Russian figure skater Ekaterina Rubleva, competing in the pairs competition at the European Championships in Helsinki, made ice skating infinitely better when she inadvertently exposed her breast during her performance (link NSFW).

Rubleva was being twirled around by her partner, Ivan Shefer, when her costume started to slip. The 23-year-old kept smiling, but with the next move requiring her partner to hold her hand above her head, the inevitable happened.

…He fixed the cable?

Her top fell down, exposing her breast – but, ever the professionals, the couple smiled at each other and danced on.

Wow, that guy really showed a lot of restraint, acting like nothing happened.  I’m sorry, what’s that?  He’s an ice skater?  What are you trying to say?  Hey mister, I’ll have you know that women LOVE male ice skaters.  Like that Brian Boitano — what power and grace!  I wonder why he’s still single?

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Molly Oberstar is a 20-year-old figure skater from Duluth who is vying for the national title at the U.S Figure Skating Championships.  She also happens to be attractive: she’s one of 12 finalists for Mpls. St. Paul Magazine’s “Real Model” contest.  And in a day when so many athletes never show us their true selves, Molly is refreshingly candid:

I have physical attributes that would qualify me to be a real model. I am 5-feet-8-inches tall with a slender build that is toned by fifteen years of competing in the sport of figure skating. My eyes are large, my lips full, my legs long. Many have told me that I should be a model. Some have even told me that I have an exotic, European look.

I can already hear the ugly people bitching about that.  That’s not her being full of herself, that’s fact.  Fact: she’s 5’8″.  Fact: her eyes are large.  Fact: her lips are full and her legs are long.  Fact: your pants are unzipped.

Listen, attractive people like Molly and me shouldn’t have to apologize for what God gave us, okay?  Do you think I enjoy this burden of having an electric smile and great hair and a huge penis?  Well, actually, I do.  But that doesn’t mean it’s not still a burden.

[Story: Randball; Images: flickr and pbase]

Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning ice dancer Pasha Grishuk was drugged with GHB, aka the "date rape drug" aka "how Long Island's population keeps growing."  Grishuk, however, alerted police before she was primed for love.

The two-time Olympic gold medal winner attended a business meeting at the swanky St. Regis in the OC on April 12. Grishuk ordered a glass of wine at the table, which she briefly left unattended. After taking a few more sips, Pasha noticed a half-dissolved pill at the bottom of her glass. By the time cops and paramedics arrived, Pasha was feeling numb and ill. They also found a second glass she had been drinking from in the lounge and it had residue from a pill as well.

Ugh, that's terrible.  She doesn't deserve that at all.  She deserves to be stalked and drugged by a real creep, not some amateur who doesn't even grind up his pills before slipping the mickey.  What a shame.

Some artsy weirdos made a musical about the 1994 saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan — just as timely and necessary as the Rent movie! — and Tonya attended the opening.  Yawn.

While the catchy musical had mixed reviews, the show won big props from skating hellcat Tonya Harding on opening night…

“And you know what? She was wonderful,” said [author Elizabeth] Searle. “We saw the best side of her. She was generous and funny and focused her attention on the show. People in the audience said she was laughing, and then at the end, she led the standing ovation.”

I did a musical homage similar to this once.  I went to a performance of Cats and attacked the actors with a baton.  I'm sorry, but I had to find out if they'd say, "Ow ow ow oooohhh ah that hurts!" or if they'd stay in character and howl in pain like a cat.  My findings: need more data.  I've got tickets to next Sunday's matinee.

[Sports by Brooks] 

I'd like to tear your attention away from the Stanley Cup Finals (and/or that issue of Juggs from 2004) to introduce you to Xtreme Ice Skating™.  Yes, it's really trademarked.  No, I don't know why, either. 

As you can see, it's not nearly as extreme as, say, actual figure skating, but it's set to music from Rad, so that counts for something — like it would probably pass for cool in 1986.  Of course, that was also a time when people willingly participated in Hands Across America and Bill Buckner could live safely in Boston, so maybe that's not a good thing.

I don't really see what the point is of me writing anything to go with these pictures. It's Sasha Cohen playing around on the ice with the uber-hotness that is Maria Menounos. And Sasha had her mic's battery pack tucked into her panties, and then Maria fell down and showed a little ass cleavage, then Sasha reached out to help her up, then Maria took Sasha's hand and pulled her down to the ice and they totally made out for, like, ten minutes. True story. I have no idea why the camera man stopped taking pictures of the last part.