Tiny front yard ice rink must go or family faces fine of up to $25,000
A family is being ordered to dismantle their tiny front yard skating rink or face a fine of up to $25,000 after a neighbour filed a complaint with the town’s...
Recapping Figure Skating Nationals in Canada
KINGSTON, ONT.—Figure skating competitions always conclude on a gala grace note. It’s an eccentricity of the sport, to go all ice show razzle-dazzle in the immediate wake of intense...
Toller Cranston ever the rascal, rogue and original: DiManno
KINGSTON, ONT.—He was an original and a revolutionary, a sensualist and an artist on every canvas where his wild imagination ran free before the wind. From sheet of ice...
Canadian figure skating short program goes to Gabrielle Daleman
KINGSTON, ONT.—Around the spangles-and-bugle-beads beat, Gabrielle Daleman is affectionately recalled for the answer she gave when asked the scrum question: What do you do to relax? Answer: “Physical therapy.”...
Starting Today, Hundreds will Ice Skate Backwards. Here’s Why
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The University of Nebraska Medical Center will again try to raise money for Parkinson’s research with a 24-hour-long ice skate-a-thon. The event will run from...
SK8 Sports-Figure Skating App
The all-in-one app that every skater needs There’s no better way to learn skating than through a teacher’s lessons and experience. However, if you have smartphone, you can download...
The Key to a Beautiful Skating Program
by Catherine Collings M.S.C.S.M, CEO Ultimate Edges of Excellence L.L.C. The “Ultimate” goal in Figure Skating is to score the highest amount of points. In order to do this, it...
Can’t stop this 74-year-old former ice skater
Note: not really a figure skating story but inspiring nonetheless. Pat McIlquham has a torn ligament in her knee. She has systematic Lupus that could flare up at any...
Conversations at the Ice Skating Rink
A PERSPECTIVE The kids in the change room at the local skating rink are talking about university. Have they applied? No, they will soon: this very weekend in fact....
Will Meryl Davis, Charlie White’s Fairytale lead back to the Olympics?
Let’s start with the two big questions that follow around Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the Olympic Gold medalists in ice dance. First, the one that continues to pop...