''Ice Diaries'' is a documentary TV series on the

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network that follows four up-and-coming

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through the 2005/2006 Olympic season as each tries to make the 2006 Olympic team. The four skaters are Beatrisa "Bebe" Liang,

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, and Sandra Rucker. Rucker did not make it out of Regionals, the first step for qualifying for the

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. Kahle won both her Regionals and Sectionals and placed twelfth at Nationals. Czisny placed second at

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and won

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, but finish in last place at the

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and had two bad skates at Nationals and finished seventh. Liang came in fourth at

and finished fifth at Nationals, the highest placement of the four skaters. After Rucker's season ended before the series did, the show profiled

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and her decision to quit competitive skating the year before an Olympic year. None of the profiled skaters made the Olympic team. Created by co-executive producer Scott Williams and Dan Marinelli, ''Ice Diaries'' was produced by

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in association with Turtle Island Productions.

Factual errors

* The series repeatedly refers to Rucker as the defending champion. This is not the case. Rucker was the 2005 Champion on the ''junior'' level. Had she been the defending senior champion, she would not have had to qualify for the championships. * The series also glosses over competitions that were not on the

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or national qualifying competitions. Liang, for example, began her season at the

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, not

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Factual errors

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