Category Archives: EUROPEANS

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…

Men in Sheffield: the battle for Olympic spots. Italy’s Nikolaj Memola and Matteo Rizzo / interview with the 2026 European silver medalist

For Italy’s Nikolaj Memola and Matteo Rizzo, 2026 Europeans acted as a skate-off – the competition that would decide who got Italy’s second men’s spot at the Olympics; with the first one already assigned to…

Women in Sheffield: the Europeans of comebacks. Plus: hands in the air for Julia Sauter

Imagine that: Estonia’s Niina Petrokina, the European champion en titre, only restarted to jump the triple Lutz and the triple Flip two weeks before 2026 Europeans (!) Two full weeks of intense training followed, with…

Emilia Monika Ziobrowska & Shiloh Douglas Judd’s first competitive season in photos

Now that you know Emilia and Shiloh, and understand their partnership is such an important, decisive step for the Romanian figure skating as a whole, we invite you to see exactly how their season went.…