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The most unexpected photos of the skaters taken at the moment their struggle for medals. Figure skating is considered one of the most elegant olympic sports. It is, above all, filigree equipment, bright costumes of athletes and classically musical composition. In many ways, for this reason, competitions in Figure skating gather a record audience. Compare with her by probably only Olympic hockey tournament can be rated yes biathlon racing. In our hockey and biathlon, unfortunately, on The 2014 Games are out of luck. Russian hockey players, considered on a par with Canada and the USA favorites in the quarterfinals were defeated by the Finns with 1: 3 score. Biathletes, too, have not won a single gold medals. In figure skating, everything is much more rosy – gold in team competitions and the victory of Adeline Sotnikova in solitary skating in women. “Ytro” presents to your attention the most unexpected photos of skaters taken at the time of their struggle for medals. Alexey Bychenko, Israel
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Yang Han, China
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Nelly Zhiganshina and Alexander Gagey, Germany
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Evgeni Plushenko, Russia
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Jacob Godorozh, Ukraine
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Mao Assad, Japan
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Аделина Сотникова, Russia 
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Vadim ZLOBIN
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