L.A. Gets 2009 Skating Championships
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Los Angeles was awarded figure skating's 2009 world championships, which will serve as a qualifier for the Vancouver Olympics. Placements at worlds will determine how many spots a country gets for the 2010 Winter Games.
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Russia&#39;s Tatiana Totmianina, left, lies on the ice after she fell to the ice from a lift by her partner Maxim Marinin during the pairs free skate competition of Skate America in Pittsburgh on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004.
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Michelle Kwan had fretted about being able to win even one title when she was barely a teen. Now 24, she has a remarkable nine, her place in history secure with a run at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships as impressive for its longevity as its dominance
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It's two weeks before Christmas and Sasha Cohen is nearly mistletoed out already. "I feel like Santa Claus this season," says America's greatest skating actress. "I've been opening all the rinks." Whenever a monster evergreen has been lit, from New York to Dallas to San Diego, Cohen has been there, laced-up and luminous.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- All week long, Johnny Weir had been waiting to exhale. He'd arrived here as the reigning king of American figure skating, with all the perks and pressures that came with it.
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The Russian figure skating world champion Evgeni Plushenko regained the Grand Prix Final title Saturday with a dynamic program that included a quad and eight triples, after losing the championship last year on a technicality.
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Andy Murray will be biting his nails at a hockey game tonight, even if no one in LA will see it. Keith Carney and Sandis Ozolinsh will be skating in Anaheim but not against the Calgary Flames.
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Here's a nice change in U.S. pairs skating: Katie Orscher and Garrett Lucash actually deserve the title they won.
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ST. PAUL - With due historical acknowledgment to Wounded Knee, the Nancy-Tonya daytime drama, there'd never been a week quite like this at a US figure skating nationals. Three of the top four women are too young for the world championships. An on-ice marriage proposal. And, for the finale, a two-decimal dead heat for the men's title.
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Los Angeles was awarded figure skating's 2009 world championships, which will serve as a qualifier for the Vancouver Olympics. Placements at worlds will determine how many spots a country gets for the 2010 Winter Games.
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NEW YORK -- Maybe they should move tonight's women's singles final to the middle of Red Square and play on a real hardcourt, and use Arthur Ashe Stadium for the Queens neighborhood tennis championship. The Russians took over Paris in June, and now they own Gotham, too.
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That other Los Angeles team is off to its best start in nine years at 5-3. LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Clippers are off to a winning start.
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Jarome Iginla, Jose Theodore, and Team Canada kicked off their run to a gold medal in hockey at the 1996 World Juniors on Rink 1 at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough. Surya Bonaly, Johnny Weir, and a number of other renowned figure skaters from across the continent have trained or performed on one of the facility's five sheets ...
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Evgeni Malkin skated again with several NHL players Monday at the Los Angeles Kings' practice rink, and his agent said he was optimistic the 20-year-old hockey star will soon become a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Michelle Kwan is taking a pass on figure skating&#39;s Grand Prix series again. Kwan skipped the Grand Prix series the past two seasons, and said Monday she&#39;ll do the same thing this year.
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â¢ Roy Jones Jr. receives the gold medal stolen from him by crooked judges in Seoul, South Korea. â¢ The Dallas Stars agree to forfeit their Stanley Cup from 1999 because, yes, Brett Hull&#39;s skate was in the crease.
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American Jennifer Rodriguez wins the women's World Sprint Speedskating Championship Sunday, becoming the first U.S. skater in nine years to win the event.