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Pierre Brunet
French figure skater
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Christopher Dean
English figure skater
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Jayne Torvill
English figure skater
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Oleg Protopopov
Russian figure skater
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Andrée Brunet
French figure skater
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Tessa Virtue
Canadian ice dancer
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Lyudmila Belousova
Russian figure skater
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Yekaterina Gordeeva
Russian figure skater
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Viktor Petrenko
Ukrainian figure skater
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Nathan Chen
American figure skater
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Kurt Browning
Canadian figure skater
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Toller Cranston
Canadian figure skater and artist
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Scott Moir
Canadian ice dancer
“Raspberry twist”
Ilia Malinin
American figure skater
She's Tonya
Tonya Harding
American figure skater
Plushchenko, Yevgeny
Yevgeny Plushchenko
Russian figure skater
Hanyu Yuzuru
Hanyu Yuzuru
Japanese figure skater
Slutskaya, Irina
Irina Slutskaya
Russian figure skater
Chan, Patrick
Patrick Chan
Canadian figure skater
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Brian Boitano
American figure skater

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Assorted sports balls including a basketball, football, soccer ball, tennis ball, baseball and others.
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Cricket bat and ball. cricket sport of cricket.Homepage blog 2011, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics
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Finnish skater Juulia Turkkila during the Ladies' singles at the World Figure Skating Championships, Megasport Arena on April 30, 2011 in Moscow, Russia. (ice skating, sports)
Figure Skating Quiz
Former U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program bobsledder Steven Holcomb, front, is greeted at the finish line after teaming with Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curtis Tomasevicz to win the first Olympic bobsleigh gold medal in 62 years for Team USA ,(cont)
The Olympic Games