All posts tagged "2017 Cup of China"
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Tuktamysheva bringing back triple Axel and more artistry
Figure Skating News 2015 World and European Champion Elizaveta (Lisa) Tuktamysheva has not made the Russian figure...
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Sui and Han dazzle home crowd; win first COC gold
Figure Skating News It was only fitting that world champions Sui Wenjing and Han Cong were crowned...
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Kolyada upsets Jin, Fernandez in Beijing
Figure Skating News Representing a nation where the ladies have owned the headlines in recent years, Mikhail...
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Zagitova captures gold in Grand Prix debut
Figure Skating News Alina Zagitova jumped from fourth place after the short program to win the ISU...
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Papadakis and Cizeron set record scores in Beijing
Figure Skating News Just one week after Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir raised their own record...
Did You Know?
Gillis Grafström (7 June 1893 – 14 April 1938) of Sweden invented the flying sit spin and the Grafström spin, a variation of the camel spin. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men’s Figure Skating (1920, 1924, 1928) as well as an Olympic silver medal in the same event in 1932, and three World Championships (1922, 1924, 1929).
