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The 2005 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2005–06 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. [1] It was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on October 20–23. [2]
It is organized by U.S. Figure Skating. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles , pair skating , and ice dance . The first Skate America (officially called Norton Skate ) was held in 1979 in Lake Placid, New York , and was the test event for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games .
U.S. Figure Skating is an association of clubs, governed by its members and its elected officers at national, regional and club levels. [22] As of June 2011, U.S. Figure Skating had 688 member, collegiate, and school-affiliated clubs [23] and a membership of 180,452. [23]
Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, formerly known as the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Built during 1926–1929, it was Atlantic City's primary convention center until the opening of the new Atlantic City Convention Center in 1997.
The Atlantic City, New Jersey boardwalk, as seen from Caesars Atlantic City, opened in 1870, as America’s first boardwalk. At 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (9 km) long, it is also the world's longest, [1] busiest, and oldest [1] boardwalk. New Jersey is home to the world’s highest concentration of boardwalks. A boardwalk is a promenade along a beach or ...
The Atlantic City Boardwalk opened on June 26, 1870, [146] a temporary structure erected for the summer season that was the first boardwalk in the world. [147] [148] [149] At 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (8.9 km) long, the Atlantic City Boardwalk is also the world's longest and busiest boardwalk. [150]
The World Figure Skating Championships have been cancelled 16 times in the competition's history: from 1915 through 1921 due to World War I; from 1940 through 1946 due to World War II; [8] in 1961 as a result of the loss of the entire U.S. Figure Skating team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548; and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The world standings system for synchronized skating and the season's world ranking had not been implemented until 2010. According to the "ISU Communication 1629" and "ISU Communication 1630" published by the ISU on July 21, 2010, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the ISU Council decided to implement two types of World Standings / Ranking, namely "ISU World ...