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Gilles Grafstrom

Shepherd Clark: a jewel of a figure

December 21, 2016 By 14 Comments

Make way, all you Yuzuru Hanyus and Nathan Chens and Javier Fernandezes, and hey, even Evgeny Plushenkos. The real  hero of the World Figure Championships, held this week in Toronto, is Gillis Grafstrom. Grafstrom, a poetic Swede who was a three-time Olympic champion (1920, 1924, and 1928), a painter, an etcher and by trade an […]

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Donald Jackson and the Maltese Cross

December 16, 2016 By 5 Comments

Donald Jackson is many things: the 1962 world champion; the first man to land a triple Lutz in competition; and a 76-year-old show-off. Furthermore, he’s a painter on ice. That’s because he’s one of the few skaters in the world who knows how to do a Maltese Cross, a “special figure” that harkens back to […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Donald Jackson, Gary Beacom, Gilles Grafstrom, Toronto, World Figure Championships

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