Profile: Lapel Pins – 1989 World Junior Championships, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia In the early to late 1980s, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, hosted the World Junior Figure Skating Championships every three years, like clockwork: 1983, 1986, and 1989. So for the third time during the decade, the best junior-level skaters from more than 20 nations gathered in the Olympic… Continue reading 1989 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Threepeat With a Repeat.
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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.