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He’s 52 now, the oldest star skater still perspiring and performing in public.

The now mostly chrome-domed, four-time world figure skating champion out of Edmonton’s former figure skating factory at the Royal Glenora Club, Kurt Browning knows he will establish a new record on Mother’s Day, when he performs with Stars on Ice at Rogers Place in Edmonton.

A ridiculous record.

“There will never be anybody in Stars on Ice history that has done as many shows as I have done. I guarantee you that,” he laughed.

He’s not absolutely positive what number Sunday’s 4 p.m. show might be, exactly, but he said he thinks there’s a chance it might be No. 900 over a 29-year span.

With every show, it’s a new record.

To most people, Browning will be remembered as being the biggest name in the sport at the point in history when it peaked. But it was a long time ago that I travelled to Paris and covered his first of his four ISU World Championship wins way back in 1989.