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Figure skating was rejected by the organisers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games.
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Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates.
* Nordic Figure Skating Championships, an annual invitational elite figure skating competition, open only to skaters from Nordic countries
* Stade Olympique de Chamonix-Cross-country skiing, Curling, Figure skating, Ice hockey, Military patrol, Nordic combined ( cross-country skiing ), and Speed skating
Figure skating boots are typically made of several layers of leather and the leather is very stiff to provide ankle support.
* Kimmie Meissner, figure skating Olympian, 2006 World Champion and 2007 U. S. Figure Skating Champion
The United States Figure Skating Team was aboard the aircraft, en route from New York to Prague via Brussels to compete in a figure skating championship.
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It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.
As shown in Figure 3, the protoplasm of other fibers was pale, granular, or flocculated and invaded by phagocytes.
The pilot lagoon was located as shown in Figure 1 to serve the area just south of the existing housing area.
This motion was evidently not due to parallax, for the reasons given in the discussion of Figure 2, and neither was it due to observational errors.
1988 saw the setting up of the monument Gure Aitaren Etxea, by Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida, and in 1990 Large Figure in a Shelter, by British sculptor Henry Moore, was erected beside it.
In the cap-and-ball days of the mid 19th century, two revolver models, the English Tranter and the American Savage “ Figure Eight ”, used a method whereby the hammer was cocked by the shooter ’ s middle finger pulling on a second trigger below the main trigger.
It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976.
Wang was inducted into the U. S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2009, and was honored for her contribution to the sport as a costume designer.
Hopper's first existing oil painting to hint at his famous interiors was Solitary Figure in a Theater ( c. 1904 ).
11 months later, a 40-year old man was arrested and charged with the attempted murder of a " Senior Loyalist Figure ".
The Brandon estate was endowed in 1962 by the London County Council with Reclining Figure No. 3: a sculpture by Henry Moore.
Quoting Forrest ," At this point ( near the village of Sultanpet, Figure 5 ) there was a large tope, or grove, which gave shelter to Tipu's rocketmen and had obviously to be cleaned out before the siege could be pressed closer to Seringapatam island.
The Fizeau – Foucault apparatus ( 1850 ) ( Figure 1 ) was designed by the French physicists Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault for measuring the speed of light.
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