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March 2006The power of ice Last winter, a wonderful collection of figure skating stars and fans gathered at Wollman Rink in New York's Central Park to enjoy "Skating With the Stars, Under the Stars," a special event to benefit Figure Skating in Harlem (FSH). While Olympians such as Michelle Kwan and Dorothy Hamill were there, the loudest applause went to the skaters of FSH (girls ages 6-16), a program started almost by chance that has become a powerful influence in the lives of hundreds of girls. FSH's founder/executive director Sharon Cohen, a former competitive skater, didn't plan to start a skating program. But one day 15 years ago she heard about a hockey team that gave a clinic at Lasker Rink in upper Central Park for an after-school program. "The girls in the program told the director they wanted to figure skate," she recalled. After a casual conversation with the director she offered to give a few lessons. "What developed from that is really what's extraordinary," Cohen said.
Read all about the Figure Skating in Harlem program in the March issue of SKATING.
Also featured in this issue ...  Katy breaks throughby Troy Schwindt, Mickey Brown and Laura Fawcett With the TV cameras in tight, Katy Taylor refused to believe she'd won the ISU Four Continents Championships in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Saturday, Jan. 27, until official word came down. "I do believe now," she said after the scores were posted for Japan's Yukari Nakano, the final skater of the weeklong event held at World Arena.
Taylor's win capped a successful competition for the United States, which took home half of the 12 medals given out. Other U.S. medalists were Bebe Liang (ladies bronze), Matt Savoie (men's bronze), Rena Inoue and John Baldwin (pairs gold), Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto (ice dancing gold) and Morgan Matthews and Max Zavozin (ice dancing silver).
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