The 1963 North American Figure Skating Championships

Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine

Canadian Parliament had just given a no confidence vote to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and John F. Kennedy's administration made travel and trade with Cuba illegal. Coca-Cola's new diet soft drink TaB, was introduced, the hottest toys were Big Loo Moon Robot and Little Miss Echo and everyone was shimmying to "He's So Fine" by The Chiffons.

On February 15 and 16, 1963, skating fans gathered by the thousands in Vancouver, British Columbia for the 1963 North American Figure Skating Championships. The two-day event, which closely followed that year's Canadian and U.S. Championships, was held at the Pacific National Exhibition Forum and hosted by the Capilano Winter Club. It was the first time ever that British Columbia played host to the prestigious biennal competition and only the third time the event was held in a Canadian city west of Ontario. It came on the heels of the hugely successful 1960 World Championships, British Columbia's first major international figure skating competition.

Photo courtesy Ingrid Hunnewell

All-event tickets ranged in price from three dollars and twenty five cents to six dollars and seventy five cents, which, believe it or not, was considered quite pricy in those days. Not a single defending Champion returned. The Jelinek's and Donald Jackson had turned professional, Virginia Thompson and Bill McLachlan had retired and Laurence Owen had perished in the Sabena Crash. Six other American skaters who had medalled at the North Americans two years prior in Philadelphia also perished in the tragedy: Bradley Lord, Gregory Kelley, Maribel Yerxa Owen and Dudley Richards and Dona Lee Carrier and Roger Campbell. Maribel Vinson Owen and Danny Ryan, North American Champions in 1935 and 1953 and Bill Kipp, North American Bronze Medallist in 1955, were also among the victims.

Social events included a lunch and buffet supper dance at the host Georgia Hotel and an open house, brunch and late-night dance session at the Capilano Winter Club. The buffet supper dance, where awards were presented, lasted until well past three in the morning. 

Now that we have the background... let's look back at the skating!

THE ICE DANCE COMPETITION

Stanley Urban and Sally Schantz, Paulette Doan and Ken Ormsby and Donna and J.D. Mitchell. Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine.

Newly crowned Canadian Champions Paulette Doan and Ken Ormsby of Toronto bested Donna and J.D. Mitchell of Vancouver to take the gold medal in ice dance. Sally Schantz and Stanley Urban of Whitesboro and Buffalo, New York, took the bronze. Like Doan and Ormsby, the Americans had only just been crowned U.S. (Gold) Dance Champions. Doan and Ormsby's win was the fourth victory in a row by a Canadian dance team at North Americans. Frustratingly for the Mitchell's, it was their third silver in a row.

In her book "Figure Skating History: The Evolution Of Dance On Ice", Lynn Copley-Graves recalled, "Doan/Ormsby used the compulsory Rocker, European, Kilian, and Blues to compile an early and sizable lead where the standings were set and never again changed. Paulette and Ken, matched in gray for the free dance, enchanted the audience with beauty and grace in a free dance reminiscent of Doreen Denny and Courtney Jones. The Mitchell's chose traditional white for Donna and black for J. D. Their polka portion got the audience clapping in rhythm. Sally and Stan presented grace to retain third place. Carole Forrest and Kevin Lethbridge received the most erratic judging placements: a third, a fourth, two fifths, and a sixth to end fifth."

THE WOMEN'S COMPETITION

Eighteen year old Wendy Griner of Toronto took a comfortable lead in the women's school figures, ahead of hometown favourite Shirra Kenworthy and U.S. Champion Lorraine Hanlon. Petra Burka, only fourth in figures, stole the show in the free skate and managed to move all the way up to second overall, behind Griner and ahead of Kenworthy and Hanlon. Americans Karen Howland and Christine Haigler rounded out the six woman field.

Nigel Stephens, George Sherwood, Petra Burka, Shirra Kenworthy, Wendy Griner and F. Ritter Shumway at the 1963 North American Championships. Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine.

A report in "Skating" magazine noted, "The Ladies' free skating... was exciting, but with the exception of Petra Burka of Toronto, the skating lacked the sparkle generally expected at top competitions. Miss Burka gave a splendid performance and won the hearts of the spectators with her glowing personality and clean, high double jumps... Shirra Kenworthy dropped to third, despite her smooth skating of a difficult program. Wendy Griner... skated to victory with her usual effortless grace despite the fact she appeared a bit tired." The women's event in Vancouver marked the first time in twenty-two years that a trio of Candian women swept the podium at North Americans. In Philadelphia in 1941, it had been Mary Rose Thacker, Eleanor O'Meara and Norah McCarthy.

THE MEN'S COMPETITION

Scotty Allen, Donald McPherson and Tommy Litz. Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine.

Eighteen year old Donald McPherson of Stratford, Ontario amassed a substantial lead in the men's school figures. Scotty Allen and Donald Knight were second and third. In the free skate, McPherson had no problem with his double Axels or delayed double Lutz, but his triple loop attempt fell short. Tommy Litz, only fifth in figures, catapulted all the way up to second behind McPherson with the skate of the night, nailing both double and triple jumps. Litz's comeback unfortunately dropped Allen, who skated excellently, down to third. Knight, Monty Hoyt and Bill Neale rounded out the field. It
was the third consecutive win for a Canadian man at North Americans, as Donald Jackson had won the event in 1959 and 1961. In June, Donald turned professional after winning the World title, signing on as star of Dick Button's Magical Ice-Travaganza at the New York World's Fair.

THE PAIRS COMPETITION

Vivian and Ronald Joseph, Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell and Gertrude Desjardins and Maurice LaFrance. Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine.

During one of the practice sessions, Lake Placid's Patti Gustafson was injured. She and partner Pieter Kollen were sadly forced to withdraw. Only one point separated the two remaining American teams. U.S. Champions Judianne and Jerry Fotheringill were forced to settle for only fourth, losing to America's runners-up Vivian and Ronald Joseph. The battle for gold was a close race between two Canadian pairs. Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell were coached by Marg and Bruce Hyland, while Gertrude Desjardins and Maurice LaFrance took from Sheldon Galbraith.

In her book "Ice Time", Debbi Wilkes recalled, "At the end of a practice in the Vancouver Coliseum, I was standing right by the boards when I saw the imposing figure of Gertie and Moe's coach, Sheldon Galbraith, approaching. He had always terrified me, so my knees were trembling and my heart was pounding. He said in a deep, menacing voice, 'You know, you may have won the Canadians. But we've been working very hard and we're going to beat you this time.' I was frozen to the spot. I thought that was a terrible thing for an adult to say to a sixteen-year-old, but it was warfare as far as he was concerned. I shot back, 'Well that's fine, Mr. Galbraith, I hope you have because we've been working just as hard to stay ahead.' Then I ran off to my mother almost in tears. The encounter was frightening, but the message was just the sort of negative motivation I needed to really put the boots to Gertie and Moe. I became so confident that the day of the competition, walking along the street in Vancouver and seeing the trophy in the window of the local Birks store, I said to my mother, 'That's going to be ours tonight.' My mother thought my bubble would burst right there on the spot." All but one judge. Dr. Suzanne Morrow-Francis, placed Wilkes and Revell ahead of 'Gertie and Moe'. The victory of the duo from the Unionville Skating Club was the sixth consecutive win by a Canadian pair at North Americans and an incredible accomplishment for the new Canadian Champions.

In June of 2019, Debbi Wilkes recalled, "Until we won Canadians in '63, Guy and I were kind of always - I felt - the dark horse. Although we would always beat (with the exception of Maria and Otto Jelinek) the other pairs internationally, we could never get ahead of them at home. We always kind of felt it was the Cricket Club effect. We represented Unionville Skating Club and people would go, 'Where? What?' Sometimes we felt that was to our detriment, at least in terms as what we saw as perhaps politics in the sport... In my silly little head at the time I felt overlooked, which was always a motivator for me. When we actually won by a very tiny margin in '63, that was an impetus to really try to step up our game."

The ranks of American skating had been greatly depleted by the Sabena tragedy, so it was unsurprising that Canada swept all four gold medals for the first time since 1933, just as the Americans had done in 1949 and 1951. The fascinating aspect of the now defunct North American Championships was how the pendulum swung back and forth.

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Unorthodox Champions: The Carmel And Ed Bodel Story

Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine

"We took the International Bronze and Silver Dance Tests at Sutro's Ice Rink in San Francisco in June. It was quite an interesting experience as the grouping of the dances is different from the USFSA Tests, and also we went right through the tests without pause or music warm-up between dances - it took us about two hours. The lower test must be completed by each candidate before he may go to the higher test and all dances are soloed - actually each of us skated 24 times - European Waltz, Fourteenstep and International Foxtrot for the Bronze; and Blues, Kilian, Tango, American Waltz and Rocker Fox for the Silver. Fortunately the rules prescribe the number of revolutions around the rink for solo and pair, so you don't find yourself going through six or seven sequences of the dance, then having the referee tell you he forgot to give the signal! We enjoyed taking the tests and as a few years have elapsed since we last took a dance test, it was a challenge. Actually the judges were very good to us and we prepared well for the test, so everything went smoothly. The ISU Gold Dance Test is our next goal." - Carmel and Ed Bodel, "Skating" magazine, 1954

In the fifties, the majority of America's top figure skaters were the children of doctors, lawyers and Ivy League professors. They came from 'the right sort of families' who could afford to send their children to the best colleges and universities and foot the bill for one of the most expensive sports out there. They also had youth on their sides. However, one of the top American ice dance teams of this period didn't fit that mould whatsoever. Carmel and Ed Bodel weren't youngsters and they certainly didn't come from wealthy backgrounds. That didn't stop them though.

Carmel Maybelle Waterbury was born on August 11, 1912 in Carmel, California. She was the second youngest of Gertrude (Marhoff) and Irving Waterbury's four children. Her father worked as an electrician on a dredger in nearby Hammonton. Growing up, Carmel and her siblings had to take jobs to supplement the family income. Carmel and her sister worked as child's nurses; her brother did yard work for neighbours. Though Carmel's childhood wasn't one of privilege, it was a happy one... and one that almost didn't happen. A couple of hours after her parents' wedding, they hailed a taxi to take them to a nearby train station, where they were to go on their honeymoon. The taxi was involved in a serious head-on collision and her parents were lucky to escape with their lives.

Edward 'Ed' Lee Bodel Jr. was born eight years after Carmel, on May 21, 1920. He was the only son of Thelma (Rogers) and Edward Bodel. He grew up in San Francisco with his parents and grandmother and, like Carmel, did not come from a well-to-do background. His father worked as a machinist, janitor and elevator operator at a theatre to keep the family afloat.

Neither Ed or Carmel took up ice dancing socially at the St. Moritz Ice Skating Club at a young age. He was eighteen when he started; she was thirty. They didn't form a partnership on the ice until 1945, because Ed was serving as a pilot with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. When they did team up, Carmel was still married to her first husband Jared Waldo Hawkins Jr., an accountant at the company where she worked. Romance blossomed between Carmel and Ed on the ice, and not long after they teamed up, she and Jared got divorced.

Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine

Within months of teaming up, Carmel and Ed won their first of many gold medals at the Pacific Coast Championships. Ed also won the bronze medal in the junior men's event that year in Seattle, and though neither continued to compete in singles, they employed an unorthodox training strategy that few dance teams would have dared to do at the time - they continued to practice figures and free skating in addition to dancing, so that competitions didn't interrupt their usual training routines. They won the bronze medal at the U.S. Championships and were among the first dozen skaters in America to pass the new USFSA Gold Dance test, but dropped to fourth at the 1947 and 1948 U.S. Championships. They returned to the podium in third place in 1949, the same year they walked down the aisle on Valentine's Day.

Carmel and Ed's competitive career lasted over a decade and was full of more ups and downs than any other ice dance team of that era. In 1950, they made history as one of the first American teams to compete at the international ice dancing competition at the World Championships and in 1951, they won the Grand Slam of the Pacific Coast, U.S. and North American titles. Then came a two-year slump that saw them drop down to third at the U.S. and North American Championships and from fourth at the first official World Championships in 1952 to seventh in 1953. Through hard work and the determination to improve their free dancing, they reclaimed their U.S. and North American titles and won the bronze medal at the 1954 World Championships. By 1957, they'd dropped all the way down to fourth at the U.S. Championships, fifth at North Americans and seventh at Worlds. What made Carmel and Ed's roller coaster skating career particularly compelling was the fact they were Gold Dance Judges while they were still competing. The USFSA appointed them as Honorary National Judges in 1955, making them the first ice dancers to receive such a distinction when they were still active as competitors. When they retired from competition, he was thirty-six and she was forty-four.

Ed Bodel, Carmel Bodel, Barbara Jean Stein and Ray Sato at the 1955 U.S. Championships. Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine.

Throughout their entire skating career, Carmel worked as a secretary to the Executive Vice-President of Durkee Foods in Berkeley. Ed worked in the construction business. In their spare time, they enjoyed photography, mountain climbing, hiking, hunting and swimming. Carmel played golf; Ed collected guns and enjoyed rifle shooting. They stuck with their day jobs after retiring from skating, retiring in Lake Almanor, where Carmel established herself as an artist of note, specializing in textile work, watercolors and decoupage. After Ed's death at the age of eighty-seven on May 17, 2008, Carmel settled in Chico, where she passed away on October 12, 2013 at the age of one hundred and one.

Skate Guard is a blog dedicated to preserving the rich, colourful and fascinating history of figure skating. Over ten years, the blog has featured over a thousand free articles covering all aspects of the sport's history, as well as four compelling in-depth features. To read the latest articles, follow the blog on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube. If you enjoy Skate Guard, please show your support for this archive by ordering a copy of the figure skating reference books "The Almanac of Canadian Figure Skating", "Technical Merit: A History of Figure Skating Jumps" and "A Bibliography of Figure Skating": https://skateguard1.blogspot.com/p/buy-book.html.

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Bernard Adams, The Self-Taught Professor Of Skating

"To see Bernard Adams skate [the] rocker was one greatest pleasures. He had neat little feet that fairly twinkled through the turn, while his whole preparation was so gradual yet so complete that although there was plenty of lilt and freedom there seemed to be no effort involved." - Maribel Vinson Owen"

"Bernard Adams, small and beetle-browed, worked with a sort of crusading passion to eradicate the the more glaring faults of his pupils." - J.G. Bergel, "The Citizen", December 28, 1938

Born June 6, 1867 in Kirkstall, a northwestern suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, Bernard Gualbert Adams was the son of Fanny Eliza Crane and Richard Life Adams. His father was one half of the famous Leeds architectural firm of Adams & Kelly, which designed many local churches and schools. Bernard grew up with his parents, older sister Gertrude, younger sister Maude, younger brother Alexander and a cook and housemaid in a typical Victorian upper middle-class home. The Adams family passed their time with the many amusements popular in their day: music halls, seaside vacations and of course, ice skating. It was no doubt a happy existence... until everything changed.

Eminent British skating judge, author and historian T.D. Richardson recalled, "Bernard told me that when he was about sixteen years of age his father, architect to the Leeds Corporation, died leaving the family none too well off. He therefore left school, and having nothing to do and looking for a job, was asked if he would care to look after an ice surface which had been laid down in the basement of the Londesborough Theatre in Scarborough. Whether the process, which he told me was the patent of a Serbian Doctor, was that of Professor Gamgee I do not know. He was, furthermore, asked if he would be prepared to demonstrate skating to enquirers. He took on the job, bought a book on skating and taught himself from it." Prior to Bernard's arrival at the Londesborough Theatre rink, a writer using the pseudonym 'Queen Scarborough' described the goings-on there in "London Society" as "bedlam let loose". The inexperienced, self-taught young coach enlisted the help of his brother Alexander and somehow brought order to the chaos. 

The Adams brothers were soon invited to teach in London. They brought their widowed mother along for the ride and the trio took up residence at Portland Terrace. The 1901 UK Census listed Bernard's occupation as a "professor of skating".

Bernard and Alex Adams with Algernon Grosvenor. Photo courtesy Sveriges Centralförening för Idrottens Främjande Archive.

Bernard and Alexander taught at Prince's Skating Club in Knightsbridge and at the Swiss skating resorts popular during the era in the early twentieth century. They gave similar pairs skating exhibitions in the style later termed 'shadow skating' and were adept at special figures. It was during this period that Bernard became the first person in history to earn the National Skating Association's gold medals in both the English and Continental (International) Styles. 

Among Bernard's students were Bror Meyer, a Swede who won the bronze medal at the 1906 World Championships and went to become a famous coach himself, actress and royal mistress Lillie Langtry and of course, T.D. Richardson. Although Bernard taught several excellent figure skaters, he was first and foremost the person that Britain's upper crust went to if they wanted to learn the rudimentary basics of the fine art of skating.

T.D. Richardson recalled, "Bernard was a very fine English stylist who had seen the first introduction of the International style into Britain and who, as a professional teacher, had viewed it with all the knowledge and technique of basic poise, together with the action and counter action of the shoulders and hips requisite for the correct drawings of rockers and counters, brackets and threes. When I, who also started as an English stylist, went to him some years later for lessons in the international style, I well remember him saying: The main difficulty for you, as it was for me, will be to learn to bend your knee; it took me two years and that's about what it will take you: and he was right. Bernard in his day was a fine athlete, smallish but physically very strong." Bernard gave T.D. ('Tyke') the advice, "Go hungry for the ice" meaning you should get on the ice "bursting with desire to skate." T.D. also described him as "possibly the greatest teacher of skating that ever lived" and noted that "he paid great attention to the proper use of the free leg."

After The Great War, Bernard taught at the Manchester Ice Palace and the Palace Hotel Rink in St. Moritz. Two of his more famous pupils during this period were perennial British Champions Ethel Muckelt and Jack Ferguson Page. In the late twenties and early thirties, he taught at the newly opened Westminster Ice Club. Among his pupils were many high society and titled individuals who passed the National Skating Association's tests, including Reginald Maulding - future Chancellor of the Exchequer - and Sir Peter Markham Scott, an Olympic yachtsman and talented glider pilot. In his autobiography "The Eye Of The Wind", Scott described Bernard as "a gentle little man with white hair and moustache and black eyebrows."

Olympic and World Medallist Maribel Vinson came from America to England to work with Bernard in 1934. Maribel described him as her "special mentor". In a piece penned for "Skating" magazine, she recalled, "Although he no longer skates very much himself, his profound knowledge and priceless sense of humour make skating under his watchful eye exacting yet delightful."

Ethel Muckelt and Bernard Adams

Bernard retired in 1935 at the age of sixty-eight. The following year, he became the first professional skater in history to be bestowed a Lifetime Honorary Membership with the National Skating Association.

I was fortunate enough to connect with Jane Blake and Emma Kayne, who both provided a wealth of information about Bernard's story, without which this blog would not have been possible. Emma explained, "Bernard was one of those gentlemen of the time who collected stamps, butterflies (of which there are two large museum style cabinets still at my uncle's house), rare eggs etc... I still have lots of old envelopes he collected for the stamps (steamed off), and auction catalogues for stamp auctions. His brother Alexander was my great grandpa, and he married Hilaire Byng, who was a lady in waiting at court to Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria. Hilaire was one of three girls and granddaughter to Viscount Torrington. The marriage caused a scandal as she married out of her class/social status and also to a Catholic, and she was written out of her mother's will, shunned by her sisters and pretty much hounded out of court life. Hilaire and Alexander moved to Appedore where they opened a hotel, but it was not a great success by all accounts. They then retired to Somerset and Bernard joined them in retirement... He never married."

Bernard passed away on July 17, 1941 at the age of seventy-four in England, during the height of The Blitz. He was buried in the church at Swell, in Somerset. The Londesborough Theatre, site of his first coaching job, was demolished in the summer of 1960. Although this legendary "professor of skating" has been largely overlooked, his contributions to the early development of the sport in England and Switzerland were immeasurable.

Skate Guard is a blog dedicated to preserving the rich, colourful and fascinating history of figure skating. Over ten years, the blog has featured over a thousand free articles covering all aspects of the sport's history, as well as four compelling in-depth features. To read the latest articles, follow the blog on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube. If you enjoy Skate Guard, please show your support for this archive by ordering a copy of figure skating reference books "The Almanac of Canadian Figure Skating", "Technical Merit: A History of Figure Skating Jumps" and "A Bibliography of Figure Skating": https://skateguard1.blogspot.com/p/buy-book.html.

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The Protopopov Papers

In the aftermath of the infamous judging scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, there was a failed attempt to 'replace the ISU' by the World Skating Federation. Many high profile skaters got behind the movement for a time until the ISU and many of its member federations pushed back and thwarted the movement. 

Two early advocates of the World Skating Federation were two-time Olympic Gold Medallists Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov. In April 2004, they shared a lengthy essay about skating governance, judging and the essence of artistry that was a fascinating read. With the recent passing of Oleg, it feels only fitting to revisit the Protopopov's profound words and share a few enlightening excerpts from this timeless piece. Despite the passage of two decades, their insights continue to resonate powerfully in the present day.

EXCERPTS FROM "MEDITATION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD FIGURE SKATING FAMILY, ISU - INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION, NEW JUDGING SYSTEM, 'COP FOR JUDGES'? THE ISU CONGRESS OF 2004. IS FIGURE SKATING AN EXTREME OR ARTISTIC SPORT?" (LUDMILA AND OLEG PROTOPOPOV)

Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov

"When I was sixteen years old, my mother, a former classical ballerina bought a magazine 'America' (in Russian) at the black market. It was in 1948 in former Leningrad right before the 'Cold War between Soviet Union and the U.S.A. My mother's professional sharp eyes were attracted by beautiful picture of Dick Button in a split jump with perfectly extended points. My Mom said: 'Oleg, you must do better than this American guy'. Since, Dick Button became my ideal for his expressiveness, beauty and dynamic which were very good seen even on the picture. I have never met him personally until 1962 World Championships in Prague when he became an ABC TV sport commentator and I and my wife Ludmila became first time in our life World silver medallists in pair skating. Our first international debut with Ludmila at the European and World Championships was in 1958 where we had first opportunity in our life to watch the outstanding skaters of the West. It was the greatest shock which change our vision and understanding of the figure skating for the entire life, especially that we were Soviet sportsmen from the country with the Iron Curtain. We never had seen live double Axel several times in a row, without long preparation, executed by David Jenkins or Don Jackson's triple Salchow or top of elegance pair skating of Barbara Wagner-Bob Paul. They did not skate their programs, they danced them so musically that it was hard to believe that they did it on the skates. Since, they became as live example for us and we call them the Gold Generation, who made great contribution to the World figure skating but the way they skated, unfortunately is forgotten and ignored today, despite the fact that their artistic and technical achievements and philosophy of skating were already forty to forty five years ahead of time."

"We met each other fifty years ago in August of 1954 on the skating seminar in Moscow at the first in Soviet Union 9x9 m (27x27 feet) experimental artificial ice-rink. It was so small ice that we could not pass each other without touching by our hands. It was our first accidental pair spin but we did not suspect that it will be forever. In Leningrad, in December we began regular skating outdoor in wild winter cold (-15, -35 C) when we were almost twenty and twenty three years old, knowing nothing about figure skating, pair skating, without coach, choreographer, professional help, tape recorder, video camera, hard leather skating boots, attractive costumes, but with great love to the art of skating. Nevertheless, in 1962, '63, '64 we became silver medallists of the European and World Championships, Olympic champions after ten years of hard training in 1964, and 2nd time in 1968 after fourteen years of skating. Four times World Champions 1965-1968. We were ready to participate at the Olympic Games of 1972 but Soviet Figure Skating Federation using administrative power crossed out our plans, pointing out that we were too old, very theatrical, athletically weak, no speed, no difficult elements in the programs. But underneath of all this 'snow job' was the hidden rumours of our sport and administrable opponents, that Belousova-Protopopov will defect if they will win their 3rd Olympic Games. It was a real hit below the belt for everything what we did for the National sport and our Motherland. But from the other hand, it was good idea prompted to us, because we never thought about this before. We left Soviet Union in 1979.   For this period of time we learn a lot of wise things from smart former figure skaters and coaches in the former Soviet Union, which they called 'Black Russian humor'. It is said: 'There are four categories of significance among the people in the modern figure skating: 1. The lowest categories are those who know how to skate, that is figure skaters. 2. The second, a bit higher, are those who don’t skate but teach. 3. The third, still higher, are those who neither skate nor teach, but judge. 4. The fourth and highest category are those who don’t know how to skate, don't teach,  don’t judge but direct figure skating'. (Samson Gliaser - 1st coach of Ludmila Belousova in the former Soviet Union in 1951). We would not say that something radically changed in the attitude to the skaters until now. We are not going to say that: 'when we skated, it was great or better'. It was just different time."

"We remember the time (1979) when we left Soviet Union and all Soviet (eligible!) skaters, coaches and officials were not allowed to say 'Hello' to 'ineligible' Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov until 1992.     In the former Soviet Union system, when a skater who was rejected to skate in the frame of the Sport Committee of the USSR, he or she automatically became 2nd grade person or 'ineligible', especially the skaters who had own vision, opinion, which differed from the official line. In spite of the Greatest Power, this system, fortunately, had collapsed."

"In Russia currently, the skaters must pay about ten percent commission from their prize money. They cannot receive it directly from the ISU but only indirectly from the Russian Figure Skating Federation. The ISU has not a deal directly with the skaters. Thus, National federations are the mini filial of the ISU structure. It can happen that the skaters even do not know for how much 'they are sold'. For example, we never knew that The Sport Committee of the USSR in 1968 got two thousand or twenty five hundred behind our backs for each Exhibition (fifteen) in the International ISU World Tour, while we, as an Amateurs (eligible) two time Olympic Champions and four time World & European champions had nothing from this money, except 'pocket' twenty five Swiss Francs from the ISU for each exhibition."

Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov

"Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier, Dick Button, Tenley Albright, Carol Heiss, [Ronnie] Robertson, David Jenkins, Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul, Donald Jackson, Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn... it would be a great advantage to learn their dynamic technique of the short preparation to the jumps, musicality, the beauty of skating skills, and general culture of skating. Their ideals were Freedom, Flight, Grace, and Beauty. But today’s 'triple-quadmania' has killed this so important philosophy of the figure skating stressing primarily on the quantity of the jumps, revolutions and missing the Artistic and technical quality."

Peggy Fleming and Oleg Protopopov. Photo courtesy Ingrid Hunnewell.

"In 1960 Olympics  (U.S.A) it was not required elements at all but skaters (men) did double Axel and triple jumps by own will without restriction or musts. But all pairs overhead lifts with full extension of the lifting arms were forbidden by the ISU after 1957, when Nina and Stanislav Zhuk (Soviet Union) demonstrated them first in the world at the European Championships in Vienna (Austria).  Such a lifts were considered very dangerous ACROBATIC ELEMENTS and a pair would be punished (the ISU threatened!) in case of including forbidden lifts into the Free program which was 5min.10 sec. Nevertheless, it was allowed to lift only on the level of the shoulders. Now, forty seven years later, the ISU also will punish pair skaters but if they will not do overhead required lifts!  By the way, nobody pushed [Donald] Jackson (Canada) to jump triple Lutz in 1962 Worlds. He did it by his own will and when he was ready to do it. Today the ISU wants to lead and dictate again, what to do and what is forbidden, like forty-seven years ago."

"We are not going to say that: ''when we skated, it was great or better''. It was just different time... Our main concern is that 'triple-quad-mania', 'paragraph-X-mania', 'record-mania' which make young figure skaters completely blind to the beauty and culture of skating and absolutely deaf to the music are not for the benefit of modern Sport and Art of Figure Skating."

"The nature of a skater from the very beginning is an artist. Remember American Jackson Haines who was the first in the World to skate - backed by an orchestra - the waltz, mazurka, quadrille, and march on the public holiday in Vienna in 1868. It was one hundred and thirty-six years ago! But modern artists of figure skating have to survive in the iron cage of the ISU rules, which make the space for artistic creativity in this cage smaller and smaller every year, forcing the skaters to be more robots on ice instead of human being personalities. Let the skaters skate how they physically CAN in a free program. Let the coaches, choreographers, and skaters to think themselves, as an artist, how to skate, how to compose, and what elements would be more expressive for particularly music. Let them to create independently (without ISU standards) new fresh innovative movements, combinations, elements and they will do their best according to the personal abilities, because it will be the best motivation to work. Variety is the spice of the life. Variety is the spice of figure skating."

Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov

"The foundation of figure skating is Artistic Figure Skating - the highest form of mastery. The beauty - is perfection of the simplest movements and the form of the body. If the movements and form of the body are beautiful - technically, they are perfect. The simplest moves are the most difficult in figure skating. The beauty will never get old, never lose its value, always be fresh and new."

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Nineties Nostalgia: Figure Skating Tours In The 90's

Tell me what you want... what you really, really want. It's a 90's throwback blog, isn't it?

In the last decade of the twentieth century, media attention and public interest in the "whack heard around the world" gave way to an explosion in popularity for the sport of figure skating. People just couldn't get enough. The world's top figure skaters vied for cold hard cash in dozens of professional competitions and skating fans around the world flocked to box offices to scoop up tickets to their favourite touring ice shows. Today's Skate Guard blog takes a fond look back at the many skating tours that were in operation during the decade of star lifts, Spice Girls, slap bracelets and Salchows. 

Art on Ice

Year	Skaters
1998 (German tour)	Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer, Philippe Candeloro, Denise Biellmann, Surya Bonaly, Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko, Tanja Szewczenko, Sarah Abitbol and Stéphane Bernadis, Elena Leonova and Andrei Khvalko, Daniel Weiss

Photo courtesy Bobrin Ice Theatre

Bobrin Ice Theatre

Year	Skaters
1990 (Soviet, Turkish, American tours)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin, Kira Ivanova
1991 (Soviet, Middle Eastern tours)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin
1992 (South African, French, North Korean tours)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin
1993 (Swiss, French, South Korean tours)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin
1994 (Japanese, South Korean, Taiwanese, Swiss, German, Austrian tours)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin
1995 (French, Italian, German, Austrian tours)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin
1996 (Spanish tour)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin
1997 (South Korean, Polish tours)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin
1998 (French, German, Russian tours)	Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin
1999 (Indian, Italian, French, South Korean tours)	INatalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Igor Bobrin

Royal Bank Champions on Ice (CFSA)

Year	Skaters
1989-1990	Kurt Browning, Jozef Sabovčík, Grzegorz Filipowski, Matthew Hall, Tracey Wainman, Cindy Landry and Lyndon Johnston

Champions on Ice/Tour of World Figure Skating Champions (Tom Collins Tour)

Year	Skaters
1990 (Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Viktor Petrenko, Kurt Browning, Paul Wylie, Todd Eldredge, Christopher Bowman, Mark Mitchell, Midori Ito, Jill Trenary, Holly Cook, Natalia Lebedeva, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Kristi Yamaguchi and Rudy Galindo, Cindy Landry and Lyndon Johnston, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Susie Wynne and Joseph Druar, Jo-Anne Borlase and Martin Smith, April Sargent and Russ Witherby
1991 (Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Viktor Petrenko, Brian Orser, Todd Eldredge, Christopher Bowman, Gary Beacom, Mark Mitchell, Kristi Yamaguchi, Peggy Fleming, Nancy Kerrigan, Elizabeth Manley, Jill Trenary, Tonya Harding, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Marina Klimova a­nd Sergei Ponomarenko, Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Susie Wynne and Joseph Druar
1992 (Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Viktor Petrenko, Paul Wylie, Petr Barna, Mark Mitchell, Kristi Yamaguchi, Lu Chen, Nancy Kerrigan, Jill Trenary, Tonya Harding, Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Radka Kovaříková and René Novotný, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin
1993 (Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Philippe Candeloro, Petr Barna, Scott Davis, Gary Beacom, Mark Mitchell, Oksana Baiul, Lu Chen, Nancy Kerrigan, Jill Trenary, Surya Bonaly, Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin
1994 (Winter Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Scott Hamilton, Robert Wagenhoffer, Gary Beacom, Katarina Witt, Elaine Zayak, Tonya Harding, Gia Guddat, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Renée Roca and Gorsha Sur, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow, Judy Blumberg and Jim Yorke
1994 (Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Alexei Urmanov, Elvis Stojko, Philippe Candeloro, Scott Davis, Gary Beacom, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Lu Chen, Nancy Kerrigan, Surya Bonaly, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow
1995 (Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Elvis Stojko, Philippe Candeloro, Todd Eldredge, Scott Davis, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Lu Chen, Nancy Kerrigan, Jill Trenary, Surya Bonaly, Nicole Bobek, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Gia Guddat and Gary Beacom, Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Renée Roca and Gorsha Sur, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow
1996 (Winter Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Todd Eldredge, Scott Davis, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Nicole Bobek, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Gia Guddat and Gary Beacom, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin
1996 (Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Alexei Urmanov, Elvis Stojko, Philippe Candeloro, Todd Eldredge, Rudy Galindo, Éric Millot, Scott Davis, Dan Hollander, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Nancy Kerrigan, Lu Chen, Surya Bonaly, Nicole Bobek, Tonia Kwiatkowski, Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Gia Guddat and Gary Beacom, Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow
1997 (Winter Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Rudy Galindo, Mark Mitchell, Dorothy Hamill, Oksana Baiul, Elizabeth Manley, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Gia Guddat and Gary Beacom, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin
1997 (Tour of World Figure Skating Champions)	Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow
1998 (Champions on Ice – Winter Tour)	Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Rudy Galindo, Jozef Sabovčík, Dorothy Hamill, Oksana Baiul, Nancy Kerrigan, Elizabeth Manley, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Amy Webster and Ron Kravette
1998 (Champions on Ice)	Ilia Kulik, Evgeni Plushenko, Viktor Petrenko, Alexei Urmanov, Elvis Stojko, Philippe Candeloro, Todd Eldredge, Rudy Galindo, Michael Weiss, Laurent Tobel, Tara Lipinski, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Nancy Kerrigan, Lu Chen, Maria Butyrskaya, Irina Slutskaya, Surya Bonaly, Nicole Bobek, Tonia Kwiatkowski, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Kyoko Ina and Jason Dungjen, Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Angelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow
1999 (Champions on Ice - Winter Tour)	Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Philippe Candeloro, Jozef Sabovčík, Todd Eldredge, Rudy Galindo, Dorothy Hamill, Katarina Witt, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Elizabeth Manley, Surya Bonaly, Tonia Kwiatkowski, Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Evgeni Platov, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow
1999 (Champions on Ice)	Brian Boitano, Evgeni Plushenko, Viktor Petrenko, Alexei Yagudin, Alexei Urmanov, Elvis Stojko, Philippe Candeloro, Todd Eldredge, Rudy Galindo, Timothy Goebel, Michael Weiss, Laurent Tobel, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Elizabeth Manley, Maria Butyrskaya, Surya Bonaly, Nicole Bobek, Naomi Nari Nam, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev, Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer, Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Evgeni Platov, Angelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow

Disney on Ice

Year	Skaters
1989-1990 (Walt Disney's World on Ice)	Jaimee Eggleton, Jimmie Santee, Jamie-Lynn Kitching Santee, Michael B. Dolan, Christopher Shrimpling, Bobby Davis, Carla Ericson, Dawn-Ann Oliphant, Cathy Salinger Bailey, Penny Booth and Michael Nemec
1990-1991 (Walt Disney's World on Ice, 10th Anniversary Edition)	Jimmie Santee, Jamie -Lynn Kitching Santee, Elicia Shepherd and Michael Blicharski, Paula Losinger and Scott Grover, Darin Mathewson and Michael Lettengarver
1991-1992 (Walt Disney's World on Ice)	Jimmie Santee, Lisa Cornelius, Paul Kapeikis and Darin Mathewson
1992-1993 (Walt Disney's World on Ice – Beauty and the Beast)	Mark Cockerell, Maradith Feinberg, Victor Baryshevtsev, Jon Robinson, Olga Neizvestnaya and Sergei Zaitsev, Craig Horowitz
1993-1994 (Walt Disney's World on Ice - Aladdin)	Jaimee Eggleton, Cynthia Coull, Jimmie Santee, David Browne, Christopher Shrimpling
1994-1995 (Walt Disney's World on Ice, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)	Karen Preston, Axel Médéric, Serguei Tartykov, Anisette Gent, Delene Mackenzie and Bob Moskalyk, Cameron Medhurst, Mark Naylor, Stephanie Larivière, Tatiana Tropina and Serguei Boroda, Elaine Maddren, Elena Koteneva
1995-1997 (The Wizard of Oz on Ice)	eri Campbell, Andrei Kirov, Gueorgei Galoustian, Mark Richard Farrington, Olga Neizvestnaya-Hunter and Sergeui Zaitsev
1996-1997 (Beauty and the Beast on Ice)	Florentine Houdinière, Fabrizio Garattoni, Mark Walker, Joey Daysog, Yulia Borissova and Valerei Artioukhov
1997-1998 (Starlight Express... on Ice!)	Fabrizio Garattoni, Julie Brault, Norm Proft, Vadim Shebeco, Cameron Medhurst, Nadezhda Kovalevskaya, Monique can der Velden, Tomoaki Koyama, Serguei Kouznetsov, Gene 'Gi G' Siruno, Brent Frank, Mark Naylor, Reggie Mack, Hank Green, Nikolay Ulanov, Scott Irvine, Natalia Zagorodnikova, Jennifer Schmitz, Lisa Bell, Amanda Frank
1998-1999 (Disney on Ice)	Axel Médéric, Michael Kho, Viatcheslav Kouznetsov, Sabrina Crotenko, Yulia Myskina, Delene MacKenzie and Bob Moskaylk
1999 (Anastasia on Ice)	Sébastien Britten, Florentine Houdinière, Simon Aldridge, Scott Irvine, Marina Akbarova and Marat Akbarov, Kelly Marshall
1998-1999 (Happily Ever After)	Larissa Zamotina, Bessarion Tsintsadze, Troy Goldstein, Mark Richard Farrington, Joel Bangs
1998-1999 (The Little Mermaid)	Sandra Garde, Alexei Kiliakov, Inna Volianskaia, Joey Daysog, Shae Green, Luke Craig, Richard Stringer
1998-1999 (The Wizard of Oz)	Nataliya Ivannikova, Natalia Krestianinova and Alexei Torchinski, Andrei Kirov, Jason Graetz, Gueorgei Galoustian
1998-1999 (Pocahontas)	Joanna Ng, Stanislaav Joukov, Jamie Loper, Doug Barnhart, Roland Barnhart, Edmund Zeidler, Anne Ramos, Svetlana Dragaeva, Patricia Donahue
1999 (Cinderella, Australian tour)	Jeff LaBrake, Ronni Unrau, Sergey Artemov, Frederick Houghton, Oleg Shliakov, Denise Ansick, Carla Ericson, CheriRae Russell, Tiffany Crosswhite

Photo courtesy "MacLean's" magazine

Elvis Tour of Champions

Year	Skaters
1994 (McDonald's Elvis Tour of Champions)	Elvis Stojko, Robin Cousins, Philippe Candeloro, Jozef Sabovčík, Steven Cousins, Elizabeth Manley, Surya Bonaly, Tanja Szewczenko, Caryn Kadavy, Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz
1995 (McDonald's Elvis Tour of Champions)	Elvis Stojko, Jozef Sabovčík, Steven Cousins, Gary Beacom, Michelle Kwan, Elizabeth Manley, Surya Bonaly, Lu Chen, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Radka Kovaříková and René Novotný, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz
1996 (Canon Elvis Tour of Champions)	Elvis Stojko, Brian Orser, Rudy Galindo, Steven Cousins, Michelle Kwan, Elizabeth Manley, Jennifer Robinson, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Michelle Menzies and Jean-Michel Bombardier, Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz
1997 (Canon Elvis Tour of Champions)	Elvis Stojko, Rudy Galindo, Steven Cousins, Gary Beacom, Laurent Tobel, Elizabeth Manley, Nancy Kerrigan, Yuka Sato, Surya Bonaly, Jennifer Robinson, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon and Luc Bradet, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, Amy Webster and Ron Kravette, Karen Preston, Tatiana Navka and Nikolai Morozov
1998 (Canon Elvis Tour of Champions)	Elvis Stojko, Philippe Candeloro, Rudy Galindo, Jozef Sabovčík, Katarina Witt, Elizabeth Manley, Tonia Kwiatkowski, Karen Preston, Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon and Luc Bradet Oksana Grishuk and Alexandr Zhulin, Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow, Chantal Lefebvre and Michel Brunet, Keyla Ohs

Gershwin on Ice

Year	Skaters
1995 (The Memory of All That... Gershwin on Ice)	Peggy Fleming, Linda Fratianne, Scott Williams, Tom Dickson, Craig Heath, Bobby Beauchamp, Erik Larson, Charlene Wong, Catarina Lindgren, Beth-Anne Duxbury, Aimee Offner and Brad Cox
1997 (Gershwin on Ice Tour)	Dorothy Hamill, Alexandr Fadeev, Anita Hartshorn and Frank Sweiding, Robert Wagenhoffer, Tiffany Chin, Lisa-Marie Allen, Simone Grigorescu, Sylvain Beauregard, Tamara Kuchiki and Neale Smull

Grease on Ice

Year	Skaters
1998-1999	Nancy Kerrigan, Scott Davis, Natasha Kuchiki, Lesley Rogers and Mark Naylor, Gene 'Gi G' Siruno, Patrick Brault, Mark Schmitke, Brandi-Lee Rousseau, Stephanie Larivière, Helena Grundberg, Forrest McKinnon, Emrah Polatoglu, Craig Horowitz

Holiday on Ice

Year	Skaters
1990 (Banjos & Balalaikas)	Katarina Witt, Lyudmila Smirnova and Alexei Ulanov, Garey Dye Jr., Oleg Efimov, Günter Fischer, Nikolay Ulanov, Anita Curtis, Natalia Efimova, Shanyn Presley, Ingrid Spiegl and Eddi Vallon
1991 (Carmen/Robin Hood)	Mikhail Panin, Ivan Saez, Bill Miller, Cyril Hernandez, Irina Grigorian, Almut Lehmann, Laurie Miller, Irina Pismennaja, Wendy Boyle and Eduardo Marques, Lisa Bradby and Alan Towers
1992 (Magic & Illusions)	Vladimir Zoubov, Badri Kouram, John Hayward, Martin Rich, Steve Nelson, Dawn Latona, Joanie Young, Ioulia and Alexandr Svetchnikov, Monika Mandiková and Oliver Pekár, Marianne van Bommel and Wayne Deweyert
1993 (Aladdin and Spanish)	Karen Quinn and Alan Abretti, Emanuele Ancorini, Didier Monge, Sergei Kareline, Vladan Sege, David Cousans, Anna Kwouchnikova, Alain Le Gal and Tony Martin, Margarida Papel
1994 (Jubilee and Circus on Ice)	Eddi Vallon, Viktoria Loguinova, Terry Banghart, Olga Ermolaeva and Serguei Baradakov, Vladimir Besedin and Iouri Tischler, Adelina Castriota and Jeff Gavin
1995 (Broadway and Gypsy)	Surya Bonaly, Zsolt Kerekes, Garey Dye Jr., Ivan Saez, Robert Stempfl, Anita Curtis, Violetta Afanasieva, Isabelle Kourie and Robert du Plessis, Roberto and Enrico Medini, Barbie Steele and Bobby Martin, Adelina Castriota and Jeff Gavin, Eddi Vallon, Olga Ermmolaeva and Serguei Baradakov, Viktoria Loguinova, Vladimir Besedin and Iouri Tichler, Terry Banghart, Alexandre Pismennyi, Konstantin Baradakov, Paul Neale and Christopher Stokes
1996 (Evolution and Asterix on Ice)	Rodolphe Marechal, Scott O'Neill, Lisa Michael, Ioulia and Alexandr Svetchnikov, Eduardo Marques and Billy Sulima, Agnieszka Haaza and Oliver Pekár, Aliana Pachnina and Mikhail Federenko
1997 (Extravaganza - Extraventura)	Norbert Schramm
1998 (Xotica: Journey to the Heart)	Cameron Medhurst, Violetta Afanasieva
1999 (Colours of Dance)	Robin Cousins, Michael Tyllesen, Michael Chack

Dorothy Hamill and Andrew Naylor in "Cinderella: Frozen In Time"

Ice Capades

Year	Skaters
1989-1990 (Continental, East, West, Summer, Kuwait tours)	Elizabeth Manley, Richard Dwyer, Natalie and Wayne Seybold, Tom Dickson, Steven Rice, Bobby Beauchamp, David Nickel, Don Otto, Steve Taylor Dunderdale, Brad MacLean, Louis Vachon, Simone Grigorescu, Julie Brault, Tricia Klocke, Molly Beatty, Catarina Lindgren, Vicki Heasley, Sylvia Froescher, Kitty Kelly, Tracey Solomons and Ian Jenkins, Karyl Kawaichi and Greg Bonin, Kathleen Connors and J.P. Martin, Julie Patterson and Bob Moskaylk, Kelly Johnson and John Thomas, Kristan Lowery and Chip Rossbach
1990-1992 (Continental, East, West tours)	Elizabeth Manley, Bobby Beauchamp, Richard Swenning, Brad MacLean, David Nickel, Blaise Kirchgesner, Reggie Mack, Simone Grigorescu, Kitty Kelly, Julie Brault, Tricia Klocke, Scarlett Sinclair, Tracey Solomons and Ian Jenkins, Elena and Vladimir Bogoliubov, Kelly Johnson and John Thomas
1992-1993 (Continental, East, West, China tours)	Christopher Bowman, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Rory Flack Burghart, Ralph Burghart, Simone Grigorescu, Kevin Parker, Bobby Beauchamp, Angelo D'Agostino, Reggie Mack, David Jamison, Brad MacLean, Daniel Francoeur, Steve Taylor, David Nickel, Scott O'Neill, Kitty Kelly, Julie Brault, Nancy Pluta, Andrea Mortimer, Carla Schulz, Scarlett Sinclair, Blair Koski, Tracey Solomons and Ian Jenkins, Cheryl Peake and Andrew Naylor, Karyl Kawaichi and Greg Bonin, Kelly Johnson and John Thomas
1993-1995 (Cinderella: Frozen In Time)	Cheryl Peake and Andrew Naylor, Elena Kvitchenko and Rashid Kadyrkaev, Tricia Klocke and Greg Bonin, Jane and John Kanicka. Delene MacKenzie and Bob Moskaylk
1994-1995 (Hansel, Gretel, The Witch and The Cat)	Alexandr Fadeev, Simone Grigorescu, Natasha Kuchiki, Jennifer Ito, Patrick Brault, J. Scott Driscoll, Chris J. Conte, George Galanis, Andy Klein, Scott O'Neill, Jeff Merica, Tanya Bingert, Amy Jaramillo, Tisha Walker, Nancy Pluta, Dawn Porter, Jane and John Kanicka, Denise Mackenzie and Bob Moskaylk, Mimi Wacholder and Collin Sullivan
1996 (The Magic of MGM)	Charlene von Saher, Natalie and Wayne Seybold, Vadim Shebeco, Julie Brault, Jennifer Bayer and Jeb Rand, Betty Okina, Eddie Vallon

ISU Tour of Figure Skating Champions

Year	Skaters
1995	Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, Alexei Urmanov, Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, Angelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov, Radka Kovaříková and René Novotný, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov, Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer, Surya Bonaly, Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko, Steven Cousins, Viacheslav Zagorodniuk

Mannheim Steamroller's The Christmas Angel on Ice

Year	Skaters
1998-1999	Dorothy Hamill, Elizabeth Manley, Jozef Sabovčík, Alexandr Fadeev, Éric Millot, Anita Hartshorn and Frank Sweiding, Viacheslav Zagorodniuk, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval, Irina Romanova and Igor Yaroshenko, Tonia Kwiatkowski, Charlene von Saher, Ryan Hunka, Lisa Cricks

Moscow on Ice

Year	Skaters
1990 (U.S. tour)	Sergei Shakhrai, Elena and Vladimir Bogoliubov, Andrei Tarasyan, Sergei Zaitsev, Tatiana Voitiuk, Liudmila Bakonina, Irina Klimova and Alexandr Boitchuk
1991-1992 (U.S. tour)	Sergei Shakhrai, Elena and Vladimir Bogoliubov, Tatiana Voitiuk, Liudmila Bakonina, Irina Kortchach and Andrei Torossian
1992 (Australian tour)	Sergei Shakhrai

Nutcracker on Ice

Year	Skaters
1994	Viktor Petrenko, Oksana Baiul, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Linda Fratianne, Rory Flack Burghart, Charlene von Saher, Bobby Beauchamp, Vladimir Petrenko, Karen Armstrong and Jeff LaBrake, Paul Guerrero
1995	Peggy Fleming, Brian Orser, Todd Eldredge, Nicole Bobek

Russian All-Stars

Year	Skaters
1993 (The Sleeping Beauty, British tour)	Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, Olga Volozhinskaya and Alexandr Svinin, Marina Pestova and Marat Akbarov, Elena Kvitchenko and Rashid Kadyrkaev, Elena Leonova and Sergei Petrovsky, Leonid Kaznakov, Yuriy Tsymbalyuk, Vasily Blagov, Alexei Kislitzin, Elena Garanina and Igor Zavozin, Irina Zhuk and Oleg Petrov, Tatiana and Stanislav Voituk, Violetta Andreeva, Ilona Menichenko
1994 (The Sleeping Beauty, British tour)	Olga Volozhinskaya and Alexandr Svinin, Marina Pestova and Marat Akbarov, Tatiana and Stanislav Voituk, Irina Zhuk and Oleg Petrov, Elena Leonova and Sergei Petrovsky, Valery Spiridinov, Leonid Kaznakov, Alexei Kiliakov, Vasily Blagov, Inna Volianskaya, Ilona Melnichenko, Yulia Borisova, Violetta Andreeva

Russian Ice Stars

Year	Skaters
1995-1996 (Phantom of the Opera on Ice, British tour)	Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, Valeri Spiridinov, Andrei Lipanov, Alexei Tikhonov, Irina Zhuk, Inna Volianskaya, Ekaterina Murugova
1997 (Carmen on Ice, British tour)	Vladimir Kotin, Oleg Petrov, Olga Pershankova, Irina Zhuk
1998 (Sleeping Beauty on Ice, British tour)	Vladimir Kotin, Andrei Kiliakov, Oleg Petrov, Alexandr Svinin, Maxim Katchanov, Aleksandr Tarasov, Ekaterina Murugova, Maria Orlova, Irina Zhuk, Ludmila Koblova, Natalia Pestova, Oksana Choupkina, Ioulia Bestrova, Maria Pochekeina
1999 (Cinderella on Ice, British tour)	Andrei Kiliakov, Oleg Petrov, Ekaterina Murugova, Maria Orlova, Olga Pershankova

Skate The Nation

Year	Skaters
1994 (Eaton's Skate The Nation)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Toller Cranston, Michael Slipchuk, Josée Chouinard, Susan Humphreys, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret, Jamie Salé and Jason Turner, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz
1995 (Eaton's Skate The Nation)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Sébastien Britten, Josée Chouinard, Susan Humphreys, Jennifer Robinson, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret, Michelle Menzies and Jean-Michel Bombardier, Jennifer Boyce and Michel Brunet
1996 (Lever 2000 Skate The Nation)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Sébastien Britten, Elizabeth Manley, Josée Chouinard, Jennifer Robinson, Michelle Menzies and Jean-Michel Bombardier, Kristy Sargeant and Kris Wirtz, Chantal Lefebvre and Michel Brunet
1997 (Skate The Nation)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Sébastien Britten, Elizabeth Manley, Josée Chouinard, Susan Humphreys, Michelle Menzies and Jean-Michel Bombardier, Kristy Sargeant and Kris Wirtz, Michelle McDonald and Martin Smith
1997 (U.S. Tour)	Paul Wylie, Jozef Sabovčík, Steven Cousins, Scott Davis, Katarina Witt, Yuka Sato, Maria Butyrskaya, Caryn Kadavy, Kitty and Peter Carruthers, Peggy Schwarz and Mirko Müller, Stephanie Stiegler and John Zimmerman, Renée Roca and Gorsha Sur
1998 (Skate The Nation)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Steven Cousins, Emanuel Sandhu, Jayson Dénommée, Elizabeth Manley, Josée Chouinard, Michelle Menzies and Jean-Michel Bombardier, Kristy Sargeant and Kris Wirtz, Michelle McDonald and Martin Smith

Skating

Year	Skaters
1990 (Skating)	Brian Boitano, Katarina Witt, Alexandr Fadeev, Gary Beacom, Vladimir Kotin, Rosalynn Sumners, Caryn Kadavy, Yvonne Gomez, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall
1991 (Skating II)	Brian Boitano, Katarina Witt, Alexandr Fadeev, Gary Beacom, Vladimir Kotin, Caryn Kadavy, Yvonne Gomez, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, Renée Roca and Gorsha Sur
1992 (Chrysler Skating '92)	Brian Boitano, Katarina Witt, Gary Beacom, Robert Wagenhoffer, Caryn Kadavy, Yvonne Gomez, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, Renée Roca and Gorsha Sur

Stars on Ice

Year	Skaters
1989-1990 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Rosalynn Sumners, Debi Thomas, Kathleen Schmelz, Kitty and Peter Carruthers, Lea Ann Miller and Bill Fauver, Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall
1990 (Canadian Tour)	Brian Orser, Toller Cranston, Rosalynn Sumners, Debi Thomas, Kathleen Schmelz, Kitty and Peter Carruthers, Lea Ann Miller and Bill Fauver, Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall
1991 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Toller Cranston, Rosalynn Sumners, Kathleen Schmelz, Kitty and Peter Carruthers, Lea Ann Miller and Bill Fauver, Susie Wynne and Joseph Druar
1991 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Debi Thomas, Rosalynn Sumners, Kathleen Schmelz, Kitty and Peter Carruthers, Lea Ann Miller and Bill Fauver, Susie Wynne and Joseph Druar
1992 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Toller Cranston, Michael Slipchuk, Debi Thomas, Rosalynn Sumners, Josée Chouinard, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Lea Ann Miller and Bill Fauver, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay
1992 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Debi Thomas, Rosalynn Sumners, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Kitty and Peter Carruthers, Lea Ann Miller and Bill Fauver, Susie Wynne and Joseph Druar
1993 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Elvis Stojko, Toller Cranston, Michael Slipchuk, Kristi Yamaguchi, Josée Chouinard, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret
1993 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Paul Wylie, Gary Beacom, Kristi Yamaguchi, Rosalynn Sumners, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret, Kitty and Peter Carruthers
1994 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Toller Cranston, Katarina Witt, Kristi Yamaguchi, Josée Chouinard, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret, Natalia Annenko and Genrikh Sretenski
1994 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Paul Wylie, Kristi Yamaguchi, Rosalynn Sumners, Kitty and Peter Carruthers, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret, Natalia Annenko and Genrikh Sretenski
1995 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Kristi Yamaguchi, Josée Chouinard, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret, Natalia Annenko and Genrikh Sretenski
1995 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Kurt Browning, Paul Wylie, Katarina Witt, Kristi Yamaguchi, Rosalynn Sumners, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret, Natalia Annenko and Genrikh Sretenski
1996 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Scott Hamilton, Brian Orser, Kristi Yamaguchi, Josée Chouinard, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret
1996 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Kurt Browning, Paul Wylie, Katarina Witt, Kristi Yamaguchi, Rosalynn Sumners, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Christine Hough and Doug Ladret, Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko
1997 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Josée Chouinard, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Rosalynn Sumners, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz
1997 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Kurt Browning, Paul Wylie, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Rosalynn Sumners, Jill Trenary, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Radka Kovaříková and René Novotný, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
1997 (German Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Kurt Browning, Paul Wylie, Katarina Witt, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Denise Biellmann, Jill Trenary, Rosalynn Sumners, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Radka Kovaříková and René Novotný, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
1998 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Steven Cousins, Josée Chouinard, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz
1998 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Paul Wylie, Katarina Witt, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Rosalynn Sumners, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Renée Roca and Gorsha Sur
1998 (German Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Paul Wylie, Katarina Witt, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Rosalynn Sumners, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Radka Kovaříková and René Novotný, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Renée Roca and Gorsha Sur
1999 (Canadian Tour)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Steven Cousins, Tara Lipinski, Lu Chen, Josée Chouinard, Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz
1999 (U.S. Tour)	Scott Hamilton, Ilia Kulik, Steven Cousins, Kristi Yamaguchi, Tara Lipinski, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Lu Chen, Rosalynn Sumners, Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Renée Roca and Gorsha Sur
1999 (German Tour)	Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Steven Cousins, Katarina Witt, Kristi Yamaguchi, Maria Butyrskaya, Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz

St. Petersburg State Ice Ballet

Year	Skaters
1995-1996 (Sleeping Beauty on Ice)	Olga Kuvasheva, Elena Komarova
1996-1997 (Sleeping Beauty on Ice)	Leonid Smirnov, Pavel Ivanov, Olga Kuvasheva, Elena Komarova
1997-1998 (Swan Lake on Ice, Sleeping Beauty on Ice)	Elena Komarova and Alexei Pogodin
1998-1999 (The Nutcracker on Ice, Sleeping Beauty on Ice, Romeo and Juliet on Ice)	Andrei Stroganov, Leonid Smirnov, Olga Kuvashova, Tatiana Rodionova, Elena Komarova and Alexei Pogodin
1999-2000 (Swan Lake on Ice)	Leonid Smirnov, Natalia Khazova and Oleg Riabov

Torvill and Dean Tours

Year	Skaters
1990 (Torvill and Dean and The Russian All-Stars)	Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, Natalia Annenko and Genrikh Sretenski, Olga Volozhinskaya and Alexander Svinin, Elena Garanina and Igor Zavozin, Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov, Irina Zhuk and Oleg Petrov, Violetta Andreeva, Svetlana Liapina and Peter Cherneshov, Leonid Kaznakov, Inna Volyanskaya and Valery Spiridonov, Marina Kulbitskaya and Alexander Esman, Elena Krykanova, Elana Bobolyubova
1991-1992 (The Very Best of Torvill and Dean – Australian tour)	Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, Natalia Lebedeva, Kiev Ice Ballet
1992 (The Best of Torvill and Dean)	Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Robin Cousins, Tracey Solomons and Ian Jenkins, Kiev Ice Ballet
1994-1995 (Face the Music World Tour)	Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Michelle McDonald and Martin Smith, Susie Wynne and Russ Witherby, Scott Williams, Charlene Wong, Tom Dickson, Catarina Lindgren, Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas, Tracey Damigella, Vladimir Gaidaenko, Konstantin Golomazov, Carla Maillard and Mark Janoschak, Doug Williams, Marina Kulbitskaya and Aleksandr Esman, Tammy Crowson and Keith Green
1997-1998 (Ice Adventures)	Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Michelle McDonald and Martin Smith, Charlene von Saher, Jeri Campbell, Christine and Dion Beleznay, Paul Robinson, Susan Jackson Wagner, Richard Swenning, Rosanna Tovi and Andrew Naylor, Igor Lioutikov, Yaroslava Nechaeva and Yuri Chesnichenko, Emmanuelle Balmori and Jean-Pierre Boyer, Inna Volyanskaya and Alexei Tikhonov, David Cousans, Lee Cornes

Tournée con i campioni di pattinaggio

Year	Skaters
1999	Alexandr Abt, Daniel Weiss, Nicole Skoda, Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov, Vladimir Besedin and Alexei Polischuk, Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko, Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, German Ice Theatre

World Cup Champions on Ice/World Cup Figure Skating Champions

Year	Skaters
1991-1992	Robin Cousins, Linda Fratianne, Elizabeth Manley, Alexandr Fadeev, Charlie Tickner, Scott Williams, Charlene Wong, Lisa-Marie Allen, Cindy Landry and Peter Oppegard, Natalie and Wayne Seybold
1992-1993	Viktor Petrenko, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Elizabeth Manley, Alexandr Fadeev, Charlie Tickner, Petr Barna, Robert Wagenhoffer, Caryn Kadavy, Lisa-Marie Allen, Simone Grigorescu, Natalie and Wayne Seybold
1993-1994	Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, Elizabeth Manley, Petr Barna, Alexandr Fadeev, Charlie Tickner, Jozef Sabovčík, Grzegorz Filipowski, Caryn Kadavy, Tracey Wainman, Lisa-Marie Allen, Anita Hartshorn and Frank Sweiding, Simone Grigorescu

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