Archive for January, 2008

The Isle of Wight County Press’s report on the Wight Diamonds at the British Ice Figure and Synchronized Skating Championships appears in its edition dated Friday 18 January.
The report is also available on the IWCP website.
Isle of Wight radio is due to have a report on the championships in its news and sports broadcast sometime [...]


Ian Marsh submitted his resignation from the committee on 19 December and it was accepted at the committee meeting on 16 January.  Ian edited the newsletter and his resignation may affect the publication of the next issue, which is due on 1 February.
There are currently two vacancies on the the club committee.


The Wight Diamonds have won the Novice Synchronized Skating event at the 2008 British Ice Figure & Synchronized Skating Championships, making them British Champions at this level.
The results, marked under the International Judging System (IJS), are now on the official results website at http://www.johnds.org/British’08/CAT013RS.HTM. The breakdown of marks is at http://www.johnds.org/British’08/SEG028.HTM, and shows that the [...]


The John Wilson/MK British Ice Figure & Synchronized Skating Championships are currently under way in Sheffield.
Island synchronized skating team the Wight Diamonds travel up to Sheffield on Friday to compete at Novice level in the synchronized skating championships on Saturday 12 January. The Diamonds, who are sponsored by Wightlink, are competing for the first time [...]


The Yahoo/Eurosport site now has Wintersports back on the menu. Compared with the old pre-Yahoo site, the coverage is lamentably poor, and as yet there appears to be no skating news.
Eurosport UK: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com