Extractions: Todd Eldredge fell twice during his short program. AP SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Todd Eldredge put his hands on top of his head and stared into the crowd, a dazed look on his face. He hadn't even been looking for a medal this time. Two clean programs and he could walk away knowing he finally had the Olympic experience he's sought for 10 years. But even that satisfaction seems too much to ask. "I felt great, which is what makes it so disappointing," Eldredge said after a disastrous performance in Tuesday night's short program left him in ninth place. "That's the way it goes, sometimes." Fellow American Timothy Goebel is in third place, while Michael Weiss is eighth. The free skate, worth two-thirds of the final score, is Thursday night. Eldredge is one of the best skaters in U.S. history, with six national championships and the 1996 world title to his name. But the Olympics are his personal demon. In 1992, nursing a back injury and out of competitive shape, he finished 10th. Two years later, the flu stripped him of his strength at nationals and he didn't make the squad for the Lillehammer Games. And in '98, ranked second in the world and coming off his fifth U.S. title, he fell apart in the free skate and finished fourth.
Smucker's Stars On Ice Cast todd eldredge is one of the most gifted and wellrespected of his participation inthe Games, todd announced his joined the cast of Stars on ice, Americas http://www.starsonice.com/cast/cast_detail.asp?CastID=37
Extractions: With a name like Smucker's, it has to be a good ice show. In fact, four-time world champion Kurt Browning, one of the Smucker's Stars on Ice, says: "We're a great show. I can easily say we're the best show out there." Browning, who spoke by telephone Monday from Los Angeles, said the Smucker's Stars on Ice tour, which stops Friday night at Landon Arena at the Kansas Expocentre, has it all "the lights, the choreography, the sound and the integrity of the athletes on the ice." Browning acknowledged integrity and ice skating haven't been exactly synonymous lately given the judging scandals at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. "I don't think skating is that healthy right now because a lot of people aren't believing in it like they used to, but the ethic of the skaters is there if not the way the process of how the sport is working is a little unstable now," said Browning, 36.
SacTicket // Calendar // The Ice Has It 10, 2003. The ice has it After skating in three Olympics, todd Eldredgejudged it was time to turn pro By Jim Carnes Bee Staff Writer, http://www.sacticket.com/calendar/story/5848810p-6814531c.html
Extractions: Shortly after competing in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City finishing in sixth place in his third Winter Games Todd Eldredge announced his retirement from the competition and joined the professional Stars on Ice tour. It wasn't an easy decision, he said in a telephone interview in advance of his appearance Saturday at Arco Arena, but one based on the reality of a skater's life. "I was 30 at the time I'm 31 now and 30-31 for a figure skater is getting up there a bit," Eldredge said. "I figured I'd had my run, been to three Olympics (finishing 10th and fourth in his first two appearances), and there wasn't too much left except to try to win an Olympic medal and that gets harder and harder every year." The most immediate benefit of retirement was time off, the skater said. "I took a month off this summer, which was the first time I'd done that. It was great. Just to stay home was like a vacation." Eldredge has a five-year contract with the ice show and also intends to engage in professional competitions.
Extractions: Detailed Classification SPl. Name Nat. Points ISU ISU ISU ISU ISU ISU ISU ISU ISU StN. YAGUDIN Alexei RUS PLUSHENKO Evgeni RUS GOEBEL Timothy USA HONDA Takeshi JPN ABT Alexander RUS ELDREDGE Todd USA WEISS Michael USA STOJKO Elvis CAN LI Chengjiang CHN LIU Anthony AUS DAMBIER Frederic FRA JOUBERT Brian FRA van der PERREN Kevin BEL DINEV Ivan BUL ZHANG Min CHN LAMBIEL Stephane SUI MURVANIDZE Vakhtang GEO DMITRENKO Dmitri UKR SKORNIAKOV Roman UZB TAKEUCHI Yosuke JPN CHIPER Gheorghe ROM RYLOV Sergei AZE LI Yunfei CHN DAVYDOV Sergei BLR SPl. Name Nat. CP TPiF YAGUDIN Alexei RUS PLUSHENKO Evgeni RUS GOEBEL Timothy USA HONDA Takeshi JPN ABT Alexander RUS ELDREDGE Todd USA WEISS Michael USA STOJKO Elvis CAN LI Chengjiang CHN LIU Anthony AUS DAMBIER Frederic FRA JOUBERT Brian FRA van der PERREN Kevin BEL DINEV Ivan BUL ZHANG Min CHN LAMBIEL Stephane SUI MURVANIDZE Vakhtang GEO DMITRENKO Dmitri UKR SKORNIAKOV Roman UZB TAKEUCHI Yosuke JPN CHIPER Gheorghe ROM RYLOV Sergei AZE LI Yunfei CHN DAVYDOV Sergei BLR Function Name Nat. Referee Miss Sally-Anne STAPLEFORD ISU Assistant Referee Mrs. Junko HIRAMATSU
The Skating Gallery $38. PGWT12, Click For Info. 1991. USA World Team Book todd eldredge, ChristopherBowman, Paul Wylie, Tonya Harding, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan. $45. PGWT-13, http://theskatinggallery.com/php/programs.php3?sub=World Team Books&page=1
Soi0203 Articles On the ice Triple power (Grand Forks Herald, January 24, 2003). todd Eldredgesays professional skating is a labor of love (Star Tribune, January 27, 2003). http://www.kurtfiles.com/articles/year.php?year=soi0203&cat=SOI
Extractions: for Figure Skating Books! This is an index of 650+ of my ice skating photos - from Champions on Ice, Stars on Ice, Evening with Champions, Improv Ice, ISCC Simsbury shows, and other 1998 - 2000 figure skating shows. Because I optimized all photos to under 30kb, most should load in 20 seconds or less. I also color corrected, sharpened, cropped and enlarged many photos for better viewing. ENJOY (and please respect Photos may not be copied or reposted without permission)! Note also: Due to space limitations, photos are now on four sites - Windweaver, Webwinds, Webwinds at Geocities, and Webwinds at 50megs.com. Marlboro Sept 2002 with Sasha Cohen If you are an AOL User: All photos here are high quality, containing up to 65,000 colors. They were prepared at a high color graphics setting, and 600x800 resolution. If you are using America Online, you need to set your graphics preferences to more than 256 colors to view images effectively!
Extractions: Skate America 1998 Detroit, MI Ladies Results Men's Results Pairs Results Dance Results Overview Detroit, Michigan; back again. This year's Skate Detroit ... I mean Skate America ... is the third installment of Skate America to be held in Detroit; the first two being in 1995 and 1997. The field is a little weak in most of the events, but the men's event promises to be a good show with Yagudin, Stojko, Urmanov, and Weiss all here. Skate America, like all the Grand Prix event - formerly the Champions Series - is suffering from the ISU placing its new "Open" events in direct competition with the Grand Prix. Many of the top eligible skaters have opted for an easy payday in the Open events, leaving the Grand Prix a little thin. In the ladies event Maria Butyrskaya should have an easy time of it, with her nearest challenger likely to be Anna Rechnio. Rechnio showed moment of brilliance at the end of last season, but she is inconsistent and did not do well at Goodwill Games. Nicole Bobek is beginning yet another comeback attempt, with her self stated goal here to tune up her new programs and work on consistency. She is back again with coach Richard Callaghan with whom she had her greatest success in 1995. Return to title page
Ice Skating Links ice skating Links. The Figure world. (Don't miss Frogs on ice !) iceskating Internet Resources Websites, newsgroups and more! 1998 http://www.showgate.com/ice/icelinks.html
Smucker's Stars On Ice News 6pm (EST) HOLIDAY CELEBRATION ON ice December 5 show featuring Alexei Yagudin, ToddEldredge, Nicole Bobek 6pm (EST) BRIAN BOITANO'S skating SPECTACULAR Saturday http://www.starsonice.com/news/detailnews.asp?NewsID=39
Event Reviews And Reports | 1998 Goodwill Games Articles PhotoTodd eldredge spinning; Ladies Short and Original Dance Kwan Idling at theCrossroads; eldredge, Russian couples Pair and ice Dancing Results July 29; http://heatherw.com/mk/reports/gwg/gwgart.htm
Directory Vaionline: Siti_Mondiali/Sports/Skating/Ice_Skating/Skaters/Eldredge,_ directory.vaionline.it vi permette di accedere al directory di siti italiani. E' organizzato per aree geografiche e aree temeatiche. Fa parte del portale Vaionline che ti offre molti altri servizi. http://directory.vaionline.it/Siti_Mondiali/Sports/Skating/Ice_Skating/Skaters/E
Extractions: Celebration of Todd Eldredge - Todd Eldredge: Fan site: A site by fans for fans content includes photos and reviews. Jordanna's Skating Haven - A unique and comprehensive fan site dedicated to American figure skating legend Todd Eldredge. Includes photo gallery, competitive information, message board, keeperships, online cards, and many more fan-oriented features. Leigh's Todd Eldredge Page - A gallery of high-quality photos of Todd. SkatingHaven Forums - A figure skating message board, with emphasis on American champion Todd Eldredge. Spiral Edge: The Todd Eldredge Mailing List - This list is dedicated to the five-time National champion, and all around wonderful skater, Todd Eldredge The Team Todd Page - The homepage of a former Todd Eldredge discussion and project group. The Todd Eldredge Shrine - Light good luck candles for champion figure skater Todd Eldredge at the Shrine! The Todd Eldredge WebRing - A webring devoted to World and U.S. figure skating champion Todd Eldredge. The Unofficial Todd Eldredge Home Page - All-inclusive site with photos, reviews, competitive history, and everything you ever wanted to know about Todd Eldredge.
