Archive for March, 2006
Thin Ice (BBC 2, Tuesdays)
The first series of the BBC’s comedy drama Thin Ice, set in a Derby ice rink (the Derby Ice “Bowel”) has finished. The program was shot at Whitley Bay ice rink in 2005.
Website: www.bbc.co.uk
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The RSS feed of the IOW Figure Skaters site is now http://iowskaters.wordpress.com/ – you can use RSS feeds to keep track of news sites using services such as Bloglines.
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World Championships on Eurosport
Eurosport has updated its website and the World Championships section now reflects the upcoming 2006 event in Calgary (rather than the 2005 event in Moscow). TV coverage begins in the afternoon on 20 March, starting with the Mens (qualifying) and the Pairs short. If you get Eurosport via TopUp TV, coverage of late evening events [...]
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The World Figure Skating Championships in Calgary are on 20 to 26 March 2006. The event’s website has been added to the links below.
Olympic ladies gold medallist Shizuka Arakawa and bronze medallist Irina Slutskaya are both to skip this year’s worlds. More details…
Website: www.worlds2006.ca
Website: www.skatecanada.ca
Website: www.eurosport.com
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Dancing on Ice odd facts
Dancing on Ice is over, and the winner is Gaynor Faye. But did you know that Daniel, Gaynor’s skating partner, has skated with Island coach Terri Fleming in Germany?
Website: www.dancingonice.com
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Extra lessons at Planet Ice
Dancing on Ice has encouraged a huge take-up of lessons at the rink, with more than 50 skaters on Saturdays, and over 100 on Sundays. On Sundays, demand is such that the rink is running two classes, one at 10am and one at 10.30am. The daytime public session now starts at 11am.
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New look website
Welcome to the new-look website for the Isle of Wight Ice Dance & Figure Skating Club. The new site uses adapted weblog software for news updates, and the old reference pages are now available in links to the right. Links to other clubs and sites of interest now appear in the right-hand column.
The news archives [...]
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