Benefits of Figure Skating in Winter Olympics

The advantages of figure skating in the Winter Olympics are elegance and physical exercise. Figure skating is a kind of skating that organically combines sports skills with dance music, which can bring high artistic enjoyment to the audience. Goethe, a famous German poet, praised figure skating as a sports poem. Because figure skating was too old-fashioned, Heinz, as a ballet performance artist, combined skating with dance and showed the artistic charm of figure skating to the world.

Historical Development of Figure Skating

/kloc-In the 6th century, some complicated foot-sliding movements with graceful posture appeared in the Netherlands, which were considered as the embryonic form of figure skating. Later, King charles ii of England was influenced by the skating skills of a Dutch boatman in a circus performance, which promoted the popularity of figure skating in British upper class and eventually developed into a sport.