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Article: Go Figure: Skating Lands on Thin Ice
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 14, 2002
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Nothing could make me happier this week than seeing figure skating
dogged by scandal. I can barely contain my glee as I type the words.
Normally, it depresses me to see figure skating take over the Winter
Games, as is almost always the case. It really isn't a winter
competition, you know; it's a grand celebration of figure skating,
which on occasion is interrupted on TV by a profile of a bobsledder.
So please excuse me if I'm over the moon because at this very moment
figure skating looks like a circus.
The concepts critical to understanding the latest news from the
figure skating venue in Salt Lake City have nothing to do with
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