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Hollydell Figure Skating Club offers young athletes a chance to go for the gold By Kaelin O'Connell [email protected] When the girls in the Hollydell Figure Skating Club talk about their ...
Yeah, take a moment to ponder that. Nineteen of 27. There have been nine speed skating races. The Dutch have won gold in six of those and medaled in all nine. The Dutch have swept gold-silver-bronze ...
When I was 8 years old, my sister, Claire, my father, and I watched Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner win the World Figure Skating Championship on ABC's Wide World of Sports. They are still just one ...
Angela Blocker-Loyd began figure skating at 9 years old. She was one of the youngest skaters at the Berkley Ice Arena and Recreation Center at the time, so another young skater decided to take her ...
Remembering a life full of joy, her daughter Emily Button announces the Slavka Kohout Button Artistic Scholarship in her honor. The award is to be given to figure skating coaches to further the ...
Dody Teachman, who was her coach at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Minneapolis, Minnesota, still coaches Harding today.“She’s still a powerhouse.
DETROIT – Leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, 8-year-old Karrington Mitchell watched a video on the celebrated civil rights activist at her school in Detroit. “I was learning about him ...
Chen was fixated on winning an Olympic gold medal in 2018 and was crushed when he didn’t. Learning that there is more to life than skating, he says, has made him a better skater.
Life lessons from the local skating rink: If you fall down, get back up again. And keep your eye on the expensive shoes you arrived in, or they could disappear.