| Champions On Ice Tickets Information | | | | Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat a unique couple in |
| Almost 1,000 years ago for Northern European | | | | performance as well as in real life. This Russian-French |
| ice-skating was a method of transportation over the | | | | partnership started with a letter that was sent by |
| frozen passages and waterways. But since skates | | | | two-time junior dance champion Anissina to some |
| transformed from animal bones tied to shoes to | | | | prospective partners as her previous partnership |
| iron-bladed boots, skating emerged as a competitive | | | | abruptly broken. How lucky Marina was when to |
| sport. The world's first speed skating race was | | | | reach Peizerat who was also recently available, |
| organized in 1763 held in England. Champions on Ice is | | | | answered. Mutually this sizzling Russian redhead with |
| actually a touring ice show in the USA produced by | | | | impressive flamboyance and the cool, elegant |
| Tom Collins Enterprises. This radiant show features a | | | | Frenchman with flawless musical style twisted one of |
| large cast of professional as well as Olympic-eligible | | | | the most lyrical and innovative dance teams. They |
| figure skaters coupled with novelty acts like skating | | | | won a World title in 2000, and two Olympic medals, a |
| acrobats. These shows spotlight mostly on solo | | | | bronze in 1998 and the gold in 2002. They are very |
| performances by the skaters rather than group work | | | | famous for their novel and ingenious dance lifts, |
| or acting out stories. | | | | specifically a role-reversal lift the duo popularized in |
| Champions on Ice show was intially named as "Tour | | | | which she lifts him. |
| of World Figure Skating Champions" in 1969. This | | | | Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin |
| show only offered top amateur skaters who | | | | Current Olympic Champions and two-time world |
| performed under an arrangement with the | | | | champions Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin |
| International Skating Union (ISU). But when the ISU | | | | have battled the odds when it comes to winning |
| liberalized its amateur status rules in 1990, Collins | | | | championships. After a terrible fall at the 2004 Skate |
| started to add professional skaters to the tour and | | | | America, where her head hit the ice in a resounding |
| also active eligible competitors to add more spice to | | | | thud in a fall from a lift, it seemed Tatiana's career |
| the show. The tour adopted its current name of | | | | might come to an end. But despite severe bruises |
| "Champions on Ice" in 1998 which no doubt is an apt | | | | and a concussion, she was able to return to the ice |
| name for the fascinating performers. | | | | to win the team's third straight national title, fourth |
| With the passage of time ice-skating mounted to the | | | | European title, and second World title. Partner Maxim |
| pinnacle of professionalism and now this sport is | | | | was the nervous one, ever careful in the dangerous |
| known as one of the finest and most entertaining | | | | throws and lifts that make up the technical difficulty |
| sports of today. These ice skating celebrities are | | | | in pair routines. |
| amongst the top stars of the world. And what | | | | Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto |
| elegance they show in their performances, simple | | | | Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto are the finest ice |
| superb, spectacular! I'll be giving you a chance to | | | | dancing team that United States has ever produced. |
| know few of these awesome superstars. The best | | | | Belbin was born in Kingston, Ontario, before moving |
| in ice entertainment, Champions on ice include famous | | | | to Detroit in 1999 competed as a pair skater in |
| figure skaters such as Michelle Kwan, Timothy | | | | Canada to team up with Agosto, who is from |
| Goebel, Irina Slutskaya, and many more! | | | | Chicago. It wasn't long before when the couple won |
| Shizuka Arakawa | | | | their first international competition that was a Junior |
| Shizuka is the first Japanese woman from Russia to | | | | Grand Prix in Montreal. This success was before they |
| win figure skating gold medal in 2006. Shizuka | | | | took part in a U.S. national championship. Tanith and |
| Arakawa undisputedly engraved her name in sporting | | | | Benjamin won two World Junior dance titles. The |
| history. So far Arakawa is the only skater in Japan | | | | fantastic story of achievement doesn't stop here. |
| who has received three consecutive junior national | | | | They bring home the gold medal at the US Nationals |
| titles. She grounded her first triple jumps when she | | | | this was their third championship and also won a |
| was still in her elementary school. She is the third | | | | place on the US Olympic team. |
| woman from Japan to be a World Champion after | | | | Irina Slutskaya |
| Midori Ito who won in 1989 and Yuka Sato in 1994. | | | | Irina Slutskaya another name of ice skating. Great |
| She also stood 13th when competed in the 1998 | | | | speed, intricate footwork, complex spins and natural |
| Olympic games. Shizuka Arakawa for sure stamped | | | | jumping ability make her a alarming challenger in any |
| her name in sporting history. She is the first Japanese | | | | skating competition. Irina was the first Russian |
| to win a figure skating title, relegating twice world | | | | woman to win the European title in 1997 and |
| champion Slutskaya to third. Shizuka won the gold | | | | continuously winning it since then and won it four |
| medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Ladies Singles | | | | times in total. She is also crowned as the first Russian |
| in Turin, Italy on February 23, 2006 also the 2004 | | | | woman to win an Olympic silver medal in Salt Lake |
| World Figure Skating Championship. She is also the | | | | City 2002. She also has two more world championship |
| first Asian woman who won the Olympic gold medal | | | | titles to her resume. Irina invented the double |
| in figure skating. Shizuka is the second oldest woman | | | | Biellmann-spin with foot change and turned out to be |
| to win the Olympic figure skating gold. 5 feet 6 | | | | the first woman to land the triple Lutz-triple loop |
| inches Shizuka one of the tallest ladies' skaters is | | | | combination in competition at the 2000 Grand Prix |
| recognized for her spins and jumping ability, mainly | | | | Final in Lyon, France, this is the reason is why |
| her difficult triple-triple combinations. In 2004, she | | | | Slutskaya is considered one of the sport's most |
| introduced a Biellmann spin to her catalog. Biellmann | | | | powerful women athletes. |
| requires incomparable back flexibility. Arakawa took | | | | Surya Bonaly |
| about five months to learn this move. | | | | Surya a queen of ciy ground, In her entire career (13 |
| Kimmie Meissner | | | | years) with Champions on Ice she exhilarate |
| We'll start with Kimmie Meissner, America's newest | | | | audiences with her trademark back flip landed on one |
| teenage skating fascination who earned a World title | | | | foot followed by a triple Salchow. This breathtaking |
| on her first trip to the World Figure Skaing. Wow! | | | | feat has performed Surya alone. She was a already |
| What a sensation she is? Meissner, only 16, | | | | world champion gymnast and tumbler before starting |
| presented America a golden look at its skating future. | | | | her skating career at the age twelve in her native |
| Meissner went to Calgary after finishing sixth in the | | | | France. Surya's unbeatable athleticism and flexibility |
| Winter Olympics in Torino just wishing for a spot on | | | | proved instrumental in accelrating the technical side of |
| medal podium. Instead, she landed seven triple jumps | | | | the women's skating to new loftiness. She wrote her |
| including two triple-triple combinations to stand right | | | | undeniable career in sport's history by winning nine |
| on top position of the podium. She was so excited | | | | French, five consecutive European titles and three |
| her self; her expression truly reflected her state of | | | | World silver medals. Highly talented Surya often |
| exhilaration at that time, "I was very, very, very, | | | | crafts her own choreography, designs her costumes, |
| happy". "The crowd screamed, and I couldn't hear | | | | and appears in skating shows around the world. |
| the rest of my music, the very last bits of it. I was | | | | Surya wants to skate until spectators enjoy her |
| so happy with myself that it was an awesome | | | | performances. |
| feeling." Newest attraction of America crowned world | | | | Irina Grigorian |
| figure skating champion Kimmie Meissner, is paralleled | | | | Irina Grigorian brought a special dimension to ice |
| with other legendry stars Michelle Kwan, Sasha | | | | skating by mingling it with circus art on ice. Her |
| Cohen, Johnny Weir, Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto, | | | | expertise involves juggling and whirling mass of |
| Irina Slutskaya and other international favorites in the | | | | hula-hoops before an appreciative audience. Grigorian |
| 2006 whom they use to idealize. | | | | also designs costumes for competitive skaters and |
| Evgeni Plushenko | | | | Las Vegas show performers. Irina remained an |
| Evgeni Plushenko now the Current Olympic Champion, | | | | international competitor for more than 13 years. |
| Evgeni is Three-time World Champion, Five-time | | | | Finally she brought her unique skating to Ice Capades, |
| European Champion. Evgeni is 22years of age is one | | | | where she toured for many years. Besides touring |
| of the finest ice skaters. Unfortunately, he was | | | | with Champions on Ice, Irina performs regularly in a |
| forced to withdraw from last season's World | | | | Las Vegas ice show, where she lives now. |
| Championships, which was held in Moscow due to | | | | Elaine Zayak |
| abductor muscle inflammation syndrome, a groin | | | | A marvelous star of ice-skating, she skates like a |
| injury in the lower abdomen, alike to that which | | | | swan. Elaine started skating at the age of three and |
| shortened the careers of Elvis Stojko and Alexei | | | | is undoubtedly the finest spinner of the world |
| Urmanov. Though he underwent surgery on both | | | | currently. Elaine Zayak being 1982 World |
| sides of the groin, after that he spent quite a few | | | | Championships was not less then a miracle. She |
| weeks in physical therapy. Plushenko's withdrawal of | | | | began figure skating on doctor's recommendation |
| 2005 World Championships resulted in his not being | | | | after losing part of her left foot in a lawnmower |
| included in the 2006 Grand Prix Series. But he | | | | accident as a toddler. And now here she is |
| definitely plans to return to the competition later this | | | | performing the highest level of figure skating |
| year with the decisive ambition of going for Olympic | | | | especially doing more triple jumps than has ever been |
| gold in Turino, Italy. His fans are having their fingers | | | | witnessed in the women's event. Some say: "Too |
| crossed for him. | | | | many triples". Her high profile performance led her to |
| Lucinda Ruh | | | | International Skating Union (ISU) to produce what has |
| Unluckily Lucinda never skated at the Olympics and | | | | been known the "Zayak Rule." The rule limits the |
| could not be placed higher than 13th at the ISU | | | | number of times each type of triple jump (Axel, Lutz, |
| World Championships of Figure Skating'. But figure | | | | Salchow, toe loop, loop, and flip) can be performed in |
| skater Lucinda Ruh has earned a name and a special | | | | a figure skater's long program. |
| place for herself in the sport ice-skating. 2003 was | | | | Out of six triple jumps Zayak executed en route to |
| the year marked by Lucinda's performance when she | | | | her figure skating world title, four were toe loops. |
| skated to the world record for most revolutions in a | | | | Nowadays a top-level skater still is expected to |
| spin by doing 115 rotations. This young lady skates | | | | perform many triple jumps in her long program, but |
| like a fairy on the skating ring, her elegant | | | | she must demonstrate a greater degree of |
| performance adds to her daunting beauty. | | | | skillfulness because she is not only expected to |
| Michelle Kwan | | | | depend only on her favorite jump. Nonetheless |
| Michelle Kwan perhaps the most decorated figure | | | | Zayak's performances higher the playing field to a |
| skater in U.S. history, winning five World titles, nine | | | | new intensity, necessitating new comers to improve |
| national titles, and numerous international/world | | | | their jumping abilities. What a contrast from only less |
| medals. She also has two Olympic medals, silver in | | | | than a century earlier when female skaters were not |
| 1998 and a bronze in 2002 on her credit. (A recent | | | | allowed to jump at all as it is was supposed to be |
| decision by the USFSA will provide her another | | | | unladylike behavior. With the passage of time |
| chance for an Olympic gold medal in Torino). Michelle | | | | ice-skating mounted to the pinnacle of |
| won the prestigious James E. Sullivan Award | | | | professionalism and now this sport is known as one |
| bestowed to the top amateur athlete in the nation in | | | | of the finest and most entertaining sports of today. |
| 2001. She proudly embraces the record for the most | | | | These ice skating celebrities are amongst the top |
| perfect marks (6.0) at 50, and the American record | | | | stars of the world. And what elegance they show in |
| for her 35 perfect marks at the U.S. Nationals. | | | | their performances, simple superb, spectacular! I'll be |
| Michelle, one of the most consistent skaters of our | | | | giving you a chance to know few of these awesome |
| time, Kwan is also distinguished for her musical | | | | superstars. The best in ice entertainment, Champions |
| expression as well as a graceful and swanlike skating | | | | on ice include famous figure skaters such as Michelle |
| style. She'll go a long way to captivate audiences with | | | | Kwan, Timothy Goebel, Irina Slutskaya, and many |
| her brilliant interpretive programs. | | | | more! |
| Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | | | | |