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Colorado Springs may be "aggressively heterosexual" and home to the Museum of the American Cowboy and the Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame. However, it's also home to the headquarters of the United States Figure Skating Association and to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame and Museum.
I've always found the juxtaposition between the two halls of fame rather amusing. I don't know for sure which is older, but Colorado Springs' status as a "player" in the world of figure skating goes back to the '60s, when famed coach Carlo Fassi was working out of the Broadmoor Skating Club, with soon-to-be Olympic champion Peggy Fleming as his first famous student.
Maybe Haggard is a closet figure skating fan (in our culture, a man can't get much gayer than that!).
