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

by Christine Brennan

Champions on Ice: inside the World's Greatest Ice Show takes you on the ice and behind the scenes with figure skating's greatest performers. Brian Boitano says it best: "It is the only place you can see all the best in the world in one show. The top professionals alongside the current amateur champions. Every Olympic gold medalist in figure skating since 1972 has appeared in Champions on Ice."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771016484
• ISBN13: 9780771016486
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Tom Collins is The Greatest!!

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.

Great Book of Skating!

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!

Awesome

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

THIS WAS A WONDERFUL BOOK ON TOM COLLINS CHAMPIONS ON ICE

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