Though the

college football season ends tonight and professional football has a few

games left, we are entering a doldrum season of professional sports. There

will be hockey and basketball to watch, but both sports fail to draw the

audience until their playoff season begins and by that time, baseball

season has started up again. It seeems that figure skating is the sport

that lies between the football season and the baseball season, and this

will be a big weekend for fans of figure skating.

The 2001 Champions

on Ice Tour returns to Phillips Arena in Atlanta this Sunday, bringing

former Olympic and World Champion skaters and their exciting performances

to the home of the Thrashers and Hawks.

This year's

tour includes U.S. women, Dorothy Hamill, Nicole Bobek and Nancy Kerrigan

and U.S. men Brian Boitano, Rudy Galindo and Dan Hollander. Hamill and

Boitano are both former Olympic and World Champions. Other skaters featured

on the tour are France's Surya Bonaly and Phillipe Candeloro, Ukranian

Victor Petrenko and Germany's Katarina Witt. Witt is a time two Olympic

Champion and four time World Champion.

There will

also be dance performances from Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow of

the U.S. and Maya Usova and Evgeny Platov of Russia. For the fans of Pairs

performances, Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev of Russia and Vladimir

Besedin and Alexei Polishchuk of the Ukraine will perform.

So, if you

and your family are fans of axels, camel spins, death spirals, lutz jumps,

spins, turns lifts and dutch rolls, head to the Champions on Ice Tour

at Phillips Arena this weekend. Tickets are available at any Ticketmaster

Outlet and at the Phillips Arena Box Office.

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