Answers to the crossword
puzzle and word find appear
on page 80. Puzzles by Joel Kaplow 1 2 4 7 5 6 3
ACROSS 1 The jump with a toe pick-assisted back- ward takeoff from the back outside edge of one skate and landed on the back out- side edge of the other, with one or more full turns in the air.
6 ___ Rippon had a higher free skate score than 10-Down in Greensboro, but his short program was lower, so he settled for the men’s silver. He has a signature jump which is a 1-Across done with his arms straight up above his head.
7 A variation of a sit spin, the ___ spin has the skater tuck in the free leg, with the body hunched over it as flat as possible to re- semble a certain breakfast item.
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8 Gracie Gold missed out on the Grand Prix Final due to a ___ fracture in her foot. This can happen due to repeated jumping, causing small cracks in a bone but not a major break.
9 Ice dancer ___ Bates has done a “quad” in a way. He took the gold in Greensboro, which will go with the silver, bronze and pewter medals he’s earned at previous U.S. Championships with current partner Mad- ison Chock and ex-partner Emily Samuel- son.
11 Perhaps the biggest surprise at the U.S. Championships was 15-year-old ___ Chen, who, in her first senior competition, landed on the ladies podium with a bronze medal.
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12 When a skater finishes a routine that in- cludes all the planned fully rotated jumps (no popping), no falls, no hands touching the ice, and all correct edges used, they have skated a ___ program.
13 At U.S. skating competitions, a pewter medal is awarded to the ___-place finish- ers.
J A S O N B R O W N Z T S V W O C H R I S K N I E R I M A N S M M A D I S O N C H O C K O H K Q R X N E Q N I A E Y L P U N W E H W R Z O E M N K J P A K W N E V Z O H I A Q V W I F A S G G C N F C S L Q O S R A R E A E J U S Z E Q H O P M R E C W Y J A L V T G B K G A R N R Y Q X A S C A C L H J D I C D E E L Z D D B Y I C O A S H V L G N K H G N A O T U D I E A H A A S H P A Q E C B G
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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 medal podium!
ADAM RIPPON ALEXA SCIMECA ASHLEY WAGNER CHRIS KNIERIM EVAN BATES
64 MARCH 2015
GRACIE GOLD JASON BROWN JOSHUA FARRIS KAREN CHEN MADISON CHOCK
14 When the 2011 U.S. Championships were held in Greensboro, N.C., Maia and Alex Shibutani snagged the ice dance ___ med- al. They did a repeat with the same medal in the same arena four years later in Janu- ary.
DOWN 2 The lady you heard doing commentary with NBC’s coverage of the ice dance com- petition in Greensboro was ___ Belbin, five-time U.S. ice dance gold medalist and Olympic silver medalist with partner Ben Agosto.
3 The World Synchronized Figure Skating Championships will happen next month in Hamilton, Ontario, ___.
4 With big sister Caydee out this season, ___ Denney and partner Brandon Frazier took up the slack by winning the pairs silver in Greensboro.
5 When a skater earns more points than ever before in a short or free program or overall score, that is called a ___ best.
6 Just before her free skate in Greensboro, she said to her coach, “I’m terrified.” After her free skate, in the kiss and cry she said to the camera, “Don’t give up on me yet.” After the competition was over, she said, “I am a force to be reckoned with.” Who is she? (2 wds)
10 Grabbing the men’s gold, with a 5-Down best in his short program helping him out, ___ Brown wowed the crowd in Greens- boro.
12 You know them from the cover of the No- vember SKATING issue. Alexa Scimeca and ___ Knierim garnered the pairs gold at the U.S. Championships in January.
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