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figure and skating
During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.
The College also offers 26 club and intramural sports such as rugby, water polo, figure skating, boxing, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, and cricket, leading to a 75 % participation rate in athletics among the undergraduate student body.
The International Skating Union ( ISU ) regulates international figure skating judging and competitions.
In languages other than English and Russian, figure skating is usually referred to by a name that translates as " artistic skating ".
Olympic sports in figure skating comprise the following disciplines:
Other disciplines of figure skating include:
* Acrobatic skating, also known as " Acrobatics on ice " or " Extreme Skating ", is a combination of circus arts, technical artistic gymnastics skills, and figure skating.
Jumps are one of the most important elements of figure skating.
There are six jumps in figure skating that count as jump elements.
Spins are a required element in all figure skating competitions, and they exist in all four Olympic disciplines.
There are three basic spin positions in figure skatingthe sit spin, the camel spin, and the upright spin.
*, a figure skating club in Finland
Category: Olympic medalists in figure skating
* Nordic Figure Skating Championships, an annual invitational elite figure skating competition, open only to skaters from Nordic countries
* Patch, the practice of compulsory figures in figure skating, as each skater is assigned their own " patch " of ice
* Program Component Score, part of the ISU Judging System for figure skating competitions
* 22-Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer in Britain.
For example, range voting with truncated means is used in figure skating competitions to avoid the results of the third skater affecting the relative positions of two skaters who have already finished their performances ( the independence of irrelevant alternatives ), using truncation to mitigate biases of some judges who have ulterior motives to score some competitors too high or low.

figure and team
For a few innings the Anniston team couldn't figure him out.
Quite evidently, careers within the sports and entertainment sphere such as being an elite professional athlete on a sports team, or an entertainment figure such as a pop singer that dominate the pop music charts frequently, or a television actor with lead roles on prime-time shows have strong likelihood to become celebrities.
The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.
The refusal of prominent baseball figure Cap Anson to play the Toledo team, in an exhibition game with his Chicago White Stockings, accelerated the drawing of the color line.
The new Chelsea side challenged for honours during the 1960s, with Bonetti a key figure throughout, although more often than not the team narrowly missed out.
Al later states that while they had tried to bring Sam back during this " leap ", they were unable to do so, leaving Sam forced to continue leaping until the team can figure out how to bring him back permanently.
This took place after McKinley sent a team to Europe to try to figure out a silver agreement with France and Great Britain.
Steinbrenner, a Cleveland-area native, had hired former Indians star Al Rosen as his team president ( replacing another Cleveland figure, Gabe Paul ).
Later in the 20th century Shackleton was " rediscovered ", and rapidly became a cult figure, a role model for leadership as one who, in extreme circumstances, kept his team together in a survival story described by polar historian Stephanie Barczewski as " incredible ".
In 1991 he was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year and was, for many years, an inspirational figure in the Indian team due to his athletic fielding and leadership.
( A blue plaque has been embedded in a former residence of Russell by the British Heritage Society which reads ‘ Fred Russell the father of ventriloquism lived here ’) Fred Russell ’ s success using a single figure and creating a comedy team format immediately began to be applied by other ventriloquists.
Lester was only eighteen years old when Russell first introduced his ventriloquist comedy team idea using one figure in 1896.
The games were affected by the deaths of Australian alpine skier Ross Milne and British luge slider Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski, during training, and by the deaths, three years earlier, of the entire US figure skating team and family members ( see Prior tragedies below ).
However, this figure may have been exaggerated as the team had only 100 season ticket holders
Notable former players of West Bromwich Albion include Ronnie Allen ( who later had a relatively unsuccessful spell as the club's manager ), Bryan Robson ( who was later the club's manager ), Laurie Cunningham ( one of the first black players to play for the England national football team, but who died in a car crash in 1989 aged only 33 ), Tony Brown ( the club's all time leading goalscorer ) and Jeff Astle ( who scored the club's winning goal in the 1968 FA Cup final and remained a cult figure among Albion fans ).

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