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Can the good old days of figure skating return?

By Jay Weiner
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, January 24, 2008

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- For the past four decades, Tom Collins has been the most influential entrepreneur in the figure skating business, with his Champions on Ice tour of Olympic stars zigzagging the nation. He has been the most generous promoter to his skater-employees, too, some of them making $15,000 a night in the halcyon days of the mid-1990s. But this week, Collins' suburban Minneapolis office was quiet. Too quiet. Collins, a fast-talking, youthful septuagenarian, was talking about closi ...

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