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"It's a major, major risk, and a lot of skaters think it's not worth the risk to possibly lose a sizable amount of points," said Adam Leib, a coach and a national technical specialist in singles and pairs for U.S. Figure Skating.
As a skateboarder myself, I was keen to find out how other skaters think the Olympics will affect skating's image: who will profit, who will lose, and whether skaters will manage to pass the compulsory drug tests.
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At least once during the ice skating events I see a skater, think "Wow, she's cute" and then realize she's like 10. Lindsey has a sore shin, by the way.
It was probably a combination of the board graphics being so short-lived and also because, for most skaters, I think the way they find to best express themselves is through their skating – not visual art.
Watch out for those skaters that think they're good when they're really not.
Remember that some boys might just not like skaters or think you're a weird emo, so be prepared to stray from the beaten trail.
Make sure you suck up to the local skaters who think they are better than you so they don't hassle you when you screw up on a trick.
When younger girls see a gymnast or an ice skater, they think it's a fantasy: 'I can't do that after I'm 22.' I think this will show them that you can be a scholar, too".
"You watch these skaters and you think you can do it too," said Christina Gao, who trains with Kim in Toronto and idolizes Kwan, who won five world championships and two Olympic medals.
Skaters love to think of themselves as an open-minded and experimental group of outsiders, but it's no secret that the skate industry is still a big boys club, made up mostly of a bunch of guys from working-class homes with relatively little formal education and even less exposure to culture outside of skating.
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