Boltar wrote to uk.transport.london on Thu, 20 Jan 2005:

"Billy Elliot" may be drivel, but I think your second comment is a
case
of giving a dog a bad name and hanging him. In the USA they say it
about figure skaters, too, and it's also not true.

Isn't it? Pull the other one. John Curry , real heterosexual guy he
was.
What was it he died of again? And as for that rambo of a man Robin
Cousins...

Yes, that's two. And I could name a great many more heterosexual ones,
including the current British men's champion who may yet become as
famous as Curry & Cousins were in their day. There are gay figure
skaters, just as there are gay clergy and gay ballet dancers, but not
all of them are, not even a majority. Rather the reverse....

I'm sure they have reasonable level fitness, but put them up against
real
athletes like boxers or pentathletes and I doubt they'd fare too well.

Yes, the boxers and pentathletes would fare very badly.

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