Ally and Missy's Guide to Figure Skating

Yuzuru Hanyu spread eagle into 3A back into spread eagle. GPF 2014 Gala.

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Liza’s 3A

2010 13 years old 

Earlier in her career, Marina Anissina competed with Ilia Averbukh for Russia, even winning two World Junior Championships, until he fell in love with fellow ice dancer, Irina Lobacheva. Averbukh left their partnership and teamed up with Lobacheva in 1992.

Anissina trained for several months without a partner at the same rink as the new pair. Without any help from the Russian Federation, she studied videos of international competitions and sent letters to a couple of male ice dancers including Gwendal Peizerat who did not respond immediately. But when his partnership with Marina Morel fell apart, he contacted Anissina. They were chosen for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, but her French citizenship was granted too late.

The new teams would face each other many times, with the French winning most of the time. In the 2002 Winter Olympics, ice dancers were required to do two compulsory dances (quickstep and blues) and an original dance (tango, flamenco, paso doble and/or spanish waltz) before the free dance.

Figure skaters few years ago and now: 

1. Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA)

2. Elena Ilinykh/Nikita Katsalapov (RUS)

3. Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN)

4. Maryl Davis/Charlie White (USA)

5. Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev (RUS)

6. Julia Lipnitskaia (RUS)

7. Carolina Kostner (ITA)

8. Gracie Gold (USA)

9. Asada Mao (JAP)