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Nikolay Panin-Kolomenkin 28.10.2008, 23:11

Skating through 100 years of Olympic success

It is 100 years since Russia won its first ever Olympic gold medal. On October 29, 1908, a young man named Nikolay Panin-Kolomenkin triumphed in the figure skating competition at the London Olympics. It was a performance that was to change the course of i

Japanese ice skater lives the dream in Russia

Published: 20 November, 2007, 16:58


Aleksandr Smirnov and Yuko Kawaguti (photo from www.firstsportukraine.com)

“I am sixteen years old. I want to be like Elena Berezhnaya. I want to be your student.” This is part of a letter sent in 1998 by a Japanese girl to Russia's top figure skating coach. It was to be the start of something big, the start of a car

 
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