The European competition in Budapest is about to begin: the ladies got into their beautiful, colored dresses, the men took their suits and put up a smile – and there it is, everyone’s ready to shine. Let me walk you through the photo-story of the first day at the 2014 Europeans, when ice-dancers took the ice, in a final attempt to get ready for the actual competition (ice dance short dance is scheduled for today, January 15, starting with 17.30 p.m.).
by Florentina Tone
Pernelle Carron and Lloyd Jones (Great Britain)
Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gaszi (Germany)
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron (France)
Tanja Kolbe and Stefano Caruso (Germany)
Julia Zlobina and Alexei Sitnikov (Azerbaijan)
Alisa Agafonova and Alper Ucar (Turkey)
Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen (Denmark)
Federica Testa and Lukas Csolley (Slovakia)
Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland (Great Britain)
Isabella Tobias and Deividas Stagniunas (Lithuania)
Carter Maria Jones and Richard Sharpe (Great Britain)
Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov (Russia)
Ekaterina Riazanova and Ilia Tkachenko (Russia)
Victoria Sinitsina and Ruslan Zhiganshin (Russia)
Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte (Italy)
Lorenza Alessandrini and Simone Vaturi (Italy)
Sara Hurtado and Adria Diaz (Spain)
Angelina Telegina and Otar Japaridze (Georgia)
Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabri (Italy)
