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Dansants a Glace: Ice-Teas At The Hippodrome

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In the mid 1910's, a unique skating craze became all of the rage among members of New York City's high society. Irving and Lucill...

Skating At The Old Sanno Hotel

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Do you know what? It's really been quite a little while since we've packed up our skate bags and set the time machine's locat...

#Unearthed: The Mad Skater: A Winter's Tale For Summer Reading

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When you dig through skating history, you never know what you will unearth. In the spirit of cataloguing fascinating tales from skating hist...

The 1951 European Figure Skating Championships

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Held from February 2 to 4, 1951 at the Dolder Kunsteisbahn, an open ice rink in Zürich, Switzerland, the 1951 European Figure Skating Champi...

Before Queen Yuna: A Glimpse At South Korean Skating History

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The idolatry and tremendous star power of Olympic Gold Medallist Yuna Kim in her home country and abroad is unquestionable, yet if you a...

Lamartine Sur Le Lac: The Intoxification Of Skating

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Engraving from the series Le Supreme Bon Ton, No. 9, Martinet, Paris, circa 1810-1815 Time and time again throughout history, the li...

Full Circle With Jiřina Nekolová

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Born December 30, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jiřina Nekolová (like the Jelinek's ) would have survived both the Nazi and Soviet...

The Defection Of The Jelineks

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Canadian, North American and World Champions Maria and Otto Jelinek gained the admiration and adulation of figure skating fans in both C...

Czech This Out: A Look At Early Czechoslovakian Skating History

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Skaters on the Ohře River in 1905. Photo courtesy State Cheb District Archive. "At noon today I was on the ice, alone. The river w...

The 1978 Skate Canada International Competition

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Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine Fifteen countries were invited; thirteen showed up. The 1978 Skate Canada International com...