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For just $1 a month through Patreon or PayPal, you can become a TFTI member and join the mailing list for our new weekly newsletter, launching September 19! Two for the Ice’s Weekly Protocol will feature news you might have missed, stories and programs worth a look, and additional exclusive content. It’s a great way…
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A Note on the Future
To Readers: Two for the Ice has taken something of an editorial hiatus since the beginning of the year. The lack of new written content has not been accidental. For five years, I have produced serious, in-depth coverage of figure skating’s most niche disciplines — and, with the exception of a feature in Dance International…
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Preview: 2014 Grand Prix by the Numbers
Skate America Dance Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani (USA) — Ondrej Nepela Trophy (first; 162.98). Grand Prix average = 150.01 | Grand Prix high = 160.55 (2011 Grand Prix Final) | Grand Prix low = 136.93 (2010 NHK Trophy) Madison Chock & Evan Bates (USA) — Nebelhorn Trophy (second; 163.73). GP average = 143.9 |…
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Flashback Friday (Weekend Edition): Canadian Stars On Ice, Vintage
While Stars on Ice has had a presence in Canada since 1990, with the full tour beginning a year later, individual program footage prior to the twenty-first century is tricky to come by. A few gems from some of the nation’s leading duos, however, are still on offer. Five-time national champions and two-time World silver…
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Flashback Friday (Weekend Edition): U.S. Stars On Ice Past
With the post-Sochi American leg of the Stars on Ice tour in full swing, it’s time enough for a few looks back at what’s come before: Following their retirement from competition in 1998, Jenni Meno & Todd Sand were cast mainstays, appearing on the tour from the 1998-99 season through 2003-04. The years of show…
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Flashback Friday (Weekend Edition): 1998 Winter Olympics
The dance event in Nagano, Japan, at the 1998 Winter Olympics is remembered probably in significant part for an off-the-podium finish for reigning Canadian champions and World bronze medalists Shae-Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz — a result not wholly unjustified given errors in the Golden Waltz compulsory and the rawness of the team’s new “Greased…
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Flashback Friday (Weekend Edition): 1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, proved a great year for North American pairs, with Canada’s Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler, 1993 World champions, capturing their second Olympic bronze and Jenni Meno & Todd Sand of the U.S. finishing fifth in their first appearance together after skating with their previous partners in 1992…
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Flashback Friday: 1988 Winter Olympics
In these last weeks before Sochi, we’ll be revisiting a few notable Olympics past, and the 1988 Calgary Olympics seem as fair a jumping-off point as any — delivering dance and pairs bronze for Canada and the U.S. alike in historic fashion. With their footwork-focused and rhythm-heavy “Elite Syncopations” ragtime free dance, choreographed by the…