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Topic: Maurizio Margaglio


In the News (Tue 14 Feb 12)

  
  NBCOlympics.com - Athletes - Maurizio Margaglio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Fusar-Poli and Margaglio are the 2002 Olympic bronze medalists.
Margaglio fell during a footwork sequence in their "I Will Survive" free dance, but the mistake did not cost them a podium spot.
Maurizio says he first tried skating in 1985 -- just to learn, since he was already swimming, playing tennis and volleyball, doing karate, and excelling at soccer.
www.nbcolympics.com /athletes/5117003/detail.html   (769 words)

  
 Barry Mittan - Electronic Photojournalist - Articles
Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio burst onto the Worlds dance scene in 1996 with a 10th place finish in their first Worlds together.
"Maurizio was a good skater with a style the same as mine, soft yet strong enough to be really good," she says.
Maurizio also took karate lessons for a few years, earning a green belt, but decided to concentrate on skating.
www.jbmittan.com /articles/a-fusarpoli.htm   (755 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives
Italy's Barabara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio look at each other after they fell on the ice at the end of their performance in the ice dancing event in Turin, Italy, on Sunday.
Fusar Poli, 34, and Margaglio, 31, were one of five couples to take a tumble in the original dance, showing that the sport may not be as easy as it looks.
Margaglio and Fusar, the 2001 world champions, were under extreme pressure, as the home country favorites.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/sport/archives/2006/02/22/2003294189/print   (788 words)

  
 ESPN.com: SKATING - Q & A with Maurizio Margaglio
At the start of the ISU season, Maurizio Margaglio sat down with ABC Sports to talk a bit about his love for family and expectations heading into the season.
Margaglio, along with his skating partner, Barbara Fusar-Poli, won the silver medal at the 2000 World Championships and are the current reigning seven-time Italian champions in Ice Dance.
Maurizo Margaglio: Our season last year was amazing, and it was very surprising for us.
espn.go.com /skating/s/margaglio.html   (695 words)

  
 Italian pair makes impressive comeback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Italian figure skaters Barabara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio perform during the compulsory dance competition in the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Palavela in Turin, Italy.
Italians Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio brought some sizzle to figure skating's sleepiest event last night, delighting the home crowd with a triumphant return from retirement.
But Fusar Poli and Margaglio wowed the judges with their impeccable timing and interpretation of the "Ravensburger Waltz," finishing with 38.78 points, a half-point ahead of two-time world champions Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06049/657467.stm   (843 words)

  
 Maurizio - Biography
Maurizio and Claudia discuss this, and decide to go on training - keeping the door open for any new possibility might come for any of them.
In the very same period Barbara was skating with Reani, but they were having some troubles too, and after seeing Maurizio skate she had this intuition and from two couples with problem a new great pair was born, that's Barbara and Maurizio.
Also important was Barbara and Maurizio's original choice of working with ballroom dancing champions to build the original dances - that's a thing that lots of other couples didn't think of doing.
www.fusarpolimargaglio.com /engl/emaurizio.html   (899 words)

  
 Dance
World silver medalists Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio from Italy retained their lead after the compulsory dance, although Margaglio stumbled during the side-by-side footwork sequence.
Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, the leaders after the original dance, drew last to skate.
Margaglio had a bad fall in practice the morning of the free dance and injured his leg again, after having suffered from tendonitis in his left knee in September.
www.iceskatingintnl.com /archive/results/cor00d.htm   (1068 words)

  
 Barbara Fusar-Poli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barbara Fusar-Poli and partner Maurizio Margaglio compete at the 2001 Grand Prix Final.
Barbara Fusar-Poli (born February 6, 1972) is an Italian ice dancer.
She has partnered with Maurizio Margaglio to win a gold medal at the 2001 World Figure Skating Championships.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Fusar-Poli   (133 words)

  
 Dance
Reigning World Champions Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio started off strongly but started to fade in the second half, and at the end of their required diagonal footwork sequence Margaglio fell and went into the wall.
After digging a hole for themselves in the original dance and the first free dance Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio needed a strong performance in the second free dance to pull up into the medals and salvage at least something from this competition.
Margaglio in particular didn't contribute all that much to the dance and the lifts were weak and mundane.
www.iceskatingintnl.com /archive/results/gpf01d.htm   (1360 words)

  
 A&M UMC Sermons: February 26, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio came out of retirement for the Winter Olympics being held in their homeland of Italy.
Then when I saw Barbara Fusar Poli glare at Maurizio Margaglio for dropping her in their competition, I shuttered.
Paul seemed to be telling the Corinthians through his pastoral pen the same thing Barbara Fusar Poli was telling Maurizio Margaglio through her penetrating glare.
www.am-umc.org /sermons/sermon060226.htm   (1362 words)

  
 CNN.com - Icy stare caps night of stumbles - Feb 20, 2006
Margaglio lost his balance and both skaters went tumbling over.
They regained their feet, but there was to be none of the traditional hugging and fixed smiles that are meant to follow a fall.
Fusar Poli's stare was colder than the ice she had so recently been in close contact with, while Margaglio's seemed to pre-emptively reject any idea his partner might be forming that he would accept total blame for the mistake.
www.cnn.com /2006/SPORT/02/20/dancing.falls/index.html?section=cnn_latest   (757 words)

  
 Italians feel right at home in dance compulsories - The Boston Globe
Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio had hung up their skates four years ago.
They're only here because the Winter Games are in their home country and they wanted one last tango in front of their fans.
What she and Margaglio still understand is how to lay down a perfectly respectable Ravensburger waltz.
www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2006/02/18/italians_feel_right_at_home_in_dance_compulsories   (637 words)

  
 Torino 2006 - Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio: The return of the Italian Angels
After so many voices and speculations, it is time for the official announcement: Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio are coming back to the competitions for the upcoming Olympic season, in great shape and more than ever ready for the fight.
Among the greatest Italian winter sports athletes Barbara and Maurizio have been skating together since 1994 and are the Italian couple who has won the most in ice dancing.
But Barbara and Maurizio never really left the ice dancing world: her a coach, him a technical specialist, they have followed the evolution of their sport and are ready to measure themselves with it, with renewed confidence.
www.torino2006.org /ENG/OlympicGames/news/news_ita144300.html   (428 words)

  
 Fusar Poli, Margaglio make up, stay up - Boston.com
All was well for Italian ice dancing stars Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, one night after what looked like an angry staredown following a fall at the end of their original dance routine.
Barbara Fusar Poli, right, and her partner Maurizio Margaglio, of Italy, in their free dance in the Ice Dancing final at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, Monday, Feb. 20, 2006.
On Monday, skating in the next-to-last warmup, Fusar Poli gave Margaglio a stern look and the 2001 world champions and 2002 Olympic bronze medalists skated carefully.
www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2006/02/20/fusar_poli_margaglio_make_up_stay_up   (433 words)

  
 CNN.com - Italians hold shock ice dance lead - Feb 17, 2006
The thrill of performing in Italy enticed Fusar Poli and Margaglio to compete and they gasped when their compulsory dance score of 38.78 flashed up.
However, the Russians are unlikely to panic just yet as they trail Fusar Poli and Margaglio by only 0.58 of a point after the first stage of the three-phase competition.
Swaying across the ice, Fusar Poli and Margaglio impressed the judges with their deft footwork and intricate choreography to nose ahead of the favorites.
www.cnn.com /rssclick/2006/SPORT/02/17/olympics.icedance/index.html?section=cnn_latest   (464 words)

  
 Barbara Fusar Poli & Maurizio Margaglio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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www.pixieworld.net /bfupmmar   (148 words)

  
 Italian ice dancing duo has a return to remember
TURIN, ITALY - Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, Italy's 2001 world ice dancing champions and 2002 Olympic bronze medalists, ended their three-year retirement last September in search of one last hurrah in front of friends and family.
Fusar Poli, 34, and Margaglio, 32, scored 38.78 points on the Ravensburger waltz compulsory dance to lead defending world champions Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov of Russia (38.2).
Fusar Poli and Margaglio were second at worlds in 2000 in Nice and won the 2001 championships in Vancouver but had never skated in Italy in a major international competition.
www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/sports/3668767.html   (470 words)

  
 CBBC Newsround | Pictures | In pictures: Icy end for Italian skaters
They looked in great form and were leading after the first of three routines, with two stages of the event still to go.
Poli and Margaglio had got right to the end of their routine when the trouble started.
No-one seems sure if Poli or Margaglio was first to lose balance, but once the fall started, they both hit the ice fast.
news.bbc.co.uk /cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4730000/newsid_4732600/4732654.stm   (172 words)

  
 Photo of Barbara Fusar Poli, Maurizio Margaglio, Ice Skating, Torino 2006 Olympics - Acclaim Stock Photography
Photo of Barbara Fusar Poli, Maurizio Margaglio, Ice Skating, Torino 2006 Olympics - Acclaim Stock Photography
Photo of Barbara Fusar Poli, Maurizio Margaglio, Ice Skating, Torino 2006 Olympics
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www.acclaimimages.com /_gallery/_pages/0094-0508-0902-0912.html   (158 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > 2006 Winter Olympics -- Slam dancing
Her Italian ice dancing partner, Maurizio Margaglio, was nowhere to be seen, though, leaving one to only speculate over his whereabouts.
There were five, maybe six seconds left in their program when he lost his balance and dropped her, then fell himself.
They got up, and Fusar Poli just stood there, staring at Margaglio five feet away, boring holes through him with her eyes like a power drill through drywall.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20060220-9999-lz1x20falls.html   (853 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | OTHER SPORTS | Italians claim first ice dance title
Fusar-Poli and Margaglio skated to Romeo and Juliet
Italy's Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio have captured their first European dance title.
Margaglio said, "In that moment you think of the years and years of practice, moments of joy, fights, your coaches, costumes, the judges, the public, everything.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/1139235.stm   (561 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Italians have day of reckoning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Coming off the most memorable non-medal performance to date of the Torino Games — a fall near the end of their original dance routine, followed by a melting, hands-on-hips stare-down by the 34-year-old Fusar Poli — the couple had to look and dance as if all were forgiven.
Fusar Poli and Margaglio moved up, but only one spot to a final sixth place.
The crowd was subdued until Fusar Poli and Margaglio finished, and then it erupted.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/torino/figureskating/2006-02-21-italians-ice-dancing_x.htm?csp=38   (240 words)

  
 Fusar-Poli & Margaglio comeback - Golden Skate Forums
According to Spotlight on Skating, Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio are planning to return to competion and try for the Turin Olympic games.
They lost out on the gold medal at SLC not because of their FS music (which I hated), but because Maurizio stumbled on footwork and fell.
The level of difficulty has escalated drastically since SLC, and I doubt that Maurizio will be able to improve his skating sufficiently after such a long absence from competition.
www.goldenskate.com /forum/showthread.php?t=9785   (619 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Italian ice dancers sizzle
Italians Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio brought some sizzle to figure skating's sleepiest event Friday night, delighting the home crowd with a triumphant return from retirement.
Italy's Barbara Fusar Poli and partner Maurizio Margaglio skated to lead Friday.
No one knew quite what to expect from the Italians, who retired after winning the bronze medal at the 2002 Olympics.
www.deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635185491,00.html   (848 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Italians tumble on ice, in standings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The daggers could have melted the center ice, the sequins on his fl costume and, perhaps, the nearby Alps.
The Italians had entered Sunday night's original dance in first place, but after a stumble near the end of their program, they tumbled to seventh place entering Monday night's decisive free dance.
Fusar Poli and Margaglio had retired from competition in 2002 after winning the bronze medal in the Salt Lake City Olympics but had made a comeback to compete in their country's Olympics.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/torino/figureskating/2006-02-19-ice-dancing_x.htm   (870 words)

  
 Winter Olympics - CBS SportsLine.com
But the silver medalists at last year's world championships were only 1.42 points out of first place, hardly insurmountable.
Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio have 38.78 points.
The original dance is Sunday night, and Belbin and Agosto's routine is a steamy mix of rhumba, salsa and cha cha that's sure to please.
cbs.sportsline.com /olympics/winter/story/9244255   (579 words)

  
 International Figure Skating Forum > Fusar Poli and Margaglio Take Early Lead
Torino, Italy -- Italians Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio have made the most of their comeback in the early going at the XX Winter Olympic Games.
They did not compete in any major international competition this season and have not skated under the new judging system.
Fusar Poli and Margaglio may be in the lead, but the margin between them and five other teams (including sixth-place finishers Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto) is negligible.
www.ifsmagazine.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t111.html   (701 words)

  
 Manuela Federella's Skating Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Barbara Fusar Poli & Maurizio Margaglio, Golden Waltz, at CPRM Trophy
Barbara Fusar Poli & Maurizio Margaglio, Rhumba, at CPRM Trophy
Barbara Fusar Poli & Maurizio Margaglio, Tango OD, at CPRM Trophy.
www.frogsonice.com /skateweb/pictures/manuela   (161 words)

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