Aha! Now *this* is Rodney skating.

[icarus]

Hoo-rah, someone posted the performance that, well, it is Rodney skating (in Out Of Bounds, in case that isn't clear):

This. This is Rodney McKay, skating champion, right down to the slight chunkiness.

wildernessguru and I went out to dinner tonight (oops, we overslept and missed bowling) and I talked out John's summer training with him. Illuminating.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I read it as Icarus. If I miss my own typos, I'm going to miss yours, too.

Duchesnay... I have to admit, I don't know who that is.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

couple! Quebecois, ran for France a few times. Always were considered too modern and outlandish to win the olypmics and suchlike. The iconic number I remembered - I had it on VHS and watched it many many times - is there (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHw_ULxBU_Q) - with links to more in the related vids column.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

They were a French brother-sister pair from the early 90s. I remember they were in Albertville because they were the local favorites. I can't remember if they were pairs or ice dancing, but the routine they did featured a lot of leopard prints and drumming with a lot of crouched, low to the ground/ice skating. I think they placed seventh, to the disgust of the (French) audience.

[roaringmice.livejournal.com]

The Duchennays? They were ice dancers, and they were well known for doing really adventurous things on the ice. And at that time, in ice dance, it wasn't necessarily a good thing, to take those sorts of artistic risks. Well, that, and their technique was sometimes a bit less polished than the judges wanted. In effect, the crowds loved them, but the judges? Not quite as much.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think I remember seeing them back in the 80s. I confess, I was a teenager back then. I thought they were weird.