1 Blade ___ fit over your blades to pro- tect them when you’re walking in your skates off the ice, and protect you and others when you’re carrying your skates.
5 Which spin is done on one leg with the free leg extended straight back with the knee higher than hip level?
6 The senior Grand Prix series has six competitive events leading up to the Final. How many events happen before the Junior Grand Prix Final this year?
9 In synchronized skating, which forma- tion is done when all the skaters rotate around a common point, with two to five spokes?
10 New this year, the first U.S. Challenge Skate was held in September, with in- termediate, novice and ___-level skat- ers competing.
12 The 2009 World and 2010 Olympic men’s champ is back on the ice after some time off. We’ll see ___ Lysacek in the Grand Prix series this season.
13 One Junior Grand Prix event happened in September in Istanbul, ___. (Hint: The country’s name is the same as a Thanksgiving bird.)
14 The Nebelhorn ___, an early-season senior competition, was held last Sep- tember in Germany. The U.S. brought back a gold, silver and bronze in ice dancing, pairs and men’s.
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1 At another new event, September’s U.S. International Figure Skating Clas- sic, singles skaters Agnes Zawadzki and Max Aaron both grabbed this medal.
2 The location for this month’s Rostele- com Cup is Moscow, the capital city of ___.
3 Which jump takes off from the back in- side edge of one foot and lands on the back outside edge of the other?
4 If a skater doesn’t spin around com- pletely to make a full turn in the air be- fore landing a jump, it is an ___ jump.
7 Competition began at the end of Au- gust for the Junior Grand Prix event in Lake Placid, ___, the site of two Winter Olympics. (2 wds)
8 Pairs skaters Tiffany Vise and Don Bald- win, and ice dancers Lynn Kriengkrairut and Logan Giulietti-Schmitt bagged this medal at the U.S. International Fig- ure Skating Classic.
10 Another big name in men’s figure skat- ing is back after some time off. Three- time U.S. champ ___ Weir is scheduled for the Rostelecom Cup and Trophée Bompard this month.
11 Both the U.S. Challenge Skate and U.S. International Figure Skating Classic were held in Salt Lake City, ___.
Hi skaters! Try to find and circle the words listed below hid- den in the box of letters. The words will appear in a straight line in any direction (up, down, forward, backward or diag- onally), and some words may overlap and share letters. Find them all and you’ll be on top of the medals podium!
CAROLINA KOSTNER CHARLIE WHITE DEATH SPIRAL EVAN LYSACEK MERYL DAVIS
50 NOVEMBER 2012
MOVES IN THE FIELD POPPED JUMP SKATE AMERICA TARA LIPINSKI TRIPLE FLIP