A great skater and legendary sports commentator - he made it cool to love figure skating, to care about the history and progress of the sport, to be a scholar-athlete, and to be smart on TV.
I admire him more for all he did for skating and I'm grateful for every Scrabble word or crossword...
This is the saddest morning.
I am thinking of al the skaters, coaches, parents, USFSA officials - and everyone who is waiting for news of their loved ones - I am sorry for your pain and loss.
Requiring a layback spin or without a Biellmann: YES .
I'd vote for including a layback or side-leaning spin as a required element in both men and women's SP. And this spin or combo should not include a Biellmann or a Y position.
So few skaters do a great Biellmann. When they pull their skate...
It's weird how this issue didn't come up when skaters used movie soundtracks with orchestral scores.
You didn't hear about the composer and arranger for Gladiator or Last of the Mohicans when their music was used at the Olympics or Worlds.
I'm listening to a podcast series called Hahnacity by two cousins (Laura Hahn-Segundo and Joy Hahn-Silva) who were top junior gymnasts in the late 1980s. What a fascinating perspective. I always wanted to hear from the non-Olympic gymnasts who trained at Karolyi's and Dynamo Gymnastics at that...
They continue on this subject in their review of Finlandia
I think they're right about the current rules pushing skaters to overload their programs with point-grabbing transitions rather than choreography inspired by the music. For a while - in the 2010s to maybe 2018 - I did enjoy seeing...
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