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Champions on Ice: Twenty-Five Years of the World's Finest Figure Skaters

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I love this book!! Brennan gives a year by year history of each tour, she highlights favorite skaters, talks about unique antics/events that occured with touring, but my favorite is when she gives a blow by blow 24 hour day in the life of the skaters and the Champions on Ice staff. Marvelous! Page after page is devoted to setting up of the ice show (they start early in the wee morning hours), problems that occur, and how the skaters spend their time, warm up prior to the show, what they do during the performance. Lots of pictures of the skaters on and off the ice. One of the best skating books ever!

I learnt a lot about this tour. The history, the man behind it, and much more.

Love the tour, love the skaters, love the book!

If I could rate this book a 10 I would.
Tommy, to his friends, and we are lucky to be his friends because as much as we personaly love him, his wife, Jane, (Janie), and now his sons, Mike, Mark, and Marty, Tommy is extreamly loyal to the performing skaters, managers, crew members of past generations. We've cried with him when his dear friend and ours, Paul Andre died. Before that was the loss of his sister, Marty, and her three children. After was the loss of Morris Chalfen and many years later Harris Collins; both were inovators for ice-skating shows. And too many more to mention here, but all were so dear to their "skating family". Tommy NEVER forgets his friends. Nor does Don Watson, Butch Collins, David Sutton, Roger Bathurst from Holiday on Ice, Ice Capades, or Ice Follies, all dear friends and incredible people, and his staff on tour. And Sandy Reed, whom I know only from her kindness year after year. Anyone who buys this book is in for a fantastic treat. It is a wonderfull skate through decades of skating's elete. Tommy, you are a diamond in the often murky world of figure skating! Love always Carol and Clive Phipson.