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Skating Championships' name was inspired by a literary masterpiece from 1895 entitled Figure and Fancy Skating by George A. Meagher. This timeless book of skating literature has profound knowledge of special figures, and it is considered to be culturally important
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of Russia won the event. Nikolai Panin held a gold medal in this special figures skating and was unbeaten through 1952 when the
Olympic Committee removed the event due to the fact this was considered too difficult to perform. One challenger of Nikolai Panin saw the complex geometric pattern he had
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While compulsory figures were standard patterns derived from the figure 8, the special figures were elaborate patterns of the skaters' own invention. These designs included rosettes, stars, crosses, and other elaborate curlicues. The building blocks for special figures included not only the
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