Figure skating is beautiful on the ice, brutal on the body
22.02.10
For all the grace of skating fame and glamor, viewers rarely saw the pain.
Pulled hamstrings, fractures to highlight, battered spines and hips are arthritic disorders among elite skaters appearance.
Olympic champion Tara Lipinski said she was struggling with back injury for years before his Olympic victory of 1998. She remembers taking days off routine, hoping that the pain subside, but it never did.
"Nothing seemed to help, whether it be therapy or take things off the ice," she said by telephone. "I skated in a lot of pain for an extended period."
Lipinski, who is now a human being, skating commentator, finally underwent surgery to repair a torn cushion (cartilage) at the hip. Pillows hip labrum Union to allow it to pass easily. The operation, she says, saved his business and ended his pain.
While figure skating is not a contact sport like football or ice hockey, injuries can be brutal as well deserved.
"The skating is so artistic, people perceive it as closer to golf as opposed to ice hockey," said Dr. Earmark Adickes, medical director of sport prescription Memorial Hermann's Institute."But when it comes to injuries, it's closer to hockey. Snowboarders can reach an elite place at a young age and exercise as much power as injuries after their careers are more common, so single spine and hip injuries.
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
2010 Winter Olympics -- Apolo Ohno, Katherine Reutter make different ...
27.02.10
Apolo Ohno missed out on his last turn at an individual medal in Vancouver on Friday when he was disqualified from the 500-meter blood for illegal contact, but he earned his eighth career medal, a rig bronze in the 5,000-meter relay, further extending his U.S. Winter Olympics pock.
In the same way Reutter, 21, had set a couple of Olympic record times at the Pacific Coliseum in the heretofore fortnight only to see them broken in the next heat, she kicked her skate over the line first in the medal upon.
Reutter had to execute a tricky inside pass late in the folk to reach the podium and said she felt she had finally put together a tactically dependable final after a race or two in which she had performed better in earlier rounds.
"I contemplate I finally kind of found my niche and how to stay calm and composed out there," Reutter said. "I was saying to my coaches this week, 'I don't advised of what's happening to me. I know how to race on the World Cup. I've been preparing for months and months to medicate this just like another World Cup.' I've been forcing passes that weren't wholly there or losing my thought process and ending up in the back of the pack. But today I went into this and I had my courage back."
Source: ESPN
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