What it costs to be an elite figure skater like the 'Quad God'

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  NPR.

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  This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  At The Indicator, we've been following the Winter Olympics.

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  And, you know, I, like many other people, love figure skating.

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  I love the ice dancing.

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  I like the show program.

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  I like the free skate.

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  I like the twizzles.

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  I like the lifts.

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  So we have invited Oregon Public Broadcasting's Lillian Care Bacon to help us understand what it actually costs to get to the Olympics as a figure skater.

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  Hi, Waylon.

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  I'm so excited to be here.

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  I am primarily an economics reporter,

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  so it is such a delight to have two weeks every four years where I get to talk about knife shoes instead.

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  This is your moment to shine in a slightly different way than how you usually shine.

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  So will we get to see you at the Olympics this week?

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  Absolutely not.

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  I did skate competitively,

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  but I didn't really realize how expensive it was going to get when I started.

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