The International Skating Union released the following statement today regarding the 2011 World Championships: Taking into account the continued critical developments in Japan, the ISU’s primary concern for the safety of all participants, spectators and members of concerned entities as well as…
Article by Melanie HoytPhoto by Katie Weigel If an elite ice dancer, newly retired from competitive skating, is going to feel a slight twinge of regret, it’s probably going to be in March. This is especially likely if it’s…
2011 WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – GANGNEUNG, KOREAFebruary 27 – MARCH 6, 2011 ADDITIONAL RESULTS & PROTOCOLS: FINAL RESULTS: FPl. Name Nation Points SD FD 1 Ksenia MONKO / Kirill KHALIAVIN RUS 144.16 1 1 2 Ekaterina PUSHKASH…
March 5, 2011 Very quickly, I would like to share with everyone the experience of being drug tested. As I forgot to mention in my previous blog, I was the random selection for drug testing after the free dance. So…
2011 WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – GANGNEUNG CITY, REPUBLIC OF KOREA February 27-March 6, 2011 Photographs Competitors Blog by Colin McManus
The culmination of the season for junior figure skaters — the 2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships — will take place from February 27-March 6 in Gangneung, South Korea. In ice dance, 33 teams are on the roster, which is…
by Isabella Cannuscio Last week, the movie RISE premiered in theaters all over the country. If you didn’t already know, RISE is a documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1961 U.S. World Figure Skating Team that perished on its…
The 2011 ISU Four Continents Championships opened with the short dance Thursday afternoon, and, as expected, Canadians Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir and Americans Meryl Davis & Charlie White are in a close battle to claim the top spot on…
In 1999, the ISU created the Four Continents Championships as a parallel event to the European Championships that would give non-European skaters an opportunity to win prize money. In the past, top athletes from North America have often declined the…
2011 RUSSIAN JUNIOR NATIONALS – KAZAN, RUSSIAFebruary 1-4, 2011 ADDITIONAL RESULTS & PROTOCOLS: http://fsrussia.ru/upl/results/rusnatjun2011/index.htm (in Cyrillic) FINAL: FPl. Name Nation Points КТ ПТ 1 Ksenia Monko / Kiriil Khaliavin МОС 158.64 1 1 2 Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro МОС 147.09…