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  Rena Inoue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rena Inoue (井上怜奈 Inoue Rena born October 17, 1976 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan) is an American figure skater.
Inoue and her partner John Baldwin were the first pair to successfully perform a throw triple Axel in competition at the 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and then made Olympic history landing it again at the 2006 Winter Games.
Inoue was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rena_Inoue   (213 words)

  
 Lee Marshall Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Rena (pronounced “Renna” and Inoue is pronounced “in-KNOW-we”) is a two-time Olympian for Japan in singles and pairs.
The figure skating took hold and by the age of 15 Rena was skating in her first Olympics for Japan in 1992.
John knew that Rena was unique in that she was the only skater with the strong jumps and prior experience necessary in order for the pair to develop into a competitive team.
www.leemarshallmanagement.com /baldwin.shtml   (611 words)

  
 Inoue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inoue (井上 "above the well") is the 17th most common Japanese surname.
Shigeyoshi Inoue (Naval officer, Vice-Minister of the Navy)
Inoue grappling, a form of mixed martial arts developed by Egan Inoue
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inoue   (128 words)

  
 Inoue & Baldwin
Rena Inoue and John Baldwin attended a state dinner at the White House on Thursday night to honor Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Rena, a native of Nishinomiya, Japan was invited with John to greet Koizumi on his final trip to the U.S. as his country’s prime minister.
Doctors diagnosed Inoue with lung cancer in the fall of 1998 after she went in for what she thought was a case of pneumonia.
www.inoueandbaldwin.com /news.shtml   (3983 words)

  
 Rena Inoue Press Releases
U.S. pair figure skating champions Rena Inoue, 29, and partner John Baldwin, 32, did their country proud at the Turin Olympics in February, completing an unprecedented throw triple-Axel for a seventh place...
Rena Inoue is a United States citizen today primarily because she stands 4-11 and weighs 93 pounds.
The magic was missing for Rena Inoue and John Baldwin and so was their chance for an Olympics pairs medal.
www.topix.net /skating/rena-inoue/pr   (1511 words)

  
 ABC News: Skater Inoue Reveals Bout With Lung Cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A year and a half after her father died of lung cancer, Inoue was diagnosed in 1998 with the same disease.
Inoue is now 29, a two-time U.S. pairs champion with partner John Baldwin and is skating in her third Olympics.
Inoue revealed her cancer episode this week at the Turin Olympics, where she and Baldwin are considered outsiders for a medal.
www.abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=1599445   (419 words)

  
 asahi.com:Skater Rena Inoue fought lung cancer battle alone, in her father's memory - ENGLISH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1996, Inoue moved to the United States to train, at the urging of her father, who was undergoing treatment for lung cancer.
Inoue had been living with a skating family in the States, spending all her time at the rink.
Inoue was a petite 149 centimeters tall, and Baldwin stood 175 cm, not particularly tall.
www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200605030096.html   (1305 words)

  
 Ice dancers Belbin and Agosto win gold - Boston.com
Rena Inoue and John Baldwin have gold medals, and they haven't even left for Turin.
Inoue and Baldwin won the pairs title at Four Continents on Thursday, their final tuenup before the Turin Olympics.
Inoue and Baldwin made history in winning their second national title earlier this month, becoming the first couple in the world to land the throw triple axel, the difficult 3 1/2-revolution jump.
www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2006/01/27/ice_dancers_belbin_and_agosto_win_gold   (787 words)

  
 Rena Inoue and John Baldwin
Inoue is a big Snoopy fan and has lots of Snoopy stuff.
Rena will be eligible for citizenship by then so hopefully the opportunity will be there for us." "Afterwards we'd like to move on to do tours for a few years," adds Inoue.
For a career though, Inoue, who has put her medical school on hold, plans to be a pediatrician.
www.goldenskate.com /articles/2002/041203.shtml   (1081 words)

  
 NBCOlympics.com - Pairs - Pairs skater reveals bout with lung cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Inoue revealed her cancer episode this week at the Torino Olympics, where she and Baldwin are considered outsiders for a medal.
Inoue requires only one visit to the doctor per year, and she hardly ever talks about it.
Rena Inoue speaks about progress with the throw triple Axel prior to executing it with John Baldwin at Nationals.
www.nbcolympics.com /figureskating_pairs/5095556/detail.html   (746 words)

  
 Inoue and Baldwin put new spin on pairs title win - Boston.com
Rena Inoue and John Baldwin landed the first throw triple axel seen in competition on their way to capturing the U.S. pairs title and trip to next month's Turin Olympics on Friday.
ST LOUIS (Reuters) - Rena Inoue and John Baldwin landed the first throw triple axel seen in competition on their way to capturing the U.S. pairs title and trip to next month's Turin Olympics on Friday.
"Rena and I knew what we had to do tonight and we knew it wasn't going to be easy and we knew we were going to have to pull off the best performance of our lives," Baldwin told reporters.
www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/articles/2006/01/14/inoue_and_baldwin_put_new_spin_on_pairs_title_win?mode=PF   (482 words)

  
 NBCOlympics.com - Athletes - Rena Inoue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Inoue and Baldwin slipped to second (behind Katie Orscher and Garrett Lucash) at the 2005 Nationals, but were the top American pair at the 2005 World Championships in Moscow, where they finished 11th.
Inoue and Baldwin became the first pair to successfully perform the throw triple Axel in competition when they landed it midway through their free skate at the 2006 Nationals.
Inoue is a two-time Olympian for Japan, having competed at the 1992 Albertville Games (as a 15-year-old) in singles and pairs and at the 1994 Lillehammer Games in singles.
www.nbcolympics.com /athletes/5074225/detail.html   (587 words)

  
 Olympian effort: SM skaters make history in Torino
Rena Inoue’s enthusiasm lit up the arena and John Baldwin’s fist cut through the air soon after the couple had landed the first throw triple axel in figure skating.
Inoue, who recently revealed having battled lung cancer in 1998 when she was 22, had represented Japan in both singles and pairs in two other Olympics.
Inoue and Baldwin slipped to second at the 2005 Nationals, but were the top American pair at the 2005 World Championships in Moscow, where they placed 11th.
www.smdp.com /article/articles/392/1/Olympian-effort:-SM-skaters-make-history-in-Torino   (438 words)

  
 cbs2.com - Local Olympian: Rena Inoue
Inoue, 25, was sworn in as an American citizen in 2005, but not before skating in the Olympics twice for Japan in singles and pairs.
Inoue isn't only a jock -- she received a degree from Tokyo’s Waseda University in 1999 and, after figure skating, she would like to pursue a medical degree in the hopes of being a pediatrician -- perhaps to tell kids with asthma that they, too, can beat it.
Rena Inoue is an Olympic veteran, but the 2006 Winter Olympic Games at Torino, Italy will be her first representing the US.
cbs2.com /local/local_story_035231210.html   (277 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Baldwin, Inoue make history
Baldwin and Inoue became the first pairs team in skating history to land the elusive throw triple axel in competition, and Baldwin, who is 32 years old and has been on skates for 31 of them, finally made an Olympic team after decades of wrenching disappointments.
His life changed in 2000, when his parents convinced him to try pairs with Inoue, who had skated for Japan in the 1992 and '94 Olympics and was living in Southern California, and convinced Inoue to try pairs with their wayward son.
Baldwin and Inoue had their share of failure but got tantalizingly close last fall at the Grand Prix event in Paris, where Inoue stayed on her feet but touched her hand down.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20060114-9999-1s14skating.html   (843 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- At last, gold for Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Inoue is still a Japanese citizen, but at the worlds only one member of a pairs or dance team is required to have citizenship from the country they are representing.
Inoue and Baldwin had the makings of a beautiful program if he could have eliminated his mistakes.
On their throw triple salchow, Baldwin didn't appear to throw Inoue with enough force for her to get the proper height, and she hit the ice with a hard thud, skidding on her belly.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20040110-9999-skating.html   (696 words)

  
 Springs in step Gazette, The (Colorado Springs) - Find Articles
Inoue and Baldwin won the gold medal in the pairs competition Thursday at the Four Continents Ice Skating Championships at the World Arena.
Inoue and Baldwin, who live in Santa Monica, Calif., won the pairs at nationals earlier this month on the heels of an historic throw triple axel.
Inoue and Baldwin didn't land the throw triple axel Thursday, but their program was technical enough and sound enough to give them a two-day total of 168.89 points, 11.96 ahead of Utako Wakamatsu and Jeantien Fecteau.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20060127/ai_n16038866   (608 words)

  
 Inoue-Baldwin take gold in pairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Baldwin lifts his partner Rena Inoue in their routine in the pairs free skate program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships last night in St. Louis.
Inoue is a two-time Olympian for Japan in pairs and singles but has since gotten her U.S. citizenship.
He and Inoue, 29, thought about adding the throw triple axel last year, but held off because of bumps and bruises in practice.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06014/637947.stm   (536 words)

  
 U.S. Figure Skating Bio for Rena Inoue & John Baldwin
Inoue is a three-time Olympian; in her first two Olympic Winter Games she competed for Japan in singles and pairs...
In 1996, Inoue moved to the United States to train at the urging of her father, who was undergoing treatment for lung cancer caused by second-hand smoke...
In November 1998, at 19, Rena too was diagnosed with lung cancer: a malignant 1-centimeter tumor; she underwent outpatient treatment and chemotherapy at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles...
www.usfsa.org /AthletePairBio.asp?id=18340   (1034 words)

  
 ABC News: Inoue-Baldwin Earn Olympic Skating Berth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Rena Inoue, right, completes a throw triple axel with her partner, twenty-year skating veteran John Baldwin, during their performance in the pairs free skate program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis, Friday, Jan. 13, 2006.
Rena Inoue and John Baldwin don't care they're going to the Olympics, armed with a throw triple axel no other American couple has done.
Inoue, a two-time Olympian in singles and pairs for Japan, and Baldwin started slowly.
abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=1504464   (410 words)

  
 Inoue & Baldwin Win U.S. Pairs Crown - International Figure Skating Forum
Inoue and Baldwin finished with a dominating lead and a total score of 181.05, while Hinzmann and Parchem earned 166.32 points.
Inoue and Baldwin became the first pair in history to land a throw triple Axel in competition.
Inoue is a two-time Olympian, competing for Japan in both singles (1992, 1994) and pairs (1992).
www.ifsmagazine.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=56   (696 words)

  
 Figure Skating/Rena Inoue will be sworn in as a U.S. citizen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Inoue, a former Olympian for Japan, has trained with partner John Baldwin in the United States since 2001.
Inoue and Baldwin won the 2004 State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships and are three-time U.S. World Team members.
Inoue’s citizenship will make her and Baldwin eligible to compete in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, for the United States.
www.womensportreport.com /figureskating2.htm   (249 words)

  
 ESPN.com: OLY - Inoue-Baldwin win ugly for U.S. pairs title
"The way we performed tonight, we definitely do not deserve to be on the world team," Inoue said before she knew the final results.
Inoue and Baldwin have the makings of a beautiful program if he could just keep himself upright.
They had two triple toe loop jumps in their program, one in combination, and Baldwin has been doing those with his eyes closed for about 20 years now.
espn.go.com /oly/news/2004/0109/1704638.html   (783 words)

  
 Americans land first Olympic triple axel
This was the second time Inoue and Baldwin have landed what's now their signature move.
Inoue and Baldwin had a technical score of 35.53 points and earned 25.74 for program components.
The free program is Monday, and Inoue and Baldwin intend to have the throw triple axel in their program again.
www.happynews.com /news/2112006/Americans-land-first-Olympic-triple-axel.htm   (682 words)

  
 Scholastic News: Winter Olympics
Rena Inoue completes a throw triple axel with her partner John Baldwin of the United States during the pairs short program at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy on February 11, 2006.
Rena Inoue and John Baldwin landed the first throw triple axel in international skating.
His partner, Inoue, 29, made her third Olympic team, but this will be her first time representing the U.S. Inoue, is a native of Japan, she recently became a U.S. citizen.
teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/indepth/winterolympics/sports/index.asp?article=figureskating   (1183 words)

  
 U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS / Pair seals U.S. title with a kiss, and a triple Axel
Inoue and Baldwin made history Friday night at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships when they became the first pair, American or otherwise, to land a throw triple Axel in competition.
Inoue, 29, made her third but this will be her first time representing the United States.
Baldwin said he and Inoue began working on the throw triple Axel last year but decided not to try it in competition because "we took a few hard falls." That's "we" as in Inoue, the one being thrown across the ice.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/14/SPGE9GNG3J1.DTL   (700 words)

  
 Pairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Rena Inoue and John Baldwin built on their success in the US nationals to take the lead by 3.71 with a polished performance to Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor, although it wasn’t perfect.
Inoue said it was only after a couple of years that they began to look like a pair and not like two singles skaters doing identical moves.
Inoue and Baldwin failed to repeat their national feat of landing a throw triple Axel.
www.iceskatingintnl.com /current/content/4c06p.htm   (3243 words)

  
 Absolute Skating
Q: Here in practice in Paris I have seen Rena landing the triple axel a couple of times and your father told me that you hit the triple lutz all the time in practice….
Baldwin: I kind of direct the pair when Rena and I skate but when it comes to the psychology and what you think about going into each element, it’s good to have something in your head to distract any negative thoughts which are going on.
Baldwin: All I can say is, I respect Rena as the person and the skater she is. So if you are asking me about idols: I look up to her, I like how strong she is in competition and how focused and the way she deals with things.
www.absoluteskating.com /interviews/2006inouebaldwin.html   (1077 words)

  
 Triple axel earns U.S. duo Olympic bid - Figure skating - MSNBC.com
Inoue, Baldwin land difficult move during free skate to jump from 4th to 1st
Amy Sancetta / AP John Baldwin hugs his skating partner Rena Inoue after their routine in the pairs free skate program.
Baldwin and Inoue finished first at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in the pairs competition to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team going to Turin.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10842736   (878 words)

  
 U.S. pair lands first Olympic 'throw triple axel' - Figure skating - MSNBC.com
Rena Inoue and John Baldwin completed the 'throw triple-axel,' a 3.5 revolution maneuver not attempted by any other pair.
When Inoue stuck her landing, the crowd roared and Baldwin screamed and pumped his fist.
No other pair tried the move, and it gave Inoue and Baldwin the second-highest technical score of the night.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11292418   (681 words)

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