Category Archives: INTERVIEWS

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…

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…

Wenjing Sui: “As a veteran athlete, I feel responsible – I want to be a source of strength, to help push the younger generation forward”

On June 6th, when the International Skating Union announced the highly anticipated Grand Prix assignments, many of us might have felt the need to double-check what they were seeing: Olympic champions Wenjing Sui and Cong…