Why figure skating is not a sport

Vladimir Putin: It’s evident in entities as diverse as Vladimir Putin’s words and Johnny Weir ’s costumes. It’s in the reworking of mathematics so three (rotations) is somehow greater than four. It’s in the cakes of makeup slapped on the skaters because high cheek bones (not just high jumps) matter. Ugly people can win a sport. They’re at a disadvantage in figure skating. Just as they are in gymnastics, diving, beauty pageants, “American Idol” or anything else...