Download PDF by James R Hines: Figure Skating in the Formative Years: Singles, Pairs, and

By James R Hines

Once a wintry weather hobby for socializing and courtship, skating developed into the wildly well known aggressive recreation of determine skating, one of many few athletic arenas the place lady athletes carry a public profile--and incomes power--equal to that of men.

 

Renowned activities historian James R. Hines chronicles determine skating's upward push from its earliest days via its head-turning debut on the 1908 Olympics and its leap forward as leisure within the Thirties. Hines credit determine skating's explosive enlargement to an ever-increasing variety of ladies who had develop into trained skaters and desired to compete, not only in singles yet with companions as well.

 

Matters reached a turning aspect while British skater Madge Syers entered the otherwise-male 1902 international Championship held in London and complete moment. known as skating's first feminist, Syers led a wave of girls who made major contributions to determine skating and helped flip it into state-of-the-art star-making exhibit at each iciness Olympics.

 

Packed with tales and hard-to-find info, Figure Skating within the Formative Years tells the early heritage of a activity enjoyed and by means of fanatics round the world.

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