Quantum Hall skyrmions are quantized solitons of a ferromagnetic O(3) sigma
-model. The reference, classical, solutions depend upon the interaction bet
ween the electrons and exhibit completely different asymptotic profiles for
the physical Coulomb interaction than for the hard core interaction freque
ntly used to generate variational wavefunctions. In this note we show, by m
eans of numerical calculations on (large) finite size systems at nu = 1, th
at this physically important difference, crucial for a sharp definition of
their statistics, persists for the quantized skyrmions at nu = 1.