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3 Can you name the jump that takes off from a back outside edge and lands on the same back outside edge?


4 Evgenia Medvedeva grabbed the ladies gold for Russia at the Grand Prix Final in December at the ripe old age of ___.


6 Terry Gannon has two noteworthy stars alongside him doing commentary on NBC skating telecasts. The lady is U.S., World and Olympic champion fi gure skater ___ Lipinski.


8 Madison Chock and Evan ___ of the U.S. ice danced their way to the silver medal at the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, their second in a row.


9 For the fi rst time ever, ___ ice dance couples representing the same country competed at the Grand Prix Final, affi rm- ing the U.S.’s depth in this discipline.


11 When two or three jumps are done one immediately after the other and they take off from the previous landing edge, it is called a ___ jump.


12 Held since 1984, the U.S. Synchronized Figure Skating Championships happen this month in Kalamazoo, ___.


14 ___ Wagner is the only U.S. ladies skater ever to qualify for the Grand Prix Final four seasons in a row.


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1 For the fi rst time, there was a synchronized skating competition during the Grand Prix Final in December. Five countries partici- pated. Which one fi nished on top?


2 The European Championships “unfriend- ed” the rest of the world after 1948, when


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Hi skaters! Try to fi nd 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!


FOUR CONTINENTS HAYDENETTES JOHNNY WEIR KALAMAZOO NATHAN CHEN


42 FEBRUARY 2016


PEWTER MEDAL SALCHOW SYNCHRONIZED TARA LIPINSKI TOE LOOP


Dick Button of the U.S. and Canadian Barbara Ann Scott took the singles golds. This eventually gave rise to the ___ Conti- nents Championships beginning in 1999, which invites countries outside of Europe to compete.


5 To go with his bronze medal from 2013, ___ Chen of the U.S. brought home the men’s gold from the Junior Grand Prix in Barcelona.


6 An extremely rare thing happened at the Grand Prix Final. During the men’s competition, Boyang Jin of China and Patrick Chan of Canada ended up in a ___ for fourth place, with exactly 263.45 points each. In this circumstance, the skater with the higher free skate score is deemed the better of the two, so Jin ended up in fi fth.


7 The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating has been held every year since 1995. During this entire span, how many total medals have U.S. senior-level pairs skaters won in the Final; four, fi ve, nine or zero?


8 2015 U.S. junior silver medalists Rachel Parsons and her bro Michael grabbed which medal at the Junior Grand Prix Final in December?


10 The NBC telecast partner of 6-Across is a three-time U.S. men’s champion. The fl amboyant and never-shy ___ Weir likes to present fashion statements along with his commentary.


13 Again showing the strength of U.S. ice dancing, Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter matched their 2015 U.S. Junior Championships medal with another from the Junior Grand Prix Final. What color were they?


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