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Article: U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS; No doubt, they are athletes; Figure it out, this is sport.(Sports)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 18, 2001
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The thing to remember about figure skaters is that these people are jocks - all of them.
OK, they wear unusual costumes. Like baseball players don't? World-class figure skaters, however, aren't devotees of a branch of the performing arts. They should be identified as athletes.
Her skills may be lovely to observe, but deep in her soul Michelle Kwan has more in common with a Big 12 linebacker than she does with Twyla Tharp.
Sport is a mindset, not a list of disciplines that fit somebody's idea of what mattered back in 1947. A brief listen to the three favorites in the men's competition at the U.S. Figure Skating championships yesterday put figure ...