Sentence examples for competitive skating from inspiring English sources

At 18, I had an opportunity to spend a year in California, U.S.A. Unfortunately, there were no ice rinks nearby, and I had to give up competitive skating.

He described the difficulties of competitive skating.

She retired from competitive skating in 2005.

Shortly thereafter Chan retired from competitive skating.

Q. Have you shut the door on competitive skating?

He retired from competitive skating immediately after his Olympics withdrawal.

And what's often lost is that she was abundantly talented, which brings us to her first competitive skate.

Wagner's next competitive skate will come Wednesday in San Jose, when she skates her short program at the U.S. championships — the last competition before the Olympics, the one that largely determines who will take the three spots on the women's figure skating team in PyeongChang next month.

Evgeni Plushenko, the first figure skater in the modern era to win medals in four Olympics, retired from competitive figure skating shortly after withdrawing from the men's competition for medical reasons.

In nonstatistical terms, competitive figure skating is dominated by young girls, primarily those with the body types of ballet dancers.

He moved to Colorado in the 1980s to pursue competitive figure skating, his father told the Boston Globe.