Figure skating in The Olympic Games
The history of The Olympic Games • In Olympia near Mount Olympus • The idea: friendship, fraternity, cooperation.
The Olympic emblem blue black yellow red green
The first Olympic Games • the initial date – 776 B. C. • an exclusively male festival
The Roman Emperor Theodosius The Games were suppressed in A. D. 392.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin • His personal drive and initiative • In 1896 • 311 athletes
• In France at Chamonix in 1924 • The basic events: • • Ice hockey Speedskating Figure skating skiing
• An official event • «Artistic skating» • The British Lieutenant Robert Jones- «Treatise on skating» in 1772
• The history – 1865 • The first Soviet skaters from 1958 to 1960
• Nina and Stanislav Zhuk • Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov • Irina Rodnina and Aleksander Zaitsev
Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov • a formers Russian pair skaters • a two-time Olympic champion (1964, 1968) • four-time World champion (1965– 1968)
• 10 successive World Championships (1969– 1978) • three Olympic gold medals (1972, 1976, 1980)
Evgeni Plushenko Julia Lipnitskaia
• Biellmann spin • 4 T– 3 T– 2 Lo combination
Pair skating & dance skating • Maxim Trankov & Tatiana Volosozhar • Nikita Katsalapov & Elena Ilinykh
• the 2014 European champion • the 2013 Grand Prix Final silver medalist • 9 February 2014 gold medalist at the Winter Olympics in SOCHI
Figure skating: the most artistic wonderful beautiful elegant sport
