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Figure Skating is a sport which originally consisted in creating ‘figures' in the ice whilst ice skating. The first steel blades were introduced in 1850 by Edward Bushnell. Around the same time, ballet master Jackson Haines added ballet and dance movements to figure skating. These two developments created figure skating as we know it today: a combination of elegant choreography and jumps, spins, turns and lifts, all performed on ice.
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Figure skating was firstly introduced to the Winter Olympics in 1908. Since then, it has expanded to include 4 figure skating events: women's singles, men's singles, pairs and ice dancing.