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Todd Eldredge - 1990 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Men's Free Skate Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - 1990 United States Figure Skating Championships, Men's Free Skate - Todd Eldredge placed 2nd in the Free Skate, but that was enough for him to remain in 1st Place and win his first National Title.

Paul Wylie - 1990 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Men's Original

Program Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - 1990 United States Figure Skating Championships, Men's Original Program - Paul Wylie won the Original Program, earning two 6.0s for Composition and Style. That would move him up to 2nd Place going into the Free Program.

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World Record Figure Skating Spin - Natalia Kanounnikova set the Guinness World Record for fastest spin on ice skates at Rockefeller Center, NYC. New world record is 308 RPM(revolutions per minute)as measured with a Sport Tach.

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Johnny Weir takes a year-long hiatus

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...tion=si_latest

The decision this week by Johnny Weir, now 26, to pull out of the upcoming skating season might seem like a career ender, especially given his range of outside interests that run the gamut from fashion shows to reality TV to random acts of outlandishness. An Olympic or world title is likely out of his grasp and there is more money to be made performing than truly competing.

But Weir is an unapologetic Russophile. He skated to his practices at U.S. nationals in a Russian warm-up jacket, trading das and nyets with his Russian coach Galina Zmievskaya, who once taught his idol, Oksana Baiul. He is like an adopted son when he travels to Moscow or St. Petersburg, and Russian astronomers recently named part of an asteroid after Weir, in case he fancies a holiday visit to part of the asteroid belt one day. It does, after all, present a fine pattern of sequins.

But Weir is also a determined competitor and it would kill him to sit on the sidelines and watch the 2014 Olympics in Sochi from a broadcast booth or coaching position. Here is a bet he will jump and spin at the chance to skate on Russian ice.

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U.S. Figure Skating Announces Title, Release Date Of Film Commemorating 50th Anniversary Of 1961 World Team Tragedy

Colorado Springs, Colo. – U.S. Figure Skating announced the title and release date for a film project that will celebrate American figure skating while recounting the story of the 1961 U.S. World Figure Skating Team that perished in a plane crash on its way to the World Championships.

The title of the film – RISE– encapsulates the vision of the film as a celebration of the sport of figure skating as it chronicles how the fall of a team gave rise to the sport. The film is scheduled to premiere nationwide Feb. 17, 2011. Further details regarding the film's distribution and premiere will be released at a later date.

The film chronicles the sports’ growth in popularity through victory and tragedy, featuring various luminaries of American figure skating and highlighting how similar their passions and ambitions were – and are – to those on the 1961 U.S. World Team.

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