Olympic Figure Skating Controversy? Ashley Wagner Makes Team despite FallsSappenfield, Mark
They Saw a Triple Lutz: Bias and Its Perception in American and Russian Newspaper Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Figure Skating Scandaldoi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2009.00503.xWe explored bias and its perception in newspaper reports of the 2002 Olympics figure skating controversy. American and Russian ...
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is the definition of an Olympics front-runner. The young athlete already made history at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by becoming the first woman to land a quad at the Games after completing two clean jumps during the figure skating team event. The spotl...
Controversy arose in 2012 when she named an alleged stalker on Facebook, potentially violating German privacy laws. Olympic Country: Germany Date Of Birth: 01-10-1984 Place Of Birth: Nordhausen,Thuringia,Nordhausen,Germany,Europe Olympic Sport: Track and field athletics Nationality: Germany...
Madge Cave Syers was an English figure skater who was the first woman to compete at the highest level of international figure skating. At the 1908 Olympic Games in London, she won the first Olympic gold medal awarded in women’s figure skating, as well a
Figure Skating Quiz At the beginning of the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, Baiul’s talents were overlooked amid the controversy surrounding American skater Tonya Harding, who had been implicated in a plot to injure her teammate Nancy Kerrigan. Though Baiul trailed Kerrigan after the short program, sh...
In 1988, East German skater Katarina Witt (above) created a controversy by wearing a blue leotard with feathers instead of a skirt. After that season, the rules were changed so that tights and a skirt were required for every female skater (in addition to unitards and pants being banned)....
as close to perfect as could be with their classic Love Story free program. The International Olympic Committee upgraded their silver to a second gold after a public uproar, ensuing controversy, and an investigation revealed that a judge had succumbed to pressure to vote for the Russian pair ins...
They then were marked by controversy when the United States lost to the Soviet Union's men's basketball team in the still-debated gold-medal game. 13/15 Leif Skoogfors/Corbis via Getty Images The Boycotts Countries had sat out the games before, but never had a superpower snubbed another ...
Comments unlikely to defuse controversy that erupted after her initial social media post December 2 2021 Sport WTA suspends tennis tournaments in China over Peng Shuai case Organisation’s chief says he is not sure sports star is ‘free, safe and not subject to censorship’ ...