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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
Come on - not even close to being a fair comparison. Ridiculous in fact, given the popularity of figure skating (personally I hate it, but it is probably the top winter sport).
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Not a fair comparison? How so? Yes figure skating is popular, but pairs was absolutely dominated by a country for 36 years...and now look at what is going on, the rest are catching up.
I mean in the Calgary games there were 14 teams in total...3 from russia and 3 from Canada. Compare that to today where it a much more widespread event across all nations....like hockey will be for the girls one day hopefully.