Rare photos of skaters in childhood

tatiana Volosozhar (left) -

https://instagram.com/p/s7wVLMgYIX/?taken-by=aknigens

rare video (6 years old) -

https://instagram.com/p/vQMbpNOVTz/

Mao Asada looks the same as now. :yes:

So adorable, all of them! :yes:
Adian, Kovtun, Scott, Anna P. seem like they haven't changed at all
The photos of Radionova or Nikita are obviously not from early childhood, that's why they are recognizable...

Someone wrote in VK that Ruslan's face is like "will you leave me in peace, at last, and take away this stuffed dog, too"

Sam-Skwantch said:

OMG....of all the ones available of Yulia they chose that one


Why not:

https://pp.vk.me/c623630/v623630008/27370/JI2UKxKh8cs.jpg

Or

https://pp.vk.me/c623630/v623630008/27382/nFws6cvmlr4.jpg

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The stuffed bunny photo is too cute!!!

Some more posts with cute baby photos
In each of them there are ten baby photos - and then there are photos of these very skaters as grown-ups (in the same order):

http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/theice/674458.html
http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/theice/674839.html
http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/theice/675373.html

(some of the photos didn't open, though...)

borzaya said:

Some more posts with cute baby photos
In each of them there are ten baby photos - and then there are photos of these very skaters as grown-ups (in the same order):

http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/theice/674458.html
http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/theice/674839.html
http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/theice/675373.html

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Oh, I love this exercise!

Have to admit, I didn't know most of them from the childhood pictures. (And didn't know a lot of them from the adult pictures either! : )

You can probably guess that I got


And some of the others were blindingly obvious, as they haven't changed at all!


Strangely, with the latter name I mentioned, she looks more like she did when she was a child now than she did when she was competing! (Here is a video I found about a year ago of her skating).

But there were a couple of funny moments when I was convinced that a picture was of somebody, and it not only turned out to be somebody different, but the person I thought it was appeared later on the same page!

For example, I was convinced that one photo was of


It's just a pity that the actual childhood photo of the person I thought it was is one of the photos that isn't coming up!

And I was convinced that another photo was of


When looking at the "before" photo again after finding out the answer I concede that, yes, it does look like the skater it was. The same cannot be said of the "now" photo, which looks nothing like her! Put it like this, I had to do a Google Image Search on it to find out who it was!!!

Another piece of advice. Go with your gut. With one photo, my first thought was:


And then I looked a bit longer, and thought:


It turned out to be the first skater I said!

borzaya said:

(some of the photos didn't open, though...)

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Unfortunately, neither picture for number 9 on the third page is coming up. Sorry Yuzu fans!

But, in case you're wondering who number 9 on the first page is (the adult picture isn't coming up), it is:


This is so much fun. Keep them coming in!

CaroLiza_fan

Adorable!!!! Thanks for posting, Elena Radionova is sooooo adorable!!!!

"Evan Bates and "her" mother"...

"Lena Ilyin with his girlfriend"...

Sad to say, both Google translate and bing translate are rather random with respect to Russian pronouns.

Mini-Shibutanis (2004) and others are seen in an album of on-ice photos from 2003-2008 Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships.
I always love Maia, but Alex definitely steals the show in this photo .


Again, this photo album is limited to North American ice dancers on ice at Lake Placid.

Pint Size Mariah Bell!!

https://mobile.twitter.com/MariahSk8rBell/status/520759862608031744/photo/1

lyverbird1 said:

Adorable!!!! Thanks for posting, Elena Radionova is sooooo adorable!!!!

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Ok, those photos were so not baby photos...Here are some ACTUAL baby photos!

http://41.media.tumblr.com/84d88d6e17b0e69af6ae3714aca8f505/tumblr_nhrk78SuTL1s6o74eo2_250.png
https://instagram.com/p/lu5TNpwYdx/
(Yep, she's always had those crazy long eyelashes.)

When she was 6 years old:
https://instagram.com/p/lIOFRlwYeK/

Not sure when this is from, but cute photo of Adelina & Lena as kids:
https://instagram.com/p/cwmHIcQYfx/

Mao became a pretty girl
http://s2.postimg.org/3mkov9b9l/11225734_847082938718979_1407337233783080684_n_j.jpg
http://s8.postimg.org/eel8ge279/11538032_847082945385645_6473239601769626036_n_j.jpg

With generous hips
http://s15.postimg.org/fh5iszaij/mao.jpg