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NEWS ABOUT: skating

skating stories: 5 news summaries

Figure Skating Talks Up Its
Tough Side

Canadian campaign aims to ice sport's
sissy stereotype

Feb 4, 09 8:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Canada's figure skating authorities have launched a controversial campaign to convince people the sport is as manly as any other, the Globe & Mail reports. Skate Canada, concerned about dwindling interest in the sport, is trying to scrap figure skating's sissy stereotype and play up "the danger, speed, risk,... More »

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Canada • skating • figure skating

'Bowman the Showman' Found Dead

Figure skating champ's body in LA motel, overdose suspected

Jan 11, 08 2:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Former US figure skating champion Christopher Bowman was found dead yesterday in a Los Angeles motel room, AP reports. Authorities suspect a drug overdose. Bowman, 40, won US figure skating titles in 1988 and 1992 and wowed the crowds at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics. His flamboyant personality and... More »

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skating • overdose • Olympic Games • figure skating

 Mexicans Chill on Free Rink

Populist mayor gives city residents world's biggest ice rink

Jan 3, 08 5:20 AM CST
(Newser) - People in sun-drenched Mexico City are waiting as long as six hours for the thrilling opportunity to skate on what officials say is the world's biggest ice rink—at no charge, the Washington Post reports. The free 34,000-square-foot rink—with free skate rental—highlights the class divide in Mexico,... More »

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Mexico City • Mexico • skating • ice rink • class divide

Kerrigan Plotter Dies at Age 40

Ex-bodyguard changed name, 'died a long time ago,' brother says

Dec 16, 07 3:31 PM CST
(Newser) - A plotter in the 1994 attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan died this week of natural causes at age 40, the AP reports. Brian Sean Griffith, ex-bodyguard to figure-skating Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding, confessed to helping organize the attack on Kerrigan days after it happened. Griffith served 14 months and... More »

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skating • obituary • attack • assault • Olympic Games • Nancy Kerrigan • Tonya Harding • figure skating • scandal

Kids Skate on Heelys to Emergency Room

Skater shoes set off scraped knees epidemic

Jun 7, 07 10:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new craze has kids gliding across hard surfaces on tiny skate wheels built into their sneakers—but the "heelys" are deceptively unsafe, a new study says. The report claims the skate shoes sent 1,600 youngsters to the emergency room last year. More »

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children • shoes • sneakers • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons • helmets • emergency room • skating • heeling • doctor • Heelys

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