Month: January 2014

Flashback Friday (Weekend Edition): 1994 Winter Olympics

The 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, proved a great year for North American pairs, with Canada’s Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler, 1993 World champions, capturing their second Olympic bronze and Jenni Meno & Todd Sand of the U.S. finishing fifth in their first appearance together after skating with their previous partners in 1992…

Flashback Friday: 1988 Winter Olympics

In these last weeks before Sochi, we’ll be revisiting a few notable Olympics past, and the 1988 Calgary Olympics seem as fair a jumping-off point as any — delivering dance and pairs bronze for Canada and the U.S. alike in historic fashion. With their footwork-focused and rhythm-heavy “Elite Syncopations” ragtime free dance, choreographed by the…