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Saturday, 5 April 2008
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| 2008 Festival in Nagoya on Youtube Guest 05:27:31 |
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2008 Festival in Nagoya
Featuring: Mao Asada, Takahiko Kozuka, Miki Ando, Nana
Takeda, Yukari Nakano, Mai Asada etc...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=figure+skating+2008+Festival+Nagoya&search=Search
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| Emily Hughes back on the ice Guest 05:27:20 |
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Emily Hughes is set to headline with Kurt Browning,
Stephen Carriere and over 200 outstanding performers in
the 96th annual Ice Chips Show of Champions.
Ice Chips has become one of the most important annual
events of The Skating Club of Boston with proceeds
benefiting the Children's Hospital Boston and Project
Bridge for the Homeless.
Tickets are available at The Skating Club of Boston box
office.
For more details, visit:
http://www.scboston.org
http://www.icechips.org
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| Gold Ice Juniors win silver in synchronized skating Guest 05:24:56 |
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Tue Apr 01, 2008
DURHAM -- A pair of local skaters brought home a couple
of nice shiny silver medals recently.
Oshawa's Aleisha Furlotte and Whitby's Carly Smith, both
members of the Whitby Figuring Skating Club, captured a
silver medal at the at the World Challenge Cup for junior
skaters.
They were representing Skate Canada as a part of the
Brampton-Chinguacousy Gold Ice Juniors team and were the
only two members of the 20 person synchronized skating
team to hail from Durham Region.
This season has been an exhilarating one for the
17-year-old Furlotte and 15-year-old Smith.
Earlier this season the two young skaters travelled with
their team to Chilliwack, B.C. to compete at the BMO
Canadian Synchronized Skating Championships, where the
team captured the gold medal as Canadian champions.
They returned home early last month before heading to
Rouen, France to represent Canada at the World Challenge
Cup for Juniors where the team captured a silver medal.
There were 18 teams in total at the world competition
representing 14 countries. Their short program was skated
to 'A Prayer in the Night' by composer James Shearman and
their long program was skated to the 'Blood Diamond
Village Attack' theme.
In January the team also travelled to Germany where they
participated in the Cup of Berlin earning a bronze.
Link
http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/sports/article/96244
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| Haydenettes bring home first World Championship medal Guest 05:24:52 |
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Wed Apr 02, 2008
Lexington - The Haydenettes, U.S. Figure Skating s 2008
Synchronized Figure Skating Champions, finished the
skating season with a strong program Saturday evening to
place third in the free skate portion of the World
Championships held this past week in Budapest, Hungary.
The team s strong performance moved the Haydenettes up to
finish the competition in fifth place overall. The team
was in sixth place after an uncharacteristic performance
in the short program, the team s traditional strong suit.
However, the team s free skate performance earned the
team the Bronze Medal for that portion of the
competition, where medals are awarded by the
International Skating Union for the short program, free
skate and overall placement. Finland s Rockettes won the
overall championship with perennial medalists Team
Surprise from Sweden holding on to the second place with
Canada rounding out the podium in third. The free skate
medal was the first World Championship Medal of any type
for the Haydenettes in their ninth trip to the World
Championships.
The World Synchronized Championship is the final event
sanctioned by the International Skating Union, the
governing body for all skating competitions. The
Haydenettes Bronze Medal in the free skate portion of
the competition was only the second medal won by the U.S.
during this season s World Championships. Johnny Weir
captured the Bronze Medal in the men s competition with
the U.S. ladies, pairs and ice dance skaters shutout of
the medals this year.
"I am very proud of my skaters in the way they put the
short program behind them and went out and showed that
they are one of the elite teams in the World," said Saga
Krantz, head coach of the Haydenettes. "This is an
experienced group that has risen to challenges in the
past and they did it again. The team skated beautifully
in the free skate, they were expressive and their
presentation of the program to the audience and the
judges was excellent," noted Coach Krantz.
Noteworthy for the team was the perfect score they
received for the technical component of the free skate,
"back to what everyone expects of the Haydenettes," noted
Krantz.
After their performance the Haydenettes returned to the
arena in first place and watched as the leading teams
competed in the final grouping. Sitting at the far end of
the arena, they faced the giant scoring screen and
skating s famed "kiss-and-cry" podium. It wasn t until
the final team from Finland skated and the scores went up
that the Haydenettes realized they had skated strong
enough to remain in third place for the free skate
program and their first ever World medal, the small
medal as it is referred to in figure skating. It was an
emotional scene of joy around the arena for the Finns,
Swedes, Canadians and yes, the Haydenettes. It was hugs
and kisses and tears of joy for the twenty-three skaters
from Hayden. For some, it was their third, fourth or
fifth trip to the World event but for all it will be the
first time they return to the U.S. with metal detectors
going off at the airports as the medals will surely not
be packed in the checked baggage.
The Haydenettes core group includes returning high school
and collegiate skaters. The team is anchored by five
current LHS seniors this year. They include Lauren
Petroff, Olivia Samia, Amanda Ting, Kate Wilson and
Tracey Daniels. Daniels moved to Lexington from Downers
Grove, Illinois to specifically tryout and skate with the
Haydenettes
Link
http://www.wickedlocal.com/lexington/sports/x1564572783
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| Four Londoners won by Nexxice at the world synchronized skating championships Guest 05:24:48 |
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Four Londoners had a hand -- and some flying feet, too --
in the silver medal won by Nexxice at the world
synchronized skating championships in Budapest, Hungary,
on the weekend.
Allison Proudfoot and Julia Horan of London and Cara and
Shari Moir from the Ilderton Skating Club all put their
best foot forward for the Nexxice, a dandy collection of
skaters from across southern Ontario that also captured
the silver at last year's worlds in London.
Link
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Sports/Hockey/2008/04/02/5170401-sun.html
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| Lauren Kolar part of silver medallists Gold Ice junior team Guest 05:24:43 |
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Lauren Kolar's Year of Unfinished Business began at last
year's World Challenge Cup synchronized skating
championships in Nottingham, England.
Two members of the Brampton Gold Ice junior team that
Kolar skates with fell during the short program and the
team headed into the free program in eighth place. The
squad, which won bronze at the event in 2004 and 2005 and
was fourth in 2006, ended up winning the longer free
program, but their performance in the short program
relegated the team to fourth overall.
"A core group of us came back to the team thinking we
wanted this really bad," Kolar said. "We wanted to place
really well at the worlds and know we had finished our
business."
Head coach Wendy Coates, who coaches the squad with
Tiffany Elliott, Stephanie Klein and Saara Pulkinnen,
said two-thirds of the squad came back to finish what it
had started.
"Having such a disastrous short program skate, finishing
eighth, and then coming back to win the free program
showed true grit and competitiveness," Coates said.
"The girls knew that they could be one of the best and
they fought back tremendously to prove it."
Kolar, a 17-year-old St. Catharines native, and her team
placed second at the world qualifier at the Hershey
Centre in January to earn another crack at the world
championships.
But before going to the worlds in Rouen, France, the team
made a detour to the national championships in
Chilliwack, B.C., where it skated away with the Canadian
crown.
The team arrived in France with T-shirts with the words
"Unfinished Business" across the back and they prepared
to make amends for 2007. Gold Ice skated a solid short
program, but still ended up in seventh place place in an
extremely close competition. But in the free program, the
squad performed well and ended up with the silver medal,
finishing ahead of all but one team in the 17-team,
14-country event.
Out came some hockey tape, and the letters "Un" on the
back of the T-shirts were covered up and the slogan
became "Finished Business." Kolar's memory of winning the
silver medal will be forever etched in her mind.
"At that moment, it was such a sigh of relief to know
that after all our hard work, our team had achieved our
goal. It was finally. 'I have closure to the Year of
Unfinished Business. ' "
Achieving the goal certainly took a lot of hard work.
Gold Ice is on the ice nine hours a week plus five hours
of weekly off-ice training.
"Sometimes, if you have a ton of homework you get tired,
but mostly it's rewarding in the end," Kolar said. "It
helps us be more successful."
And it helps that the Grade 12 student at St. Francis
thinks of synchronized skating as a labour of love.
"I like the competitive edge and competing and just going
out there and performing. It is really exciting to be out
on the ice and when you're out there, you get such a rush
of adrenaline. That's what makes me love it."
It's Kolar's determination and work ethic that makes her
a good skater, Coates said.
"She is also very good at the performance aspect of
competing."
Kolar has been figure skating since she was six and has
been involved in synchronized skating for the past nine
years. She was on teams in Jordan, Niagara Falls and
Burlington before arriving in Brampton two years ago
This spring, Kolar is trying out for the Brampton Ice
senior team and hopes she can continue skating while
attending university at Guelph, Western or the University
of Toronto.
Link
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=961389&auth=BERNIE+PUCHALSKI
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Thursday, 3 April 2008
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| Re: American Skating - C R I S I S Chris Hall 17:47:41 |
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Hello everyone. I just noticed that Champions on Ice is not touring this year. I must say I'm shocked!!!! What is going on? I complained in previous years that american skating was on crisis but this year in particular is even worse. Who is to blame? Promoters?, lack of sponsors? I think it is a matter of marketing, public relations and lack of vision from TV networks, Federations, and touring companies because America has the best coaches and the deepest amount of skating people in the world. Almost everyone goes to America to train, even former foreign champions left their countries in order to have a better life there. What is going on???? Oh Dear...I miss the 90's.... *SIGH*
There are several things going on here. When you factor in
icenetwork.com, Eurosport and youtube, there's actually a lot more
skating available to fans now, on demand, all the time. In fact, I have
uploaded over 300 videos to youtube (all my own original video).
Look at the attendance at GP events. It's pitiful. Why would TV networks
pay big bucks to cover something that virtually nobody attends?
Most skaters now are moving into synchro. Pairs and dance are tiny
communities and for people older than about 13, freestyle isn't all that
big either. When synchro Worlds was held in London ON last year, it sold
out the Labatts Centre 6 months before the event! Now if synchro can
start getting some TV exposure, I think that's where the future lies in
terms of getting a new viewership. It's more like football or NASCAR
than figure skating from a fan perspective.
Synchro Worlds is on this weekend, but as it's in Hungary, we'll have to
wait for CN8 coverage. If it was in N America, it would sell out
instantly. Good luck to Hayden and Miami!!
Chris
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| Speed queen's Kristina Groves long road to greatness Guest 02:55:32 |
| | Saturday, March 29, 2008
Speed queen's long road to greatness
Calgary-based Groves a late bloomer
When you meet Kristina Groves in a coffee shop, there's
no immediate hint of her greatness. There are no medals
around her neck or ready for show in velvet-lined cases.
There's no entourage to protect her or filter questions.
Simply, it's down-to-earth Kristina, wearing blue jeans
and sport tops, and willing to talk all day.
She is the newest member of an exclusive Ottawa club of
high-performance athletes. She is a world champion after
an unprecedented performance earlier this month at the
long-track single distance speed skating championships in
Nagano, Japan, where she captured the women's 3,000-metre
gold medal as the highlight of her five-medal, five-race
showing. She has also developed into not only Ottawa's
greatest female athlete, but is also the fourth-ranked
female skater on the International Skating Union's
all-time best list.
After speeding around icy ovals for 20 years, she is
still a humble, unassuming and determined athlete, who
has progressed to the pinnacle of her demanding sport.
Groves, who joined the Ottawa Pacers Speed Skating Club
after watching Gaetan Boucher skate at the 1988 Winter
Olympics in Calgary, can't quite come to grips with the
title of World Champion.
"I won't be walking around saying it very often," said
Groves, who has lived and trained in Calgary for the past
12 years. "I won't be wearing a T-shirt that says World
Champion on the back. It makes me uncomfortable.
"I skated to my potential on the day it counted. But it's
done and it may not happen again. Being a world champion.
What does it mean, really? It's good. It's exciting. But
I'm thrilled with how I skated."
The day before her golden skate in the 3,000 metres,
Groves skated a solid race for the bronze medal in the
1,500 metres. But the four-time Ottawa female athlete of
the year knew she could have been faster.
The 3,000-metre race "just happened" -- it was a perfect
race.
"I was aware of everything, but distracted by nothing. On
the last turn, our nutritionist yelled to me that I had
the fastest time. That was exciting, but when I heard it,
it didn't affect me."
Groves didn't know for more than half a minute after the
race that she had won because of the positioning of the
time clocks and scoreboard on the Nagano oval. When she
realized what she had done, she took a victory lap and
partway through showed the sparse crowd how hard she had
worked for it.
An embarrassed Groves, 31, threw up on the ice, which was
quickly cleaned up by an official.
"In Japan, everything is so clean," said Groves, who
pointed out the window of the coffee shop yesterday and
said you'd never see any debris on the streets of Japan.
"For me, the reward was the skate and the medal was
secondary."
For the past four years, Groves has been driven by
focusing on the performance and not the end result and
she has been tremendously successful, winning eight of
her 16 world champion and Olympic medals this season,
"The title itself won't define me. I don't want to be
defined by it. I'm a human being going in circles and
trying to be good at that."
It has taken time and plenty of work for Groves to reach
the top. But speed skating is a labour of love for her,
one she hopes to embrace for another two seasons and be
able to release her speed at her third Winter Olympics at
the 2010 Games in Vancouver.
"I'm a late bloomer and a slow learner," she added.
Link
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/sports/story.html?id=1f6ffe51-d6bf-4ec5-91c3-85aab0be0f1f&k=49729
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| Gregory / Petukhov - We'll Be Back Guest 02:47:22 |
| | March 26, 2008
"We are very upset about how the season turned out,"
Petukhov said. "The accident in Canada really set us
back. It was very hard for us to have to miss the season
but we are really concentrating on coming back strong
with a vengeance next season. We love skating and we love
performing and can't wait to get back out there."
"We want to like the way we skate and enjoy it for
ourselves," Petukhov stated. "We've been too wrapped up
in the competitive aspect. We want to skate with more
freedom. It's a challenge but not impossible. We want to
be unique and create our own signature style and
programs."
Gregory began skating when she was eight as did Petukhov.
Although he started immediately in dance, she competed in
singles up to novice ladies before concentrating on ice
dancing. "I decided to concentrate on dance because there
is more to dance than any other discipline," she said.
For their country/folk original dance, the couple is
doing an Irish jig to "Lord of the Dance" which was
re-choreographed after Skate Canada by Christopher Dean
and Denis. "We really enjoyed working with Chris and
learned a lot of new things. He is very creative and
inspiring," Petukhov noted. "We wanted to do something
more exciting for the audience, something very different
from the common choice of Russian or Ukrainian Folk that
we've been seeing."
"We listened to a lot of music," Gregory said, "but we
decided to go with our gut. We had a strong feeling for
Celtic/Irish music. We watched the 'Lord of the Dance'
video and worked with a professional to get the feeling
and rhythm. It's very exciting and strong but challenging
to transfer to the ice."
Gregory and Petukhov had an unusual show number for the
Marshall's event that also was on tour for all of last
summer, a trio with Johnny Weir to "Sarabande Suite". "It
was Denis's initial idea," Gregory said. "We were all on
the plane back from Worlds when he had the inspiration
for it. We knew we had to do something new for the show
and we all wanted to do something that was fun and
different. We already have ideas for the next trio."
"I'm doing a lot of choreography now," Petukhov said.
"Johnny asked me to do his long program. Love is War is
the name of it. I'm doing all of Priscilla's students.
Usually it takes me about four days for the basic idea,
then months to perfect. I'm constantly altering to keep
up with the new system and counting points."
"They're still changing the rules for the Code of
Points," Petukhov continued. "After the next Olympics,
we'll have to see how it progresses. It still needs a few
more years for people to get comfortable with it. We hope
the system will take skating to another level."
"We're coaching in the summer now," Gregory said. "We
don't plan to be main coaches, but just to help out and
do choreography. Right now we're focusing on the next two
years until after Vancouver and then we'll decide what we
want to do after that. I'd like to go to school, but I'd
also like to start a family after 2010."
Off ice, Gregory and Petukhov spend a lot of time with
Weir. "We have a cool and close friendship with him,"
Gregory said. "We have a lot of fun together. Last
summer, we all went to Cozumel, Mexico and went jet
skiing. Which is a surprise because Johnny's afraid of
sharks. One day we went to Quarryville, PA and got to
ride in an Amish buggy (which was a very big honor to be
able to do). Johnny is from around there and his
relatives still live in the area." Weir also designed
their free dance costumes and inspired their original
dance costumes.
"We also like to go to the movies, go out to dinner with
friends, take our dog to the doggy park, go into the city
and just walk around quietly together," Gregory stated.
She also likes cooking, dancing, fashion and skiing,
while he enjoys soccer, cars, music, and fishing . They
like to watch any new movies, especially action, comedies
and love stories. And they collect hats from wherever
they travel.
The couple have a website done by a company in the Czech
republic at www.gregoryandpetukhov.com
Here is the link for full article
http://www.skatetoday.com/articles08/032608.htm
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| Bold TV has replaced CBC Country Canada Guest 02:47:18 |
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March 28, 2008
The CBC is reshaping its two digital TV channels, the
network announced yesterday. CBC Country Canada will
become Bold TV.
CBC executive vice-president Richard Stursberg said the
channels were designed to attract an audience looking for
"a deeper experience" from their television viewing.
Here is the link for full article
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080328.CBC28/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Television
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| Patrick Chan 29 Mars 08 - Part 1, 2 on Youtube Guest 02:47:10 |
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Patrick Chan 29 Mars 08 - Part 1
invitИ spИcial au spectacle club de patinage artistique
de St-Romuald St-Jean. C'est son premier solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dps7HdOcMz8
Patrick Chan 29 Mars 08 - Part 2l
patinage artistique de St-Romuald St-Jean. C'est son
deuxiХme solo de la soirИe plus son rappel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_8iowpeHY
Recent addition of March 31, 2008
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| upcoming new show 'Johnny Weir: Black Swan Rising' Guest 02:47:04 |
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Sundance Channel Unveils Upcoming Shows ...
"Johnny Weir: Black Swan Rising" follows the three-time
U.S. figure skating champion as he seeks to become the
2010 Olympic champ.
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Tuesday, 1 April 2008
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| U.S. Figure skating fades to black on TV Guest 07:24:22 |
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Figure skating fades to black on TV
Fans and skaters themselves stand to lose the most as the
sport moves closer to disappearing from TV screens.
I have been watching the World Figure Skating
Championships from Sweden live on my computer.
On a Turkish TV channel that is part sports, part C-SPAN,
showing the country's parliament when the lawmakers are
in session.
From the postings on skating news groups, others have
been watching live on Internet streams from a variety of
countries, including South Korea, China, Slovakia and the
United Kingdom.
All this is free -- except the usurious monthly fees
charged by Internet service providers, that is.
This availability of live coverage makes skating fans
winners, but it makes the sport they care about a loser.
Why would a TV network want to pay anything but two
plugged nickels for exclusive territorial rights to an
event where the territorial exclusivity of the telecast
is compromised?
That is among the reasons why ESPN threatened to break
its four-year contract with the International Skating
Union after one year when it learned the 2005 Moscow
worlds were being streamed live into the United States.
That meant many of the people who might watch ESPN's
delayed coverage already had seen the event and felt less
compelled to tune in.
And that was in the days before YouTube, where videos of
parts of the 2008 worlds yet to be aired by ESPN have
been readily available.
The ISU has done better with the issue of "geo
protection," but it apparently lacks the resources or
commitment to police all the countries whose TV networks
have the right to show the event.
ESPN has been paying the ISU $5 million a year for rights
to all ISU figure skating and speedskating events, which
include the figure skating worlds and Grand Prix series.
But it has not renewed the contract. I reported recently
that NBC has agreed to air the 2009 worlds in Los
Angeles, but that deal -- yet to be officially announced
-- apparently is for one year and probably will not
include any Grand Prix events on TV. The main reason NBC
wanted the 2009 worlds is the possibility for live,
prime-time programming a year before its broadcasts of
the 2010 Olympics.
One thing you can be sure about: No U.S. network will be
paying the ISU anything near $5 million a year, which
already was more than 75% less than the $22 million a
year ABC had paid in the previous deal.
Now no one need have any tag days for ESPN, which is
doing just fine, thank you.
And some would argue ESPN should have protected itself by
showing the worlds live, at odd hours of the morning and
afternoon in the United States, as it did with the soccer
Women's World Cup last fall.
How, then, would the network attract any advertising to
defray its skating rights fee? The soccer was a freebie
(other than production costs) for ESPN.
Let's give ESPN some credit here. It has not scrimped on
broadcast talent or production at any of its four skating
worlds. And it is streaming parts of the competition live
on ESPN360.com, which sadly means nothing to those of us
who buy our Internet access from Comcast, which is
treating ESPN360 the way it has the Big Ten network with
its cable subscribers.
So enjoy all the free foreign Internet coverage you are
getting.
But remember, the ISU will no longer have $5 million a
year to spend on a sport in grave danger of disappearing
from TV screens in North America not long after it was
widely available on over-the-air networks.
And remember the many skating fans who can't afford
high-speed Internet -- or cable TV.
And think of the skaters, whose income possibilities have
dwindled in many cases to little more than ISU prize
money that will probably be cut again without the
infusion of U.S. television manna.
Barely a decade ago, skating was TV's golden goose.
Now it produces goose eggs on the bottom line.
http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-spw-hersh22mar22,0,7531680.story
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| Re: With Cuba slow to change, defections rise Jeanne Douglas 07:07:36 |
| | In article
<2f07ad3c-f97c-471b-a613-b083a390cafd@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
Chilly8 <chilly8@hotmail.com> wrote:
freddy wrote: On Mar 13, 10:57?pm, freddy <melbedewy1...@hotmail.com> wrote: With Cuba slow to change, defections rise Posted on Thu, Mar. 13, 2008Digg del.icio.us AIM reprint print email BY TERE FIGUERAS NEGRETE, ALFONSO CHARDY AND JORDAN LEVIN tfigueras@MiamiHerald.com Ballet dancers. Boxers. This week, soccer players. A flurry of young athletes and artists from Cuba have sought asylum in the United States since an ailing Fidel Castro ceded power 20 months ago -- slipping away from minders, leaving behind families and striking out for new lives across the Florida Straits. Don't forget the numerous Cuban figure skaters that have emigrated to the United States, especially since the early 1990s include
And the fantasy/lies and nationality-theft goes on and on (and, oh yeah,
even birth date theft):
Felicia Beck (DOB 23rd January 1982, Holguin)
<http://www.unseenskaters.com/biography/beckfelicia.html>
"Felicia Beck was born on October 4, 1985 in Dallas, TX. "
Beatriz "Bebe" Liang(DOB 19th October 1987, Havana)
<http://www.usfigureskating.org/AthleteBio.asp?id=2298?
Bebe Liang
Born: March 31, 1988 Tarzana, California
Isabel Lourdes "Elisabeth" Punsulan(DOB 15th January 1972, Surgidero De Batabanao (Married Jared Swallow (born in Florida) in 1993, P&S won 4 North American dance titles for America))
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700602/bio>
Elizabeth Punsalan
Date of Birth
9 January 1971, Syracuse, New York, USA
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841533/>
Jerod Swallow
Date of Birth:
18 October 1966, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Daniel "Dan" Hollander (DOB 23rd October 1974, Bayamo)
<http://www.figureskatersonline.com/danhollander/home.html>
DAN HOLLANDER
Born: May 9, 1972
Height: 5'2", Weight: 132 lbs.
Home Club: Detroit Skating Club
Hometown: Huntington Woods, MI
Catarina "Katie" Orscher (DOB 22nd June 1986 Manzanillo) Gareto Lucash (birthdate unknown)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Orscher>
"Kathryn "Katie" Orscher (born June 18, 1984 in Hartford, Connecticut)
is an American figure skater ..."
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Lucash>
"Garrett Lucash (born September 21, 1978 in Attleboro, MA) is an
American pair skater"
Benjamin "Ben" Agosto (DOB 7th June 1981, Havana) Tanith Belbin (DOB 24th January 1983, Havana)
<http://www.usfigureskating.org/AthletePairBio.asp?id=18447>
Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto
Tanith
Born: July 11, 1984 - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Ben
Born: January 15, 1982 - Chicago, Illinois
Alejandra Maruzal "Sasha" Cohen (DOB 27th October 1985, Havana)
<http://www.usfigureskating.org/AthleteBio.asp?id=2265>
Sasha Cohen
Born: October 26, 1984 Westwood, California
And we have yet ANOTHER pairs figure skating couple that remained in America after the North American championships, in January Amanda Evora(Born March 2 1984 in Pinar Del Rio) and Marco Ladwig(Born January 27th 1982 in Nueva Gerona) now reside in America. The finsihed 5th in Minneapolis. Whether or not US Figure Skating gives them any GP assignments will not be known for a few months. Amanda is from Pinar Del Rio and Marco is from Nueva Gerona.
<http://www.usfigureskating.org/AthletePairBio.asp?id=19383>
Amanda Evora & Mark Ladwig
Amanda
Born: November 17, 1984 - New York, New York
Mark
Born: May 6, 1980 - Fargo, North Dakota
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JD
"...if you think the 'Star Wars' prequels are a disease, then
'Serenity' is the cure."
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Sunday, 30 March 2008
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| Comments on the long program - 2008 World Synchronized Skating Championships Guest 22:02:28 |
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FIN1
On their feelings on the ice:
It was amazing to skate here in Hungary, I think we did
our best, and that is what we wanted to do. We only went
out to skate for us, to enjoy skating.
On team s favorite element of the program:
Actually it is the whole. But probably the wheel at the
end of the program.
On the audience:
It was awesome and amazing. We have a big funny group
here in Hungary.
SWE1 (by Andrea DohАny)
On their opinion on the result:
I m absolutely not satisfied. Even not with the scores. I
want to see our program later on video to analyze. I
could not see the Team Finland1, but I think, that our
group is technically better. We didn t get the level
scores even for 3-4 elements. I can not understand why.
But I will look at it on the video again.
On the girl s feeling:
They are really disappointed. They worked a lot!
CAN2
On their feelings on the ice:
We are super happy. Yesterday we did our personal best,
and our today s program is also the ever best.
On taking part in a competition in Budapest:
We wanted to perform an amazing show, that s why we came
here.
On their opinion on the final result:
We run at the end, so we could not see all the teams, but
we know, that Finland1 and Sweden1 are the best. And the
other team of Canada is very happy with their 3. place,
and so do we.
FIN2
On their opinion on the program:
We are very disappointed. We went for the gold, yesterday
we finished on the 3. place and today we made a really
good performance. We did not make big mistakes. But the
technical scores were not enough today for the gold.
On what did the trainer said before the program:
That we can get the gold
USA2
On their feelings on the ice:
We re very pleased. We gave so much energy in it.
On the team s opinion on the program:
Yes, we re satisfied. We can be happy, as it s a good end
for this season.
On comparing the two programs:
In the free program we could show our energy. But the two
programs are very different, we cannot compare them.
On what did the trainer say right before the program:
She told us how she believed in us, and how she was proud
of us.
USA1
On their feelings during the program:
We really focused on the program. We had small problems,
but really small ones, so it was a pretty good skate.
On comparing the two programs:
We enjoyed better this free program. It was filled with a
lot of fun. We knew that it had been our last competition
for this season, so we felt free.
On the team s favourite part of the program:
Our favourite is probably the beginning. It s really
strong, there s a lot of energy in it.
On how did they prepare for this program yesterday:
We had a team meeting yesterday. The trainers said that
the day after would be a new day, they asked us not to
look back, to forget about everything, to do our best on
Saturday, during the free program.
RUS1 (Coach)
On their opinion on the program:
I m satisfied, there were some mistakes in the program,
someone fall as well, but this happened accidentally,
this was not a technical fault.
On comparing the two programs:
Free skating was better for us.
On her opinion on the scores:
I don t agree with that, and I cannot understand it.
CAN1
On their feelings on the ice:
It was great and nice, a lot of colors everywhere
On the team s favourite elements of the program:
The circle and the line.
On how did they prepare for this program yesterday:
We had a team meeting, and we prepared also mentally for
today. We always want to go forward. We are a very good
group.
On what did the trainer say right before the program:
Have fun!
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| Final Results - 2008 World Synchronized Skating Championships Guest 21:49:10 |
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1 Team Finland 1 FIN
210.48 2 1
2 Team Sweden 1 SWE
205.71 1 2
3 Team Canada 1 CAN
198.81 4 4
4 Team Finland 2 FIN
198.03 3 5
5 Team United States of America 1 USA
195.87 6 3
6 Team Canada 2 CAN
188.59 5 6
7 Team Germany GER
171.52 9 7
8 Team Russia 1 RUS
169.75 8 8
9 Team United States of America 2 USA
168.04 7 9
10 Team Russia 2 RUS
147.42 11 12
11 Team Italy ITA
146.24 12 10
12 Team Switzerland SUI
140.65 13 11
13 Team Sweden 2 SWE
138.65 10 15
14 Team Hungary HUN
134.50 14 13
15 Team Czech Republic CZE
130.45 16 14
16 Team France FRA
126.19 15 16
17 Team Japan JPN
117.69 17 17
18 Team Austria AUT
104.11 18 18
19 Team Australia AUS
97.19 19 19
20 Team Croatia CRO
96.63 20 20
21 Team Great Britain GBR
78.76 21 21
22 Team Serbia SRB
64.77 22 22
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| Long Program Results - 2008 World Synchronized Skating Championships Guest 21:49:05 |
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1 Team Finland 1 FIN 137.93
70.05 67.88 8.46 8.25 8.64 8.54 8.54
2 Team Sweden 1 SWE 130.99
62.20 68.79 8.61 8.64 8.64 8.57 8.54
3 Team United States of America 1 USA 129.05
69.43 60.62 7.57 7.39 7.61 7.68 7.64 (-1.00 Deduction)
4 Team Canada 1 CAN 128.14
68.91 60.23 7.57 7.43 7.61 7.57 7.46 (-1.00 Deduction)
5 Team Finland 2 FIN 127.16
62.02 65.14 8.07 8.04 8.21 8.18 8.21
6 Team Canada 2 CAN 121.04
62.29 58.75 7.32 7.25 7.50 7.36 7.29
7 Team Germany GER 109.44
53.50 55.94 7.18 6.89 6.96 7.00 6.93
8 Team Russia 1 RUS 107.18
48.01 60.17 7.68 7.39 7.54 7.61 7.39 (-1.00 Deduction)
9 Team United States of America 2 USA 103.76
46.12 57.64 7.14 7.07 7.25 7.39 7.18
10 Team Italy ITA 96.19
11 Team Switzerland SUI 93.52
12 Team Russia 2 RUS 92.88
13 Team Hungary HUN 88.42
14 Team Czech Republic CZE 86.27
15 Team Sweden 2 SWE 82.83
16 Team France FRA 81.36
17 Team Japan JPN 79.06
18 Team Austria AUT 66.00
19 Team Australia AUS 65.63
20 Team Croatia CRO 65.10
21 Team Great Britain GBR 48.90
22 Team Serbia SRB 44.43
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| REPOST: Comments on the short program - 2008 World Synchronized Skating Championships Guest 21:37:55 |
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USA2 (by team captain)
On their feelings on the ice:
Very pleased. And it was very exciting.
On their results:
Yeah, we`re satisfied. Of course, we always would like to
improve.
On the team`s favourite element:
Well, the lift should be exciting in the long program.
USA1 (by coach)
On her opinion on the program:
We had one big mistake. But the elements were okay. We`re
proud, the presentation was really nice.
On her opinion on the scores:
It`s really hard to say anything. The judges are doing
their job.
CAN2 (by team leader)
On their comments on the short program:
It was our personal best short program, so we are really
happy.
On which elements they`re afraid of:
There`s nothing. By the end of the season everything is
so automatic. We do the same thing on the ice what we do
during trainings. Of course, at every competition it`s a
bit special as well.
On their skating:
We focus on our feeling on the ice, and to do a really
good show. We`d like to be happy and proud on the ice.
FIN1
On their feelings on the ice:
It was really nice. The audience was really supporting.
It was almost like at home.
On the team`s favourite element:
Maybe it`s the first block. And the wheels at the end of
the program. We like the block, because we feel, that
it`s really strong in the program. The interpretation and
the expression are also strong in the program.
CAN1 (by the coach)
On her opinion on the program:
The team looked very composed. I was really pleased.
On their plans for tomorrow:
We have to work to make a perfect program for tomorrow.
On her expectations in connection with today`s final
result:
We hope to stay in the top groups. And than tomorrow we
hope that we`ll skate our best, and make the best
performance.
SWE1 (by A. Dohany)
Comments on the short program:
I always say that it`s possible to make it better. But it
was good. We got less points to 2 elements, than we
waited.
On which position will the team reach at the end of the
short program:
I would not say anything. The results in this sport
cannot be counted. It depends on the other teams.
On which element the team was afraid of:
In every element there are some risks. A hard step, or
the transition. So there`s risk in every element.
FIN2 (by team captain)
On her comments on the program:
I think we made a very good program. I`m wondering on the
scores, because the technical points are a bit low. I
hope that it`ll be enough for a gold.
On which element the team was afraid of:
There weren`t any. Maybe with intersections we had some
problems, but not really.
On their aims for tomorrow:
Tomorrow we`ll try to do our best. I hope, that it`ll be
enough for a gold.
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| REPOST: Short Program Results - 2008 World Synchronized Skating Championships Guest 21:37:47 |
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1 Team Sweden 1 SWE 74.72
41.79 32.93 8.39 8.14 8.21 8.29 8.14
2 Team Finland 1 FIN 72.55
39.69 32.86 8.14 8.00 8.29 8.32 8.32
3 Team Finland 2 FIN 70.87
38.95 31.92 7.82 7.86 8.07 8.00 8.14
4 Team Canada 1 CAN 70.67
40.84 29.83 7.39 7.21 7.57 7.54 7.57
5 Team Canada 2 CAN 67.55
39.78 27.77 6.89 6.86 7.04 6.89 7.04
6 Team United States of America 1 USA 66.82
36.90 29.92 7.46 7.32 7.61 7.46 7.54
7 Team United States of America 2 USA 64.28
34.98 29.30 7.29 7.14 7.39 7.43 7.39
8 Team Russia 1 RUS 62.57
32.49 30.08 7.71 7.18 7.61 7.46 7.64
9 Team Germany GER 62.08
35.08 28.00 7.18 6.86 6.96 7.04 6.96 (-1.00 Deduction)
10 Team Sweden 2 SWE 55.82
11 Team Russia 2 RUS 54.54
12 Team Italy ITA 50.05 31.40
13 Team Switzerland SUI 47.13
14 Team Hungary HUN 46.08
15 Team France FRA 44.83
16 Team Czech Republic CZE 44.18
17 Team Japan JPN 38.63
18 Team Austria AUT 38.11
19 Team Australia AUS 31.56
20 Team Croatia CRO 31.53
21 Team Great Britain GBR 29.86
22 Team Serbia SRB 20.34
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Saturday, 29 March 2008
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| NEXXICE / Les SuprЙmes are on route the 2008 ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships Guest 09:04:53 |
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March 27, 2008,
NEXXICE Senior and Les SuprЙmes are on route to Hungary
for the 2008 ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships
OTTAWA, ON - The ladies from NEXXICE Senior and Les
SuprЙmes will be heading to Budapest, Hungary to
represent Canada at the 2008 ISU World Synchronized
Skating Championships. The competition is scheduled to
take place March 28-30, 2008.
NEXXICE Senior, two-time Canadian Senior Synchronized
Skating Champions, will be making only their third trip
in a row to the ISU World Synchronized Skating
Championships, but the team is no stranger to the world
stage. They represented Canada last year at worlds in
London, Ontario, placing third. Earlier this year they
captured first place at the 2008 Spring Cup, in Milan.
NEXXICE Senior trains out of the Burlington Skating Club
and the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club and are coached
by Shelley Simonton Barnett.
Les SuprЙmes, from CPA Saint-LИonard, are the second
ranked Canadian team and this weekend they will be
competing against 22 of the best teams from around the
world. Earlier this year the team placed second at the
2008 BMO Canadian Senior Synchronized Skating
Championships and followed this impressive achievement
with a second place finish at the 2008 Spring Cup, in
Italy. They will returning to the World Championships for
the second time in a row, last year they placed sixth.
Lyne Forget is the coach of Les SuprЙmes.
The team manager for this event is HИlХne Gagnon of Laval
Des Rapides, Que. Susan Morriss from Victoria, B.C. will
be a judge for the event. Marni Wesner of Edmonton, Alta.
and Cathy Striowski of North York, Ont. will be the
medical team travelling with the Canadian team.
http://www.skatecanada.ca/en/news_views/press_room/news_releases/2008/mar27.cfm
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| Dubreuil and Lauzon still pondering about returning ? Guest 09:02:59 |
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Dubreuil and Lauzon watched worlds unfold with mixed
feelings. "It was the first worlds we missed in eight
years, so for sure we were sad not to be there, but at
the same time we're really happy where we are right now
-- on the tour. That's why we're still pondering a
decision," Lauzon explained.
If Dubreuil and Lauzon were to return next season, that
would almost guarantee Canada three spots for the
Olympics in 2010, not to mention a powerful one-two punch
in the medal-contenders department.
Here is the link for full article
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080327&content_id=46631&vkey=ice_news
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