stackyFACTSThere was absolutely no jumping, spinning, or dramatic musical flair. The sport literally involved a highly slow, intensely boring process of scraping incredibly precise, agonizingly perfect figure-eight patterns into the ice while judges scrutinized every centimeter for absolute, mind-numbing geometric perfection.
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