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Article: All Together Now; Synchronized Skating Is a Team Sport
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 27, 2003
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The world's best figure skaters are in town this week doing their
triple toe loops and their axels at the World Figure Skating
Championships. But there's another type of skating going on around
town that you probably have never seen.
Picture this: Sixteen skaters, side by side, in a line that takes
up the entire width of an ice rink, skating in unison. Halfway down
the rink they turn, all at the same time, and skate backward -- full
speed -- heading straight for the wall. Then, with a "Whoo!" and the
sound of 32 skates grinding the ice, they turn just in time to miss
the wall and continue skating.
This is synchronized skating, a sport that takes the skill and