Argumentative Essay On Figure Skating

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Sparkles, Dancing, Jumping, and Music great combination or do you not agree? Figure Skating as a result was mashed up together to create such a beautiful but dangerous sport. Skating as a Winter Olympic sport has a long history and even with the proper equipment can be dangerous. Figure skating was originated in Europe, it was first stared by an American though named Jackson Haines. Jackson was born in New York in 1840 and died in 1875 in Finland from Tuberculosis. There was a big skating/dancing craze they called it because it swept America because of the combination that Haines did with bringing Dance into the rink. There was local skating clubs that had been formed and also competitions but nothing serious was made from it until some …show more content…

Jessica Dube in 2007 was slashed by her partner in the left cheek and his blade moving at 40 mph she had 83 stitches put in but she was back skating on the ice in 10 days. There has been injuries such as broken noses, shattered eye sockets, concussions and deep skate blade wounds. All these can occur during a pair skating dance even if you think it will not happen it can. Coach Jim Peterson says he hates when people call the sport “pretty” because he says that “ what we do is so difficult and it can be so dangerous”. Peterson is a coach at the Ellenton Ice and Sports Complex and he guided two pairs of figure skating teams to the Sochi Olympics. Nathan Bartholomay and Felicia Zhang are representing the U.S. While David King and Stacey Kemp are skating for Great …show more content…

She is one passionate women and very committed to her carrier of a figure skater. Stacey Kemp says “ You can either sit there and cry about it or you can get on with practice”. Also following the whole good welcome back she also got her thumb sliced to the bone by a skate blade. Let's hope she gets some luck she needs it! Zhang 20, says she had “two little” concussions during her performances. Last year she was doing a twist in the air and she was not as high and she usually can get and she was not rotating as much. When she came down she hit her partner Bartholomay's head with her elbow and it bounced back and hit her herself and it knocked her out unconscious in his arms because luckily for her Bartholomay caught

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