A figure skating fiction phenomemon! Originally published between 1998 and 2000, On the Edge, now in its second run, is the most popular figure skating serial in modern history. This coming of age melodrama sparked the imagination of a thousand figure skating fans.

Get figure skating fiction in small doses. Read these special selections from Private Ice's archive of figure skating short stories, humor, and poetry.

Graceful and stubborn. Powerful and arrogant. Destined for each other and for figure skating greatness. Will fate allow? Listen for the Whispers on the Ice.

Figure skating fiction's original soap opera, The Strong and The Sequined. Running continuously since 1997, The Strong and The Sequined is the first modern skatefic. Always outrageous, The Strong and the Sequined is so close to reality that even top US Figure Skating Association officials love it. Private Ice is proud to host the TSTS Archives.

Go behind the scenes with insider Sonia Bianchetti as she spins true tales of figure skating's powerful and autocratic leaders. Figure skating is neither pure nor glittering nor glamourousÑit's politics and intrigue, money and back room deals. In the wake of the 2002 Olympic figure skating judging scandal, Bianchetti puts the new, secretive, and complex judging system in historical context and outlines--with the clarity of vision that has made her a legend--what must be done to save figure skating.

Figure Skaters—Ron and Nancy Ludington

Figure skater Nancy Rouillard began her career as a solo performer, but she changed her focus to pairs upon meeting her future husband, Ronald Ludington. The Ludingtons became the dominant U.S. pairs team of the late 1950s and achieved international success with bronze medals at the 1959 World Championships and the 1960 Olympics. They coached together and had a daughter following their competitive career, but they later divorced. They were both inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1993.

Nancy Ludington Graham, as she is now known, is on the coaching staff at the Midcoast Recreation Center for the 2004-05 season. She has been actively involved in the development of synchronized figure skating, especially through helping the nationally known Haydenettes.

Ronald Ludington has coached figure skaters in nine consecutive Olympiads and 36 world championships. In 1984, he led the pairs team of Kitty and Peter Carruthers to a silver medal at the Olympics. Since 1987 he has been the director of the Ice Skating Science Development Center at the University of Delaware. This facility not only trains skaters and coaches but also works on learning new methods of performance enhancement and injury prevention. Ludington was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1999.

—Beth Braccio Hering

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Figure Skaters—Ron and Nancy Ludington