skatabase
http://eskatefans.com/category/skatabase/
It is being updated again
www.tracings.net is handy
wikipedia has a lot of info, believe it or not.
The isu database has some info for long past years
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Recently, Ice Network has chosen to write the name given in the ISU bio as Tuktamysheva as Tuktimysheva.
Her bio
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00010705.htm
The IN article
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2014/06/30/82358418/tuktamisheva-aims-to-return-to-previous-form ...
Here is another stupid question - How to find the scores of each skater in an ISU competition in 90s? Is there a database we can search?
Many thanks! But none of these websites seems to have the score given by each judge?
A belated FYI re spelling choices for names of skaters:
Stumbled upon US Figure Skating's style guide (2013-14), and see some spelling "edicts" (my word ) at the very bottom of the last page.
Not saying that GS must abide by USFS style. Just interesting (IMO) to see that USFS officially has decided to use certain spellings that it recognizes are going against the tide.
Name spellingshttp://www.usfigureskating.org/content/2013-14styleguide.pdf (fifteen pages)
There are names of several foreign skaters, coaches and competitions we have decided to spell differently than some other outlets. For example:
Evgeni Plushenko (commonly seen as “Evgeny”)
Nikoli Morozov (Nikolai)
Marina Zoueva (Zueva)
Elizaveta Tuktamisheva (Tuktamysheva)
Ondrej Nepela Memorial (Nepala)
Yu-Na Kim (Yuna Kim, Kim Yu-Na)
Rafael Arutunian (Arutyunyan)
That is a seriously strange style guide. Perhaps the writers on staff have decided to institutionalize their favorite misspellings
^ I think the main theory is that little girls can jump better than grown women. (?)
In the olden days (before jumps became so important) I think that many teenaged skaters tried to win amateur championships so that they would have opportunities to skate in shows like the Ice Follies and Ice Capades and make money, and so they left competition as soon as they accomplished this goal.
But basically every Russian girl now wears them. At what point did that happen.
Here's a stupid question: What is the purpose behind the gloves that many skaters now wear? (Sometimes built into the costume, but sometimes now even mesh or flesh-colored.) Does it make gripping the skates/blades for the now ubiquitous catch-foot moves easier? Does it keep their hands warm? Is it just a fashion choice? Whatever the reason, why is that it seems to be more common among Russian skaters?