"She launched figure skating's modern era," Sports Illustrated ... Fleming took a staid sport that was shackled by its inscrutable compulsory figures and arcane scoring system and, with television ...

DAVOS, Switzerland -- Tenley Albright, first U.S. girl to win the world figure skating championship ... her spectacular displays of compulsory and free skating figures. "I love skating for ...

Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first ... to music being played on records and were also judged on compulsory figures, or tracing patterns on the ice.

Far ahead on points after skimming through the compulsory figures, honey-haired Tenley ... In 1953 Tenley won the women’s world figure-skating championship, but last year when she started ...