Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games

The "Historical dictionary of figure skating" relates the history of the sport through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, appendixe

Discusses skating's many technical and artistic advances, its important figures, its intrigues and scandals, and the historical high points during its evolution

The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the G

Once a winter pastime for socializing and courtship, skating evolved into the wildly popular competitive sport of figure skating, one of the few athletic arenas