Merry Christmas!

This is my favorite skating-related Christmas video of all time.

As a rather belated celebration of Christmas in Russia (January 7, for all you heathens using that new-fangled Gregorian calendar), consider this post a small fête for all things Russian and figure skating! Plus comments on the most recent Russian Nationals after the jump.


The sheer Wagnerian heft of Alexei Yagudin's Gladiator makes 99.9% of all other programs look like skimpy little things in comparison.


I expect to be confined to a wheelchair chain-smoking cigarettes when I'm in my fifties, but the Protopopovs show how it should be done.


I think I fell in love with Anjelika Krylova after watching this FD.