Figure Skating Fashion Through The Years : The Picture Show : NPR
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Figure skating costumes have long been the source of both admiration and ridicule. Here's a retrospective view of those fashion frills through the years.
Figure skating costumes have long been the source of both admiration and ridicule. Here's a retrospective view of those fashion frills through the years.
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Figure Skating Fashion Through The Years : The Picture Show : NPR
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Rural teen skaters excel in a sport not made for mid-Missouri - a place with only one rink
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Absences loom large with Russians out of world championships
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Russian skater Kamila Valieva, 15, becomes 1st woman to land a quad at Olympics : NPR
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Figure skaters aim to push their sport to limit : NPR
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Olympic Figure Skating Dresses Through the Years
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Crazy' And 'Surreal': Figure Skater Jason Brown's Road To Sochi
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How a '70s Photo Foreshadowed a World-Class Figure Skater's Future - The New York Times
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