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Skating through 100 years of Olympic success

Published: 28 October, 2008, 23:11


Nikolay Panin-Kolomenkin

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

 
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