About Emily Carlson the figure skater

Biography for Michelle Kwan More at IMDbPro »Date of Birth 7 July 1980, Torrance, California, USA Birth Name Michelle Wing-Shan Kwan Nickname Shelley, Shelle Height 5' 2" (1.57 m) Mini Biography Michelle Kwan was born in Torrance, California on July 7, 1980. She is the youngest of three children. Her parents are Danny and Estella, who moved to the U.S. from China in the 1970's. Her brother's name is Ron, and her sister's name is Karen. Michelle started skating when she was five after watching...Read Full Story

Biography for Michelle Kwan More at IMDbPro »Date of Birth 7 July 1980, Torrance, California, USA Birth Name Michelle Wing-Shan Kwan Nickname Shelley, Shelle Height 5' 2" (1.57 m) Mini Biography Michelle Kwan was born in Torrance, California on July 7, 1980. She is the youngest of three children. Her parents are Danny and Estella, who moved to the U.S. from China in the 1970's. Her brother's name is Ron, and her sister's name is Karen. Michelle started skating when she was five after watching...Read Full Story

Lubov Iliushechkina of Russia falls during the pairs free program with her partner Nodari Maisuradze (not pictured) at the European Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki . Slovenia's Alex Glebov crashes in the men's Super-G event at the Alpine Skiing World Cup in Val Gardena, northern Italy . Erben Wennemars of the Netherlands falls during the men's 500m event at the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Moscow, Marc Iselin of Switzerland falls during the men's snowboard parallel...Read Full Story

I know this is early, but I just made some initial predictions based on the current assignments...more or less I want to come back to this page later and see how good I did (I realize this is a long post!). I found some of these very tough to predict! Pairs Skate America 1. Savchenko & Szolkowy 2. McLaughlin & Brubaker 3. Mukhortova & Trankov Skate Canada 1. Dube & Davison 2. Kawaguchi & Smirnov 3. McLaughlin & Brubaker Cup of China 1. Zhang & Zhang 2. Pang & Tong 3. Volosozhar & Morozov...Read Full Story

It has been such a sad week in figure skating. I wanted this pic of the week to be happy and uplifting. I decided to feature the happiest moment in figure skating. But what is the happiest moment in figure skating? This question alone could be quite a topic of discussion on this blog! It's a matter of opinion I suppose so I decided to settle it the only way I know how... Google ! I went to Google, typed in "happiest moment in figure skating" and Google returned with a quite appropriate answer...Read Full Story