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Magic on Ice: Figure Skating Stars, Tips and Facts
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Magic on Ice: Figure Skating Stars, Tips and Facts
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How does someone turn ice into gold? They skate with the beauty, grace, and power of a champion. Features Dorothy Hamill, Sarah Hughes, Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan, and many other skating champions…. More >>
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Updated to include the 2003 Worlds competition. Today’s most exciting figure skaters are spotlighted in this richly illustrated book. Combining grace, incredible athletic ability and artistic showmanship, figure stating is exhilarating and highly entertaining. Anything can happen on the ice and often does. As the fans of competitive figure skating know, beauty and danger add up to the greatest show on ice. Figure Skating Now covers the men, the women, the pairs teams and the dance teams. This second edition covers the reigning stars such as Timothy Goebel, Sarah Hughes, and Michelle Kwan, and introduces the next generation of competitors: Brian Joubert, Sasha Cohen, the pairs team Oberta and Sokolov and m… More >>
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Figure Skating Luminaries Reveal Personal Reflections This journalistic account takes readers on an insider’s voyage to the heart of the sport, chronicles figure skating’s history, interviews its stars, and captures the personal reflections of its most enthusiastic fans. In their own words, well-known- skaters such as Elvis Stojko, Toller Cranston, Lu Chen, Robin Cousins, and Scott Hamilton offer their innermost thoughts and reflections on figure skating — its past and future. Figure skating luminaries like Sandra Bezic reveal the sacrifices and challenges made to become a star. Skate Talk is a moving portrait of figure skating and one that chronicles the sport as no other book has e… More >>
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A beautifully illustrated celebration of the best athletes from this wildly popular sport. Figure Skating’s Greatest Stars profiles 60 great skaters, including champions in men’s, women’s, pairs and ice dancing. Informative essays describe their careers and championship moments, as well as the definitive events that have made figure skating one of the leading spectator sports in North America. Fans of all ages will delight in reading the stories of these stars who have jumped higher, spun tighter and skated more gracefully as they pushed skating’s artistic and technical boundaries. Some of the 60 athletes featured are: Dick Button (late 1940s and early 1950s), United States Liudmila a… More >>
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The world’s most successful and popular ice dancing couple shares their own story, from their working-class childhoods in Nottingham to world stardom, and talks frankly about the behind-the-scenes reality of their astounding career, revealing the conflicts and chaos…. More >>
Torvill & Dean: The Autobiography of Ice Dancing’s Greatest Stars