Answers to the cross-
word puzzle and word find appear on page 64.
Puzzles by Joel Kaplow
ACROSS
2 It was good to see 2015 U.S. men’s champ ___ Brown back on the ice at the KOSÉ Team Challenge Cup after he missed most of the season with a back injury.
4 At the World Synchros in Budapest, Hungary, the U.S.’s ___ University Red- Hawks ended up in ninth place.
7 Challenge Cup sponsor KOSÉ is a cos- metics company that was founded in 1946 in ___, a country that has hosted the World Team Trophy, another interna- tional team-format skating competition, last held in 2015.
9 Founded in 1976, the United States Figure Skating Hall of ___ is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
11 A ___ is a move in which a skater demonstrates flexibility and a fluid line by extending his or her nonskating leg back into the air during a long glide.
13 Just as the men now need a quad (or two or three) in their programs to have a shot at the gold medal, the ladies are going for ___ jumps in combination (one immediately after the other) to stay in competition for the top spot.
14 The inaugural (first) KOSÉ Team Challenge Cup happened in Spokane, Washington, in April. Team North ___ came out on top overall.
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1 The most dominant country at the World Synchronized Skating Champi- onships has been ___, with eight golds
PLA I O Q Z X T R C Y F M T M H J EVAS G R AB L G O F U M L T N PPB I A Y I I E I J R W XN A P L N Q M AC B L W K DS D NK Z L N Z N H OT O SK C I PE O T Z APA G N R I NQ RO W B P DQ K L U A H G B Q J X Z XES T O L T R T HA Y DE NE T T E S E N D VQ L KG B R H U I Z Z N E Y K B E Z R F P A W BC ZG SH V T EA M PA R A D I SE Q I K R I S T I Y A M A G UCH I Z U G J L Y D U BR Y KU I F F P V T R I PLE T R I PLE
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!
CHALLENGE CUP FREE DANCE HAYDENETTES HYDRANT LIFT KRISTI YAMAGUCHI
52 JUNE/JULY 2016
SPOKANE TEAM PARADISE THROW JUMP TOE PICKS TRIPLE TRIPLE
and 21 total medals since 2000.
3 So far, the best showing the U.S. has had at the World Synchros was a ___ medal won by the Miami RedHawks in 2007.
5 The singles portion of World Challenge Cup in Spokane was won by Team ___.
6 In the history of the universe, only one skater has won gold at Junior Worlds and then Worlds as a senior the next year. It was Evgenia Medvedeva of ___ who brought it on in Boston.
8 It was a first in Budapest at the World Synchros when Russia’s Team ___ grabbed the gold.
9 In Spokane, Shomo Uno of Japan wowed the world when he landed the first-ever quadruple ___ in ISU competi- tion. Then he did it again the next day!
10 The Haydenettes’ third-place finish at World Synchros in April makes ___ total bronze medals they now have boasting rights to.
12 The “highlight distribution bonus,” more commonly referred to as the “___ per- cent bonus,” gives elements more value in the second half of skaters’ routines and puts their stamina and endurance on display.
13 At the Challenge Cup in Spokane, Denis Ten of Kazakhstan had to do a quick fix on his boot just before a performance. He ingeniously used some packing ___ to keep his boot together — after all, the show must go on!
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