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iowskaters celebrates 10 years of reporting

Posted in Ice Skating News & Events on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Today, iowskaters celebrates 10 years of reporting on the achievements of Isle of Wight ice skaters. Our first news item was coverage of the Bristol Open Competitions on 27 February 2002. Ten years ago today, we wrote: Four skaters from the club took part in Bristol Ice Skating Club’s open free style competitions on Wednesday 27th [...]

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Spring Cup 2012 photo galleries

Posted in Ice Skating News & Events, Synchronized Skating on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The photo galleries for the 2012 Spring Cup are now available on the official website at http://www.springcup.it/12/photo.html A number of teams’ performances at the Spring Cup are now available on YouTube: search for Spring Cup 2012, or start with Team Surprise of Sweden at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1w9UNQ4bns.

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Wight Jewels entered for JWCC 2012 in Gothenburg

Posted in Ice Skating News & Events, Synchronized Skating on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Wight Jewels’ performance in the Spring Cup in Milan last weekend has proved enough so see them named the  UK entry for the Junior World Challenge Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 15 to 17 March. By 6pm today the UK entry on the official JWCC 2012 site had changed from Nottingham Icicles to current British [...]

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NISA test results at Ryde, 13 February 2012

Posted in Tests on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The following skaters passed NISA tests at Ryde on 13 February 2012: Field Moves Level 1: Ayesha Taylor, Lauren Wood Level 2: Charlotte Pedley Level 3: Sophie-Rose Broadley-Darby, Lotte Cordon, Miles Grist, Robyn Johnson, Ella Newnham Level 7: Bethany Howarth, Keelin Scholes, Jemma Southwell Level 8: Izzi Parkes Level 9: Sabrina Danzig, Nikita Heathfield Elements Level 1: Hannah Barfoot, Caitlin [...]

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iowskaters.co.uk becomes iowskaters.com

Posted in Website updates on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Website iowskaters.co.uk has now become iowskaters.com to improve integration of the site’s domain name with the WordPress software used to run the site. The site will still be accessible through iowskaters.co.uk and through the long-hand iowskaters.wordpress.com, and all existing links should work as before. Dull stuff, I know: back to ice skating news shortly.

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Spring Cup 2012 diary: day 5

Posted in Ice Skating News & Events, Synchronized Skating on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The IW synchro teams are now safely back home after another trouble free journey. The team was able to take a few hours’ sightseeing in Milan before the flight home, having braved the metro system to get to the centre. After their long programme on Sunday, the Jewels were able to watch the senior long [...]

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Spring Cup 2012 diary: junior long programme

Posted in Ice Skating News & Events, Synchronized Skating on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Fortunately for all competitors there were no problems with the lighting for the junior long programmes, although falls and collisions affected a number of teams’ results. With a start number of seven, Wight Jewels had a long time to wait before they took to the ice, skating in the group that had the heady company [...]

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Spring Cup 2012 diary: day 4, official practice

Posted in Synchronized Skating on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Wight Jewels are in confident mood after this morning’s official practice, with no further injuries to report. They head back to the rink at 2.30pm for the long programme in the junior competition. Teams members stayed to watch about half the senior competition last night, particularly to see Sweden’s Team Spirit in action. Team Spirit [...]

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Spring Cup 2012 diary: junior short programme

Posted in Synchronized Skating on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

There were plenty of unexpected events and humour too in the short programme at junior level. IW synchronized skating team had put on a few pounds at the start of the competition, being briefly credited as the “Weight Jewels”, until the error was corrected during the resurface. Moments after the Jewels themselves had skated, the [...]

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Spring Cup 2012 diary: advanced novice competition

Posted in Synchronized Skating on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Skating in their first international event at advanced novice level, IW synchronized skating team Wight Crystals achieved a technical elements score of 16.01 and a programme components score of 13.25. With two deductions, for a fall and a warm-up time penalty, their overall score was 27.26. Although this meant they finished in 7th place, the [...]

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