Sentences with phrase «routine of skating»

She credits the routine of skating to her abilities to make space for other things in her life.

Not exact matches

One thing to know: One of the rising stars in figure skating is from a country not necessarily known for the sport, and he wins crowds over with throwback songs to his routines.

Skating a stellar routine in the women's free skate portion of the team competition, Nagasu began with a clean triple Axel and then went on to nail eight other triple jumps, including a triple flip and triple Salchow combination as she helped America claim bronze.

It doesn't so much re-litigate her case — tried in real court and the one of public opinion — as jazz up the juiciest details: the «motivational» maternal shit - talk that Janney performs like a profane comedy routine; the on - the - ice outbursts, sometimes punctuating Gillespie's robustly staged skating sequences; and every twist and turn of Gillooly's hapless criminal conspiracy, which turns the backstretch of the movie into a dimwit caper, dominated by Paul Walter Hauser's broadly farcical take on Eckhardt and his mouth - breathing delusions of grandeur.

All the while, Harding rises to the top of American women's figure skating, much to the dismay of the prim and proper gatekeepers, who envision a more «appropriate» representative for the sport than the admitted white trash, lower - class Harding, with teased hair, garish makeup and routines set to AC / DC songs.

However, Harding's scrappy athletic style, garish hand - made costumes and affinity for rock and heavy metal music in her skating routines, rather than the more acceptable classical music of the sport, puts her at odds with the figure skating establishment and its judges.

In reality, Kerrigan was also from a modest background, but her appearance and routines were more elegant and graceful, while Harding adopted a bad girl persona, calling herself the «Charles Barkley of figure skating.»

Harding ran onto the ice to avoid disqualification, started and then stopped her routine, skated over to the judges and hoisted up her leg, sobbing, her face a mask of tragedy, an image equally as iconic as Kerrigan's confused, anguished expression seven weeks earlier.

And then along comes Tonya Harding, clomping onto the ice in clownish makeup and garish costumes hand - sewn by her mother, attacking her routine to the sounds of ZZ Top's «Sleeping Bag» — and knocking the wind of out the skating world by becoming the first woman to nail a triple axel.