Sequins, Scandals & Salchows

Figure Skating in the 1980s

Ryan Stevens

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English

Ryan Stevens
03 September 2024

History; Ice-skating

Sequins, Scandals and Salchows: Figure Skating in the 1980s is an extraordinary history of a decade when figure skating was the talk of the town and its stars were household names.

This one-of-a-kind book expands far beyond iconic moments like Torvill and Dean's Bolero and The Battle of The Brians, exploring intriguing connections between figure skating and real-world events that shaped the decade, including The AIDS Pandemic, The Cold War and The Fall of The Berlin Wall.

Brimming with fascinating facts and eye-opening insights, the book chronologically highlights the competitions, shows and skaters that made figure skating everyone's favourite winter sport.

A must-have collector's edition for any knowledgeable fan of the sport who came of age in the 80s - or wishes they did.

By: Ryan Stevens
Imprint: Ryan Stevens
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 812g
ISBN: 9781738198238
ISBN 10: 1738198235
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ryan Stevens lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has been an authority on the history of figure skating for over a decade. His blog Skate Guard has thousands of readers around the world. ""Midwest Book Review"" calls his work ""informative, lively, and scholarly."" Ryan has written for Skating magazine and U.S. Figure Skating and has been consulted on figure skating history by museums and television programs on CBC, NBC and ITV. His books include ""Jackson Haines: The Skating King"" and ""Technical Merit: A History of Figure Skating Jumps"".

Reviews for Sequins, Scandals & Salchows: Figure Skating in the 1980s

""A journey through one of the most exciting decades in figure skating history when the sport was at the height of its popularity and its stars were true icons... An essential read."" - Suzie Housley, Midwest Book Review ""Ryan captures the era with a colorful account of a decade of figure skating... full of conflict, sadness and excess, one that changed history for all of us. The details and research are off the charts. Amazing."" - Randy Gardner, World Pairs Skating Champion, 2-time Olympian ""Meticulously researched, highly compelling, entertaining, memorable and significant... Ryan Stevens is clever, acerbic, witty, compassionate, positive, and realistic. He loves and understands figure skating and he writes really, really well. This is a wonderfully readable and historically important book."" - Phillippa Cranston Baran, author of ""Toller Cranston: Ice, Paint, Passion"" ""Exceptionally well constructed... A triumph... I'm now so obsessed with 80s skating that I've resorted to grainy videos online and am loving every minute, after loving every page of Stevens' book. Very highly recommended."" - Asher Syed, Readers' Favorite ""I can't imagine the amount of work... This book drags out pieces of history that will really grab people's attention."" - Matteo Morelli, This Week In Skating podcast