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  • Russian women "too strong and big" for figure skating (Russian men apparently just girly enough)

    02/17/2006 12:19:20 PM PST · by presidio9 · 85 replies · 2,264+ views
    Reuters ^ | 2/17/06
    Russia has a string of young male prospects ready to plunder future Olympic gold in figure skating but top coach Alexei Mishin says his countrywomen are fit only to work on the railways. "Russian women are not very good for figure skating," Mishin told Reuters on Friday. "They are good for building rail tracks in Siberia, for example. They are just too strong and big." Mishin, a former medal-winning figure skater whose top pupil Yevgeny Plushenko won gold in the men's figure skating on Thursday, said he has a new generation under his charge ready to take over when the...