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Post by Admin on Dec 8, 2014 21:06:33 GMT
 Beauty, adorned by the nickname Ice Princess, compared with Grace Kelly, and with her arrival at Zagreb's ice hockey rink no one was indifferent. Immediately after completion of the performances we talked with Kiira Korpi of career plans, their impression of Zagreb, and finding a prince. Kiira has so far been three times skated in Zagreb, and the youngest competitor was a great honor to share the ice with one of the best European skaters. 'I love it here, people are friendly, the competition was well organized. I went briefly to the old town and beautiful," says Finland's Kiira Korpi.  |
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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2014 21:04:41 GMT
Ashley Wagner is aware of her critics. Many say she is past her prime at age 23 and should hang up her skate. “Anybody who looks down upon some old gal going after her dreams, I have many things to say to them,” Wagner said, “but I will just say watch me do it.” Wagner, who finished seventh at the Olympics and at March’s World Championships, plans to compete through the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics. She could become the oldest U.S. Olympic women’s singles figure skater since 1928, according to sports-reference.com.  “So what, I’m going to be 26 at the next Olympics,” she said. “That’s not old. I will probably, for myself, be in my physical prime around then.” For the second straight year, Wagner is the only U.S. singles skater competing in the Grand Prix Final, the second-biggest international event this season behind the World Championships. She will perform in Barcelona next week. It’s her third straight trip and fourth overall to the event that invites the top six skaters per discipline over the six-event Grand Prix series. Nine-time U.S. champion Michelle Kwan is the only U.S. woman to make more Grand Prix Finals than Wagner in the event’s two-decade history. Kwan won her last U.S. title at 24. Wagner, who turns 24 in May, believes she will not only be physically stronger in the years to come but also will mature mentally.  |
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2014 20:44:57 GMT
A few weeks ago, Russian figure skating star Evgeni Plushenko announced the premiere of a grandiose ice show called Ice King. RBTH reports on the Russian figure skating stars who opt to prolong their careers by participating in commercial shows. At the end of September, Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, who, despite struggling with back problems, hopes to participate in the 2018 Olympic Games for the fifth time in Pyeongchang, South Korea, announced that he is preparing a new ice show called Ice King, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Snow Queen. Plushenko says that the show is unlike anything anybody in Russia, or even in the whole world, has ever seen. Ice King will be an elaborate production on which no expense is spared, with a team of 220 working on the show. Plushenko has invited fellow professionals Irina Slutskaya, Johnny Weir, Brian Joubert, and Tomáš Verner to participate in the project.  Ice King is not Plushenko’s first ice project. However, the figure skater’s previous endeavor resulted in a serious scandal. After Plushenko’s withdrawal from the Sochi Olympics due to injury, banners advertising his tour The Show of Champions and Friends stayed up in Russia, Romania, Latvia, and Lithuania for a long time, despite the fact that the star could not perform. Plushenko’s first post-operation appearance, in which he performed alongside Japan’s Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu was awaited with anticipation. His first post-surgery triple axel, performed at a show in China, became the subject of lengthy discussion on the internet. Plushenko broke his skate blade in China, which he promptly announced over Twitter. The skater’s fans immediately commented with, “You are so strong and powerful that you break steel.” |
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2014 20:52:32 GMT
 The star of the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014, gold medalist Adelina Sotnikova published a new photo on Instagram. The 18-year-old athlete showed her new hairstyle.  The 18-year-old figure skater, has become a real star after winning the figure skating at the Olympic Games in Sochi, is a genuine public interest. The girl began to become very popular in social networks, and so they often share with fans the details of his life. yesterday Adeline published on his page a photo of herself posing with blond hair. Followers are accustomed to see a girl in the role of a fatal brunettes, did not appreciate the metamorphosis in appearance. Most fans converged on the idea that Sotnikova better with natural, dark hair. "I do not like little black you so well!" "Looks much better," "Brunette is better," - fans wrote the comments. However, a more prudent decided that she would not change its image so drastically and must have used the wig to see the reaction of others.  |
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Post by Admin on Dec 20, 2014 21:10:01 GMT
 Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova will miss the Russian Championships next week, according to R-Sport. Sotnikova also sat out the Grand Prix season with a torn ankle ligament from early November. She hasn’t competed in top-level international competition since her surprise gold over Yuna Kim in Sochi. Sotnikova became the first woman to win Olympic figure skating gold with zero prior World Championships medals.  Russia can send three women to the World Championships in Shanghai in March. They have plenty of medal contenders outside Sotnikova. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Yelena Radionova went one-two at last weekend’s Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, the second-biggest international competition of the season behind Worlds.  Countrywomen Anna Pogorilaya and Yulia Lipnitskaya were fourth and fifth at the Grand Prix Final. |
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