Yokohammer wrote:... going to the olympics. Pretty good lineup, I think... Kihara/Takahashi (the midget) in the pair category.
Damn, your right. Takahashi is 146cm or 4 ft 8 inches, which is legally a midget (4ft 11in/149.86cm is the cutoff).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narumi_Takahashi
After moving to China at the age of nine, Takahashi continued skating in singles until she was about 12-13 when she switched to pair skating...She decided to leave China and skate for Japan so she asked the Japanese federation for help in finding a partner; she eventually found a partner in Japan but the partnership was unsuccessful due to insufficient height difference.*...she wanted to leave China and skate pairs for Japan. She asked the Japanese federation to find a partner in Japan, but the boy was too short and it didn’t work out.
While looking the official photos of the new Team Japan with Takahashi and Kihara, I noticed that something weird was going on...
hETToY Images: Ryuichi Kihara of Japan smiles in the press conference after the All Japan Figure Skating Championships at Saitama Super Arena on December 23, 2013.G