You know what, fuck it. Figure skating is now my favorite sport. Unless there's another one that will let a competitor dress up in a silly costume and do all these silly jumps and wiggles and fall on purpose, IN THE OLYMPICS, there's no contest
As a former figure skater I feel obliged to point out how technically difficult that little Chaplin patter would be. See the kind of speed he's getting up to and then immediately moving into that "walk" - sometimes without even a brake manoeuvre. The momentum you build up when moving at speed has to get released somewhere so stopping like that is usually an easy way to topple over (not on purpose). In the true spirit of Chaplin he is making very hard and potentially dangerous things look easy.
For anyone who might've been searching for who the skater is, @jay42 found out ! The athlete is Petr Barna, from the 1992 Winter Olympics
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Important to note - if you see silly themed numbers like this in skating, it's usually the Gala/Exhibition skate after the competition! Medal winners get to do a special performance that's entirely up to them for the most part and isn't judged or graded. Some standouts are Javier Fernandez's 'super-Javi' 80s aerobics class, Evgenia Medvedeva's Sailor Moon performance, Evgeni Plushenko's Sex Bomb, and Julianne Séguin and Charlie Bilodeau's Shut Up and Dance (which incorporated several lifts that would be banned in formal competition).




















