| Champions On Ice Tickets Information | | | | Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat |
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| Almost 1,000 years ago for Northern European | | | | Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat a unique |
| ice-skating was a method of transportation | | | | couple in performance as well as in real |
| over the frozen passages and waterways. But | | | | life. This Russian-French partnership started |
| since skates transformed from animal bones | | | | with a letter that was sent by two-time |
| tied to shoes to iron-bladed boots, skating | | | | junior dance champion Anissina to some |
| emerged as a competitive sport. The world's | | | | prospective partners as her previous |
| first speed skating race was organized in | | | | partnership abruptly broken. How lucky Marina |
| 1763 held in England. Champions on Ice is | | | | was when to reach Peizerat who was also |
| actually a touring ice show in the USA | | | | recently available, answered. Mutually this |
| produced by Tom Collins Enterprises. This | | | | sizzling Russian redhead with impressive |
| radiant show features a large cast of | | | | flamboyance and the cool, elegant Frenchman |
| professional as well as Olympic-eligible | | | | with flawless musical style twisted one of |
| figure skaters coupled with novelty acts like | | | | the most lyrical and innovative dance teams. |
| skating acrobats. These shows spotlight | | | | They won a World title in 2000, and two |
| mostly on solo performances by the skaters | | | | Olympic medals, a bronze in 1998 and the gold |
| rather than group work or acting out stories. | | | | in 2002. They are very famous for their novel |
| | | | and ingenious dance lifts, specifically a |
| Champions on Ice show was intially named as | | | | role-reversal lift the duo popularized in |
| "Tour of World Figure Skating Champions" in | | | | which she lifts him. |
| 1969. This show only offered top amateur | | | | |
| skaters who performed under an arrangement | | | | Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin |
| with the International Skating Union (ISU). | | | | |
| But when the ISU liberalized its amateur | | | | Current Olympic Champions and two-time world |
| status rules in 1990, Collins started to add | | | | champions Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim |
| professional skaters to the tour and also | | | | Marinin have battled the odds when it comes |
| active eligible competitors to add more spice | | | | to winning championships. After a terrible |
| to the show. The tour adopted its current | | | | fall at the 2004 Skate America, where her |
| name of "Champions on Ice" in 1998 which no | | | | head hit the ice in a resounding thud in a |
| doubt is an apt name for the fascinating | | | | fall from a lift, it seemed Tatiana's career |
| performers. | | | | might come to an end. But despite severe |
| | | | bruises and a concussion, she was able to |
| With the passage of time ice-skating mounted | | | | return to the ice to win the team's third |
| to the pinnacle of professionalism and now | | | | straight national title, fourth European |
| this sport is known as one of the finest and | | | | title, and second World title. Partner Maxim |
| most entertaining sports of today. These ice | | | | was the nervous one, ever careful in the |
| skating celebrities are amongst the top stars | | | | dangerous throws and lifts that make up the |
| of the world. And what elegance they show in | | | | technical difficulty in pair routines. |
| their performances, simple superb, | | | | |
| spectacular! I'll be giving you a chance to | | | | Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto |
| know few of these awesome superstars. The | | | | |
| best in ice entertainment, Champions on ice | | | | Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto are the |
| include famous figure skaters such as | | | | finest ice dancing team that United States |
| Michelle Kwan, Timothy Goebel, Irina | | | | has ever produced. Belbin was born in |
| Slutskaya, and many more! | | | | Kingston, Ontario, before moving to Detroit |
| | | | in 1999 competed as a pair skater in Canada |
| Shizuka Arakawa | | | | to team up with Agosto, who is from Chicago. |
| | | | It wasn't long before when the couple won |
| Shizuka is the first Japanese woman from | | | | their first international competition that |
| Russia to win figure skating gold medal in | | | | was a Junior Grand Prix in Montreal. This |
| 2006. Shizuka Arakawa undisputedly engraved | | | | success was before they took part in a U.S. |
| her name in sporting history. So far Arakawa | | | | national championship. Tanith and Benjamin |
| is the only skater in Japan who has received | | | | won two World Junior dance titles. The |
| three consecutive junior national titles. She | | | | fantastic story of achievement doesn't stop |
| grounded her first triple jumps when she was | | | | here. They bring home the gold medal at the |
| still in her elementary school. She is the | | | | US Nationals this was their third |
| third woman from Japan to be a World Champion | | | | championship and also won a place on the US |
| after Midori Ito who won in 1989 and Yuka | | | | Olympic team. |
| Sato in 1994. She also stood 13th when | | | | |
| competed in the 1998 Olympic games. Shizuka | | | | Irina Slutskaya |
| Arakawa for sure stamped her name in sporting | | | | |
| history. She is the first Japanese to win a | | | | Irina Slutskaya another name of ice skating. |
| figure skating title, relegating twice world | | | | Great speed, intricate footwork, complex |
| champion Slutskaya to third. Shizuka won the | | | | spins and natural jumping ability make her a |
| gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in | | | | alarming challenger in any skating |
| Ladies Singles in Turin, Italy on February | | | | competition. Irina was the first Russian |
| 23, 2006 also the 2004 World Figure Skating | | | | woman to win the European title in 1997 and |
| Championship. She is also the first Asian | | | | continuously winning it since then and won it |
| woman who won the Olympic gold medal in | | | | four times in total. She is also crowned as |
| figure skating. Shizuka is the second oldest | | | | the first Russian woman to win an Olympic |
| woman to win the Olympic figure skating gold. | | | | silver medal in Salt Lake City 2002. She also |
| 5 feet 6 inches Shizuka one of the tallest | | | | has two more world championship titles to her |
| ladies' skaters is recognized for her spins | | | | resume. Irina invented the double |
| and jumping ability, mainly her difficult | | | | Biellmann-spin with foot change and turned |
| triple-triple combinations. In 2004, she | | | | out to be the first woman to land the triple |
| introduced a Biellmann spin to her catalog. | | | | Lutz-triple loop combination in competition |
| Biellmann requires incomparable back | | | | at the 2000 Grand Prix Final in Lyon, France, |
| flexibility. Arakawa took about five months | | | | this is the reason is why Slutskaya is |
| to learn this move. | | | | considered one of the sport's most powerful |
| | | | women athletes. |
| Kimmie Meissner | | | | |
| | | | Surya Bonaly |
| We'll start with Kimmie Meissner, America's | | | | |
| newest teenage skating fascination who earned | | | | Surya a queen of ciy ground, In her entire |
| a World title on her first trip to the World | | | | career (13 years) with Champions on Ice she |
| Figure Skaing. Wow! What a sensation she is? | | | | exhilarate audiences with her trademark back |
| Meissner, only 16, presented America a golden | | | | flip landed on one foot followed by a triple |
| look at its skating future. Meissner went to | | | | Salchow. This breathtaking feat has performed |
| Calgary after finishing sixth in the Winter | | | | Surya alone. She was a already world champion |
| Olympics in Torino just wishing for a spot on | | | | gymnast and tumbler before starting her |
| medal podium. Instead, she landed seven | | | | skating career at the age twelve in her |
| triple jumps including two triple-triple | | | | native France. Surya's unbeatable athleticism |
| combinations to stand right on top position | | | | and flexibility proved instrumental in |
| of the podium. She was so excited her self; | | | | accelrating the technical side of the women's |
| her expression truly reflected her state of | | | | skating to new loftiness. She wrote her |
| exhilaration at that time, "I was very, very, | | | | undeniable career in sport's history by |
| very, happy". "The crowd screamed, and I | | | | winning nine French, five consecutive |
| couldn't hear the rest of my music, the very | | | | European titles and three World silver |
| last bits of it. I was so happy with myself | | | | medals. Highly talented Surya often crafts |
| that it was an awesome feeling." Newest | | | | her own choreography, designs her costumes, |
| attraction of America crowned world figure | | | | and appears in skating shows around the |
| skating champion Kimmie Meissner, is | | | | world. Surya wants to skate until spectators |
| paralleled with other legendry stars Michelle | | | | enjoy her performances. |
| Kwan, Sasha Cohen, Johnny Weir, Tanith Belbin | | | | |
| & Ben Agosto, Irina Slutskaya and other | | | | Irina Grigorian |
| international favorites in the 2006 whom they | | | | |
| use to idealize. | | | | Irina Grigorian brought a special dimension |
| | | | to ice skating by mingling it with circus art |
| Evgeni Plushenko | | | | on ice. Her expertise involves juggling and |
| | | | whirling mass of hula-hoops before an |
| Evgeni Plushenko now the Current Olympic | | | | appreciative audience. Grigorian also designs |
| Champion, Evgeni is Three-time World | | | | costumes for competitive skaters and Las |
| Champion, Five-time European Champion. Evgeni | | | | Vegas show performers. Irina remained an |
| is 22years of age is one of the finest ice | | | | international competitor for more than 13 |
| skaters. Unfortunately, he was forced to | | | | years. Finally she brought her unique skating |
| withdraw from last season's World | | | | to Ice Capades, where she toured for many |
| Championships, which was held in Moscow due | | | | years. Besides touring with Champions on Ice, |
| to abductor muscle inflammation syndrome, a | | | | Irina performs regularly in a Las Vegas ice |
| groin injury in the lower abdomen, alike to | | | | show, where she lives now. |
| that which shortened the careers of Elvis | | | | |
| Stojko and Alexei Urmanov. Though he | | | | Elaine Zayak |
| underwent surgery on both sides of the groin, | | | | |
| after that he spent quite a few weeks in | | | | A marvelous star of ice-skating, she skates |
| physical therapy. Plushenko's withdrawal of | | | | like a swan. Elaine started skating at the |
| 2005 World Championships resulted in his not | | | | age of three and is undoubtedly the finest |
| being included in the 2006 Grand Prix Series. | | | | spinner of the world currently. Elaine Zayak |
| But he definitely plans to return to the | | | | being 1982 World Championships was not less |
| competition later this year with the decisive | | | | then a miracle. She began figure skating on |
| ambition of going for Olympic gold in Turino, | | | | doctor's recommendation after losing part of |
| Italy. His fans are having their fingers | | | | her left foot in a lawnmower accident as a |
| crossed for him. | | | | toddler. And now here she is performing the |
| | | | highest level of figure skating especially |
| Lucinda Ruh | | | | doing more triple jumps than has ever been |
| | | | witnessed in the women's event. Some say: |
| Unluckily Lucinda never skated at the | | | | "Too many triples". Her high profile |
| Olympics and could not be placed higher than | | | | performance led her to International Skating |
| 13th at the ISU World Championships of Figure | | | | Union (ISU) to produce what has been known |
| Skating'. But figure skater Lucinda Ruh has | | | | the "Zayak Rule." The rule limits the number |
| earned a name and a special place for herself | | | | of times each type of triple jump (Axel, |
| in the sport ice-skating. 2003 was the year | | | | Lutz, Salchow, toe loop, loop, and flip) can |
| marked by Lucinda's performance when she | | | | be performed in a figure skater's long |
| skated to the world record for most | | | | program. |
| revolutions in a spin by doing 115 rotations. | | | | |
| This young lady skates like a fairy on the | | | | Out of six triple jumps Zayak executed en |
| skating ring, her elegant performance adds to | | | | route to her figure skating world title, four |
| her daunting beauty. | | | | were toe loops. Nowadays a top-level skater |
| | | | still is expected to perform many triple |
| Michelle Kwan | | | | jumps in her long program, but she must |
| | | | demonstrate a greater degree of skillfulness |
| Michelle Kwan perhaps the most decorated | | | | because she is not only expected to depend |
| figure skater in U.S. history, winning five | | | | only on her favorite jump. Nonetheless |
| World titles, nine national titles, and | | | | Zayak's performances higher the playing field |
| numerous international/world medals. She also | | | | to a new intensity, necessitating new comers |
| has two Olympic medals, silver in 1998 and a | | | | to improve their jumping abilities. What a |
| bronze in 2002 on her credit. (A recent | | | | contrast from only less than a century |
| decision by the USFSA will provide her | | | | earlier when female skaters were not allowed |
| another chance for an Olympic gold medal in | | | | to jump at all as it is was supposed to be |
| Torino). Michelle won the prestigious James | | | | unladylike behavior. With the passage of time |
| E. Sullivan Award bestowed to the top amateur | | | | ice-skating mounted to the pinnacle of |
| athlete in the nation in 2001. She proudly | | | | professionalism and now this sport is known |
| embraces the record for the most perfect | | | | as one of the finest and most entertaining |
| marks (6.0) at 50, and the American record | | | | sports of today. These ice skating |
| for her 35 perfect marks at the U.S. | | | | celebrities are amongst the top stars of the |
| Nationals. Michelle, one of the most | | | | world. And what elegance they show in their |
| consistent skaters of our time, Kwan is also | | | | performances, simple superb, spectacular! |
| distinguished for her musical expression as | | | | I'll be giving you a chance to know few of |
| well as a graceful and swanlike skating | | | | these awesome superstars. The best in ice |
| style. She'll go a long way to captivate | | | | entertainment, Champions on ice include |
| audiences with her brilliant interpretive | | | | famous figure skaters such as Michelle Kwan, |
| programs. | | | | Timothy Goebel, Irina Slutskaya, and many |
| | | | more! |