Oksana
Author: Oksana Baiul
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the young ice skater who won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
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Secrets of Skating
Author: Oksana Baiul
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780789301048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOksana Baiul reveals the principles, techniques, and philosophy that make up the sport of figure skating.
Oksana Baiul
Author: Linda Shaughnessy
Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780382394485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the young Ukrainian figure skater who won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating
Author: Christine Brennan
Publisher: Japanime Co. Ltd.
Published: 2022-02-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 4910659102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFigure skating is the most beautiful and mysterious of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is visible for the world to see. In Inside Edge, Christine Brennan chronicles—for the first time—a season on the skating circuit, intimately portraying the lives, on and off the ice, of the sport's current and upcoming stars. Woven into the narrative are stories of figure skating luminaries—including Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Rudy Galindo, and Tara Lipinski. Revealing the backstage conflicts high-profile figure skaters face, and the ambition that drives them, Brennan also tells the stories of their families, of improbable rises to the top, and of wasted talents. If skaters are perfect, they can become international heroes. But if they fall, if they miss a three-revolution jump on a quarter-inch blade of steel, the despair is theirs alone. This is their life on the edge, where decades of training culminate in little more than four crucial minutes on the ice. There is no other sport like it. There is no other story like theirs.
Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating
Author: James R. Hines
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011-04-22
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0810870851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFigure 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 between athleticism 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 Dictionary of Figure Skating relates the history of the sport through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, appendixes, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on hundreds of skaters, past and present, but also on skating countries, governing bodies, skating disciplines, technical elements, skating styles, and many other subjects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of figure skating.
The Tonya Tapes
Author: Prouse Lynda
Publisher: World Audience Inc
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1934209805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the candid and sometimes startling conversations that YOU were never meant to hear, THE TONYA TAPES, written by award-winning author Lynda D. Prouse, chronicles the life of the world's most infamous female athlete -- TONYA HARDING -- revealing for the first time the whole truth of her difficult and amazing life on and off the ice. Based on actual, extensive interviews with Tonya Harding, and written with her collaboration, this is her story!
Bad Girls
Author: A. Susan Owen
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780820461502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBad Girls examines representational practices of film and television stories beginning with post-Vietnam cinema and ending with postfeminisms and contemporary public disputes over women in the military. The book explores a diverse range of popular media texts, from the Alien saga to Ally McBeal and Sex and the City, from The Net and VR5 to Sportsnight and G.I. Jane. The research is framed as a study of intergenerational tensions in portrayals of women and public institutions - in careers, governmental service, and interactions with technology. Using iconic texts and their contexts as a primary focus, this book offers a rhetorical and cultural history of the tensions between remembering and forgetting in representations of the American feminist movement between 1979 and 2005. Looking forward, the book sets an agenda for discussion of gender issues over the next twenty-five years and articulates with authority the manner in which «transgression» itself has become a site of struggle.
Welcome to My World
Author: Johnny Weir
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-09-27
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 145161134X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three-time U.S. champion figure skater presents a series of anecdotes and essays that shares perspectives on his life and observations on topics ranging from pop culture and skating to fashion.
Against All Odds
Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-04-30
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0313363986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book of readers theatre scripts for low-achieving middle grade readers is meant to inspire. Written at readability levels of grades 2 and 3, students who struggle with reading will enjoy learning about the lives of people both current (Bob Woodruff) and historical (Franklin Roosevelt) who are inspirational because of their perseverance and ability to overcome adversity in their daily lives. By reading, performing, and discussing these plays about people who possess the important character trait of perseverance, students will not only practice their oral reading skills, thus building the important skill of fluency, they will also build their own models for good character. Grades 3-8. Readability Levels: Grades 2-3.
On Edge
Author: Jon Jackson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781560258049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expos of the corrupt practices centering around the sport of figure skating offers insight into the 2002 Russian gold medal scandal, revealing how such factors as judge drug abuse, vote swapping deals, and sexual affairs are determining the outcomes of careers and key competitions.
