Evgeni Plushenko is pretty good at figure skating. The Russian has won at least a silver medal in the past three Olympics and is a three-time World Champion. Plushenko is so decorated that his website even claims that he’s won a platinum medal at the Olympics.
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Male figure skating is occasionally ridiculous and often hilarious. From outfits to facial expressions to body positions, there’s a lot of material to work with here. Below, we’ve rounded up 19 images of male figure skaters from yesterday and captioned them. Feel free to express your hate for me in the comments. Enjoy!
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“I call this look: Speed Racer joins the navy.”
Kiira Korpi (more on her here) is a Finnish figure skater who hopes to make an impact at the Olympics. This past week, she’s been competing at the 2010 European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. Korpi was ranked second heading into the finals on Saturday but ended up finishing fourth overall.
Korpi performed her routines in a yellow dress, black dress, and an awesome stripper-cop outfit. Let’s hope that she makes it to the Olympics so we can see more of her. After the jump, we have 20+ pics from Kiira’s recent performances in Tallinn.
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Some people think the world may end in 2012. But Battle of the Blades has me convinced it might just happen before then. The Canadian reality competition show has become a “smash hit” and the first season ended Monday.
The winners were Jamie Sale and Craig Simpson who played in the NHL for 11 years with three teams. The duo of Sale and Simpson defeated the combination of Shae-Lynn Bourne and Claude “The Fraud” Lemieux. Apparently Simpson was the best skater by a wide margin and “wowed audiences and the judges with his figure skating skills.”
Battle of the Blades has averaged 1.7 million viewers per episode in Canada. The CBC notes that the show truly became a success when the hockey players ditched their skates for figure skates. There’s already speculation that there will be a second season.
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Kiira Korpi is a Finnish figure skater that most recently competed in the Nebelhorn Trophy competition in Germany. She skated to the song “Caravan” by Ikuko Kawai — which is one of my faves. Her father, Rauno Korpi, used to coach the Finnish women’s ice hockey team. If you can’t tell, there’s a lot to like about Kiira. She’s only 21, so maybe we’ll see more of her in the Olympics some day. We’ve got a collection of 66 more Kiira pictures after the jump.
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Katarina Witt is one of the hottest figure skaters of all time. She even posed for Playboy in 1998 — and the issue sold out. Witt also attempted an acting career appearing in Ronin and Pamela Anderson’s V.I.P.
Most recently, she appeared on the German talkshow called “Riverboat.” I’m not sure if it’s themed or something, but she seemed to be dressed as a beer wench. The host also seems to be the roided out German version of Ryan Seacrest.
Witt’s white and burgundy outfit also displayed her ample cleavage. She actually looks great considering she’s 43. The full gallery from her appearance on Riverboat is below.
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