danced their way to the gold medal, capping their undefeated season.
8 Despite performing in worn- out boots being held together with duct tape, Nathan Chen valiantly tried a total of ___ quads in his free skate at Worlds. He fell on the fi rst one, ending a streak of 20 landed quads in a row in competition.
11 During his free dance at Worlds with partner Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron cut his right hand when he went to grab his blade. Some points and blood were lost, but they still snagged the silver medal. What country are they from?
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1 U.S. ice dancer Zach Donohue took a spill during his free dance with Madison Hubbell at the Helsinki Worlds. The music for their program was, ironically, “Can’t Help ___ in Love.”
4 Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir grabbed the gold at the World Championships even after a ___-year break from
competition. Impressive!
5 While attending the University of Michigan, Evan Bates and Alex Shibutani were roommates with ___ White, who went on to become the 2014 Olympic ice dance gold medalist with partner Meryl Davis.
7 At the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in March, siblings Rachel and Michael ___ of the U.S. ice
12This season, Maia and Alex Shibutanis’ short dance music was “That’s Life,” a classic Frank Sinatra song mixed with a modern hip-hop version by Jay Z, going back and forth between the two. What is this kind of music splicing called?
13 The 2017 World Figure Skating Championships fi nished up in early April in Helsinki, the capital of what country?
14 For some reason, ice dancers Scott Moir, Guillaume Cizeron, Zach Donohue and Evan Bates all experienced diffi culties while doing traveling turns on one skate during their free dance ___ sequence at Worlds.
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2 At the World Junior Championships, partners Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor brought their country’s fi rst junior pairs gold home with them. Where are they from?
3 In 2011, Brandon Mroz of the U.S. landed the fi rst quad ___ in international competition at the NHK Trophy.
4 Canada had the biggest medal haul at Worlds, earning bragging rights to ___ podium fi nishes.
5 Boyang Jin is the only male singles skater from his country to ever win a medal at Worlds, and in Helsinki he bagged his second bronze. Where is he from?
6 Taking the men’s gold at the World Junior Championships was none other than ___ Zhou of the U.S.
9 The ShibSibs were the only U.S. medalists at Worlds this year. This medal matched the one they received at the Moscow Worlds in 2011. What color was it?
10 Seventeen-year-old phenom Evgenia Medvedeva was golden at Worlds, standing on top of the ladies podium for the second year in a row. What country is she from?
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SKATING 47
Ava Isabel Zahler AGE: 9
CLUB: Center ISC; associate member at Strongsville SC LEVEL: Pre-Preliminary HOMETOWN: North Canton, Ohio
COACHES: Stephanie Troyer, Carley Segers
SYNCHRONIZED SKATING COACHES: Alissa Mariage, Jaime Mariage, Megan Stitt
GOALS: To skate for a college synchronized skating team like Miami University
Charlie White, Tonia Kwiatkowski, Zachariah Szabo
FAVORITE SKATERS: Tara Lipinski, Meryl Davis, Charlie
FAVORITE MOVE: I lo I love to sk fast and fl y on the ice.
has sk e to skate
so she and my dad fi rst took me ice skating at Center Ice Sports Complex when I was just 15 months old and I loved it.
HOW I GOT STARTED: y momMy mom has skated since she was young, so she and my dad fi rst took me ice sk ting at Cen er Ice Sports
ed since she was young animals, singing, acting, swimming
HOBBIES: Dance, gymnastics, tennis, rescuing and helping animals, singing, acting, swimming
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