Category Archives: EVENTS

Prague 2026: These were Kaori Sakamoto’s Worlds. But also Worlds of redemption, of celebration, of using one’s voice

To us – and many of you there, we are sure – there were Kaori Sakamoto’s Worlds. Her final competition, Kaori saying farewell (with a win, her 4th World title) to competitive skating, her fans…

Kaori Sakamoto: “In this world of figure skating, I tried to make a sunnier, brighter atmosphere, so that everybody could compete in a positive way”

On a sunny Sunday in Prague, around noon – and not just any Sunday, but the one that marked the end of 2026 World Figure Skating Championships –, I felt the luckiest journalist on Planet…

Julia Sauter – the Olympian: “My heart is full”

Two weeks after the Olympics, we finally get to talk to Julia Sauter at length about how her entire experience in Milano-Cortina has been. Remember, Julia was Romania’s flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony on February…

Benoît Richaud about Nina Pinzarrone: “She really has a special vocabulary of movement, a special way of interacting with the audience”

This interview is short, we give you that. But it’s also very meaningful, like one of those bottles carrying a message and floating on the surface of the water until someone finds it in the…

Two-time European champion Niina Petrokina in her own words: “Positive, optimistic, unstoppable”

Heading to Sheffield, for this year’s edition of the Europeans, we knew we wanted to talk to Niina Petrokina. The Estonian that ran away with our attention in her first senior season (2021/2022), through her…