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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, and hockey is a lifetime sport, rec leagues, etc. Figure skating is...not.[/quote]
You are loud wrong about that.  If you feel like a road trip, the 2026 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships, sanctioned by US Figure Skating, is next week in Duluth, Georgia.  Every year at Adult Nationals, the youngest skater presents the oldest skater with the Yvonne M. Dowlen Trophy.  Last year, 21-year-old Maggie Altmann had the honors in presenting Connie Curry with the Trophy.  Connie was 86 years old.  In 2025, twenty-four women and two men skated in Class V technical events.  As they proudly state, Class V is for skaters aged 66 'til death.

Oh, wait, there's more.  The International Skating Union sponsors an annual event for adult skaters in Oberstdorf, Germany.  Last year, Jana Pribylova from the Czech Republic was the oldest skater in the competition, taking silver in Silver Ladies V.  Jana's daughter, also named Jana, greeted her mother in the Kiss and Cry after the elder Jana's skate.  (For her part, the younger Jana won her event, Masters Elite Ladies IV, the highest technical level.)

And those are the singles skaters.  If the ages of both partners equal at least 100, they can skate in dance and pairs Centennial events at Adult Nationals.  And how many sports can you compete against your children for a national championship?  In 2015, Tim Bookwalter and Barbara Walker won a national pewter (4th) medal in Championship Adult Dance, two places behind Tim's son, Erich Bookwalter, and Melissa Patsalides' silver medal winning performance.

Many adults don't compete, but they grow their skills in pursuit of passing aptitude tests in free skating, Moves in the Field (I refuse to recognize the silly new name), dance, and even school figures.  Adults who pass the gold level tests earn the same gold medalist status and jackets as the kids.

If that ain't lifetime, I'm not sure what is.  Adults Skate Too.

[url]https://usfigureskating.org/sports/2025/11/3/2026-us-adult-figure-skating-championships-presented-by-prevagen.aspx[/url]
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