Category Archives: PROFILES

Meet Nikita Sheiko and his skating family: “This season, we want medals on the Junior Grand Prix circuit, not just participate”

Embed from Getty Images Who is this teenager, only 16 years of age, but so mature and so ambitious? The surprise winner of the European Youth Olympic Festival, in 2023, in Pontebba, Italy. A customary…

In focus: Julia Sauter and Ana Sofia Beschea, Romania’s skaters at 2024 Europeans

This will be Julia Sauter’s 7th Europeans – and Ana Sofia Beschea’s first. The 26-year old and the 19-year old are representing Romania at this year’s edition of the Europeans, in Kaunas, Lithuania – and…

Get to know Romania’s Julia Sauter. A strong-willed, self-made skater

Two weeks before 2023 Europeans in Espoo, Julia Sauter had some roller coaster days to deal with. Emotional ones, with high highs and low lows, but some that finished with a smile in Otopeni, Romania,…

Team Papadakis-Cizeron-Haguenauer. Journey to the Top

World renowned coach and choreographer, one of the main figures at Ice Academy of Montreal, Romain Haguenauer is commonly referred to as the longtime coach of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron. But not just that.…

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…