Ilhan Mansiz competed once for Turkey as a footballer but now after winning the Turkish version of Stars On Ice he has been bitten by the skating bug. Now him and his partner Oli Bestandigova hopes to make it to Sochi 2014. Good luck to both.
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-09-24/fo...ic-skater.html
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09-25-2010, 03:22 AM #1
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footballer turns figure skater and eyes 2014 olys
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Well good luck to him I say. I doubt he will make it but stranger things have happened. If he does get to Sochi what a wonderful media storm it will make, in the very best way of course.
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Fun story! Will make for great fluff pieces.
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I at least had an excuse of the topic being buried deep down the GSD but it's front page there at the moment, you know.
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Interesting. This beats the story of a hockey player becoming a pairs skater (Cutting Edge and the real life story of Natalia Mishkutionok & her first husband skating as a pro pair). At least hockey players are used to skating on the ice for long periods. I assume that by 'footballer' they mean a soccer player. That's such a different surface! I assume he knew ice skating as a hobby or something. I can't imagine someone starting ice skating at age 33 and then aiming for the Olympics in just 4 years (or something like that). If this pair makes it to the Olympics in Sochi, it's going to generate a lot of fluff pieces, and interesting ones.
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09-25-2010, 08:12 AM #6Not in McDonald's
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Well, at least Buzz has got it right and called him a footballer.
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I at least had an excuse of the topic being buried deep down the GSD but it's front page there at the moment, you know.
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09-25-2010, 09:35 AM #7drinky typo pbp, closet hugger
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There is already a thread on this in GSD
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