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Synchronized figure skaters perform together as a unit to a four and a half minute choreographed program to set music. I had the pleasure of meeting this weekend, The Esprit De Corps, a talented group...
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Ice is slippery. Figure skating is hard. Olympic pressure is massive. Only the strong survive, and the toughest will win. Adelina Sotnikova is figure skating’s new ice queen because she competed like a street fighter. The...
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You live by the quad and you die by the quad. The strongest field ever in in the men’s Olympic figure skating event succumbed to the pressure of the Olympic stage, and to their...
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As fresh and as fun as the American teams are, they could not match the experience, strength, consistency and classic style of the resurrected super power of pairs skating. The Russians would rule, and it...
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By Alice Cook, She’s Game Sports The first team event in figure skating has made its Olympic debut, and so have New England’s own Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir.The United States finished third behind the Russians...
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These are the final days when athletes from all over the world are putting the finishing touches on their routines, sharpening their blades, packing up the snowboards, the skis and the bobsleds. These Olympians...
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The gauntlet was laid down by the reigning champion Max Aaron. ‘The long program sets the men apart from the boys,” Aaron said Thursday night. ” I have the arsenal in jump content. I have...
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Dorothy Hamill, Dick Button and Michelle Kwan were all in the house. I might say all of them look like they can lace them up and rip off a triple toe with their eyes closed. There is...
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Just watching the pair teams warm up, gives me butterflies. I remember the excitement I felt as a 19 year old skater, in second place with my partner. Bill Fauver and I were just...
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Minutes before the men’s short program warm up, a video preview blasted from the center ice jumbo screen. The music was a perfect prelude to this event. “The Eye of the Tiger” was made famous...
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