Figure Skating Now: Olympic and World Stars

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Review: "Figure Skating now" is a perfect book to prepare for the 2002 Olympics! It covers the best skaters of the last four years and gives background information to everyone. If you're interested in figre skating you need to buy this book!!

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Review: "Figure Skating now" is the perfect book to prepare yourselves for the 2002 Olympics! It portraits the best figure skaters of the past four years and gives background informations as well.
If oyu love figure skating you should buy this book.

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Summary: i thought i would get better
Review: I got this book and was excited, but they wrote about such pointless stuff, its good for a quick ref i guess. They also didn't include skaters such as Sasha Cohen (:}) but oh well, don't buy it!

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Summary: Great Book of knowledge
Review: I recommend this book to anyone that wants to know the gossip on how the latest figure skaters got to where they are today. With lots of great pictures of all stars including Michelle Kwan, Sarah Huges, Irina Slutskya, Elvis Stojko, Alexei Yagudin and much much more from all around the world.

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Summary: Eye Candy!
Review: Outstanding photography is the highlight of this book, but the text is rather sparse, emphasizing breadth (74 total skaters) over depth. Although there is little here to learn for long-time skating fans, this could be an excellent introduction to skating for those new to the sport, as far as the "eligible" world of figure skating goes (no professionals are included). There doesn't appear to be as much pro-Canadian bias as there is in some books that come from that country! The only significant omission seems to be Sasha Cohen - understadable, though, since she sat out the previous season with an injury. So, again, I would give this 5 stars for photography, 3 for text.

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Summary: Difficult to know which edition is which
Review: The second edition (Sept 2003) does feature Sasha Cohen and is up to date - loads of photos very good info for the new or experienced skating fan.

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Summary: Good for "New" Skate Fans
Review: This is a good introduction to the current stars of figure skating. If you have read books about skating and they have told you about recent stars then this book won't do you a lot of good. It does have a lot of good photography and does include info about some people that you don't normally find in other books. One other thing is, because it reviews figure skaters who did well in the 2001 worlds, it does not include Sasha Cohen considering she was out with an injury that season. It really depends on you if you want to get it or not. If you love reading skating books then this is a great book, but if you'd either only want to read about the champions or read about them once this isn't the book for you.