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The Great Danes: Pioneers In Danish Figure Skating
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Credited with introducing the ice sports of bandy and hockey to the people of Denmark is a Briton named Charles Goodman Tebbutt, who was als...
Böckl Up: It's Time To Talk Skating, Big Willy Style
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On January 27, 1873, Richard Wilhelm 'Willy' Böckl was born in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, a southern Austrian city which borders wi...
America's Axel Paulsen: The Johnny Nilsson Story
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Norway's Axel Paulsen was one of very few skaters to navigate his way between the worlds of figure and speed skating with ease. A mul...
South American Skating History... You'd Be Surprised!
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The Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires Patinação, patinaje... no matter the language, I promise you that the history of ice skating in So...
The 1951 Plane Crash: Remembering Helen Fishbeck
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They say that history repeats itself and the rather sombre topic of today's blog is a reminder of just that. Exactly ten years before...
Freddie Tomlins And The Nazi Watch
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There's something about jewelry and accessories and British men's skaters of the thirties. Back in February, we looked at the un...
Interview With Todd Eldredge
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When I made the decision to phase out interviews on the blog in June, I had originally planned for the July 5 interview with Olympic Gold...
Out Of Africa: Adventures In African Skating History
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1923 clipping from "The Illustrated Sporting And Dramatic News" depicting skating in Kenya Back in October 2013, I wrote Win...
John Forbes And The Starr Manufacturing Company
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Every so often a blog begs to be written. Material jumps out at you in the most unlikely of places. In this case, it started with a book ...
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