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'Spaces like this matter': Chapel Hill skate park reopens after renovation
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (139+ words) After months of construction Chapel Hill opened its newly renovated skate park, a $500, 000 project. The initial park used to be all wood. Now, it is rebuilt in concrete, making what's already been a community hub for decades now last a…...
Ilia Malinin's near-flawless performance at Skate Canada solidifies his Olympic favorite status
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (567+ words) The 20-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia, landed six quads along with a triple axel during a sublime free skate, set to music from the French supernatural thriller "Les Bal des Folles," to finish with a personal-best 333. 81 points. That left the two-time…...
Jordan Stolz joins Eric Heiden with a 500-1, 000 speedskating double gold at the Olympics
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (622+ words) I mean, I guess it's halfway, but it's hard to say it's like a 50% chance to get the other two," Stolz said. Because you never know what can happen." Heiden, of course, completed a record sweep of all five individual…...
Ilia Malinin's stunning free skate secures US figure skating team gold at Milan Cortina Olympics
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (857+ words) After all, everything came down to him in the end. The U. S. finished with 69 points while Japan had 68, earning the silver medal for the second consecutive Olympics. "I was like, "OK, I'm the deciding factor,'" Malinin said later, after the U. S. got…...
Amber Glenn sets record at US Figure Skating Championships, leads over world champ Alysa Liu
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (795+ words) Liu had broken the record mere minutes earlier with a score of 81. 11 points, earning a standing ovation from a crowd packed into the home of the St. Louis Blues. But then Glenn took the ice and was flawless from an…...
Competing coaches inspire next gen of Olympic ice skaters
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (89+ words) A pair of California coaches take pride in inspiring Olympic skating hopefuls. Competing coaches inspire next gen of Olympic ice skaters A pair of California coaches take pride in inspiring Olympic skating hopefuls. Sky 5 flies over crash on Poole Road…...
Minions music leads to nightmare for Olympic skater while putting a spotlight on a yearslong problem
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (787+ words) Of course it would take those mischievous Minions to thrust what has become a yearslong musical nightmare for figure skaters into the global spotlight just days before they step onto the ice for the Milano Cortina Olympics. Spanish skater Tomas-Llorenc…...
Nika Egadze lands 4 quads and wins European figure skating title ahead of Olympics
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (222+ words) Skating last after rivals made mistakes, Egadze needed only to avoid glaring errors to secure gold but delivered a personal-best free skate, landing four high-scoring quadruple jumps and scoring 181. 72 points for a total of 273. Egadze dived onto the ice and…...
Canadian ice master makes Olympic history with the Games' 1st indoor temporary speedskating rink
3+ mon, 10+ hour ago (853+ words) In the pursuit of maximum glide and minimum friction, Olympic officials brought on ice master Mark Messer, a veteran of six previous Olympic speedskating tracks and the ice technician in charge of the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada " one of…...
Concrete, community and a comeback at Chapel Hill Skate Park
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (960+ words) On this warm winter afternoon, a skater drops into a bowl that didn't exist three months ago. A small crowd instinctively pauses, all watching the same run unfold. He pumps higher with each pass until a miscalculation sends the board…...