Stéphane Lambiel: “Do it. Show us your colours!”
This wonderfully talented skater turned into a great coach has always been a joy to interview. And 2020 Europeans were no exception – we talked to Stéphane Lambiel the day after the men’s free skate…
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Sara Hurtado, Kirill Khaliavin on their flamenco with a contemporary twist: “We found something special”
In their fourth season as a team, Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin decided once again to challenge themselves with one of Antonio Najarro’s bold choreographies – this time, in a reinterpretation of flamenco: they skate…
Skating prodigy Andrei Kutovoi dreams of the Olympics
You might have noticed him during the Junior Grand Prix event in Courchevel, this August. We sure did. The posture, the qualities of his skating, the musicality. You just couldn’t take your eyes off Russia’s…
Matteo Rizzo: “The goal has to be high — if not, you’re not going to improve”
21-year-old Matteo Rizzo enters this season as a European bronze medalist, Winter Universiade champion, first Italian male skater to win a medal in the senior Grand Prix circuit (2018 NHK Trophy). And so the expectations…
Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Nikolaj Sørensen: “This season we aim high”
interview by Florentina Tone/Bergamo So many things have changed since we last talked, in Ostrava, at 2017 Europeans. You had your final Europeans a year later, in Moscow, and then decided to make a fundamental…