Europe, embrace your new talent: Italy’s Matteo Rizzo
The season before the Olympics, Matteo was a thinnish young man making his World debut in Helsinki – and visiting, on the last day of the event, the cathedrals of the city without having to…
Category Archives: 2018 PYEONGCHANG
2018 Olympics in PyeongChang: here’s to the ones who dream
Embed from Getty Images These Olympics have been a dream. Metaphorically – and even more so literally. In Europe you had to get up in the depth of night so you could watch live the…
Brian Orser: “I’m all for moving the sport forward – but I am also all for beautiful, effortless skating, transitions, choreography that makes sense”
Brian Orser is a true skating legend – a two-time Olympic medalist himself, and a coach to several Olympic, World and European champions and medalists. With the one in PyeongChang, he has been to eight…
Wenjing Sui and Cong Han: remaking of a classic
Embed from Getty Images If there were a skating pantheon where the greatest figure skating performances of all time would be included, no doubt that Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao’s “Turandot” at 2003 World Championships…
A journey into the mind of Javier Fernández: “Skating is a lot about feelings – and, in competition, if you feel good or feel bad, it matters a lot”
Javier Fernández is nothing you might expect. A figure skater champion from Spain? Who knew! One of the strongest contenders for Olympic medals who treats Olympics as “just one more competition”? That’s him. A guy…