Figure skating association game

[iluvtodd]

^ :yes2: I was SO happy they finally won Worlds!

Their "Carnival" program with those masks (circa 2005)

 

[Seven Sisters]

Their "Carnival" program with those masks (circa 2005)

D/S’s music choices and program concepts were consistently creative. Another one—

“Frida” FD, the prior season

 

[iluvtodd]

Saw them in person for the first time @ 2003 Skate America (in Reading, PA). They won the bronze medal there with their "Merlin" program!

 

[Seven Sisters]

Isabelle Delobel is also remarkable for having competed in the Olympics just four months after giving birth! We haven’t seen many moms on Olympic ice.

 

[iluvtodd]

^ Katia Goordeeva - 1994 - Was Daria born by then?

 

[Seven Sisters]

Yes—I had to check too. And Barbara Fusar-Poli had a baby before competing in the 2006 Olympics. Any others?

 

[iluvtodd]

Irina Rodnina (of Rodnina & Zaitsev) Didn't she take a year off & then return to competing?

 

[Seven Sisters]

A mom currently competing, the remarkable Zoe Jones

I’d love to see Zoe and Christopher qualify for Beijing!

 

[iluvtodd]

British pairs team

 

[LadyB]

Colin and Erika Taylforth, took part at Innsbruck Olympics 1976

 

[iluvtodd]

John Curry - OGM Innsbruck 1976

 

[Seven Sisters]

Subject of a recent documentary, The Ice King

 

[iluvtodd]

^ artistic skater

 

[LadyB]

Toller Cranston - the one and only!

 

[skylark]

A wonderful skater who won neither an Olympic gold medal nor a World gold medal

 

[iluvtodd]

^ Sasha Cohen

 

[skylark]

John Nicks, Legendary Coach

 

[iluvtodd]

^ coached Jenni Meno & Todd Sand

 

[Seven Sisters]

Who are now themselves coaching (see Catalang/Johnson, Knierim/Frazier, etc)

 

[iluvtodd]

Jenni & Todd skated in SOI!