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Originally Posted by transplant99
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.
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Again, figure skating was always competitive, even if the Leninists always won. They were doing the same jumps, moves, etc. It's not like the Soviets were doing quads while the rest were skating on double blades.
And, again, you can say figure skating is/was the flagship sport of the Winter Games. Women's Hockey not so much...