Jo-Ann Barnas: Area clubs’ 6 entrants in world championships a success story – Detroit Free Press

Jo-Ann Barnas: Area clubs' 6 entrants in world championships a success story
Detroit Free Press
By Jo-Ann Barnas The success rate among our locals at last week's US Figure Skating Championships sent me to the record book the other day to research the last time Michigan had qualified so many skaters for the world championships.

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Where to go: Mt. Lebanon Ice Center – Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Where to go: Mt. Lebanon Ice Center
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
• What to do: When Mother Nature can't provide stable skating ice, try Mt. Lebanon Park. Two rinks — a 200-foot by 85-foot main rink and a 60-foot by 80-foot studio rink — are hosts to public skating, as well as high school and league hockey,

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Military Rec: The ice at Cleland Ice Rink is hot during February – Fayetteville Observer

Military Rec: The ice at Cleland Ice Rink is hot during February
Fayetteville Observer
Cleland Ice Rink will host a series of events this month in coordination with US Figure Skating and USA Hockey. The event will feature exhibitions by local figure skaters, as well as on-ice time with local instructors for kids who are interested in

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Figure skating gold medalist from Whitby lands province’s highest honour – durhamregion.com

Figure skating gold medalist from Whitby lands province's highest honour
durhamregion.com
Figure skating gold medalist from Whitby lands province's highest honour. WHITBY — Donald Jackson, world gold medalist in figure skating, was one of 27 Ontarians appointed to the Order of Ontario. Looking on with admiration on January 27,

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Figure Skating Ram Classic – Colorado State University News (press release)


Colorado State University News (press release)
Figure Skating Ram Classic
Colorado State University News (press release)
This is an amazing opportunity to cheer on the skaters on their way to Nationals. You can show your support by purchasing and wearing an official CSU Figure Skating t-Shirt (contact Molly at molly.may.parsons@gmail.com for more information) or other

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Imai embraces change – Golden Skate

Imai embraces change
Golden Skate
Japan's Haruka Imai performs to Mendelssohn's "Song without words in D major, Op.109" at 2011 Skate America. Though Haruka Imai is still in the shadow of the Japanese figure skating stars, she is certainly one to watch. This season she made some

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Gracie Gold trains for 2014 Olympic team – The State Journal-Register

Gracie Gold trains for 2014 Olympic team
The State Journal-Register
That day, the young member of the Springfield Figure Skating Club said her college plans were to attend Stanford University to study ophthalmology. But she wanted to “make figure skating work” as a career. Gracie spoke with a dreamy voice,

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Dancing On Ice’s Katarina Witt reveals secret police spied on her having sex – Scottish Daily Record


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Dancing On Ice's Katarina Witt reveals secret police spied on her having sex
Scottish Daily Record
But no one was watching the East German figure skater more closely than her country's own secret police – the notorious Stasi. East Germany's communist regime was determined their sporting heroine, who is now a judge on hit ITV show Dancing on Ice,
Dancing on Ice judge Katarina Witt claims East Germany's communist regime Daily Mail
Katarina Witt says East Germany's secret police spied throughout her lifeTruthDive

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Skating outfits a big part of the sport – Omaha World-Herald

Skating outfits a big part of the sport
Omaha World-Herald
There are the hours of work — top figure skaters can spend seven to eight hours a day training on and off the ice — the music, the coaches, the choreography. But Arbour, a former skater who runs a Connecticut-based skating apparel company,

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Dancing on Ice star Katarina Witt was spied on by East Germany’s secret police – Mirror.co.uk


Mirror.co.uk
Dancing on Ice star Katarina Witt was spied on by East Germany's secret police
Mirror.co.uk
But no one was watching the East German figure skater more closely than her country's own secret police – the notorious Stasi. East Germany's communist regime was determined their sporting heroine, who is now a judge on hit ITV show Dancing on Ice,

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