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  AskMen.com - Tara Lipinski
Tara Lipinski shocked the figure skating world and became the darling of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics when she won gold on a magical February night in Japan.
The remarkable success that Lipinski experienced during her teenage years was out of a storybook, as was the cash that came along with all the royalties.
By the time she turned 20, Lipinski cashed in on more than $2 million worth of sponsorships and endorsements, made her way through the professional ranks on different tours (including Skate TV and Stars On Ice), and recovered from excruciating hip surgery to rebound and return to the professional skating tour.
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 Tara Lipinski Biography and Summary
Tara Lipinski stands four feet, ten inches tall, but no one can measure her heart.
Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), from Sugar Land, Texas, is an American figure skater and celebrity.
At the age of 15, she won the Olympic gold medal in figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and remains the...
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  All about tara lipinski
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  Corporate Speakers - Skater Tara Lipinski booking info for personal appearances
During the week, Tara receives daily four-hour tutoring and is proving to be as proficient at academics as she is at skating.
All of this came just one month after Tara secured her first national championship with the same seven-triple free program in Nashville, Tenn. It was in that event that she became the first woman to land a pair of triple loops in combination.
Tara had fought through pain and several incorrect diagnoses of her hip to compete and tour, (the hip was originally injured in 1997) and she was not about to let the repair stop her anymore than the injury itself did!
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 Tara Lipinski Bio - Tara Lipinski Biography - Tara Lipinski Stories
This move was detrimental to Tara's skating career, as the area lacked the training facilities she needed to continue to progress.
In 1993, Tara and her mother made the decision to split the family and return to Delaware, where Tara had previously commuted to take skating lessons while the Lipinskis were living in New Jersey.
Tara suffered a hip injury in practice in August 1998, two years later she underwent surgery to repair torn cartilage in her hip.
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 My little Tara Lipinski corner
Tara is a truly amazing young figure skater, actress, and wonderful person, who brought the beauty and entertainment of figure skating back to my life.
If you are wondering what I mean by that, and why Tara means so much to me, go here.
This site is small, but will constantly be growing, and will have other Tara sites added to my links page as I find them.
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 Tara Lipinski - Images and Biography
Despite her petite stature, Tara Lipinski is a giant on the ice.
The surprise of the late 1990's in figure skating, she crosses into the new millennium as a co-author, actress, and professional figure skater.
Lipinski began roller skating before switching over to ice skating at the age of six.
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 Tara Lipinski information - Search.com
Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) of Sugar Land, Texas is an accomplished figure skater and media celebrity.
Lipinski, who was 13 at the time, and other skaters who had already competed at the World Championships before the new age requirement was introduced were "grandfathered" into remaining eligible for future events.
Second, Lipinski's injury problems not only caused the technical level of her skating to deteriorate, but also caused friction with the producers and other skaters involved with the show who never knew from one day to the next whether she would be fit to skate.
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 Tara Lipinski: A Dynamo on Ice
Tara Kristen Lipinski was born in Philadelphia on June 10, 1982, and lived her early years in Sewell, N.J. At age 2, she stood on a Tupperware container during the 1984 Summer Olympics, listening as the national anthem played on television, wearing a pretend gold medal that her mother, Pat, had fashioned from a ribbon.
Lipinski began roller-skating at 3, and by 9, she had become a national age-group champion.
Lipinski has propelled the sport forward with the difficulty of her jumps, and this season she has improved significantly in the artistry of her skating.
www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/nagano/fig/022198oly-fig-lipinski.html   (673 words)

  
  Columns - The Enquirer - February 21, 1997
Tara Lipinski kisses her gold medal Friday after her dramatic upset victory in the Olympic women's figure skating in Nagano, Japan.
Lipinski has dreamed large since she was quite little, her eyes firmly fixed on the prize now in her possession.
Lipinski was placed first by six of the nine judges, while her teammate persuaded the other three.
enquirer.com /columns/sullivan/1998/02/022198w_ts.html   (792 words)

  
  Tara Lipinski, Women's figure skating
Lipinski required surgery to repair the damaged cartilage, a smooth, plastic-like tissue that absorbs shock and keeps the ends of bones from grinding together, helping joints move.
Lipinski often practices for 10 hours at a time, subjecting her hip to a lot of punishment as she spins, twists, and jumps.
Lipinski had hoped to defend her world professional title but was not yet up for that competition and had to withdraw.
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 Definition of Tara Lipinski
Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an accomplished figure skater and media celebrity.
Lipinski has made numerous television appearances (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Veronica's Closet, Early Edition, and 7th Heaven); she has also done some acting, including major TV movie roles (Ice Angel), a cameo appearance in the theatrical film, Vanilla Sky, as well as a role in the independent film, The Metro Chase.
Lipinski has lately decided to concentrate more on her acting than on her skating, due to an injury suffered in 2002 during a Stars on Ice show in St. Louis, when she got distracted from a spotlight and she fell on a triple toe, landing on her right hip.
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 Tara Lipinski at AllExperts
Lipinski first came to national prominence when she won the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival competition, which at the time was a junior-level competition.
Lipinski, who was 13 at the time, was grandfathered into remaining eligible for future events, along with other skaters who had already competed at the World Championships before the new age requirement was introduced.
Second, Lipinski's injuries not only caused the technical level of her skating to deteriorate, but also caused friction with the producers and other skaters involved with the show who never knew from one day to the next whether she would be fit to skate.
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 ESPN.com - SKATING - Tara Lipinski (US) wins 1997 women's world title
Tara Lipinski won the women's title at the World Figure Skating Championships today to become the youngest women's champion in history.
Lipinski needed every jump and every mark to hold off Kwan, who made a determined bid to hold on to the title that she won last year.
Lipinski, Kwan and Slutskaya each had three first place votes but Kwan had the best number of seconds to win the free skating worth two-third of the mark.
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 CM Magazine: Tara Lipinski. (Champion Sport Biographies).
But this task proves difficult due to Lipinski's relatively short skating career, her young age and her decision to turn pro at age fifteen.
The book, beginning with a fact sheet of career highlights from 1985-1999, is divided into six chapters, with topics ranging from Tara's birth and her early skating years to her quest for Olympic gold.
The author focuses on the sacrifices involved in Lipinski's path to the Olympics: her parents having to live apart so that Tara could be closer to her coach, Tara's early morning skating practice, and her lack of a "normal" teen life.
www.umanitoba.ca /cm/vol7/no4/taralipinski.html   (495 words)

  
 Tara Lipinski personal appearances, olympic gold medalists, representation, tara lipinski
Tara has a wealth of TV experience, including appearances on CBS' top-rated Touched by an Angel, and a recurring role on the most popular soap opera in the country, The Young and the Restless.
Tara's NBC-TV special, Tara Lipinski's Hip-Hop on Ice, aired in November 2001, along with the Arete Awards CBS-TV special, in which Tara was host and featured performer.
Tara was also a part of Target Teachers Make a Difference campaign, spotlighting the importance of teachers in children's lives.
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 Amazon.ca: Tara Lipinski: Triumph on Ice: Books: Tara Lipinski   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fifteen-year-old ice skater Tara Lipinski recounts her life story from her early years in Sewall, New Jersey, where she began roller-skating at the age of three, through her 1997 triumphs as both U.S. and world women's figure skating champion.
Tara Lipinski's autobiography is about her life and how she became a star.
Tara Lipinski not only told the interesting story of her life in this book, but it tell and explains a lot about figure skating.
www.amazon.ca /Tara-Lipinski-Triumph-Ice/dp/0553571362   (955 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Tara Lipinski: Triumph on Ice: The Official Autobiography of America's Olympic Gold Medalist: English Books: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fifteen-year-old ice skater Tara Lipinski recounts her life story from her early years in Sewall, New Jersey, where she began roller-skating at the age of three, through her 1997 triumphs as both U.S. and world women's figure skating champion.
Lipinski's busy schedule at the time this book was published, I doubt that she even penned one word.
Lipinski has always been very confident in herself and perhaps she is justified, given all that she has accomplished.
www.amazon.de /Tara-Lipinski-Official-Autobiography-Americas/dp/0553571362   (1239 words)

  
 Tara Lipinski Speaker - Book Motivational Celebrity Speaker Tara Lipinski and Other Corporate Entertainment
Tara Lipinski is the youngest Olympic, World and U.S. National Ladies Figure Skating Champion in history.
Tara surpassed Sonja Henie's long standing records when she won the World Championship at age 14 and skated to Olympic Gold in Nagano, Japan at age 15.
Tara is particularly proud of the recognition she received from her fans.
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 Actors - Tara Lipinski
Lipinski, who was 13 at the time, and other skaters who had already competed at the World Championships before the new age requirement was introduced were "grandfathered" into remaining eligible for future events.
Following her decision to turn professional, Lipinski was heavily criticised both for the decision itself and for the inept public relations skills of her agent and family.
In an August 2001 article in Blades on Ice magazine, Lipinski stated that the real reason she turned professional was that she had originally incurred the injury to her hip in the summer of 1997 and that she had skated the entire Olympic season in terrible pain.
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 Tara Lipinski - Trikiwiki
Tara Lipinski was born on June 10, 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as an only child to Jack and Patricia.
By the age of three she was roller skating and by the age of six she ice skated, three years later winning a National title.
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 The Texas Twenty: Tara Lipinski
But there was only one Tara Lipinski, and you knew after seeing her jump that she alone was destined for greatness.
In March, at age fourteen, Lipinski became the youngest world champion figure skater of all time, displaying the grace and maturity of someone much older as she landed seven triple jumps in the final round of the competition in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Lipinski grew up in New Jersey, where she began roller-skating at age three; by seven she was figure skating competitively.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/1997/sep/tex20/lipinski.php   (760 words)

  
 Winner … Without Drugs - Tara Lipinski Current Events - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tara definitely knows about the hard work it took for her to become a winner, "But every teen goes through a lot of difficult experiences," said Tara when we spoke with her recently.
Tara thinks acting is a lot of fun, but she worries about how movies and TV sometimes show characters drinking, smoking, or using drugs.
Tara Lipinski doesn't smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, or abuse drugs because she wants to stay healthy.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_12_99/ai_58243210   (839 words)

  
 Tara Lipinski   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tara's parents signed her up for ice-skating lessons, Tara was a little nervous.
Tara had skated a long time and she and her family decided that she would get the best coaching at the Detroit Skating Club in Detroit, Michigan.
When Tara got to the rink she was a little nervous but she soon got over it once she got on the ice.
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 Tara Lipinski
When Tara Lipinski descended the medal podium after winning the 1998 Winter Olympic ladies' figure skating gold, her life was forever changed.
Even though Lipinski didn't belong to a club as a youngster growing up in Sugar Land, Texas, she was touched by the organization's mission: to provide a safe haven after school and on weekends for kids to learn and grow.
Since aligning herself with the organization, Lipinski has shown the kind of dedication and energy you would expect from someone who trained most of her life to become, at 15, the youngest Winter Olympic individual champion in any sport.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /caring/tara_lipinski/profile   (654 words)

  
 Tara Lipinski: elegance on ice   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tara became the youngest champion ever at the 1997 Nationals and World Championships and again at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Tara's great spins and elegant choreography adds to her skating to make her so succcessful and well loved.
Tara Lipinski: elegance on ice is written and produced by Kathleen R., in cooperation with The Cutting Edge.
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 Tara Lipinski, Famous Figure Skater, Tara Lipinski
Lipinski began roller skating at the age of three.
Lipinski's first national appearance was in the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival competition, a junior-level competition.
Lipinski became the youngest Olympic medal winner at the age of 15 years and 255 days.
www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/great-olympians/skating/tara-lipinski.html   (504 words)

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