1.   Characters are stylish and hip, sparks shoot out from their skates, and if you get up enough speed, the skater becomes a blur.

2.   It is also a discipline in which female skaters become more difficult to lift and throw as they grow taller and gain weight.

3.   The injury is certain to renew debate about whether skaters have become too reliant on jumping in their performances.

4.   And every skater has become the beneficiary, in a perverse way, of the attack.