Edge of Glory

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Respected sports journalist Christine Brennan tells the riveting tales of the world s best figure skaters during the most intense year of their young lives The story opens with the 1997 U.S national championships, when Michelle Kwan, the overwhelming favorite for the 1998 Olympic gold medal, leaves the rink in tears Enter Tara Lipinski, a seventy five pound jumping machine soon to become the youngest world skating champion.Chronicling the year leading up to and including the 1998 Olympic Games, Edge of Glory offers portraits of the famous and infamous, the hopefuls and has beens Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Tonya Harding, Elvis Stojko, Todd Eldredge, Ilia Kulik, and many Edge of Glory also takes the reader behind the scenes of the sport the aggressive sports agents, the career fostering coaches, the eager reporters, the choreographers, and the attentive, stern judges Ultimately, Edge of Glory is about the athletes themselves What drives these skaters to a profession that promises retirement at such a young age How do they survive in a sport where one fall decides it all What do they fear And, most importantly, who will win, and who will lose Download Edge of Glory – kino-fada.fr Edge of Glory follows a number of figure skating hopefuls during the run up to the 1998 Olympic Games Unfortunately, the resulting narrative is so long that it becomes dirge y and repetitive We get it, Christine Brennan Tara Lipinski went into obsessive frenzies during training You don t have you tell us about it ten times.Despite its length, the book lacks depth Brennan shows all the subtlety of well, a newspaper reporter She gets caught up in newsroom melodrama, without bothering to Edge of Glory follows a number of figure skating hopefuls during the run up to the 1998 Olympic Games Unfortunately, the resulting narrative is so long that it becomes dirge y and repetitive We get it, Christine Brennan Tara Lipinski went into obsessive frenzies during training You don t have you tell us about it ten times.Despite its length, the book lacks depth Brennan shows all the subtlety of well, a newspaper reporter She gets caught up in newsroom melodrama, without bothering to look for the real story She also uses some truly appalling puns Mishin Impossible for describing Alexei Mishin sticks in ...Nerdy, nostalgic look back at skating in the 1990s A bit repetitive at times Looking at this from 2017, I m evenglad that Shizuka Arakawa and Yuna Kim were able to prove the only high schoolers can win gold medals gloominess wrong in 2006 and 2010 And glad that the scoring system changed.While I didn t particularly like the style in which the book was written the author was is a sports correspondent and commentator, and thus wrote the book in the same spirit , I DID enjoy the book namely, because I remember the majority of the performances and competitions described in great detail I liked reading about what was going on behind the scenes, as far as injuries the skater s had during the time of their performances that the public wasn t privy to, the coaching dynamics, the c While I didn t particularly like the style in which the book was written the author was is a sports correspondent and commentator, and thus wrote the book in the same spirit , I DID enjoy the book namely, because I remember the majority o...The lovefest of Michelle Kwan continues in book form.Christine Brennan is a pretty good figure skating reporter I ve always appreciated her take on skating and in the past she has stood up to what was the USFSA in her journalism, like it really is I enjoyed her first book muchthan this one, but for anyone who enjoys skating or particularly likes the skaters she covers in this book, they will enjoy it.I was a little taken aback with the constant drip drip drip of love for Michelle Kwan The lovefest of Michelle Kwan continues in book form.Christine Brennan is a pretty good figure skating repo...Not like we didn t know all the shit about Tara Lipinski This author is that tall ass lady with big shoulder pads who would sometimes be recruited as an interviewer on actual figure skating broadcasts, but the skating community at large considers her to be a hack journalist She writes about a lot of other sports, too Basically, this book is really sympathetic to Michelle Kwan and exposes the Lipinskis for all their money grubbing stage parent ways You know, there s Nicole Bobek and boring as Not like...The lives of competitve, Olympic bound figure skaters, their familes, and their pros and choreographers, are documented by journalist Christine Brennan for the year and a half leading up to and though the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games Brennan s full access pass to the hearts and minds of ice greats like Michelle Kwan, Rudy Galindo, Alexei Urmanov, among others, make Edge of Glory a delectable treat for life long, die hard figure skating enthusiasts as well as those new to the sport The behind the The lives of competitve, Olympic bound figure skaters, their familes, and their pros and choreographers, are documented by journalist Christine Brennan for the year and a half leading up to and though the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games Brennan s full access pass to the hearts and minds of ice greats like Michelle Kwan, Rudy Galindo,...Written in the opinionated style that characterizes journalists, this is a reasonably entertaining account of the events leading up to the 98 Olympics, with the focus on the Tara vs Michelle women s event the men s also gets reasonable coverage, but there s precious little about pairs, no dance, and no real foreshadowing of the judging horrors that would haunt the 2002 Olympics, despite the appearance of those signs in the dance event Brennan s a bit tough on Tara Lipinski in terms of her dep Written in the opinionated style that characterizes journalists, thi...I have read this book several times over the years and just read it oncebefore putting it in the box bound for Goodwill I enjoy watching figure skating on TV or in person and this book focuses on the 1997 98 skating season, culminating in the 1998 Winter Olympics and the battle for the ladies gold medal between Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski I was rooting for Michelle, as were many of us, so was very disappointed with the decision However, it s interesting reading about the surrea I have read this book several times over the years and just read it oncebefore putting it in the box bound for Goodwill I enjoy watching figure skating on TV or in person and this book focuses on the 1997 98 skating season, culminating in the 1998 Winter Olympics and the battle for the ladies gold medal between Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipi...Brennan s writing annoyed me at times On several occasions her puns and pseudo clever clickbait type phrases made me literally stop reading, roll my eyes, and exclaim, Seriously Some cringe worthy writing aside, I inhaled this I was already interested in the...If you are a follower of Olympic division figure skating, you ll love the book I am and so I did If you aren t a fan of skating, pass this one by.

Edge of Glory
  • English
  • 11 April 2017
  • Paperback
  • 432 pages
  • 0140280650
  • Christine Brennan
  • Edge of Glory