Figure skating is like the decathlon of Winter Olympic sports, but packed into less than five minutes. The sport might look pretty in its pageantry of gauzy costumes, lyrical music and smiling skaters, but beneath the carefully fabricated facade, muscles are screaming and lungs are exploding. Read more: Opinion | Rosie Dimanno: Olympics will be the final farewell tour for Canadian figure skating elite “Best way to describe it is skating is the complete opposite of how it looks,” world silver medallist Kaetlyn Osmond said. Figure skating is second only to cross-country skiing in the amount of calories burned in Winter Olympic sports. Some of Canada’s national pairs figure skaters say the triple twist lift is the most complicated element in the sport.

Source: thestar February 07, 2018 05:03 UTC