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  • Russian Ice Skaters Cause Outrage With Aborigine Costume

    01/23/2010 6:42:16 PM PST · by workerbee · 55 replies · 2,523+ views
    Fox ^ | 1/23/10
    Two of Russia's champion ice skaters have caused outrage after dressing as Aborigines for a competition. The couple, who are favored to win gold at next month's winter Olympics, wear skin-toned suits with red loin cloths, white body paint and eucalyptus leaves. But experts in Australia say Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin's movements and body decorations bear no resemblance to that of the Aborigines' 60,000 year old culture. "They have got the whole thing wrong," said Stephen Page, artistic director of the respected indigenous group, the Bangarra Dance Company. Page said the two and half minute routine's didgeridoo music sounded...