CONTEST TRIVIA

Did you know:

•  The very first ice skates were made from hollowed out elk ribs?

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• The patron saint of figure skating is St. Lydwina, who, in the 14th century fell while skating on a frozen canal in Holland and broke her ribs, leading to a lifetime of opportunistic illnesses (kids, be careful!).  During World War II, citizens of her home-town, Schiedam, prayed to Lydwina to save them from Nazi bombing raids?

•  Charles II of England introduced figure skating to his home country after a visit to Holland in 1662?

• The first figure skating club in North America was founded in 1849 - as the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society?

• The Axel (Paulsen), (Ulrich) Salchow, and (Alois) Lutz jumps are all named after people who developed them?  The Loop is not in America, but in Europe it is called a (Warner) Rittberger.  (Maybe they were afraid Americans would think it was something to eat?)

• Famed television announcer Dick Button is the only man to ever win the US, World, Olympic and European Championships.  (After Dick, Americans were forbidden from entering the European event.)

• Michelle Kwan shares the record with Maribel Vinson for most US titles won by a woman - 9? (But Maribel also won 4 U.S. Pairs titles).

• Michelle Kwan shares the record with Carol Heiss for most World titles won by a woman - 5?

• The 2011 World Figure Skating Championships, scheduled to take place in Japan from March 21-27, 2011, have been postponed indefinitely due to the earthquake.  Previously, the event was canceled from 1915 to 1921 due to World War I, from 1940 to 1946 due to World War II, and exactly fifty years ago in 1961, when the entire US Figure Skating Team was killed in an airplane crash en route to the competition?

Thank you to Alina Adams for this interesting trivia and for DONATING AN ebook TO THE PRIZE POOL! Leave a comment below and SKATE CRIME MULTIMEDIA could be yours!

Find out more about Alina and her books at http://www.AlinaAdams.com and http://www.FigureSkatingMystery.com 

Alina Adams used her past as a figure skating researcher for ABC, NBC, ESPN and TNT to write the Figure Skating Mystery series of books for Berkley Prime Crime.  She used her experience working in television to create "Skate Crime: Multimedia," an e-book with skating videos embedded directly in the text as part of the story.  Available now on Amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/SkateCrime.

 

 

 

 

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Comments

[Sarah Butland]

Very clever idea to have videos embedded in an ebook! Never heard or thought of that but I think it would add a lot to the story and increase the audience.

I certainly didn't know so much about skates or ice-skating until now.

Thank you Eileen and Alina.

Sarah

[Eileen Schuh]

Thanks for visiting, Sarah. Your name is in the draw! We are going to have a superlative prize package, thanks to all these participating authors.

No doubt about it, I have awesome friends!