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Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating.

Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908. No other sport creates such a perfect balance betweenathleticism and artistry, and the athletes--m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hines, James R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908. No other sport creates such a perfect balance betweenathleticism and artistry, and the athletes--many of them household names like Oksana Baiul, Brian Boitano, Nancy Kerrigan, Evan Lysacek, Katarina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi--spend years in training to make it look effortless. The Historical Dictionaryof Figure Skating relates the history of the sport through a chronology, an introductory essay.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (421 pages)
ISBN:9780810870857
0810870851