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Ice dancing costumes a sports oddity

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Monday, February 20, 2006

TORINO, Italy -- Here's a frightening picture: Imagine if they sold figure skating replica uniforms. "Hey dude, where did you get that wicked Brian Boitano 1988 Olympics costume? "This old thing? You should see my '92 Viktor Petrenko." "I'm thinking of buying an '84 Scott Hamilton, but I don't think my wife will let me." It's a strange thing. All the other athletes at the Olympics compete in uniforms that bear the emblem of their nations. But not figure skating. They wear sequins and rhine ...

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