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Lamartine Sur Le Lac: The Intoxification Of Skating
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Engraving from the series Le Supreme Bon Ton, No. 9, Martinet, Paris, circa 1810-1815 Time and time again throughout history, the li...
Full Circle With Jiřina Nekolová
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Born December 30, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jiřina Nekolová (like the Jelinek's ) would have survived both the Nazi and Soviet...
The Defection Of The Jelinek's
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Canadian, North American and World Champions Maria and Otto Jelinek gained the admiration and adulation of figure skating fans in both C...
Czech This Out: A Look At Early Czechoslovakian Skating History
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Skaters on the Ohře River in 1905. Photo courtesy State Cheb District Archive. "At noon today I was on the ice, alone. The river w...
The 1978 Skate Canada International Competition
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Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine Fifteen countries were invited; thirteen showed up. The 1978 Skate Canada International com...
Minnie Cummings, The Minneapolis Skating Gypsy
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Born in May of 1879 in Canada, Minnie Cummings was the daughter of first generation British immigrants. Her father relocated her family s...
Toller Cranston Visits The Magic Planet
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Having already covered his 1982 " Strawberry Ice " and 1985 " The True Gift Of Christmas " television specials on the...
A Seminar In Shadow Skating History
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Without a question, one of the earliest and most defining changes in the discipline of pairs skating was the introduction of shadow ska...
Patinage Poetry: The Language Of The Ice (Part Trois)
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How doth I love skating? Let me count the ways... Just prior to the Sochi Olympics, I put together a collection of poetry about skating c...
Four Forgotten Ice Princesses Of The Fifties
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Ája Vrzáňová, Jeannette Altwegg, Jacqueline du Bief , Tenley Albright, Gundi Busch, Carol Heiss... these 6.0 talented women each stood upon ...
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