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Post by jomeku on Dec 5, 2014 18:48:57 GMT 1
Stephane is very busy with promotion, interviews, and other public appearances. Thank you all for articles and links to the events !!
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Post by pia on Dec 6, 2014 11:33:12 GMT 1
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Post by jomeku on Dec 6, 2014 13:15:32 GMT 1
Thanks a lot, pia (and goldguegi), for the article with nice pictures in 'Bergluft', and for the lovely video!! The interview for 'Bergluft' obviously was given shortly after Stéphane returned from Bucharest. Actually there's nothing really new in the article. Stéphane still training almost daily and still being on top, artistically and technically. His shows. He developed his specific artistic flair thanks to Peter Grütter and Salomé Brunner. Emotion and music are very important in figure skating, music being the basis of movement. His skating school. Another of his passions is sailing and he cherishes the dream to one day sail around the world.
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Post by Hill on Dec 6, 2014 14:51:48 GMT 1
Thans a lot,pia and jomeku!
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Post by taipeifollowers on Dec 11, 2014 9:23:34 GMT 1
Today's Yahoo JAPAN NEWS zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20141211-00010000-sportiva-spo&p=1In addition, Hanyu players at that time, when taken together with Stéphane Lambiel player ice show (Switzerland / 2006 Turin Olympics silver medal .2005,2006 years World Championship gold medal), "Do not have to act in order to be well." in mind that, at the time it is still so multiplied in English that did not speak much "quadruple jump, advice, Please! (4 will advise ask of rotation jump!)" and voice. Lambiel players called me happy terribly that it has me seeking advice, it seems to have done a coach sprinkled the gestures to Hanyu players. 4 rotation Torupu he said that I had been taught that "put the power to the right of the hip joint, and making the axis on the right side of the body, is necessary to take a little while before you jump", Hanyu players to happily to me.
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Post by reut on Dec 11, 2014 17:09:21 GMT 1
Thank you, taipeifollowers. It's nice that Yuzuru mentions Stephane. Unfortunately I didn't quite understand what exactly he said.
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Post by pia on Dec 13, 2014 9:30:18 GMT 1
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Post by jomeku on Dec 13, 2014 21:59:17 GMT 1
Thank you, taipeifollowers. It's nice that Yuzuru mentions Stephane. Unfortunately I didn't quite understand what exactly he said. Thank you, taipeifollowers. And the same for me: Is it possible to clarify a little bit, I would appreciate a lot !
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Post by jomeku on Dec 13, 2014 22:36:36 GMT 1
For his first own show in Geneva, Stéphane Lambiel offers himself a dream castby Marie-Pierre Genecand The champion presents "Ice Legends" next Thursday in the ice rink 'Vernets' in Geneva. For this occasion he gathers Carolina Kostner, "the most elegant skater of all times", the very glamorous Alexei Yagudin, but also Akiko Suzuki. He tells of his love for skating.
Kiss and Cry. That's what the crucial waiting is called in figure skating. The moment when, sweating but smiling, the ice athlete awaits his verdict. Kiss, naturally, for the kisses the brave one sends his fans through the camera. And Cry, for the joy or disappointment , sometimes for consecration. A number of times Stéphane Lambiel has experienced this feeling of 'having reached it all'. World champion 2005 and 2006, vice Olympic champion the same year in Turin, the Helvetic Little Prince has got to know this special euphoria of achievement. No Kiss and Cry next Thursday on the ice rink of 'Vernets' in Geneva. Retired from competition since 2010, Stéphane Lambiel delivers his first, purely artistic, show; the invited skaters, amongst them some still competing, will not have to tremble in front of judges. The program of "Ice Legends", a creation to celebrate 150 years of friendship between Switzerland and Japan? A mixture of historical programs which made Miki Ando, Carolina Kostner, Alexei Yagudin etc reach the highest step of the podium. And original creations of the Helvetic skater and his choreographer of all times, Salomé Brunner. With, as highlights, Gershwin's 'Three Preludes', danced by the Kazakh Denis Ten, the Japanese Nobunari Oda and Stéphane. Or the 'grand final' which gathers all 17 skaters to Moussorgski's 'Pictures at an exhibition'. All of it around Kotaro Fukuma's piano, who too, in his own way, will dance... The cold of the ice, the sharpness of the blade, take-off's, grace, lightness… We think of all this whilst waiting for Stéphane Lambiel, at the end of the day, next to the empty little ice rink at 'Flon'. A rainy Monday, Lausanne's habitants don't feel like amusing themselves on a watery ice rink. There's funnier things. And then the multiple-medal-winner arrives and the atmosphere changes into a fairy tale. Already the skater does not walk, he glides. He flies over the soil, like a spirit. So airy, so light. Nothing of the usual attitude of a star that even amplifies under the weight of being seen. Stéphane Lambiel does not care about his fame in daily life, maybe because he was in spotlights very early, at the age of 16. A fairy tale also because the young man never doubted. Already when very young, while his mom thought skating was a matter for girls, he knew he would do "as the champions I saw in TV". At 7 years of age, when he finally and for the first time could join the ice rink in Martigny, he did not hold to the sideboards with shaky steps. "I went directly to the center, the light, without loosing balance. With the clear idea that this was the place where I was going to express myself." We all know how it evolved. Working with tenacity, a rapid rise, a sense of elegance and sharp technique. Of genius, with fluidity, inspired. "When I started at the age of seven, I was already old. I had to compensate with rigor and ardor, at every instant", the one who knew how to take advantage of the quiet and considerate coaching of Peter Grütter remembers with a smile. Today, it's Stéphane Lambiel himself who advises the young hopeful skaters in the school he opened last August in Champéry. "This week we had the visit of Tonka, a young Croatian who is brilliant. What a temper!" Only the most promising young skaters join this center for future champions. The ice and the blades. Hostile materials, or? Hard, sharp elements which need to be conquered? "Yes there is some danger. I perforated a foot twice. The blade of the left skate entered the right foot at the moment I pushed off for a jump. I've seen stars. At another time, I had a fracture in the foot." But, at the same time, one most not dramatize, the specialist explains. "I just took my almost four years old niece out skating and taught her right away how to fall. When you know how to fall, you can dare to do anything!" The body. Carried by the 'drunkenness' of skating, but also affected by this insane practice. "At 29, I have the body of a 40 years old man", the champion sighs. "My knees are full of arthrosis and due to the repeated torsions I feel pain in the upper back. Besides, the hips, often strained, are affected. No high level athlete can avoid injuries." The remedy? "The best would be to give up skating. Impossible! So, for practice and for performing my programs in about 40 shows a year, I take anti-inflammatories. I try to limit the dosage because of the stomach, but it's the only way not to suffer too much." Hence, the fairy tale has it's limits. Stéphane Lambiel remains more serious also when expressing himself about media, which, he says without malignity but with lucidity, "were tenacious". "I do understand: normally figure skating champions are Americans, Canadians, Russians or Japanese. When for once the Swiss journalists had their own hero, they wanted to exploit the opportunity!" A 'Lambielmania' that disturbed him? "There have been some excessive episodes, but in total, I was very well treated", admits the artist who could well imagine to pick up a pen and tell about his intensive adventure in his own way. Undoubtedly in this biography the young man would say to which extent skating "liberates him from everything". "From the very moment I enter the ice, I disconnect, I am on another chain, another channel. I know my programs well, so the concentration gets automatic, the skates carry me." The only time magic did not operate was at the Olympic games of Vancouver in 2010, when he finished in 4th place. "It was terrible. I did not skate bad but I was not able to let go. I lived hell because the ice is, for me, the most familiar place in the world. It felt as if I was a stranger in my own country." Stéphane Lambiel is eloquent when talking about his passion. He's too when praising his counterparts and friends present in his show, next Thursday. Italian Carolina Kostner, "the most elegant skater of all times", who on Thursday at 'Vernets' will readopt her famous 'Ave Maria'. Japanese Akiko Suzuki, for whom Stéphane Lambiel has written a choreography to Debussy's 'Claire de la Lune', because "she's very small, but fills the space with her lunar presence". And the very glamorous Alexei Yagudin, whom the creator of the show asked to restore his 2002 program. Program which made the Russian skater win the Worlds and, in the same year, get the gold medal at the Olympic games of Salt Lake City. "When I saw this program, I was speechless, amazed. It is absolutely awesome to see it again live." There's a life beyond competition and, seen from the solid soil, by a human being glued to the floor, it appears to be a fairy tale. Ice Legends, Thursday December 18th at 7.30 pm, Vernets, Geneva
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Post by Hill on Dec 14, 2014 5:31:36 GMT 1
Thanks everyone!
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Post by catsgocrazy on Dec 14, 2014 9:33:51 GMT 1
Thank you for the translation jomeku.
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