or

Me

No User

You must log in to access your account.

Figure Skating - 2010 Winter Olympics

Group Avatar

Group avatar

Admins

Description

”An American, Jackson Haines, is considered to be the founding father of modern figure skating in the 1860s — established not in his home country, but in Vienna, Austria, where audiences loved his carefully choreographed, ballet-influenced style.

Before Haines, figure skating concentrated largely on required figures — skating a figure eight, several times exactly the same way — and movements. Haines brought in musicians to play on the ice while he skated, while adding interesting costumes and exciting spins and pirouettes.

Figure skating was an Olympic sport before there was an Olympic Winter Games. Figure skating first appeared at the London 1908 Olympic Summer Games with events for pairs and singles (indoor ice rinks could be kept cold even in hot weather). Ice dancing joined the Olympic Winter Games in 1976, when the Games were held in Innsbruck, Austria. The compulsory figures competition was dropped from the figure skating program prior to the Albertville 1992 Olympic Winter Games.”

http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-figure-skating/

Group Activity

members (70) See All →

Group Wire See All →