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2 unusual facts about Ice skating


Johnny Carlyle

Carlyle learned to skate at his local ice rink in Falkirk, where he also learned to play ice hockey with the Falkirk Lions reserve team, the Falkirk Cubs.

The Argues: The Movie

The film is based on the story of Argue's mother and her romance with America and Europe, where she ice skated in many famed shows with her now deceased husband, so David takes her on a sentimental journey revisiting the places she skated around the world while at the same time trying to land himself a Hollywood agent.


Ski resort

Ski resorts often have other activities, such as snowmobiling, sledding, horse-drawn sleds, dog-sledding, ice-skating, indoor or outdoor swimming, and hottubbing, game rooms, and local forms of entertainment, such as clubs, cinema, theatre and cabarets.

Tracy Wolfson

Additionally, she is an anchor on the CBS Sportsdesk as well as a reporter for college basketball, auto racing, skiing, ice skating, gymnastics, tennis, track and field and rodeo.


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Alan Weeks

Davies and Weeks continued to commentate in ice-skating together, including the Torvill and Dean comeback at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, before a record audience of 23.9 million viewers in the UK on the BBC - a record audience for a non-football broadcast.

Altındağ, Ankara

Altınpark - A large park, formerly a golf course, noted for its 10 metre high statue of a loaf of bread at the entrance; contains a fairground, go-karting, ice-skating, large pools for boating and fishing, the Feza Gürsey Science Center, and much more.

Atoy Wilson

Following his retirement as a performer, Wilson was a coach and assistant director of ice skating schools for Hyatt Regency hotels in Dubai.

Big Dipper Ice Arena

In 1968, Hez Ray, a teacher and coach at Lathrop High School, organized a crew of volunteers and undertook a project to move the derelict hangar to Fairbanks and repurpose it as an ice skating arena.

Canberra Knights

The team plays its home games at the Phillip Swimming & Ice Skating Centre in Phillip, a suburb of Australia's capital city, Canberra.

Chicken suit

Once, as a joke, European ice skater Oksana Baiul entered the ice skating rink wearing a chicken suit.

Dearborn Ice Skating Center

Dearborn Ice Skating Center (The DISC, formerly Mike Adray Arena) is a 1,700-seat indoor ice arena located in Dearborn, Michigan.

Georges Gimel

On January 21, 1962, a sunny Sunday, he died suddenly while ice skating with a young woman at the skating rink at Megève (Haute-Savoie).

History of figure skating

The earliest clear, written mention of ice skating is found in a book written in the 1100s by William Fitzstephen, a monk in Canterbury.

Ice Box

The Ice Box, a popular ice-skating rink near Scranton, Pennsylvania

Indian School, Al Wadi Al Kabir

and Aadnya Borkar in ice skating for the participation in national level.

John Nike

John Nike Leisuresport Bracknell (home of the Bracknell Bees ice hockey team and mentioned in the film Ali G Indahouse) opened in 1985 for dry ski sloping and in 1987 for ice skating.

Konzerthaus, Vienna

In addition to the concert hall, the first drawings by Ludwig Baumann for the Olympion included an ice-skating area and a bicycle club.

Newcastle North Stars

The team plays its home games at the Hunter Ice Skating Stadium (nicknamed 'HISS') in Warners Bay, a suburb of Lake Macquarie located about 15 kilometres south-west of Newcastle, New South Wales.

Rosemary Conley

In January 2012, Conley became a participant in the seventh series of the ITV celebrity ice-skating programme, Dancing on Ice.

Short track

Short track speed skating, a form of competitive ice skating similar to speed skating

Sung Ching-yang

In ice skating Sung participated in the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres and 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1000 metres and is expected to represent Chinese Taipei at the 2014 Winter Olympics in both events in Sochi.

Sydney Adventist College

Some of the sports include: Aqua Aerobics, Tennis, Laser Tag, Skateboarding, Golf, Self Defence, Ice Skating, Soccer, Surfing, Basketball, Weight Training and Cycling.

The Ice Box

The Ice Box is a popular "sports complex" ice-skating rink in Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Todd Boulanger

Documents released with Boulanger's guilty plea include emails by Boulanger, Abramoff, and Ring discussing giving "Staffer E" -- identified by the Associated Press as Sen. Thad Cochran aide Ann Copland -- tickets for ice skating and Paul McCartney and Green Day concerts.

Ty O'Neal

He is best known for playing the ice-skating cowboy, Dwayne Robertson, in D2: The Mighty Ducks and D3: The Mighty Ducks.

Uschi Keszler's Pennies-in-Action Cancer Research Fund

This philanthropic organization was founded in 2008 by Olympic figure skater, coach, inventor of the ice-skating term hydroblading, and choreographer Uschi Keszler who is herself a breast cancer survivor.

Victorian Ice Hockey Association

VIHA operates its leagues out of two venues of the Olympic Ice Skating Centre based in Oakleigh South and the Icehouse based in Docklands.

Walter Catlett

Catlett also appeared as hotel resort tycoon 'Timber Applegate' in the musical film Lady, Let's Dance which starred ice skating sensation 'Belita' and James Ellison.

Warners Bay, New South Wales

The Hunter Ice Skating Stadium is located in Warners Bay, and will host the IIHF 2008 Division II World Championships in April.

The Hunter Ice Skating Stadium is home to the 3 times Australian Champions Newcastle North Stars Ice Hockey team, and the Newcastle Ice Skating Club, boasting several NSW and Australian champion skaters.

Yıldo

His most recent television appearance has been participation in a 2007 celebrity ice skating competition "Buzda Dans" (Dancing on Ice).