1988 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: They Come from a Land Down Under.

Profile: Lapel Pins – 1988 World Junior Championships, Brisbane, Australia Australia has had a difficult time putting on major figure skating events it has won the right to host. But it isn't for lack of trying. It's been more a run of bad luck than anything. First, Brisbane was unceremoniously dumped by the International Skating… Continue reading 1988 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: They Come from a Land Down Under.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside. 1987.

Figure Skating Pins Profile: 1987 World Junior Championships By 1986, Kitchener-Waterloo, in Canada's Ontario province, was an old pro hosting major figure skating events like the Canadian Figure Skating Championships and Skate Canada, having seen those events contested there in 1980 and 1982, respectively. The city welcomed another major event and the world's best junior… Continue reading Baby, It’s Cold Outside. 1987.

On the Flip Side. 1986.

1986 World Junior Championships at The Netropolitan Museum of Figure Skating Pins For the second time in three figure skating seasons, the best junior-level skaters from more than 20 nations gathered in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, to compete for a world title when the 1986 World Junior Figure Skating Championships came to town. It was just two… Continue reading On the Flip Side. 1986.

A Threepeat. 1978.

1978 World Junior Championships at The Netropolitan Museum of Figure Skating Pins For a third consecutive year, the ski resort of Megève, France, hosted an important international figure skating event when the 1978 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were contested at the city's Palais des Sports. The two prior junior world events in 1976 and… Continue reading A Threepeat. 1978.

Rocky Mountain Trajectory. 1985.

1985 World Junior Championships at The Netropolitan Museum of Figure Skating Pins The 1985 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the famed Broadmoor World Arena, were largely forgettable except for one reason: the emergence of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov as the gold standard in pairs figure skating. Gordeeva and… Continue reading Rocky Mountain Trajectory. 1985.