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United States Figure Skating Preview Mirai Nagasu
Mirai Nagasu is a sixteen year old American Olympic hopeful whose recent career had injuries that blotted her from major press relations and public attention. This talented Californian possesses maximum expressiveness on the ice without qualification for her age, promising an exciting career. Mirai Nagasu has fluid speed, tantalizing jumps, fresh spinning, and newcomer audience [...]
Continue reading...Ladies’ Figure Skating Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games
Friday, February 5, 2010
For the first time in recent history, the drama regarding who will take Olympic gold medals will not be an Americans-only battle. The World Championship of Figure Skating in Los Angeles from Staples Center allowed only two of potential three podium chances for Americans in Vancouver for women’s senior skaters, leaving the field open for [...]
Continue reading...2010 Canadian Mens Figure Skating Hopeful Patrick Chan
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Canadian Patrick Chan has been setting an amateur seniors men’s skating performance bar for some time. Internationally recognized and esteemed, Chan could sweep hometown crowd and deliver a bid for Olympic gold that resonates with the audience. Ranked 9th in the world, Chan showed a particularly strong 2009 skating year of European competition in ISU [...]
Continue reading...Oda Nomunari 2010 Mens Figure Skating Preview
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The most brilliant men’s skating performance of the last ten years was given by this skater at the ISU Grand Prix event in 2009. The darling Charlie Chaplin routine charmed audiences and showcased to advantage the skater’s small build. This dynamo appearance made headlines the world over. Oda Nomunari is a Japanese figure skating champion. [...]
Continue reading...Vancouver Mens Figure Skating Preview For Stephane Lambiel
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Lambiel is a competent skater who is often placing at the Grand prix events of the ISU due to a dearth of other skaters missing events, not getting the nomination, or being assigned elsewhere. There is a pastiche quality to his routines and choreography, and a boyish aura about his skating that will clash [...]
Continue reading...2010 Mens Figure Skating Medal Hopeful Evan Lysacek
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Evan Lysacek is coached by the formidable Frank Carroll, and the authority shows in every step. Competing at the senior level since 2003, except for Plushenko’s re-entry into competition Lysacek would have been the grand old man of th Vancouver 2010 event. Lysacek owns a graceful, expansive style which translates into technical prowess at his [...]
Continue reading...Johnny Weir 2010 Winter Olympic Games Preview
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Johnny Weir has set a maverick edge to his performing style, possibly to counteract his plain-wrap appeal next to American fellow front-runners handsome Evan Lysacek and straight-arrow Jeremy Abbott. Weir’s current style lands him squarely between Bohemian and eclectic, manageable as long as he he completes all his technical requirements and earns every artistic point [...]
Continue reading...2010 Mens Figure Skating Preview For Jeremy Abbott
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Abbott is one of a strong troika of distinctive American skaters each bringing their talents to Vancouver 2010. A career best for Abbott thus far has been the defense of his national title. His complex career has been a navigation through global level senior meets despite back injuries and revolved around Johnny Weir and Evan [...]
Continue reading...Mens Figure Skating Preview For Brian Joubert
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Brian Joubert has dazzled even his critics with occasionally spine tingling athletic brilliance matched with artistic conceptions well inside the legendary scope of virtuosity in artistic figure skating. Joubert has handled many European meets capably and emerged as the one to beat in a axis of European recovery after many years of dominance over the [...]
Continue reading...Mens Figure Skating 2010 Winter Olympics – Evgeny Plushenko
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Russian has its bear to beat in this year’s Olympic Games for men’s figure skating. Evgeny Plushenko is in a class all by himself, having created a stir with his gold medal Olympic battle for men’s figure skating with his rivalry with fellow Russian countryman Victor Potrenko. The lithe, agile skater challenged Plushenko for the [...]
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Friday, February 5, 2010
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