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2 unusual facts about single skating


Single skating

At the 2011 World Championships, Florent Amodio's long program music included words but an insufficient number of judges voted to penalize it.

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.


Figure skating at the 1999 European Youth Olympic Festival

Figure skating competitions at the 4th European Youth Olympic Festival were only held in junior single skating and Ice Dancing categories in Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia, between March 6 and March 12.

Karla Quinn

Karla Quinn (born 15 September 1988 in Rasharkin, Ballymoney) is a British figure skater.


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