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Post by Anna on Dec 20, 2012 21:57:36 GMT 1
Thank you for the translation, lavrujjka. It was really really interesting to read!
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Post by lavrujjka on Dec 20, 2012 22:10:15 GMT 1
Stephane's interview in "Swiss Health" magazine, translation, page 3
Q: What was your attitude to your health at the very beginning of your career? Were you ready to risk it for the sake of victory? S: Until my first operation in 2002 I didn’t think about health at all. My mom was my physical training coach. After an unsuccessful training she could tell me to go out of the car a few kilometers away from home and make me run all the way back, this was my physical training. Q: And did your mom take care of your conditioning to the cold when you were a kid? S: In childhood I skated in Villars on an open rink. In winter the temperature went down to -10oC, so I got very cold by the end of training, but when my mom told me to put on some more clothes under my pants, I refused to do that. I told I would better freeze, because it was impossible to move in two pants. I love open rinks so much! In Villars you could see the mountains in fair weather, it is so beautiful! And I love skating in Saint-Moritz on the frozen lake. Open rinks are very popular in Switzerland. There are two of them in Lausanne, one half-open rink in Geneva, there are open rinks in all skiing resorts, in Zermatt, in Montanara. There is a very beautiful big rink in Zurich, in the forest near FIFA building. Q: Now that you are not competing, of course the exercise stress has reduced considerably. S: Now I know my own possibilities and weaknesses, my technique has settled. Now I skate mostly for pleasure usually an hour or an hour and a half a day, but sometimes it is hard to stop and I stay on the ice for 2,5 hours, I jump… and my coach says: “Maybe you should come back to sport?” And I say: “No, I am too old now and after three jumps I am good for nothing.” But it is amazing to be able to skate just for yourself. And I train every day, on the ice and in the gym. Q: That is, you do almost the same you did in the old active days? S: Yes, but I train not so intensively, I rather keep in shape. You should not stop training completely. As soon as you stop, you lose everything, not only physically, your perception of life itself can change. I had an opportunity to experience it in 2008 when I stopped skating. After a 6-week break my coordination was lost, my muscles lost their tone, I moved so clumsily. So, after I restarted training at the end of November, I didn’t stop for a single day. Q: What other secrets do you have? What things apart from training help you to keep in shape? S: I don’t like routine, I don’t like repeating one and the same thing. Sometimes in fine weather or if something worries me, I put on my running shoes and go jogging. It’s not important that I am not a professional. I run through the forest, go down to the lake, then turn back home – and my way back goes uphill, so this is the most difficult part. But when I come back home it turns out that all the worries are gone. I don’t do this every week, as it is not very good for my knees, but jogging from time to time brings me joy. Q: And what about other kinds of sport? Skiing, for example? S: Oh yes, skiing… The best moment in skiing is to reach the top of the mountain and stay at a restaurant enjoying life with cheese fondue and white whine. This is the part I like most of all! But I also love the speed when I go downhill. Q: Many sportsmen have to cut down on their meals. When you were competing, was there some food from which it was particularly difficult to refuse? S: Sportsmen, as well as other people, need to take care of what they eat. One cannot say that modern attitude to food is healthy. In the past we had to buy food products and then cook them. Now the world has changed, people are at work all day long, they spend much time on their way, so some of them have developed bad habits, they buy ready-made food that you can just warm over in a microwave. But it is very harmful for health! One should understand what exactly one eats. One shouldn’t eat prepared food, which is full of additives and preservatives.
I'm sorry, but the last part will follow only after the New Year - I have no more time now for this...
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Post by mejokuste on Dec 20, 2012 22:53:37 GMT 1
Spasibo, lavrujjka!!
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Post by pianomaya on Dec 20, 2012 23:12:24 GMT 1
Dear lavrujjka! Thank you very very much for your translations! I love his interviews!
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Post by Anna on Dec 21, 2012 9:33:09 GMT 1
S: Oh yes, skiing… The best moment in skiing is to reach the top of the mountain and stay at a restaurant ... LOL ;D ;D ;D (I agree so much!) I love the way he speaks about nature. Lakes, mountains, and running through the forest - and skating open air! Thank you again for the translation.
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Post by reut on Dec 21, 2012 14:58:38 GMT 1
lavrujjka, thank you very much for your hard work!
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Post by lavrujjka on Dec 21, 2012 21:25:14 GMT 1
Thanks for your "thanks", girls! You are welcome
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Post by pia on Dec 22, 2012 10:19:49 GMT 1
Thank you lavrujjka for great work!
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Post by mejokuste on Dec 22, 2012 23:53:45 GMT 1
Translation of the article posted by pianomaya in "Talk about Stéphane in German 2" thread yesterday. I post it here because the topic fits with lavrujjka's translation from "swiss health" above Pianomaya writes that during Fantasy on Ice in Japan, beginning of September, there was a talk with Stephane and Tatsuki. That Stephane was asked about his then actual state of health (he had his eye-injury before). She has translated the article from here: www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=NEOBK-1387335 into german - with help of goldguegi - because we all had been so conserned about his health: Q: You have been absent at Dreams on Ice in June because you had a vascular illness in your eye. Your fans were very worried. Could you please tell us about your actual state of health? S: It was while working on my spins when I noticed that something was wrong with my eye. So I went to hospital before my flight for Art on Ice in Shanghai. After several examinations, the doctor told me that I had to renounce to the flight and to skating, because something was wrong with the blood vessels in the eye - a bitter fact for me. It was really difficult to accept this ... figure skating is my life. In the last years I skated with joy in shows, thought that it was exctly what I wanted to do. It was for me as it would be for a surgeon not being alowed to use his hands. The doctor told me that my problem was very complicated and that there wasn't any specific method of treatment. He said "You should now stop any activity on the ice, then let's hope that your symptoms disapear while you rest". Many fans prayed for me and I believe that those prayers really helped, because, two months later when I went to the hospital to get checked, all the symptoms had gone. All the results were normal. The doctor was surprised and had no explanation for my fast healing. I think, it was thanks to all the prayers from all the people. - That's really good. S: My eye is well also now. Now I can spin again. But, as blood pressure rizes while executing pirouettes, I had to learn a breathing technique, with which I can avoid that blood pressure rizes. When I started skating again, I turned my spins very slowly at first, always suggesting myself to breath. When you do something in a certain way during 20 years, you do it unconciousely. So I trained again, again, always suggesting myself to breath. Now I can breath during spins. I really was in worry my life would fall apart if I could not skate at shows anymore. I feared to realize that life is so instable. I believe that the most important in life is health, there is nothing more important. Thank you again, pianomaya, hope you agree with the translation?!
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Post by Anna on Dec 23, 2012 0:17:18 GMT 1
Aw, thank you for this translation! and thanks to pianomaya and goldguegi too so touching to read.. and this part in particular: I think, it was thanks to all the prayers from all the people. I think we'll always pray for him thank you again
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Post by mejokuste on Dec 23, 2012 0:21:41 GMT 1
Yes, we do!
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Post by pianomaya on Dec 23, 2012 13:17:31 GMT 1
Thank you again, pianomaya, hope you agree with the translation?! Thank you mejokuste for the translation. If I am agree with your translation or not, I can not say because my english is so poor But I am sure, that all is correct because german of goldguegi is perfect Many points touched me but what me most touched is that he has learned after his long career new technic of spins!
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Post by reut on Dec 24, 2012 17:45:40 GMT 1
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Post by aleachim on Dec 28, 2012 17:38:16 GMT 1
Thank you, lavrujjka and mejokuste for your great translation!! Nice to read about Stéphane's thoughts again Stephane's interview in " S: My mom was my physical training coach. After an unsuccessful training she could tell me to go out of the car a few kilometers away from home and make me run all the way back, this was my physical training. Q: And did your mom take care of your conditioning to the cold when you were a kid? S: In childhood I skated in Villars on an open rink. In winter the temperature went down to -10oC, so I got very cold by the end of training, OMG, his mother was really strict physical trainer Maybe I would feel frustrated after bad training to run many kilometres moreover He was very brave to skate in such a cold open icerink.. I thought it was a reality just many many years ago..not in Stéphane's case It has to be complicated for skaters to eat in hotel, where food is not always healthy I think and there is not another choice..
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Post by reut on Dec 30, 2012 21:00:13 GMT 1
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