ice dancer, was among the dead.</p><p>A nation whose skaters had become the best in the world suddenly was faced with trying to replace the next generation of elites and their coaches. Within months, a Memorial Fund was established that would turn part of the 1961 team's legacy into financial help for many of its successors, including <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEHST000675" title="Peggy Fleming" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/arts-culture/peggy-fleming-PEHST000675.topic">Peggy Fleming</a>, who would win Olympic gold just seven years later.</p><p>"It was like a phoenix rising from the ashes,'' Boitano said.</p><p>The celebration of that renaissance, as well as a remembrance of the lives lost, is central to the movie, "RISE,'' a U.S. Figure Skating project that will have a one-night, nationwide theatrical showing Thursday, with all ticket proceeds going to the Memorial Fund.</p><p>A new book, "Indelible Tracings,'' also tells the story. Author Patricia Shelley Bushman's painstakingly detailed research brings back the vibrant personalities of those on the plane and provides a historical record of incalculable value.</p><p>It also brings back the emotions.</p><p>"I think the anguish was enough to inhibit communicating about this for 50 years,'' said U.S. Figure Skating historian Ben Wright, 89, friend to many of those who died. "The anniversary has broken the ice.''</p><p>To understand the far-reaching resonance of the tragedy requires context.</p><p>Figure skating essentially was a European sport before <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="EVHST00000110" title="World War II (1939-1945)" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/unrest-conflicts-war/wars-interventions/world-war-ii-%281939-1945%29-EVHST00000110.topic">World War II</a>. No U.S. skaters would win an Olympic or world title until Dick Button got both in 1948. While Button was a revolutionary skater with world-beating ability under any circumstances, the devastation of the war made skating of far lesser consequence in Europe for several years.</p><p>Meanwhile, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB002337" title="Sonja Henie" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/entertainment/sonja-henie-PECLB002337.topic">Sonja Henie</a> had popularized and spread the sport in the United States. Norway's Henie became a huge star of both ice shows and Hollywood movies after winning her third Olympic gold medal in 1936. Her friends built rinks in the Los Angeles area and the ice resurfacing machine that Californian Frank Zamboni invented in 1949 got wide publicity when Henie took a version of it on the road.</p><p>By 1960, the United States had won four Olympic golds in men's singles, two in women's singles and two medals in pairs, plus 20 world titles.</p><p>General interest grew when Carol Heiss and her eventual brother-in-law, David Jenkins, won gold medals in the 1960 <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="EVSPR00000713475" title="2016 Olympic Games" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sports/2016-olympic-games-EVSPR00000713475.topic">Olympics</a> in Squaw Valley, Calif. — the first Olympics televised in the United States.</p><p>On the 1961 world team, there would be five skaters from Boston, figure skating's traditional and exclusionary breeding ground, and eight from the West Coast.</p><p>Among the latter was Sherbloom, 18, of Los Angeles, whose presence on the team owed to a quirk of fate.</p><p>Larry Pierce, 24, of Indianapolis had finished second in dance at the 1960 nationals with Marilyn Meeker. When she broke an ankle in a December, 1960, training accident, Pierce called Sherbloom, with whom he had skated a few times for fun the previous summer. She became U.S. champion with Pierce six weeks later.</p><p>Joan Sherbloom, then 15, never would see her sister again after she left Dec. 18 for Indianapolis.</p><p>"Memories are a picture book in your mind,'' Joan said during the commemoration in North Carolina. "When someone passes on, you have to close the book to go on. This has opened that book up again.''</p><p>It has made Joan recall, with undisguised bitterness, that neither the airline nor skating officials had called with the news of her sister's death before she first learned about it from reporters who came to the family's house.</p><p>She remains angry over her mother's having been told at first the family would have to pay for the shipment of belongings found to have been her sister's, angry that the body had come back with her sister's identification written on a price tag.</p><p>Perhaps that is why Joan responded with an emphatic "no'' to a question about whether the impact of the Memorial Fund gave her a feeling that some good had come from the deaths. Her husband, Ray, said the North Carolina ceremony was "long overdue.''</p><p>Christopher Ryan Nolan is among the skaters who have received some of the $10 million the Memorial Fund has awarded to help with education and skating costs. He is the grandson of crash victim Danny Ryan, coach of Sherbloom and Pierce.</p><p>"It is wonderful that it came back full circle,'' said Sheryl Ryan Nolan, 51, one of Danny's five children — two girls, three boys — and a skating coach in Atlanta.</p><p>Danny Ryan's wife, Rose Anne, who died last November, also was a skating coach. Their youngest son, Michael, was 2 weeks old when the plane crashed.</p><p>"People asked my mother, `What will you do? now,' '' said Terri Ryan Sullivan, 52, of Clinton, N.Y., the elder daughter, also a skating coach. "She answered, `I will go to the rink and teach lessons and feed my kids.' Mom met life head on.''</p><p>The 50th anniversary has given the Ryan children images they never had of their father. One came from video the "RISE" filmmakers found.</p><p>"I can't believe I was seeing my father move,'' Terri said. "He had been just a memory.''</p><p>The most vivid images had been left by Maribel Vinson Owen, then the most renowned woman skater in U.S. history, a Radcliffe-educated, irrepressible force of nature who won not only nine national singles titles — a U.S. record <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB002883" title="Michelle Kwan" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/entertainment/michelle-kwan-PECLB002883.topic">Michelle Kwan</a> matched 68 years later — but six national pairs titles. She also was a journalist, coach and chauffeur for her skaters.</p><p>Vinson Owen, 49, of Boston, was on the plane with her the two daughters, whom she coached: Laurence, 16, who had just become national singles champion, and "Little Maribel,'' 20, who was to skate pairs with Dudley Richards, 29, who had been Sen. Ted Kennedy's Harvard roommate.</p><p>Laurence Owen was on the cover of the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="01026001767" title="Sports Illustrated" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sports/sports-illustrated-01026001767.topic">Sports Illustrated</a> issue dated two days before the crash.</p><p>"As a coach, she was a cross between Bela Karolyi and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PESPT00008929" title="Bill Belichick" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sports/football/bill-belichick-PESPT00008929.topic">Bill Belichick</a>. Some skaters feared her. But we all knew she cared,'' said Paul George, one of Vinson Owen's former skating students.</p><p>George thinks Vinson Owen's indomitable spirit infused the resolve with which U.S. skaters and skating officials began the rebuilding process that led to both sooner-than-expected success — Scott Allen's Olympic singles bronze and Vivian and Ron Joseph's pairs bronze in 1964, Fleming's gold in 1968 — and the decades of excellence that followed.</p><p>"After we got over our stunned sadness, we were more serious,'' George said.</p><p>The circumstances even might have forced the blueblood U.S. Figure Skating hierarchy to swallow some prejudice temporarily.</p><p>The Josephs were a Jewish brother-sister team from Highland Park, Ill., where Vivian still lives. Ron, now a hand surgeon in Florida, said a U.S. judge once told the Josephs' father, "Jews will never represent the United States in figure skating.''</p><p>The crash has driven Barbara Roles for 50 years.</p><p>At 18, Roles had won the singles bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics and then retired, a decision she was reconsidering until becoming pregnant with a daughter who would be born June 24, 1961. Not long after that, U.S. skating officials asked if she would come out of retirement to help bridge the gap to the future.</p><p>"I almost had a guilty feeling that I was spared,'' Roles said.</p><p>She returned to win the national title in 1962, retired again, came back for a failed attempt at the 1964 Olympic team and retired for good as a skater. Roles has coached and taught skating for the past 47 years. She knew everyone on the 1961 world ream</p><p>"I haven't spoken about all this much until this year,'' Roles said. "The anniversary has helped me express my feelings. 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<h1>Celebrate American figure skating with "Rise" at Saginaw 12 on Feb. 17 - MLive.com</h1>
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The figure skating legends will share personal insights and experiences by linking the interwoven stories of some of the biggest names and moments in the history of the sport to those skaters on the 1961 U.S. World Team who lost their lives on Sabena Airlines Flight 548 on its way to the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.</p> <p>2010 Olympic champion Evan Lysacek and his legendary coach, Frank Carroll, family and friends of members of the 1961 Team, and other luminaries of the sport will share their memories of the Team while discussing the effects the tragedy had on the skating world and beyond.</p> <p>Tickets are $11.50 and on sale now at the theater or visit their <a href="http://www.gqti.com/">website.</a> For more information on the event visit the film's <a href="http://www.rise1961.com/about-the-film/">website</a>.<br /></p>   <p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>“1961 World Team exhibit opens at figure skating museum - Examiner” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-02-10T23:20:00.001-08:00</p>
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                                font-weight:bold;                                 text-decoration:none;                         }                                 img {border:none;}                   </style> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"> <table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"> <a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating" title="(http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating)">“1961 World Team exhibit opens at figure skating museum - Examiner” plus 1 more</a> <br /> <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/FigureSkating-BingNews">  </a> </h1> </td> <td width="1%" /> </tr> </table> <hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0" /> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="1" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.examiner.com/sports-in-colorado-springs/1961-world-team-exhibit-opens-at-figure-skating-museum">1961 World Team exhibit opens at figure skating museum - Examiner</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span>  </p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"> <p>At the recent U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Greensboro, NC, the 1961 U.S. World Team was officially inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.  On Thursday evening a ribbon cutting ceremony took place to open the new exhibit at the Hall of Fame and Museum that honors the legacy of that team.  Thirty-four members of the U.S. contingent were killed when a Sabena Airlines flight crashed near Brussels, Belgium on February 15, 1961.  All eighteen skaters perished, as well as sixteen coaches and family members.  They were on their way to the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.</p> <p>Presiding over the ceremony were David Raith, executive director of U.S. Figure Skating, and Doug Price from the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau.  About sixty people were on hand for the event, including a handful of family members of those killed in the crash.</p> <p>"This is a fitting tribute that both visitors and residents will enjoy," Price said. </p> <p>Perhaps the highlight of the evening was a slide presentation by Patty Bushman, author of the book <em>Indelible Tracings</em>, which chronicles the lives of all the members of the U.S. entourage.  Patty was a skater in her younger years, and got the "inspiration from a plaque outside the skating rink in Paramount, CA, that has all 34 names inscribed."  Her talk specifically touched on the eight members from the Broadmoor Skating Club that were killed:  brother/sister pairs skaters Bill and Laurie Hickox; men's competitor Greg Kelly and sister Nathalie; ladies' competitor Steffi Westerfeld and sister Sherry; and coach Edi Scholdan and his 11-year-old son Jimmy.</p> <p>Afterward Bushman signed copies of her book, and members of Team USA were also signing posters and such.  One of the members present was Rachael Flatt, silver medalist at the recent Nationals.  "This is a neat experience," she said.  "At some point I came to realize that the crash is part of U.S. figure skating history.  And I think the Memorial Fund was created eight days afterward.  I have benefitted from that in the last couple years."</p> <p>The U.S Figure Skating Memorial Fund was indeed established on February 23, 1961 to accomodate the outpouring of assistance from the world figure skating community that came in immediately after the tragedy.</p> <p>Thursday night's exhibit ceremony was the first of four things U.S. Figure Skating is doing in commemoration.  Next Tuesday morning there will be a wreath ceremony at 9:30 at the skate bench on the Broadmoor grounds.  The bench has the names of the eight Broadmoor members killed.  Next Thursday will be the nationwide showing of the film RISE, which will honor the victims and tell the story of the rebirth of American figure skating in its wake.  The film starts at 6:00 pm, and will be shown at both Cinemark locations and the Hollywood Theatres in Colorado Springs.  To reserve tickets, call the theatres or go online to <a href="http://www.rise1961.com" rel="nofollow">www.rise1961.com</a>.  Then next Saturday there will be a Colorado Springs reception and fund-raiser for the Memorial Fund.  For information on that, contact U.S. Figure Skating at 719-635-5200.  </p> <p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7721064/ekaterina_gordeeva_figure_skatings.html">Ekaterina Gordeeva: Figure Skating's Most Resilient Athlete - Associated Content</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span>  </p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;">Ekaterina Gordeeva is one of the most recognizable figure skaters in history. She is not only one of the most famous figure skaters, she is also one of the most famous athletes as well. Ekaterina started figure skating <div class="article_ad inner">  <div class="ad_unit"><noscript> <p><a href="http://ads.associatedcontent.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a14de4a9&cb=90838853" target="_blank"></a></p> </noscript></div> </div>  when she was only four years old. She began her skating road as a promising singles skater. Ekaterina Gordeeva had artistic promise beyond her years, but her technical skills such as jumps were not as strong. Sergei Grinkov was also a promising singles skater, but showed difficulty with single jumps. Coaches recognized their promise together, and they became a pair team. The pair went on to become arguably, the best pair team, ever. They have won two gold medals, and four world championships.<p>The pair also developed in other areas of life as well. Ekaterina and Sergei's friendship slowly developed into a passionate romance. The pair's romantic life transcended into their skating life as well. Each movement, each facial expression helped take each performance to another level. In 1991, the pair cemented their partnership by getting married. In 1992, the magical pair welcomed a baby girl into their life named Daria. The pair turned professional which helped them develop further artistically. Ekaterina and Sergei's professional and romantic life was beautiful every day. In 1994, the pair reinstated into the Olympics, and won their second gold medal. The fairy tale seemed to continue for the world's favorite pair.</p><p>In November 1995, Gordeeva and Grinkov were practicing a new program for the tour, Stars On Ice. On November 20, 1995, Sergei Grinkov suffered a fatal heart attack leaving Ekaterina and her daughter, alone. The death of Sergei Grinkov shook the skating world, the greatest pair the world had ever seen was gone. Sergei was only twenty-eight years old. 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<h1>Ice dancers Daniel Klaber and Holly Moore, eighth-place finishers at U.S. Figure Skating ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer</h1>
<p>2011-02-09T23:14:00.001-08:00</p>
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Last year, they were the silver medalists at the intermediate level of ice dancing at the U.S. Figure Skating Junior Championships. Their goal is to compete in the Olympics.</p> <p>Additionally, the ice dance team of Kimberly Berkovich and Micah Jaffe, both of the Pavilion Skating Club, placed fifth in the nation at the juvenile level. The Junior National Championships were held in Salt Lake City in December.</p> <p>The ice dance team of Jessica Manahan of Pavilion Skating Club and Alex Schachtel of Shaker Figure Skating Club placed 13th nationally at the intermediate level. 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<h1>U.S. Figure Skating Championships 2011: Alissa Czisny wins title ahead of Rachael Flatt as Mirai Nagasu ... - Washington Post</h1>
<p>2011-02-07T23:11:00.001-08:00</p>
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Yet Alissa Czisny pushed aside the nation's two young female skating stars Saturday night, showing more cool, maturity - and pure joy - than either on her way to claiming the second U.S. figure skating title of her career.</p><div id="body_after_content_column" readability="137.02910447761"> <p>Czisny's polish was countered by the unraveling of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR2011012707308.html" target="">Mirai Nagasu, 17, who led by 0.85 of a point</a> at the start of the free skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships but committed critical - and inexplicable - mistakes near the end of her program.</p> <p>She ended up in third place, behind Czisny and Rachael Flatt, 18, who jumped from third to second place despite making a handful of mistakes of her own.</p> <p>Czisny, who finished 10th at this event last year, earned the night's best score and 191.24 points overall. Flatt, who finished seventh at last year's Olympic Games, scored 183.38. Nagasu ended up with 177.26.</p> <p>Nagasu's faltering proved doubly costly. Only the top two U.S. women earned trips to the March world championships in Tokyo, which means Nagasu, who finished fourth in last year's Winter Games, will stay home.</p> <p>"I was really nervous before I went out there," Czisny said. "I knew exactly what I had to do. Before every jump, I thought about what I was here for, and what my goals were. I fought for every single thing."</p> <p>For Czisny, the standing ovation began before she stopped her final spin. A year after a calamitous nationals, she stayed on her skates in back-to-back programs and capped a season that included a victory in the prestigious International Skating Union Grand Prix Final in December. She nearly fell attempting a triple loop but hung on, hit her other jumps and showed off difficult spins.</p> <p>"It went so fast," she said. "I landed the last triple toe before I was ready for the program to be done."</p> <p>Czisny said she hopes she's on her way to kicking her reputation for inconsistency. In two previous trips to the world championships, in 2007 and 2009, she has performed poorly, finishing 15th and 11th.</p> <p>"This whole season is me as a new skater," she said. "I've been a lot more consistent in all of my competitions this season, doing what I have to do when I have to do it, and I plan to do that at worlds."</p> <p>Nagasu looked mortified after her skate. She got penalized for under-rotating a couple of jumps, stumbled out of a double Axel and badly muffed her entry to her flying sit spin - a critical mistake that caused her to lose credit for that element.</p> <p>"If I'm not satisfied, or every single run-through isn't perfect, I let that get to me instead of going out there and attacking," Nagasu said. "I just let my nerves get the best of me. . . . I can't believe I messed up on a spin. A spin!"</p> <p>Flatt hoped to electrify the crowd and leap from third to first, but from the start she did not look at the top of her game. She came out of her opening combination short and turned a planned triple Lutz into a double.</p> <p>"Obviously, it was a little bit disappointing," Flatt said. "I guess I was a little bit tired. I had to skate pretty late, so that was a bit tough . . . [but] I accomplished what I needed to here to make sure I could move on to the rest of my season."</p> <p>Alexandria's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012603487.html" target="">Ashley Wagner</a>, in seventh entering Saturday, claimed sixth with 165.36. Silver Spring's Kristine Musademba, who was 13th after the short program, finished 15th with 123.53 points.</p> <p>Given that she missed weeks of training before the start of the season because of bizarre full-body tremors - which she has brought under control with therapy - and faced an untimely bout of flu-like symptoms this week, Wagner said, she was pleased with the outcome.</p> <p>"I have had a traumatic year," she said. "Something was around the corner wherever I went. I'm thinking I'm getting all of the bad experiences out of the way . . . for the rest of my life I should be set."</p> <p><em>Other results:</em> Meryl Davis and Charlie White won their third straight U.S. championship in dance, earning 185.48 to top Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani, who scored 173.18. Gambrill's Ian Lorello and partner Isabella Cannuscio got sixth with 136.55; Meredith Zuber and Centreville's Kyle Herring were ninth (118.06); Vienna's Ginna Hoptman and Pavel Filchenkov finished 10th with 117.53; and Katherine Pilgrim and Gambrill's Alex Lorello placed 15th with 80.39.</p> </div><p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>Asian Winter Games: Murakami strikes figure skating gold+ - Big Hollywood</h1>
<p>2011-02-06T23:43:00.001-08:00</p>
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Countrywoman Haruka Imai took the silver with 167.00.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">Murakami placed first in both Friday's short program and Saturday's free skate.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">The 16-year-old nailed a triple-triple combination jump early in the free skate and went on without major mistakes -- besides slightly touching the ice with her hand on the landing of a double axel.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">"I'm thrilled," Murakami said. "I'm very happy with my free skate because I almost made no mistakes. I had some mistakes in the short program, but the free was really good. It's a confidence boost. I was able to bounce back from a slightly shaky short program."</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">Murakami became the third Japanese gold medalist in as many Games in women's figure skating, following Shizuka Arakawa in 2003 and Yukari Nakano in 2007.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">She now shifts her focus to next month's world championships in Tokyo.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">"I want to turn in a perfect performance in both the short program and the free skate at the worlds," Murakami said.</span></p>    <p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>Figure skating museum to open exhibit honoring 1961 US team - Examiner</h1>
<p>2011-02-05T23:04:00.001-08:00</p>
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<h1>Figure skating watching NFL's plans - ESPN.com</h1>
<p>2011-02-04T23:07:00.001-08:00</p>
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Nationals in non-Olympic years are typically held in late January, when the NFL takes off in preparation for the Super Bowl.</p> <p>But the NFL is considering adding two games to its schedule and could ultimately hold the Super Bowl on Presidents Day weekend. That would mean early-round playoff games the same weekend as nationals.</p> <p>"The NFL schedule will most likely affect the dates of our U.S. championships, and we are waiting to see exactly what transpires," Raith said. "We're prepared to make any adjustments we believe are necessary."</p> <p>Nationals were once held the same weekend as the conference championships, and U.S. Figure Skating moved them to avoid the conflict with the country's most popular sport.</p> <p>U.S. Figure Skating hasn't awarded nationals beyond 2012, which are in San Jose, and Raith said he has let potential host cities know the schedule could change.</p> <p>"It's a big caveat we have with them," Raith said.</p> <p>Conflicts are unavoidable in Olympic years, when nationals are held earlier to give athletes more training time ahead of the Winter Games. They were spread over two weekends last year, and Raith said it's too soon to say whether that will be done again in 2014. Opening ceremonies for the Sochi Games are Feb. 7.</p> <p>"The NFL schedule is a key factor and it will be a key factor in our dates as we go into the future," he said. "Sochi is not Vancouver, it's not a couple of time zones away. 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<h1>U.S. Figure Skating Championships 2011: Alissa Czisny wins title ahead of Rachael Flatt as Mirai Nagasu ... - Washington Post</h1>
<p>2011-02-03T23:40:00.001-08:00</p>
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Yet Alissa Czisny pushed aside the nation's two young female skating stars Saturday night, showing more cool, maturity - and pure joy - than either on her way to claiming the second U.S. figure skating title of her career.</p><div id="body_after_content_column" readability="137.02910447761"> <p>Czisny's polish was countered by the unraveling of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR2011012707308.html" target="">Mirai Nagasu, 17, who led by 0.85 of a point</a> at the start of the free skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships but committed critical - and inexplicable - mistakes near the end of her program.</p> <p>She ended up in third place, behind Czisny and Rachael Flatt, 18, who jumped from third to second place despite making a handful of mistakes of her own.</p> <p>Czisny, who finished 10th at this event last year, earned the night's best score and 191.24 points overall. Flatt, who finished seventh at last year's Olympic Games, scored 183.38. Nagasu ended up with 177.26.</p> <p>Nagasu's faltering proved doubly costly. Only the top two U.S. women earned trips to the March world championships in Tokyo, which means Nagasu, who finished fourth in last year's Winter Games, will stay home.</p> <p>"I was really nervous before I went out there," Czisny said. "I knew exactly what I had to do. Before every jump, I thought about what I was here for, and what my goals were. I fought for every single thing."</p> <p>For Czisny, the standing ovation began before she stopped her final spin. A year after a calamitous nationals, she stayed on her skates in back-to-back programs and capped a season that included a victory in the prestigious International Skating Union Grand Prix Final in December. She nearly fell attempting a triple loop but hung on, hit her other jumps and showed off difficult spins.</p> <p>"It went so fast," she said. "I landed the last triple toe before I was ready for the program to be done."</p> <p>Czisny said she hopes she's on her way to kicking her reputation for inconsistency. In two previous trips to the world championships, in 2007 and 2009, she has performed poorly, finishing 15th and 11th.</p> <p>"This whole season is me as a new skater," she said. "I've been a lot more consistent in all of my competitions this season, doing what I have to do when I have to do it, and I plan to do that at worlds."</p> <p>Nagasu looked mortified after her skate. She got penalized for under-rotating a couple of jumps, stumbled out of a double Axel and badly muffed her entry to her flying sit spin - a critical mistake that caused her to lose credit for that element.</p> <p>"If I'm not satisfied, or every single run-through isn't perfect, I let that get to me instead of going out there and attacking," Nagasu said. "I just let my nerves get the best of me. . . . I can't believe I messed up on a spin. A spin!"</p> <p>Flatt hoped to electrify the crowd and leap from third to first, but from the start she did not look at the top of her game. She came out of her opening combination short and turned a planned triple Lutz into a double.</p> <p>"Obviously, it was a little bit disappointing," Flatt said. "I guess I was a little bit tired. I had to skate pretty late, so that was a bit tough . . . [but] I accomplished what I needed to here to make sure I could move on to the rest of my season."</p> <p>Alexandria's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012603487.html" target="">Ashley Wagner</a>, in seventh entering Saturday, claimed sixth with 165.36. Silver Spring's Kristine Musademba, who was 13th after the short program, finished 15th with 123.53 points.</p> <p>Given that she missed weeks of training before the start of the season because of bizarre full-body tremors - which she has brought under control with therapy - and faced an untimely bout of flu-like symptoms this week, Wagner said, she was pleased with the outcome.</p> <p>"I have had a traumatic year," she said. "Something was around the corner wherever I went. I'm thinking I'm getting all of the bad experiences out of the way . . . for the rest of my life I should be set."</p> <p><em>Other results:</em> Meryl Davis and Charlie White won their third straight U.S. championship in dance, earning 185.48 to top Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani, who scored 173.18. Gambrill's Ian Lorello and partner Isabella Cannuscio got sixth with 136.55; Meredith Zuber and Centreville's Kyle Herring were ninth (118.06); Vienna's Ginna Hoptman and Pavel Filchenkov finished 10th with 117.53; and Katherine Pilgrim and Gambrill's Alex Lorello placed 15th with 80.39.</p> </div><p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Ryan Bradley wins first title - San Jose Mercury News</h1>
<p>2011-02-02T23:12:00.001-08:00</p>
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A national title is a national title, regardless of how you get it.</p> <p>Boosted by his big lead from the short program and meltdowns by the guys who had been right behind him, Bradley won his first crown at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Sunday afternoon. He finished fourth in the free skate, but it was enough to edge up-and-comers Richard Dornbush and Ross Miner.</p> <p>"Today was a really hard program," Bradley said. "Nothing was pretty. It was probably the ugliest national championship program (by a winner) ever, and I love it because of it. Because I had to be gritty."</p> <p>Bradley finished with 231.90 points. Dornbush, who was so out of the mix when the day began he didn't even skate in the last group, won the free skate and finished with 225.56 overall. Miner jumped to third after being sixth in the short program.</p> <p>Two-time defending champion Jeremy Abbott crumbled on yet another big stage, dropping to fourth with a poor free skate and costing himself a spot on the world championships team.</p> <p>"I'm extremely disappointed," Abbott said. "It's hard."</p> <p>Despite their youth, U.S. Figure Skating officials picked both Dornbush, who won the JUNIOR Grand Prix final last month, and Miner, who turned 20 on Monday, to join Bradley at worlds in Tokyo in March. Abbott's history</p>  on the world stage is so checkered it makes sense to give young skaters exposure with the clock on the Sochi Olympics already ticking. <p>It's safe to say, though, that the powerful Japanese and Canada's Patrick Chan probably won't lose any sleep over the U.S. lineup.</p> <p>Perhaps it was skating last or being so close to the title, but Bradley was uncharacteristically flat. His jumps weren't that great, either, missing both of his quads and having shaky landings on a few other jumps.</p> <p>But he tossed a triple toe on his second triple axel, and then did a triple-double-double combination that helped to pad his point total.</p> <p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating">Figure Skating - Bing News</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=ZHnUPTFLlEDgAEsinmod4HHMOoA">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"></div>
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<h1>SD figure skating coach arrested for child porn - San Diego Union-Tribune</h1>
<p>2011-02-01T23:14:00.001-08:00</p>
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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department had issued a warrant for his arrest. The investigation began in 2008 after a family member found the videotape of the 12-year-old girl and reported it to authorities.</p> <p>Sheriff's Detective Victoria Reden said Mandina and the girl's father had been friends for years so it was not unusual that the girl would be at his home. She was unaware Mandina was taping her while she showered, Reden said.</p> <p>After the tape was found, Reden said, Mandina admitted to the girl's father in a text message that he had taken the video and kept it for "personal use."</p> <p>Mandina, a French competitive figure skater in the early 1990s, taught students at various ice skating rinks in San Diego County, including the San Diego Ice Arena in Mira Mesa, according to an older version of the rink's website.</p> <p>He coached a seminar with the Puerto Rican Figure Skating Federation in October and was recently in negotiations for a job to coach permanently for it.</p> <p>In late December, however, he stopped returning phone calls, said Cesar Bonilla, the group's executive director.</p> <p>"I can't believe that he would do something like this," Bonilla said. "I didn't see anything like the accusations while he was here."</p> <p>Originally from France, Mandina is a legal U.S. resident. He is a member of the Professional Skaters Association and was in the process of having his coaching certifications sent to him from California when he was arrested in Massachusetts, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.</p> <p>He waived his right Monday to fight his return to San Diego County, according to the Sentinel & Enterprise, a newspaper that covers Leominster. 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<h1>“Ryan Bradley Wins US Figure Skating Championships - dbtechno.com” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-01-31T23:23:00.001-08:00</p>
<style type="text/css">                          h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;}                          div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul {                                         list-style-type:square;                                         padding-left:1em;                         }                                  div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote {                                 padding-left:6px;                                 border-left: 6px solid #dadada;                                 margin-left:1em;                         }                                  div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li {                                 margin-bottom:1em;                                 margin-left:1em;                         }                           table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active, ul#summarylist li a {                                 color:#CCFF00;                                 font-weight:bold;                                 text-decoration:none;                         }                                 img {border:none;}                   </style> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"> <table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"> <a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating" title="(http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating)">“Ryan Bradley Wins US Figure Skating Championships - dbtechno.com” plus 1 more</a> <br /> <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/FigureSkating-BingNews">  </a> </h1> </td> <td width="1%" /> </tr> </table> <hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0" /> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="1" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.dbtechno.com/sports/2011/01/31/ryan-bradley-wins-us-figure-skating-championships/">Ryan Bradley Wins US Figure Skating Championships - dbtechno.com</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 31 Jan 2011 05:44 AM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"><div readability="48.613157894737">    <p>Ryan Bradley won his first United States Men's Figure Skating Championship on Sunday in Greensboro, North Carolina.</p> <p>Bradley was by far the more poised and consistient skater in the event and while folks like Richard Dornbush, Russ Miner, Jeremy Abbott faltered on the big stage, it was Bradley that kept a level head and rode it all the way to the championship.</p> <p>After the event, the United States Figure Skating executives picked their team for the World Championships and Bradley will be joined by Dornbush and Miner.</p> <p>A very big accomplishment for Dornbush and Miner as they are both young and could definitely make some noise in the upcoming years.</p>   <div class="postmeta2" readability="5.95"> <p>Written by admin · Filed Under <a href="http://www.dbtechno.com/category/sports/" title="View all posts in sports" rel="category tag">sports</a> </p> </div> <br /> </div><p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/01/world-figure-skating-championships-evan-lysacek-1.html">Philip Hersh: World Figure Skating Championships unlikely to produce a big haul for U.S. - Los Angeles Times</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 31 Jan 2011 04:50 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"><div readability="98"> <p><a href="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d8341c60fd53ef0148c8344df8970c-pi" class="c8"></a></p> <p>One medal.</p> <p>That's what the United States figures to get at the March World Figure Skating Championships.</p> <p>That's all that the results -- and quality of skating -- from the U.S. Championships that ended  Sunday would augur.</p> <p>One medal would be the same as last year, when the outlook was better, even if you don't include eventual Olympic champion Evan Lysacek  (who skipped worlds) in the equation.</p> <p>It would be the fourth time in five years dating to 2007 that Team USA has won just one medal.  That lone bronze medal in 2007 had been the lowest U.S. total at worlds since 1994.</p> <p>The difference is the one medal this year could be special, since <strong>Meryl Davis and Charlie White</strong>, who earned the sole prize (silver) in 2010,  have a shot at the first ice dance gold in U.S. history.</p> <p>Whether they can get it should be clearer after next month's Four Continents Championship, where reigning world and Olympic champions <strong>Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir</strong> of Canada plan a season debut delayed by her injury.</p> <p><a href="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d8341c60fd53ef0147e22b2302970b-pi" class="c10"></a> If Davis and White can't beat the Canadians at Four Continents , it's unlikely they will do it at worlds a month later in Tokyo.</p> <p>And here is the outlook in the other three disciplines:</p> <p><strong>MEN</strong> -- The story here will be whether the United States can hold onto a third spot for the 2012 worlds.  To do that, the top two U.S. finishes have to add up to 13 or fewer points.</p> <p>It doesn't look good.</p> <p>Since he did not come out of retirement until October, new U.S. champion <strong>Ryan Bradley</strong> has not done any international events this season.  The last memory international judges have of Bradley is that of an injured skater who staggered to 18th at the 2010 worlds.  He was 15th at his other world appearance in 2007.</p> <p>While Bradley's victory at nationals was deserved, his free skate was sloppy, and he skated much of it at about 2 miles per hour.  The two months between now and worlds should give him a chance to build stamina that was lacking because he began serious training so late.</p> <p>The other two members of the team for Tokyo, world meet rookies <strong>Richard Dornbush</strong> and <strong>Ross Miner,</strong> could surprise if a) each feels as little pressure as he did as a podium longshot at nationals; and b) each skates an error-free program as he did at nationals.</p> <p>Realistically, though, either would succeed by breaking into the top 10 at worlds.</p> <p>After all, Dornbush still was on the Junior Grand Prix circuit this season, and Miner finished seventh and ninth in his two senior Grand Prix appearances, where each field included only about one-third of the world's top men.</p> <p><strong>WOMEN</strong> -- The U.S. medal drought in the women's event at worlds, four years, already is the longest since <strong>Hedy Stenuf's</strong> bronze in 1938 ended a seven-year shutout.</p> </div><div readability="121"> <p>Don't figure on either <strong>Alissa Czisny</strong> or <strong>Rachael Flatt</strong> getting the U.S. off the podium schneid this year, although it would be wise to wait until after Four Continents, where both plan to compete, before writing off their chances of ending the three-year streak of Team USA earning just two women's spots at worlds.</p> <p>Czisny's back-to-back fine performances in winning both nationals and the Grand Prix Final were  impressive and encouraging, since consistency had been among her many issues.</p> <p>But the field at the Grand Prix Final lacked the world's top two skaters of the past three years, reigning Olympic champion <strong>Kim Yuna</strong> of South Korea and reigning world champion <strong>Mao Asada</strong> of Japan. It is hard to predict how either Kim or Mao will do at worlds.</p> <p>For Kim, it will be a competitive season debut.  Asada staggered though the Grand Prix season as she reworked her jump technique under a new coach, but she finally got her act together in finishing second at last month's Japanese championships.</p> <p>Czisny's two previous world appearances have been flops: 15th (2007) and 11th (2009). The latter, when she also was the new national champion, cost the USA a third 2010 Olympic spot, and no U.S. woman ever had done that poorly at worlds in the year when she was national champion.</p> <p>Flatt made a strong world debut with a fifth in 2009 but dropped to ninth last year after a seventh at the Olympics.</p> <p>Were Czisny to skate as well as she did at nationals, it could win her a medal. That would leave Flatt needing only to make the top 10 to get back the third spot.  If each skates at her best level of this season, there is no doubt they will earn that extra spot.</p> <p><strong>PAIRS</strong> -- Hopeless.</p> <p>That didn't stop <strong>Mark Ladwig</strong>, who has teamed with <strong>Amanda Evora</strong> to finish second at nationals the past two years, from claiming at the post-event press conference last week that U.S. pairs were "close'' to making the world podium for the first time since 2002, when <strong>Kyoko Ina</strong> and <strong>John Zimmerman</strong> won bronze.</p> <p>Delusional.</p> <p><strong>John Coughlin</strong>, part of the new U.S. champions with <strong>Caitlin Yankowskas</strong>, said, "We're coming, and the world knows it.''</p> <p>Chimerical.</p> <p>"Medals are great,'' Ladwig said.  "Three teams is the next step.''</p> <p>Make that a giant leap from the abyss into which U.S. pairs skating has fallen.</p> <p>The facts:</p> <p>--The leading U.S. pair at last year's worlds, seventh-place <strong>Caydee Denney</strong> and <strong>Jeremy Barrett</strong>, finished more than 30 points from a bronze medal.</p> <p>--The year before, the leading U.S. team (ninth-place Denney and Barrett), was 29.55 points from a bronze.</p> <p>--The gap between the top U.S. team and bronze was 35.58 in 2008 and 23.42 in 2007.</p> <p>--At the 2010 Olympics, Evora and Ladwig's 10th was the worst finish by the leading U.S. team in Olympic history. (The previous worst was seventh.) Denney and Barrett's 13th made it the worst aggregate finish in the 11 Olympics the United States had two pairs teams.</p> <p>--And Evora-Ladwig's Olympic score was almost 39 points from bronze.</p> <p>Need I make my point(s) any clearer?</p> <p>-- Philip Hersh in Greensboro, N.C.</p> <p><em>Top photo: U.S. Championships medalists Ross Miner (bronze), Ryan Bradley (gold) and Richard Dornbush are unlikely to be draped in new glory at the world championships. Credit: Matthew Stockman / Getty Images</em></p> <p><em>Lower photo: Dramatic U.S. ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White have a shot at a world title in their discipline. 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<h1>“U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Ryan Bradley wins first title - San Jose Mercury News” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-01-30T23:17:00.001-08:00</p>
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A national title is a national title, regardless of how you get it.</p> <p>Boosted by his big lead from the short program and meltdowns by the guys who had been right behind him, Bradley won his first crown at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Sunday afternoon. He finished fourth in the free skate, but it was enough to edge up-and-comers Richard Dornbush and Ross Miner.</p> <p>"Today was a really hard program," Bradley said. "Nothing was pretty. It was probably the ugliest national championship program (by a winner) ever, and I love it because of it. Because I had to be gritty."</p> <p>Bradley finished with 231.90 points. Dornbush, who was so out of the mix when the day began he didn't even skate in the last group, won the free skate and finished with 225.56 overall. Miner jumped to third after being sixth in the short program.</p> <p>Two-time defending champion Jeremy Abbott crumbled on yet another big stage, dropping to fourth with a poor free skate and costing himself a spot on the world championships team.</p> <p>"I'm extremely disappointed," Abbott said. "It's hard."</p> <p>Despite their youth, U.S. Figure Skating officials picked both Dornbush, who won the JUNIOR Grand Prix final last month, and Miner, who turned 20 on Monday, to join Bradley at worlds in Tokyo in March. Abbott's history</p>  on the world stage is so checkered it makes sense to give young skaters exposure with the clock on the Sochi Olympics already ticking. <p>It's safe to say, though, that the powerful Japanese and Canada's Patrick Chan probably won't lose any sleep over the U.S. lineup.</p> <p>Perhaps it was skating last or being so close to the title, but Bradley was uncharacteristically flat. His jumps weren't that great, either, missing both of his quads and having shaky landings on a few other jumps.</p> <p>But he tossed a triple toe on his second triple axel, and then did a triple-double-double combination that helped to pad his point total.</p> </div><p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/01/29/1951755/czisny-wins-us-figure-skating.html">Czisny wins U.S. Figure Skating title for second time - The Sun News</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 29 Jan 2011 08:41 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"><div id="story_text_top" readability="47"> <p>Alissa Czisny became a national champion for a second time in her career, edging Rachael Flatt for first place at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships Saturday night.</p> <p>Czisny, who also won the title in 2009, landed a triple loop and her triple toe was outstanding, on the way to a free skate score of 128.74. That boosted her total to 191.24, which was well ahead of the defending champion Flatt (183.38).</p> <p>"I was really nervous before I went out there," Czisny said. "I knew exactly what I had to do. Before every jump I thought about what I was here for and what my goals were. I fought for every single thing."</p> </div><div id="story_text_remaining" readability="43"> <p>Flatt, who was in third place going into the free skate, had trouble landing a double axel-triple toe combination early in her routine. Yet, she still finished ahead of Mirai Nagasu (177.26), the 2008 champion who was in the lead following Thursday's short program.</p> <p>"It certainly wasn't my best," Flatt said. "I've been training clean programs at home and I did two clean long programs while I was here. 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<h1>“U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Alissa Czisny skates to crown with elegant, almost perfect performance - San Jose Mercury News” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-01-29T23:29:00.000-08:00</p>
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And with good reason.</p> <p>The top three skaters -- Czisny, Rachael Flatt and Mirai Nagasu -- had gone into the long program with only about a point separating them. But Czisny proved she was the night's best by a landslide, winning with a score of 191.24 points. She beat Flatt (183.38) by nearly 8 points and Nagasu (177.26) by almost 14.</p> <p>"I knew exactly what I had to do," Czisny said. "Before every jump, I thought about what I was here for and what my goals were. I fought for every single thing."</p> <p>Czisny, who at 23 is a veteran compared with the others, had just beaten Flatt and Nagasu -- two former national champions -- to become the first American woman to win multiple national championships since Michelle Kwan ended her reign of eight straight titles in 2005.</p> <p>Nagasu, 17, the 2008 national champion, had hoped to be the one to do that. At last year's Vancouver Olympics, she was the top finisher among the American women, finishing fourth. But on Saturday, she was good enough for only third.</p> <p>Nagasu, who has a reputation for crumbling in her long program, came into the final skate in first place. But when she</p>  heard her score Saturday, she could not hide her disappointment. In the kiss-and-cry area, she frowned and slumped over. <p>Not only did Nagasu have problems on several of her jumps, but she also received no points for her flying sit spin after stumbling into its entry.</p> <p>"I can't believe I messed up on a spin! A spin!" she said, adding that she had let her nerves get the best of her.</p> <p>The United States has qualified for only two spots in the women's competition at the world championships in March, so Nagasu will not be making the trip to Tokyo. Instead, Flatt, last year's national champion and this year's runner-up, will join Czisny.</p> <p>Skating to selections from George Winston's "Winter Into Spring," Czisny glided atop the ice so smoothly that she looked weightless. Her blue chiffon dress fluttered as she landed jump after jump with grace. Afterward, she stood at center ice and beamed as the crowd rose to its feet.</p> <p>She had won the national title in 2009, but so many things have happened to her in skating since then. She crumbled at the world championships that year, finishing 11th and costing the United States a third spot in the Olympics. At nationals last year, she finished 10th, missing a chance to compete in Vancouver.</p> <p>Crushed, Czisny wanted to quit the sport, but her mentor, the former Olympic champion Brian Boitano, persuaded her not to.</p> <p class="roundupitem">Notes: Caitlin Yankowskas and John Coughlin won their first national championship in the pairs event, scoring 188.45 points. Coughlin finished the performance in tears, burying his face in Yankowskas' hand. They had skated to "Ave Maria," a song that has been emotional for Coughlin since his mother died last February. ... In ice dancing, Meryl Davis and Charlie White convincingly won their third consecutive national championship with 185.48 points overall, beating the up-and-comers Maia and Alex Shibutani.</p> </div><p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-fig-europeans,0,4236236.story">Meier's career ends, Amodio's just starting with gold medals at European Figure Skating Champs - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 29 Jan 2011 03:33 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"><div id="story-body-text" readability="141.86524141244"><a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100602011427" title="Bern (Swiss Confederation)" href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/intl/swiss-confederation/bern-%28swiss-confederation%29-PLGEO100100602011427.topic">BERN</a>, Switzerland (AP) — Sarah Meier's career came to a perfect end, winning gold at the European Figure Skating Championships on Saturday. Florent Amodio's is just beginning.<p>Meier turned her last performance before retiring into a victory lap as the 26-year-old Swiss earned her first major title in front of adoring home fans.</p><p>A few hours later, the crowd rose again to acclaim Amodio, a 20-year-old French skater whose turn as an arrogant, strutting disco dancer won the men's European title at his first attempt. He had placed 12th at the Vancouver <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="EVSPR00000713475" title="2016 Olympic Games" href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/sports/2016-olympic-games-EVSPR00000713475.topic">Olympics</a>.</p><p>Born in Brazil but adopted as a toddler by a French couple, Amodio sang his anthem with gusto and right hand over his heart before jumping up and down on the top step of the podium with both arms in the air.</p> <br/> "It's a dream that has become reality," said Amodio, who thanked the audience for its support. "Sometimes I couldn't hear the music because they were so loud."<p>Saturday's individual events provided an emotional end to an otherwise low-key week in which Russia was shut out of the gold medals, one year after going 3-for-4.</p><p>Meier's victory was reward for returning after a disappointing Olympic season, and yet more injuries, for a final farewell at home.</p><p>Sitting third after Friday's short program, Meier was the last to skate. She dealt calmly with rapidly rising tension in the arena, as expectations of a Swiss victory grew when each of her main rivals fell.</p><p>Meier skated error-free to score a total of 170.60 points, edging defending champion Carolina Kostner of Italy by just over two points. Kiira Korpi of Finland took bronze on 166.40.</p><p>"It was so hard for me because it was so emotional," said Meier, who buried her face in her hands after completing her career-defining routine.</p><p>"Before the free skate I was no nervous. I tried to concentrate and now all the emotions come out."</p><p>After landing her opening combination of jumps — triple lutz-double toeloop-double loop — Meier never faltered in an expressive routine set to music from the film "Love in the Time of Cholera."</p><p>Kostner, a three-time champion, lost her victory chance by falling in both her programs. Her technical skills meant she scored best in the free skate and rose from sixth after the short program.</p><p>"I'm very surprised with the result and so happy for Sarah," said Kostner, who denied Meier the European title in 2007 and '08.</p><p>Korpi led after the short program but sprawled on the ice landing a triple loop, after also putting her hand to the ice.</p><p>Russian teenager Ksenia Makarova, a former United States junior, failed to defend her second-place spot from Friday and finished fourth. Teammate Alena Leonova rose to fifth having been 13th after a poor short program.</p><p>However, the Russian national champion could not compete this week. Fourteen-year-old Adelina Sotnikova is not eligible under International Skating Union age rules until the 2013 Europeans.</p><p>Amodio brought a teenager's verve on to the rink, showing no tension while defending his lead from Thursday's short program. He concluded his routine — which did not include a quadruple jump — with moves to <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB002548" title="Michael Jackson" href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/entertainment/music/michael-jackson-PECLB002548.topic">Michael Jackson's</a> "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough."</p><p>"It's true that I don't yet do a quad for competition, but I will try to do it for the worlds," he said, targeting the Tokyo event in March.</p><p>Amodio scored well on step sequences and amassed a total of 226.86 points, less than four ahead of compatriot Brian Joubert. The three-time champion had the best free skate to climb from seventh.</p><p>Joubert, whose silver extended his streak of European medals to 10 straight years, was Amodio's roommate in the French team hotel.</p><p>"It's thanks to this kind of friendship between us, and all the team, that we can perform so well," Joubert said. France also got ice dance gold from Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat.</p><p><a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000046" title="Czech Republic" href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/intl/czech-republic-PLGEO00000046.topic">Czech</a> skater Tomas Verner, the 2008 champion, took bronze on 222.60 having also performed to a Jackson medley.</p><p>"There's a reason why you skate to Michael Jackson music," Verner said, before Amodio arrived at the official news conference. 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<h1>Finland's Kiira Korpi leads after women's short program at European Figure Skating Champs - Minneapolis Star Tribune</h1>
<p>2011-01-28T23:04:00.001-08:00</p>
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<h1>“Mirai Nagasu wins US figure skating short programme - Big Hollywood” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-01-27T23:20:00.001-08:00</p>
<style type="text/css">                          h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;}                          div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul {                                         list-style-type:square;                                         padding-left:1em;                         }                                  div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote {                                 padding-left:6px;                                 border-left: 6px solid #dadada;                                 margin-left:1em;                         }                                  div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li {                                 margin-bottom:1em;                                 margin-left:1em;                         }                           table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active, ul#summarylist li a {                                 color:#CCFF00;                                 font-weight:bold;                                 text-decoration:none;                         }                                 img {border:none;}                   </style> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"> <table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"> <a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating" title="(http://www.bing.com:80/news/search?q=Figure+Skating)">“Mirai Nagasu wins US figure skating short programme - Big Hollywood” plus 1 more</a> <br /> <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/FigureSkating-BingNews">  </a> </h1> </td> <td width="1%" /> </tr> </table> <hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0" /> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="1" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.3ed38c9a2d984da575b015d58529439c.171&show_article=1">Mirai Nagasu wins US figure skating short programme - Big Hollywood</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 27 Jan 2011 09:05 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"><div readability="32"><br /><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/image.php?id=iafpCNG.3ed38c9a2d984da575b015d58529439c.171p0&show_article=1&article_id=CNG.3ed38c9a2d984da575b015d58529439c.171"></a>  Mirai Nagasu (pictured in 2010) on Thursday edged Alissa Czisny to win the ...</div><div readability="49.891891891892"><span class="lingo_region">Mirai Nagasu edged Alissa Czisny to win the short programme at the US Figure Skating Championships at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex arena.</span> <p><span class="lingo_region">Nagasu scored 63.35 points skating to the "Witches of Eastwick" program on Thursday.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">That places her just ahead of 2009 champion Czisny (62.50). Nagasu was also the second-youngest winner when she earned the national title three years ago.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">Defending champ Rachael Flatt is third at 62.32.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">In pairs, Caitlin Yankowskas and John Coughlin seized the lead by winning the short program earlier Thursday.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">The duo scored 64.30 points with Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig second at 62.87 and the tandem of Mary Beth Marley and Rockne Brubaker third on 58.10.</span></p> <p><span class="lingo_region">The event will conclude on Saturday with the pairs free skate.</span></p> <p><br /><span class="c9">Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium</span></p>    </div><p><em>This entry passed through the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full-Text RSS</a> service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php">fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php</a><br /><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598:collateral-damage-wikileaks-in-the-crosshairs&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68">Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs</a>.</em></p></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-fig-europeans,0,7908507.story">Savchenko and Szolkowy return to top, take pairs gold at European Figure Skating Champs - Los Angeles Times</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 27 Jan 2011 07:11 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;"><div id="story-body-text" readability="115.96590572191">BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy won the pairs title at the European Figure Skating Championships on Thursday, ending their two-year wait for another gold medal.<p>The Olympic bronze medalists from Germany scored a total of 206.20 points after a free skate routine to the "Pink Panther" theme, during which Savchenko erred by coming out early from a spin move.</p><p>Defending champions Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov of Russia scored well with a more subtle program set to piano music by Debussy, but were edged by less than three points.</p> <br/> "It's been the longest 5 minutes of my life," Szolkowy said, after watching Kavaguti and Smirnov fall just short with an impressive routine.<p>Another Russian pair, Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov, earned bronze for their first major medal.</p><p>Savchenko and Szolkowy swept the world and European titles in 2008 and '09 but went through the Olympic season without taking gold at a major championship. They led after the short program on Wednesday.</p><p>Savchenko said she was surprised at her big mistake halfway through the routine.</p><p>"It was a completely new situation for me," she said. "I thought, 'Should I stand still or continue to spin?' The important thing is to continue the program."</p><p>Smirnov said the silver medalists were happy with their performance.</p><p>"I think we have a nice program this year and, hopefully, before the world championships it will become more beautiful," he said through a translator.</p><p>Savchenko and Szolkowy can expect an even stronger Russian challenge at the worlds in Tokyo in March.</p><p>Russia's new national pairs champions, Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, will then be eligible to compete internationally once she completes a one-year exclusion for switching from her native Ukraine after the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="EVSPR00000713475" title="2016 Olympic Games" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/2016-olympic-games-EVSPR00000713475.topic">Olympics</a>.</p><p>Earlier, Florent Amodio shone on his Europeans debut to lead after the men's short program.</p><p>The Frenchman scored 78.11 points for an artistic routine set to music from the film "Once Upon a Time in Mexico."</p><p>"I'm very satisfied with my performance. But I won't get carried away and I need to stay focused," said Amodio, who landed a clean triple lutz-triple toeloop combination.</p><p>Michal Brezina of the Czech Republic was second on 76.13 after missing the Grand Prix season to recover from abdominal surgery.</p><p>"I really just want to show that I got back into the mood I was in last year," Brezina said.</p><p>Russian teenager Artur Gachinski sat third on 73.76. He landed a quad toeloop-double toeloop early in a routine set to music from <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB00027614443" title="Pink Floyd (music group)" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/pink-floyd-%28music-group%29-PECLB00027614443.topic">Pink Floyd's</a> "Dark Side of the Moon" album.</p><p>Gachinski showed glimpses of why he's seen by many, at 17, as an eventual successor to 2006 Olympic champion <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PESPT008801" title="Evgeni Plushenko" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/ice-skating/evgeni-plushenko-PESPT008801.topic">Evgeni Plushenko</a>. Both are coached in St. Petersburg by Alexei Mishin.</p><p>The three leaders represent a potential youthful takeover of the podium.</p><p>Amodio said he anticipated a "good battle" in Saturday's free skate with more experienced rivals such as Kevin van der Perren of Belgium, who was fourth, and 2008 European champion Tomas Verner in fifth.</p><p>Three-time champion Brian Joubert of France placed seventh as he seeks a European medal for the 10th straight year. 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<h1>“U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Teen phenom Mirai Nagasu seeks high peaks, fewer valleys - San Jose Mercury News” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-01-26T23:38:00.001-08:00</p>
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"The thing about her that's baffling is the peaks and valleys."</p> <p>Nagasu is perhaps the most promising skater the United States has had since the days Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen ruled the world, with a mesmerizing blend of athleticism, lyrical style and expression that can captivate fans and make them feel as if they're on the ice with her.</p> <p>She was just 14 years and 9 months when she won the title at the 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, making her the second-youngest winner behind Olympic gold medalist Tara Lipinski. Nagasu finished fourth at last year's Vancouver Olympics and led the world championships after the short program.</p> <p>But success can be a little tough to handle for the irrepressible 17-year-old, who couldn't take herself seriously if she tried. "Sometimes I have issues believing in myself," Nagasu conceded</p> <p>Rachael Flatt is the defending champion at the nationals, which begin Thursday, and 2009 U.S. champ Alissa Czisny won the Grand Prix final last month. But Nagasu, who won her first Grand Prix medal at Trophee Eric Bompard in November, can never be counted out -- unless she does it herself.</p> <p>"I've grown up in a culture that it's more important to hear the negative aspects and where you</p>  can improve rather than the compliments," Nagasu said. "A lot of times compliments can go to your head. So I'd rather hear the negative parts. But sometimes it's not always good, so Frank does a really good job with that." <p>Indeed, it was Carroll's no-nonsense style that made Nagasu want to train with him in the first place. After winning her U.S. title, Nagasu went through a growth spurt, ankle injury and ordinary teenage angst that, taken together, made for a disastrous season in 2009. She dropped to fifth at nationals and was crying as she took the ice for her free skate.</p> <p>She switched that summer to Carroll, who demands discipline and focus at every practice. Goof around, lolly gag or sulk, and skaters will find themselves banished from the ice for the day -- as Nagasu has a time or two.</p> <p>And what Carroll didn't expect of Nagasu, training mate Evan Lysacek did. The Vancouver gold medalist works so hard Carroll often had to hold him back, and Nagasu couldn't help but be influenced by his work ethic.</p> <p>"Evan and I have been texting each other, and he asked me about Mirai, and I said, 'She needs you, get here. She needs you to scream at her,' " Carroll said with a laugh. "She always felt she couldn't get away with anything because she wasn't working as hard as he was so she'd better try harder. He was a great influence. And they're very good friends. He's sort of like her big brother."</p> <p>Nagasu added, "He never has a bad day, and I really like training with him because it motivates me. ... If I could copy him and become a champion, that would be great."</p> <p>The good thing for Nagasu is she's got another three years to mature before the Sochi Olympics, and each practice, each competition gives her an opportunity to grow. She followed a "brilliant" practice Tuesday morning with an "absolutely dreadful" one in the afternoon, Carroll said, prompting another one of their "talks."</p> <p>Think of music with extreme highs and lows, with Carroll the equalizer who turns it into a balanced, beautiful piece. "She's a very emotional girl," Carroll said. "Unfortunately, this sport is based on getting the job done and being consistent. And consistency is not just doing the elements and skating consistently. 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<h1>U.S. Figure Skating Championship notebook: Finishers of note - Greensboro News & Record</h1>
<p>2011-01-24T23:25:00.001-08:00</p>
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They had to look out for their pals from Colorado - both teams skate at the same club in Colorado Springs.</p> <p>"It's lonely out there on the ice," Coughlin said. "We gotta support them.</p> <p>The cheers - one of which was a tease on Settlage's white pants he wore to skate to music from "The Nutcracker" - must've worked.</p> <p>The pair won gold in their division of the figure skating championships.</p> <p><strong>The champion arrives<br/></strong></p> <p>Rachael Flatt, reigning <a href="http://www.figureskatersonline.com/rachaelflatt/rachael.html">2010 U.S. Womens Figure Skating Champion</a>, arrived in Greensboro about 3 p.m. at the Sheraton Four Seasons.</p> <p>She was as full of smiles and warmth as one might expect, but deferred questions to go through U.S. Figure Skating officials. Fans are another story, though. Within a few minutes she had stopped to take a photo with some girls who were checking out with their moms.</p> <p>Gabrielle Mauro, 12, was able to get a photo with Flatt and her friend Paige Connors, 10. They came down from Buffalo, N.Y. to be here and support their friend Jordan Bauth.</p> <p>"She was really, really nice," Mauro said about Flatt. "I kinda took a double take."</p> <p>The photo will be added to others she has with figure skating stars from past championships.</p> <p>"I put 'em in a scrapbook," she said.</p> <p><strong>Field trip</strong></p> <p>Local school students will get a chance to see figure skating, much like they do during the Women's ACC Basketball Tournament.</p> <p>They starting coming monday, and will each day throguh Thursday. 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<h1>“Patrick Chan wins 4th Canadian figure skating title in a row - USA Today” plus 1 more</h1>
<p>2011-01-23T23:31:00.000-08:00</p>
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"I finally got it. It wasn't exactly the same situation, but you know what, I'm going to take it and that's going to be one of my most memorable moments for sure, hands down."</p>  <p class="inside-copy">Chan's performance left coaches and officials scrambling over notes trying to calculate his score.</p> <p class="inside-copy">"You're kind of spellbound," said Mike Slipchuk, Skate Canada's high performance director. "It wasn't just two quads, it was everything. Every element was done to perfection. It's kind of scary when (he) finishes, and we have no idea what the score is going to be because we've never seen that before."</p> <p class="inside-copy">His overall points topped his own world best of 268.02 he set at last year's Canadian championships, but it won't be recognized as a world record by the International Skating Union because it's a domestic event.</p> <p class="inside-copy">Chan admitted the skate was a career best, but added: "There's more to come.</p> <p class="inside-copy">"Forget about technically, technically I think I've got it covered," he said. "I think I want to work on the quad flip for next year, I was throwing it around in Colorado and everyone was like, 'Oh yeah, you could do a quad flip easily from the looks of your triple,' so I think I trust them enough to try."</p> <p class="inside-copy"><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Vanessa+Crone" title="More news, photos about Vanessa Crone">Vanessa Crone</a> and <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Paul+Poirier" title="More news, photos about Paul Poirier">Paul Poirier</a> won their first national senior ice dance title, scoring 98.41 points for their performance to <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Celebrities/Musicians,+Composers,+Singers,+Rappers,+Groups/The+Beatles" title="More news, photos about The Beatles">The Beatles</a>' "<a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Eleanor+Rigby" title="More news, photos about Eleanor Rigby">Eleanor Rigby</a>," for 164.21 points overall.</p> <div class="inside-copy c12"><em>Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. 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