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In 1979, at age seven, he began taking weekly ice skating lessons. During one of his first lessons, trainer André Brunet noted Candeloro's potential and invited him to increase his skating practices. At first, he participated in the village's hockey team but quickly veered into figure skating. He stole one of his first pairs of skates.
Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena is a 2,500 seat (FivePoint Arena) 4 rink (3 NHL and 1 Olympic) ice hockey facility in Irvine, California. It serves as the practice facility of the Anaheim Ducks, after leaving Anaheim Ice. [5] The facility includes a team store, restaurant (Between the Rinks), pro shop, arcade, and other amenities.
Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater and boxer, and reality television personality.. Born in Portland, Oregon, Harding was raised by her mother, who enrolled her in ice skating lessons when Tonya was 3 years old.
Ean Weiler was born on September 12, 2007, in Winterthur, Switzerland, as the only child to mother Corinne Weiler and father Harn-Chieh Kwan who are both of Swiss nationality.
Liu began skating at age five when her father, a fan of Michelle Kwan, brought her to the Oakland Ice Center.She began taking group lessons with her first and childhood coach, Laura Lipetsky, a former figure skater who had trained under Frank Carroll, and quickly moved to individual sessions.
The short program for pair skating was introduced at the 1963 European Championships, the 1964 World Championships, and the Olympics in 1968; previously, pair skaters only had to perform the free skating program in competitions. Synchronized skating has always had two competition segments, the short program and free skating. [4]
When Dubreuil was five, she asked for skating lessons for her birthday and her grandmother gave her skates as a present. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She took up ice dancing at the age of ten. [ 5 ] The pair of Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov was one of her influences. [ 6 ]
Kubicka decided to begin skating after his parents took him to the Ice Follies show. [3] Evy Scotvold coached him for nine years, from group to private lessons. [3]Kubicka won silver at the 1972 Grand Prix International St. Gervais, gold at the 1974 Prague Skate, and bronze at the 1975 Skate Canada International.