Alexei Mishin
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"Alexei Nikolayevich Mishin" is a Russian figure skating coach and former Pair skating/pair skater. With partner Tamara Moskvina, he is the 1969 1969 World Figure Skating Championships/World silver medalist and Soviet Figure Skating Championships/Soviet national champion.

Mishin is based in Saint Petersburg at Yubileyny Sports Palace. His current and former students include Olympic champions Alexei Urmanov, Alexei Yagudin, and Evgeni Plushenko. Mishin also runs summer seminars. Among the skaters who have attended those are Stéphane Lambiel and Sarah Meier (figure skater)/Sarah Meier. He has authored several books on the biomechanics of figure skating.

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Russian women are not very good for figure skating. They are good for building rail tracks in Siberia, for example. They are just too strong and big.

We asked to live separately because the pair skaters will finish their competition on Monday and it will be very noisy because they'll celebrate. In Salt Lake City we stayed with them and it was very distracting.

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In Salt Lake City, we stayed with them on one floor. It was very distracting.