All posts tagged "2002 Worlds"
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Figure Skating News
2002 World Figure Skating Championships: Ladies Highlights
After dominating the skating circuit for two seasons only to come up short at the World Championships both times, Irina Slutskaya quipped...
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Figure Skating News
2002 World Figure Skating Championships: Men’s Highlights
As amazing as it sounds that Alexei Yagudin has won the Grand Prix Final, the European Championships, and Olympics, what’s even more...
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Figure Skating News
2002 World Figure Skating Championships: Ice Dance Highlights
Not surprisingly, controversy clouded the ice dance event once again. And, even less surprisingly, the controversy was baseless and even paradoxical. First,...
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Figure Skating News
2002 World Figure Skating Championships: Pairs Highlights
Olympic co-champions Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, of Russia, and Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, of Canada, each elected to skip the...
Did you Know?
Elaine Zayak (CAN), the 1982 World champion and 1981 U.S. National champion, was the first woman to consistently land many triple jumps in her programs. Zayak lost three toes on her left foot (her takeoff foot) in a lawn mower accident at the age of two. On the advice of her doctors, she began figure skating as physical therapy. Her left boot was stabilized with a wood mold to compensate for the irregularity in the shape of her left foot.