Scott Hamilton's Holiday Concert on Ice is scheduled for December 29 in Lake Placid, with singers Melinda Doolittle and Phil Stacey from American Idol. Yayee! I voted for Melinda every time she sang. [Adirondack Daily Enterprise]
- Miki Ando says, "I was just lucky." [Goldenskate]
- Skating and fashion talk, a new blog from Jean. [Best Skate Forward]
- Let's not forget about the 2010 Junior U.S. Figure Skating Championships which begin on December 14 in Strongsville, Ohio. Juvenile and intermediate level skaters will compete. (The levels go from juvenile, intermediate, novice, junior and senior. Novice, junior and senior skaters will compete in Spokane, Washington in January.) [Cleveland Skating]
- Skate America observation: Back to the drawing board. This means you Evan! [State of the Skate]
- Check out new book about show skaters from the old days called Ice Charades: Penguins Behaving Badly and Other Follies From the Road. [Ice Charades]
- Emily Hughes sets sights on Olympics. [Daily News]
- Best skating programs of the season. Do you agree? [jumping clapping man]
- Yu-Na Kim skates to music men skate to, Evan Lysacek skates to music women skate to. Gender-bending at Skate America. [Chicago Tribune]
- Preview of Skate Canada, the last Grand Prix event, which begins on Friday. [Goldenskate]
- Jesus Christ! I hate to think what he would have done had he finished last! [USA Today]
- Opening day of Bryant Park ice skating rink in NYC featured performance by Ice Theatre of New York called Huh? Just kidding, it's called La Revolte des Enfants by Alberto del Saz. (see photo below, Ice Theatre of New York performers Marni Halasa, Eve Chalom and Ali Blank are attached by a four meter piece of fabric, photo credit: Irene Sapilak)
- Who said that? "The men are flamboyant, ego-tripping, and the girls are...not fake, but packaged." [Axels, Loops and Spins]
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