Skating

event in 1924 when VII were help in Paris with 3,000 athletes. This was one of the first with over 100 women competing. Paris had 44 nations competing with the Olympics. The VII Olympics was also the first to have a closing ceremony and added ice skating, ice hockey, bobsledding and biathlon. The 2004 Olympics was returned in Athens for the first time in a century. Nearly 11,000 athletes from 201 countries came to compete doing both ancient and modern…

saint of ice skating, her feast day is April 14. She was born April 18, 1380 and she died April 14, 1433. Her parents were fairly poor and she grew up with eight brothers. I chose to research this saint because I love ice skating, I was very surprised and excited to find that there is actually a patron saint for my favorite sport. Although her story is different than most, she still shows a great example of trusting in God. Around the time she was 15, Lidwina fell while ice skating with…

For obvious reasons students who skate will definitely be safer skating at the skatepark. But less obvious benefits can include students becoming more active and coming together as a group. For the universities benefit, building the skatepark green can help the universities reputation. It could possibly bring more students…

Now, back down on that ice and let’s see you get up on your own.” She was right! Ice is not only hard, it burns, but the freedom and thrill of skating were encouragement enough for me. From that first day, I did not hesitate or fear falling, because my focus was on the pleasure I got from skating. I didn’t think about the difficulty of acquiring skills and it did not occur to me to doubt myself. Like most children, I had no reason to question myself or wonder if I…

better. One day John had a boy scouts trip to go roller skating and Marlene decided why not go and take her other son too, this decision would end up affecting her next weeks heavily. Marlene thought her roller skating talent could at least prevent her from getting hurt. She watched her kids closely as they roller skated since both attempted for the first time. She cautiously skated backwards telling them to remain cautious while skating when ironically, she falls, turning around mid-air…

proved herself in her field. In the year 1991, she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships followed by her second place in the World Championships and she is also the second women to complete a triple axel jump in the competition. At the Winter Olympic Games in 1992, she was able to take a silver medal at the world championships in Albertville, France and in the following year 1994, she was banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association after pleading guilty to her hindering the…

Looking at my poster, there is a variety of objects that appear to have nothing in common. What they do have in common is me. Brainstorming for this project was difficult because I thought there would be no way that a poster could summarize my life. But, as I was putting the poster together, I realized it wasn’t very hard to condense me as a person to a sheet of paper with objects on it. I chose objects that have to do with things i’m involved in or that represent who I am. I chose to include…

inventor, found a more usual way to design on land skates. After roller skates had been made more functional The Coliseum in Chicago had opened a public skating rink. After that Madison Square Garden had become a skating rink. Hundreds of rink openings followed. The roller skates had been made for the rich only. During the golden age of roller skating, 1920’s- 1950’s, the roller rinks were segregated. Then the roller derby sport emerged and women in America were competing in this aggressive…

(Lawton 135) Eating disorders are most commonly found in sports such as ballet and other types of dance, figure skating, gymnastics, swimming, rowing, running, horse racing, and ski jumping. While these are the most widely known sports that are affect by eating disorders, even athletes that participate in wrestling and body building can be affected by these diseases…

Introduction: Tonya Harding. The first thing a person thinks of after hearing this is another skater’s name. Nancy Kerrigan (Lowitt). Instead of being remembered as the only woman from America to land a triple axel in competition, or for any other of her accomplishments as a skater, Harding is remembered for her involvement in an incident with her rival, Nancy Kerrigan (Crossman). According to the St. Petersburg Times, “no one thinks of one without the other” (Lowitt). This is one of the ways…