Press Release by ISU.org Nobunari Oda of Japan outskated Canada's Patrick Chan and Daisuke Takahashi of Japan to win the Men's Short Program. All three had a new seasons best. Skating to „Storm“ by the Yoshida Brothers, Oda nailed a quad-triple toeloop combination, a triple Axel and Lutz to score ...

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My new slide show is dedicated to the most courageous figure skater Joannie Rochette. I think her Olympic medal is worth more than all the medals together. It is people like her amaze us to the depth of soul.

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Skating President on World Champs, Team Event, 2018 Race This interview appears at www.aroundtherings.com, the world's leading source of news about the Olympics, and is used with permission. By Matthew Grayson (ATR) International Skating Union president Ottavio Cinquanta tells Around the Rings the progress present in today's sport is "creating ...

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Results: 1.Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir(Canada)-114.40 2.Meryl Davis/Charlie White(USA)-112.54 3.Federica Faiella/Massimo Scali(Italy)-100.01 4.Nathalie Pechalat/Fabian Bourzat(France)-96.30 5.Sinead Kerr/John Kerr(Great Britain)-95.79 What are these ice dancers doing with us?!!! They are opening our hearts and saying: "Hey people! Why your lives are full of impatience? Why you allow so much negatives to this world? ...

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' By Vladislav Luchianov Figure skating is a great sport which gives us many wonderful emotions. We are happy when our favorites skate their best programs. We always look forward to their new appearance on the ice. But not all fans know that their support of the favorites can be ...

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Author: Vladislav Luchianov Photo by Marina Nastevych We can endlessly talk about Tatiana Volosozhar as a figure skater. But it is also possible to talk endlessly about her as a person. No doubts that she is one of the best figure skaters in the world. But today I would like ...

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Interview by Vladislav Luchianov Assistance: Anastasiya Myasoedova Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov are the Russian junior pair skaters. They live and train in St. Petersburg. Their coaches are Ludmila Velikova and Nikolai Velikov who brought up many World and European champions. Choreographer is Alexander Stepin. Results: The season of 2010/11 ...

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Interview by Vladislav Luchianov Today we are talking with the U.S. National Champion, Olympic team member Rachael Flatt. Rachael is the 2010 U. S. National Champion, National silver medalist 2008&2009, and 2008 World Junior Champion. This year she was nominated to represent the United States at the Vancouver Olympics, and ...

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Germany’s Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy took the Pairs Short Program ahead of the two Russian couples Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov and Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov. Savchenko/Szolkowy put out a characteristic folk program to “Khorobushko” that was highlighted by an excellent throw triple flip, a side by side triple toe, triple twist and difficult ...

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By Vladislav Luchianov Russia has applied to host the world figure skating championships, which were canceled in Tokyo after the recent earthquake and tsunami. Russia hosted the 2005 figure skating worlds at the Luzhniki sports complex in central Moscow. But according to the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, the Russian skating federation ...

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