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Miki Ando, gold medal winner, wearing Tania Bass ice skating costume Miki Ando, gold medal winner, wearing Tania Bass ice skating costume

Miki Ando

Miki Ando of Japan wore this Tania Bass costume in her gold medal-winning performance in Women's Free Skating at the World Figure Skating Championships.

Ando, 19, skated last and gave an impeccable performance to win the gold medal.

Spokane, WA
March 24, 2007.



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Miki Ando with coach, Nikolai MozarovMiki Ando cries as she won the women's singles of the World Figure Skating Championships in Toyko 24 March 2007. Her New Jersey-based coach – Nikolai Morozov – smiles with joy for her. Ando scored a total of 195.09 points to win the gold.






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Miki Ando raises her armsMiki Ando raises her arms in the air to react to the audience during the women's free skating of the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo 24 March 2007.








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Miki Ando showing her gold medalMiki Ando of Japan (middle) won her first World title, while teammate Mao Asada (left) won the silver and Yu-Na Kim of South Korea (right) settled for bronze at the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships.

And yes, that's Tania's costume Miki is wearing – looking fabulous!









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