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Post by Titi on Apr 9, 2005 16:17:15 GMT 1
Ok, i know that i should know it, but...
Ive known for ages that Stephane is called "Petit Prince" but have never thought about why. Did he have such programme in the past, or is there some other reason?
Thank you for answer and forgive me being so uninformed...
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Post by SweetFranzi on Apr 9, 2005 16:21:05 GMT 1
The story behind Stéphane's nickname is just that in 2002, some people on the skating.inc MB agreed to do something for his 17th birthday, because Stéphane (and I hardly knew him back then) had been nice enough to bring a gift to Alexei Yagudin and give it to him on his birthday at Worlds in Nagano. And I came up with the idea of presenting Stéphane with the book "Le Petit Prince", because I loved the book and Stéphane SO reminded me of him, so people sent me messages which I put into the book and I gave it to him on his birthday. Since then some of us have called him "le Petit Prince", then we started using that nickname on his website, and now the Swiss media all talk about "le Petit Prince". They especially love that nickname right now, because Stéphane has just changed his LP to "King Arthur" so they can write about "the Little Prince who wants to become a King" or stuff like that (but I told Stéphane that he'll always be the Little Prince to many of us, even if he becomes 4-time Olympic champion!  ). |
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Post by Titi on Apr 9, 2005 16:27:21 GMT 1
Thank you very much, its a touching story...  |
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