Sentences with phrase «double axel»

To go, as Ed Miliband has done, within four years, from being the minister insisting that energy prices must rise — so uncompetitive green energy producers can be enticed to supply power — to being the opposition leader calling for energy prices to be frozen is a breathtaking double axel that would make Torvill and Dean envious.

But figure skaters do double axels and still look flawless.

Her eureka moment arrives while heckling televised figure skating, and her subsequent study in the aerodynamics of the sport inevitably leads her out onto the ice, where she discovers an aptitude for double Axels and triple loops.

Not exact matches

BALTIMORE — Most mathematicians are more interested in double integrals than triple axels, but one team of number crunchers is concerned that the International Skating Union's new rules for awarding marks for competitive figure skating may fall flat on their face.

I, Tonya's drubbing pleonasm paradoxically reaches its lowest point when dramatizing its heroine's greatest accomplishment: after Harding becomes, in a 1991 competition, the first American woman to complete a triple axel, the feat (recreated using stunt doubles and digital effects) is scored to Foreigner's «Feels Like the First Time.»

In that same interview, she highlighted an anecdote that serves as a reminder that being an «Olympic also - ran» still means being one of the most skilled athletes on the planet; when producers hunted around for a skating double to recreate Harding's most famous, non-scandal-related professional accomplishment — executing a triple axel in competition at the 1991 U.S. Championships — they were flatly told that it was essentially impossible to find someone capable of matching the feat.

The film's director and producers assumed they could just hire a skate double to complete the stunt — even though Harding was the first American woman to perform a triple axel in competition.

The dash features an aluminum double - brow trim panel with an axel - spin finish that is unique to this car, in addition to another 50th Anniversary badge placed on the passenger side of the dash.

There were tiny DIY micro-shelters built on one axel trailer rigs as well as two large tiny houses on double axle trailers.