Figure Skating
- World Figure Skating Championships held in Calgary, Canada
- Men's champion: Stéphane Lambiel
- Ladies' champion: Kimmie Meissner
- Pair skating champions: Pang Qing and Tong Jian
- Ice dancing champions: Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski
Read more about this topic: 2006 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or skating:
“I can see that figure now—pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)