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Christine Brennan is a USA Today sports columnist, a correspondent for ABC News and ESPN and the author of the best-selling figure skating books Inside Edge and Edge of Glory. Brennan broke the news of the pairs figure skating scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. She first mostrar mais wrote about skating at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary and has reported on the sport extensively since 1991. Brennan, a former staff writer at the Washington Post, has covered the last 10 Olympic Games, beginning with the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Brennan has won the Women's Sports Foundation's journalism award four times and was named one of the top 10 sports columnists at the largest U.S. newspapers by the Associated Press Sports Editors in 2001. A native of Toledo, Ohio, Brennan was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1995. She received undergraduate and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University in 1980 and 1981, respectively. She lives in Washington, D.C. Dan Diamond has edited, published and written books about sports since 1984 through his company Dan Diamond and Associates. With McClelland & Stewart, he has edited two deluxe books on skating, Figure Skating -- A Celebration (1994) and A Year in Figure Skating (1996). He also edited The Official NHL 75th Anniversary Commemorative Book (1991), The Official NHL Stanley Cup Centennial Book (1992), Total Hockey (1998 and 2000), Maple Leaf Gardens -- Memories & Dreams, 1931-1999 (1999) and The Toronto Blue Jays 25th Anniversary Commemorative Book (2001). He has also published numerous statistical guide books about hockey, baseball, arena football and indoor soccer. He lives in Toronto with his wife Carol, two collies and a crow. mostrar menos
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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1958-05-14
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA

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This sat on my shelf for TWO DECADES before the 2022 Olympics finally inspired me to pick this up. Even as old as it is, it was fun to read about familiar skaters from the past--notoriously Nancy and Tonya, but also champions like Kristy and the Brians, plus rising skaters at the time that never became household names. I also watched the riveting documentary "Meddling" after reading this, so it appears that the sometimes prickly behind the scenes atmosphere has not changed! The chapter on gay skaters came off as a tad problematic to me and I'm trying to figure out why.… (mais)
 
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Salsabrarian | outras 5 resenhas | Mar 22, 2022 |
I had fun with this book, because I watched figure skating with my mom when I was growing up, and those are fond memories I enjoy now that she has passed. The years I was a fan are pretty much the same ones chronicled in Inside Edge, so it was a treat to be reminded of names I'd forgotten, competitions that were huge back in the day, and all those evenings spent in front of network television with Mom, eating her homemade chocolate chip cookies and rooting for the same skaters.

I didn't learn as much about the industry as one would think, based on the title -- I didn't find the book particularly "revealing." Other than the process of "holding up" a skater (giving her marks based on past performances and even things seen in practice sessions, thus allowing a favorite to win even if she fucks up her program during the actual competition -- something I think I was blind to because most of the time it benefited the athletes I liked, and I was apparently a naive child), I don't feel I was informed of that many secrets. I suppose I also learned there was an AIDS epidemic in figure skating, which I should have guessed but didn't because it seemed too stereotypical. I honestly didn't think *that* many male skaters are/were gay, but I guess I was wrong.

If you watched figure skating in the nineties, particularly men's and women's singles, this book is a fun trip down memory lane.
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dysmonia | outras 5 resenhas | Apr 15, 2014 |
I had fun with this book, because I watched figure skating with my mom when I was growing up, and those are fond memories I enjoy now that she has passed. The years I was a fan are pretty much the same ones chronicled in Inside Edge, so it was a treat to be reminded of names I'd forgotten, competitions that were huge back in the day, and all those evenings spent in front of network television with Mom, eating her homemade chocolate chip cookies and rooting for the same skaters.

I didn't learn as much about the industry as one would think, based on the title -- I didn't find the book particularly "revealing." Other than the process of "holding up" a skater (giving her marks based on past performances and even things seen in practice sessions, thus allowing a favorite to win even if she fucks up her program during the actual competition -- something I think I was blind to because most of the time it benefited the athletes I liked, and I was apparently a naive child), I don't feel I was informed of that many secrets. I suppose I also learned there was an AIDS epidemic in figure skating, which I should have guessed but didn't because it seemed too stereotypical. I honestly didn't think *that* many male skaters are/were gay, but I guess I was wrong.

If you watched figure skating in the nineties, particularly men's and women's singles, this book is a fun trip down memory lane.
… (mais)
 
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dysmonia | outras 5 resenhas | Apr 15, 2014 |
I had fun with this book, because I watched figure skating with my mom when I was growing up, and those are fond memories I enjoy now that she has passed. The years I was a fan are pretty much the same ones chronicled in Inside Edge, so it was a treat to be reminded of names I'd forgotten, competitions that were huge back in the day, and all those evenings spent in front of network television with Mom, eating her homemade chocolate chip cookies and rooting for the same skaters.

I didn't learn as much about the industry as one would think, based on the title -- I didn't find the book particularly "revealing." Other than the process of "holding up" a skater (giving her marks based on past performances and even things seen in practice sessions, thus allowing a favorite to win even if she fucks up her program during the actual competition -- something I think I was blind to because most of the time it benefited the athletes I liked, and I was apparently a naive child), I don't feel I was informed of that many secrets. I suppose I also learned there was an AIDS epidemic in figure skating, which I should have guessed but didn't because it seemed too stereotypical. I honestly didn't think *that* many male skaters are/were gay, but I guess I was wrong.

If you watched figure skating in the nineties, particularly men's and women's singles, this book is a fun trip down memory lane.
… (mais)
 
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dysmonia | outras 5 resenhas | Apr 15, 2014 |

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