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2.3KFigure Skating NewsMiura and Kihara make history in Torino
2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Pairs’ Free Skate Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara made history in Torino at the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final...
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2.5KFigure Skating NewsUno leads men in Japanese sweep at Grand Prix Final
2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Men’s Short Program Shoma Uno currently leads the Men’s event in a Japanese sweep after the short program...
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2.2KFigure Skating NewsMiura and Kihara take narrow lead in Torino
2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Pairs’ Short Program Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan took a narrow lead in the Pairs event at...
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5.4KFigure Skating News2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Women’s Preview
2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Women’s Preview The Women’s event for the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final will kick off on December 9, 2022,...
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5.0KFigure Skating News2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Men’s Preview
2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Men’s Preview The Men’s event for the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final will kick off on December 8, 2022,...
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2.6KFigure Skating News2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Ice Dance Preview
2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Ice Dance Preview The Ice Dance event for the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final will kick off on December...
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2.7KFigure Skating News2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Pairs’ Preview
2022-23 Grand Prix Final: Pairs’ Preview The Pairs’ event for the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final will kick off on December 8, 2022,...
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2.3KFigure Skating NewsHawayek and Baker Torino-bound
Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean Luc Baker Golden Skate catches up with USA’s Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean Luc Baker who took silver at...
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2.5KFigure Skating NewsGilles and Poirier epic in Espoo
2022 Grand Prix Espoo – Ice Dance Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier laid down epic performances in Espoo to win their...
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2.9KFigure Skating NewsMalinin pockets another gold in Espoo
2022 Grand Prix Espoo – Men USA’s Ilia Malinin pocketed his second consecutive gold medal in the Men’s event at 2022 Grand...
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2.4KFigure Skating NewsJapan’s Mai Mihara leaps to gold in Espoo
2022 Grand Prix Espoo – Women Mai Mihara of Japan leapt to the Women’s gold at the Grand Prix in Espoo, Finland,...
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1.9KFigure Skating NewsGhilardi and Ambrosini end nine-year dry spell
2022 Grand Prix Espoo – Pairs Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini won the gold to end a nine-year dry spell for Italy...
Did you Know?
The backward outside death spiral was invented in 1928 by Germany’s Charlotte Oelschlägel (August 14, 1898 – November 14, 1984) and Curt Neumann (although it was first performed with the skaters holding both hands and the woman not fully lowered toward the ice). They performed the first one-arm death spiral in Budapest in 1928.
Canadian pair Suzanne Morrow and Wallace Diestelmeyer are credited with being the first pair to perform the element in competition at the 1948 Olympics.
Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR) are credited for creating three versions of the death spiral: Cosmic spiral (backward inside), Life spiral (forward inside), and Love spiral (forward outside).
Who does your favorite death spiral? Discuss here!