Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier: “Going into this year, the focus was: Find joy”
On the ice, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are some of the most flamboyant skaters out there. Portraying their characters to the fingertips, being one with them as soon as they step on the ice,…
Bruno Marcotte on Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara: “What really sets them apart is the lightning that happens when they skate together”
We’re talking to Bruno Marcotte literally 15 minutes after his students, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, had been crowned Grand Prix Final champions in Olympic Palavela in Torino, Italy. Little after their relieved reaction in…
Get to know Romania’s Julia Sauter. A strong-willed, self-made skater
Two weeks before 2023 Europeans in Espoo, Julia Sauter had some roller coaster days to deal with. Emotional ones, with high highs and low lows, but some that finished with a smile in Otopeni, Romania,…
Anna Cappellini: “Life changed quite a bit, but I still like to be involved in the sport”
You know what? There was this Anna Cappellini air in the world of ice dancing this season – since Finland’s Yuka Orihara asked to borrow one of Anna’s Latin trademark dresses, and wore it throughout…
Meet Nikolaj Memola, Junior Grand Prix Final champion and history maker
When answering these questions – on December 8th, in Torino – Italy’s Nikolaj Memola hadn’t yet won the Junior Grand Prix Final gold on home ground. He was second after the short program – a…
EVENTS
Shoma Uno wins gold in Torino, coach Stéphane Lambiel is on cloud nine: “Shoma is not a big name from today, but for a long time already”
“What?! Shoma said he didn’t know my programs?”, amused Stéphane Lambiel stops at the door of the press conference room in Torino,…
Sota Yamamoto, 2022 Grand Prix Final silver medalist: “Once again I can aspire to be close to Shoma and increase my level further”
December 12, 2014: Japan’s Shoma Uno and Sota Yamamoto, 16…
Photos that you feel. 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy
To tell you the truth, we’ve become very attached to…
Photos that you feel: 2022 Grand Prix de France
With previous stops in Norwood and in Mississauga, we’ve now…
FEATURES
On dreams, goals and confidence. Notes on the women’s event at Lombardia Trophy
What might have been seen as an upsetting start of the season for the World champion – Kaori Sakamoto finished second in…
Inside competitive mind. Top skaters share their thoughts at the beginning of the season
Interviews, short stories, photos featuring Kaori Sakamoto, Charlène Guignard and…
Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: following the gold fish
Taking the time to reassess Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi’s…
Ukrainian skaters at Worlds: sending the message of a country hit by war
Head to head, we look into Lilia’s phone and we…
INTERVIEWS
Stéphane Lambiel: “I want Shoma to have no limits in his dreams”
This particular interview? You may see it, and we envisioned it as a follow-up to our first conversation with Stéphane Lambiel regarding…
Adam Siao Him Fa, ready for the next 8 years of his career
France’s Adam Siao Him Fa has just finished the first…
Benoît Richaud: “For Kaori Sakamoto, this is just the beginning”
There’s so much certainty, so much conviction in this line…
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron: “We are going for the gold and we really believe in that goal”
A keen, palpable sense of anticipation surrounded Gabriella Papadakis and…
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Photos that you feel: 2022 Skate Canada
By now, you already know our intentions: to share with you those photos that take you in their arms for a while. That keep you in the moment, keep you in a bubble, and allow you to feel. We first travelled to Skate America, in…
Photos that you feel: 2022 Skate America
These photos are all about encapsulating moments. Feelings. A particular state of mind. A meaningful gesture. A glance. An inside look. Again: a moment. We got inspired by so many of the photos taken by our photographer at 2022 Skate America, hence we decided to…
Shoma Uno, 2022 World champion – and other highlights from Montpellier
What a journey 2021-2022 Season has been to Japan’s Shoma Uno: winning two bronze medals at the Olympics in Beijing, one in the team event, one in the individual event – and then having the best performance of the season in Monpellier, being crowned 2022…
Ready for the GP Season? Practice photos from 2022 Skate America
Today is the day: 2022 Skate America starts in Norwood, Massachusetts – the first out of the six GP events, culminating with the Final in Turin, in December. Let’s have a recap, shall we? October 21-23: 2022 Skate America, Norwood, Massachusetts, USA October 28-30: 2022…
2022 Worlds in Montpellier: a celebration. Relive it through photos.
This photo-story encapsulates the evidence: no better ending of Gabriella and Guillaume’s second Olympic season than savouring their triumph – Olympic triumph, World triumph, career’s highlights so far – with people at home: fans, family, lovers of the sport. A celebration, if you may. The…
Get a feel of the new programs. Photo-highlights from Lombardia Trophy.
This is exactly what it says it is: a photo-journey through the layers of this year’s edition of Lombardia Trophy in Italy. Being one of the first events of the senior season – the second Challenger, after U.S. Classic in Lake Placid –, it’s only…
Kaori Sakamoto’s triumph at Worlds. Photo-highlights from the women’s event
This was Kaori Sakamoto’s Season, no doubt about it: Olympic bronze medalist in Beijing and winner of the World title in Montpellier. The peak of her career so far – and such a promise for the years to come, with all the layers of certainty…
Pairs at 2022 Worlds in Montpellier: a photo-story
One step in the 2022-2023 season already, we don’t want to let 2022 Worlds’ memories fade away – so we’re embarking in a journey meant to keep them alive. See it as a movie made of flashes, moments, layers of emotions, if you may: 2022…
Team Papadakis-Cizeron-Haguenauer. Journey to the Top
World renowned coach and choreographer, one of the main figures at Ice Academy of Montreal, Romain Haguenauer is commonly referred to as the longtime coach of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron. But not just that. He is the coach who saw the talent, nurtured it,…
Wenjing Sui and Cong Han. Olympic gold, to crown a fabulous career
Embed from Getty Images For once in the last couple of days, the noise surrounding the figure skating competition at 2022 Olympics fell silent – and all people, skating fans, observers and skaters altogether joined voices, hands in celebrating Wenjing Sui and Cong Han’s Olympic…