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How toxic injury culture is perpetuated in elite figure skating
06 May 2024 14:46 GMT
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When Olympic figure skater Polina Edmunds was 17, every … injury is mostly inevitable for figure skaters.
“Figure skating is not a natural sport … skating community. Becoming an elite figure skater requires immense ambition, but this …
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China’s cheating threatens to wreck Paris Olympics, US anti-drugs chief says
06 May 2024 21:14 GMT
… which is funded by the Olympic Movement and national governments — … unhindered through the Paris Olympics is another sensitive subject … cheating has marred previous Olympics, notably at Sochi in … Valieva, a teenage Russian figure skater, tested positive for the …
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Figure skating legend Kristi Yamaguchi honoured with a Barbie doll: 'It's surreal!'
05 May 2024 22:36 GMT
… 52-year-old former competitive figure skater has had a version of … gold at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
She told E! News: … take her doll version of figure skater Dorthy Hamill to the rink …
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Former Olympian and NBC commentator Johnny Weir in Chesapeake for figure skating seminar
04 May 2024 03:44 GMT
… Olympics in Milan still a couple of years away, NBC figure skating … best skaters.”
The Tidewater Figure Skating Club and Academy has been … Jordan Thurston, who got into figure skating because of Weir.
“To … , that’s where the figure skaters will be on their full …
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Figure skater Debi Thomas eyes a comeback at age 57
03 May 2024 12:20 GMT
Figure skater Debi Thomas recently visited … Milwaukee in July.
"Figure skating has changed a lot over … skating, reminiscent of the Olympic figure skating that was discontinued after Thomas … medal in the Winter Olympics in figure skating, period. It doesn’ …
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Olympic figure skating gold medalist Sjoukje Dijkstra dies at 82
02 May 2024 22:02 GMT
… won the 1964 Olympic women’s singles figure skating title and three world … the Dutch National Olympic Committee.
“Sjoukje Dijkstra was a figure skating legend,” committee … .
Dijkstra remains the lone Dutch figure skater to win an Olympic title.
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Olympic figure skating gold medalist Sjoukje Dijkstra dies at 82
02 May 2024 23:49 GMT
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Dutch figure skating icon Sjoukje Dijkstra dies at 82
02 May 2024 21:31 GMT
… Pot, Dutch national archivesFormer figure skater and Olympic champion Sjoukje Dijkstra has died … Netherlands its first ever Winter Olympics gold in 1964.
Sjoukje Dijkstra … gold medals in the 1948 Olympics.
King Willem-Alexander was among …
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Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi expands youth literacy program in Hawaii
04 May 2024 21:25 GMT
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Olympic gold medalist figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is expanding her …
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‘I want to push the limits’: ‘quad god’ Ilia Malinin on his mission to save figure skating – and do a quintuple
02 May 2024 04:16 GMT
… came to overshadow the figure skating competition at the most … each followed to multiple Olympic appearances representing Uzbekistan. … at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal in … the technical boundaries of figure skating, that Malinin’s eyes …