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unusual facts about free skating



Carmen on Ice

In 1988 Katarina Witt, who played the title role, had won her second olympic gold medal at the winter games in Calgary with a free skating to Carmen.

Precisely Right

after earning fourth place at the Eastern Sectional Championships in Providence, Rhode Island with a score of 35.32 for the free skate.


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1965 United States Figure Skating Championships

Both they and the second-place team Cynthia and Ronald Kauffman performed unusual pair spin variations in their free skating programs.

Marie-Reine Le Gougne

Although four other judges also placed Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze ahead of the crowd favorites Jamie Salé and David Pelletier in the free skating, Le Gougne was immediately singled out for suspicion by television commentators and other observers.

Single skating

At some large competitions, including the World Figure Skating Championships and European Figure Skating Championships, there is a cut after the short program and a skater must perform well enough in the short program to advance to the free skating portion of the competition.