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Figure skating lessons are declining Can the 2022 Olympics save the sport?

This story is part of a group of stories called Something strange started happening at my skating rink in Vermont as the 2000s approached the 2010s: When I’d arrive for my 6 o’clock lesson before school, the ice seemed to be emptier than the week before. The way it had always worked at our skating club was that as kids grew into teenagers, a new crop of younger skaters would take their place, learning scratch spins and waltz jumps. Suddenly, and without explanation, the crop had thinned out. Sports fade in and out of fashion for all kinds of reasons. Rollerblading was an immensely popular form of exercise in the 1980s and ’90s before becoming a punchline for homophobic jokes and subsequently dying out just as pro skateboarding and BMX went mainstream. Field hockey, a mostly male-dominated game in Europe, is almost exclusively played by girls in the US due to the passing of Title IX in 1972, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in public schools and made field hock

U S Figure Skating, 60 years after plane crash, continues to honor team that perished

1 of 8 Members of the U. S. Figure Skating Team pose before boarding Belgian Sabena airline plane at Idle Wild airport, Feb. 14, 1961, New York. The plane crashed Feb. 15 near the Brussels, Belgium Airport killing all on board. From left in front row are: Deane McMinn, Lomita, Calif., coach and manager, Laurence Owen, Boston, Steffi Wethersfield; Colorado Springs, Colo, and Phodie Michelson; Long Beach, Calif. From left on the bottom: Douglas Ramsey; Detroit, Gregory Kelley; Colorado Springs, Bradley Lord; Boston, Mirabel Caen; Boston, Dudley Richards; Boston, Bill Hickox; Colorado Springs, Ray Hadley; Seattle; Laurie Hickox, Colorado Springs, Larry Pierce; Indianapolis, Ila Rae Hadley; Colorado Springs, Roger Campbell; Los Angeles, Diane Sherbloom; Los Angeles, Donna Lee Carrier; Los Angeles, and Bob and Pat Dineen; New York. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)

U S Figure Skating, 60 years after plane crash, continues to honor lost team

U S Figure Skating, 60 years after plane crash, continues to honor lost team
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60 years later: U S Figure Skating continues to honor team lost in plane crash

1 of 8 Members of the U. S. Figure Skating Team pose before boarding Belgian Sabena airline plane at Idle Wild airport, Feb. 14, 1961, New York. The plane crashed Feb. 15 near the Brussels, Belgium Airport killing all on board. From left in front row are: Deane McMinn, Lomita, Calif., coach and manager, Laurence Owen, Boston, Steffi Wethersfield; Colorado Springs, Colo, and Phodie Michelson; Long Beach, Calif. From left on the bottom: Douglas Ramsey; Detroit, Gregory Kelley; Colorado Springs, Bradley Lord; Boston, Mirabel Caen; Boston, Dudley Richards; Boston, Bill Hickox; Colorado Springs, Ray Hadley; Seattle; Laurie Hickox, Colorado Springs, Larry Pierce; Indianapolis, Ila Rae Hadley; Colorado Springs, Roger Campbell; Los Angeles, Diane Sherbloom; Los Angeles, Donna Lee Carrier; Los Angeles, and Bob and Pat Dineen; New York. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)

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