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SCORCHING THE ICE

Just getting close to the rink is enough to send icy shivers down many a spine. Yet it doesn’t seem to bother the skaters in the least; what’s more, they enjoy it. They move through the white space with agility and mastery, spinning through the air as if Mother Nature never intended for them to walk the actual ground.

Figure skating is the oldest sport on the Olympic Winter Games program since the first Winter Olympics in 1924. It was previously contested, however, at the 1908

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