Comments on: Muscular Human Cannonballs https://www.isegoria.net/2016/08/muscular-human-cannonballs/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:43:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bill https://www.isegoria.net/2016/08/muscular-human-cannonballs/comment-page-1/#comment-2488511 Bill Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:19:24 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=40658#comment-2488511 Same thing holds for figure skaters, who are also getting shorter as the gymnastic requirements are getting more extreme. In the sixties and seventies, the dominant Russian women were always compared to ballerinas.

The exception is males in pair skating; the men have gotten bigger to lift women higher and throw them further. Singles male champions are mostly short; Scott Hamilton is maybe 5′ 3″.

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