The World Figure Skating Championships begin Wednesday with the men's and pairs short programs.
In figure skating, a quadruple jump, or toe loop, was inconceivable in the 1970s.
The "West Wing" actress played sports and enjoyed figure skating, so staying active was easy.
It is the first time in 50 years the World Figure Skating Championships have been called off.
As well as the figure skating championships, April's new international team event in Yokohama has also been called off.
Kwan, who won the silver medal four years ago, shows how much of a draw figure skating has become.
Preliminary press reports indicate that the figure skating competition won a hefty 42 share last night, trouncing other programming.
In sports like tennis, golf, gymnastics, and figure skating, kids are competing at the highest levels in their teenage years.
Tonya Harding appeared in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France and finished fourth in the figure skating program.
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Figure skating is meant to be a blend of art and athleticism, and Kim poured her entire soul into her feet.
Williams considers figure skating one of the seven most popular sports in the U.S., based on TV following and event attendance.
The attack knocked Kerrigan out of the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but she came back to compete in Lillehammer against Harding.
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The U.S. Figure Skating Association banned her from the sport for life.
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But for the most part he uses pairs figure skating, which used to be his full-time profession, as an outlet from film making.
While toe-touches and extra flexibility might be required in gymnastics or figure skating, it's irrelevant for more everyday activities like basketball or weightlifting.
The pair, formerly ranked number one in the world, opened the Vancouver Olympic figure skating competitions by performing first of the 20 competing pairs.
As in, I avoid it much the way I steer clear of house cats, Olympic figure skating and radio stations that play Taylor Swift.
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Their holiday package included entry into several events - the women's downhill, curling, ice hockey, figure skating, free dance, freestyle aerials and the Nordic combined.
In a sport defined by grace and artistry, it's ironic that figure skating won its popularity--and its big paydays--in 1994, thanks to an act of brutality.
He was already under indictment in a separate U.S. case accusing him of bribing Olympic figure skating judges at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Back at the World Figure Skating Championships for the first time in two years, Olympic champion Kim Yu-na looked as if she'd never been away Saturday night.
With practice areas for figure skating, ice hockey, skiing, snowboarding and speed skating, among others, this network serves as the main East Coast training center for winter-sports Olympians.
Peggy Fleming , the 1968 Olympic figure skating champion, and her husband, Gregory Jenkins , put an acre under vines at their Los Gatos, Calif. home four years ago.
Of the four athletes that took part, Gwyn Jones -- a 20-year-old male who competed in the mixed pairs figure skating -- was by far-and-a-way the eldest of a remarkably young team.
Harding competed for the U.S. in figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics while under suspicion following an assault on her teammate and medal rival Nancy Kerrigan weeks before the games in Lillehammer, Norway.
This boisterous comedy, set in the milieu of competitive figure skating, concerns two rival skaters, Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell), a macho sex bomb, and Jimmy MacElroy (a memorably coiffed Jon Heder), a shy, sensitive finesse artist.
With just about everyone else stumbling, bumbling or worse, Jeremy Abbott's clean but conservative short program was more than enough to give him the lead in the splatfest that was the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Friday night.
The earnings window for athletes in sports like gymnastics, track and field, wrestling, and figure skating is very small, both in terms of the number of athletes that will cash in as well as the length of time they have to cash in.
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Bulgarians don't wait around much to see how their athletes do in Olympic figure-skating or tennis or synchronized swimming.
Mr Sanderson points out that the most popular Olympic events in America are women's figure-skating and gymnastics, both of which involve scantily-clad young women performing for judges.
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