Post by pianomaya on Jan 3, 2020 11:55:57 GMT 1
I just received a New Year's package from an angel, full story of the Lausanne 2020 Torch Tour and I am totally overwhelmed.
It is very embarrassing to me that I just copy this whole work and put it here ... at least I made a video about it, the first video. So here the whole story!
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OLYMPIC FLAME VIDEO WITH STÉPHANE IN CHAMPÉRY (27.12.2019)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXVGJC95pcY
The video by pianomaya shows a part of the Torch Tour visit in Champéry with Stéphane as one of the two Olympians lighting a small Olympic cauldron.
For those curious about the Olympic flame lighting in Champéry, here is a bit more background information about the Lausanne 2020 Torch Tour and about the flame event itself, including an extract of a short interview with Stéphane after the flame was lit.
1. Lausanne 2020 Torch Tour across Switzerland
The Lausanne 2020 Olympic flame was lit in a traditional ignition ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece, on 17 September 2019. The next day the flame was flown to Switzerland and then embarked on a tour stopping in each of the 26 cantons of the country. The flame is scheduled to return to Lausanne for a traditional torch relay just before the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Youth Olympic Games on 9 January 2020.
The Torch Tour gives the public the chance to view the Youth Olympic flame and to enjoy the YOG experience. At each of the Torch Tour stops, one or two Swiss Olympians are given the honour to bring out a torch to the stage and light a small Olympic cauldron which then burns just for the duration of the torch event. The tour stops have been popular with children and included information panels and learning activities.
2. Torch Tour stop in Champéry
Official Lausanne 2020 video clip from the Champéry flame event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGI3uYss0tw
In its last stage, the Torch Tour has been visiting all the actual competition sites for the Winter Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020. Champéry will host the curling competition. As in all other tour stops, in Champéry there was also a white travelling stage with a large screen used for video presentations of the various Olympic venues hosting YOG disciplines and a video about the mascot Yodli (a hybrid animal combining three typical Swiss mountain animals: a cow, a goat and a St. Bernard dog), who then appeared live on the stage. Shown next, and this is already in Pianomaya’s video, was a short videoclip about the journey of the Lausanne 2020 Olympic Flame by car, plane and train from Athens via Geneva airport to Lausanne. (You can see this official video of the flame’s journey to Switzerland here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaHJR1v0fA)
And then finally came the moment that everyone was waiting for. Two local Olympians emerged from the tourist office, jointly carrying the torch. Stéphane together with Camillia Berra (Swiss freestyle skier participating in the 2014 Sochi Games) slowly made their way through the crowd up to the stage where they lit up the cauldron. Everyone cheered enthusiastically. The screen was displaying a photo of Stéphane with the costume from his programs "Four Seasons" at Art on Ice 2017 as well as “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” and another photo of Camillia “in action” on her skis. The MC then asked both athletes several questions, alternating between the two. Stéphane got more attention of course. J
After the athletes left, the public was given an opportunity to take photos with Yodli and to see the two “travelling” lanterns containing the Olympic flame as transported across Switzerland. It even stopped raining in the afternoon and by the end of the event, the grey sky started to clear up a little and even some of the mountains came out of the clouds.
3. Loose English translation of the parts of pianomaya’s video directly concerning Stéphane
Master of Ceremonies (MC): Wow, hello! What a pleasure… Stéphane, it is a bit of a mad rush today, but it's a pleasure. What honour and privilege to be able to light this Olympic cauldron. How does it feel to you, having participated in three Olympic Games, three Olympiads?
SL: It's heart-warming and it represents a little bit the performance and efforts of the athletes who will be in Lausanne these next weeks. I wish them all the happiness, a lot of nice performances and for the spectators to be able to enjoy (them). Good luck to all the athletes!
MC: That's nice! Bravo, Stéphane. Will you be there to coach the youth?
SL: I will be there a few days. Unfortunately, my schedule is very full. I have to prepare for the European Championships with my students so I will be sort of switching my schedule between the Games / YOG and the coaching and I will follow it on the news.
MC: Ladies and gentlemen, Stéphane Lambiel.
(then speaking with Camillia)
2nd round of questions:
MC: There are quite a number of young people today. All these young faces… they perhaps dream of participating one day in the YOG and why not later, like you, in the Olympic Games. What can you tell them, what kind of message can you give to all these young people?
SL: Well, already go watch all the competitions because it’s very inspiring to see the youth. And the youth are the champions of tomorrow and already have performances which are almost as impressive as those of the big champions seen on TV. So I encourage everyone to go see the competitions, whether curling here in Champéry or figure skating in Lausanne, or hockey. Maybe St. Moritz is a bit far but I encourage all the people on the other side of Switzerland to go see the disciplines. I'd love to be able to go see speed skating on the frozen lake, that will be magic. So this I think is the first step, to be inspired by these young people. And then the second step, to get to work and do everything in order to arrive to the top, and to outdo oneself. Because in the end, this flame is the flame that we have inside us; let it burn, ready to achieve beautiful things.
MC: And also the flame gets us excited and you thrilled us yourself...
It is very embarrassing to me that I just copy this whole work and put it here ... at least I made a video about it, the first video. So here the whole story!
------------------------------------------------
OLYMPIC FLAME VIDEO WITH STÉPHANE IN CHAMPÉRY (27.12.2019)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXVGJC95pcY
The video by pianomaya shows a part of the Torch Tour visit in Champéry with Stéphane as one of the two Olympians lighting a small Olympic cauldron.
For those curious about the Olympic flame lighting in Champéry, here is a bit more background information about the Lausanne 2020 Torch Tour and about the flame event itself, including an extract of a short interview with Stéphane after the flame was lit.
1. Lausanne 2020 Torch Tour across Switzerland
The Lausanne 2020 Olympic flame was lit in a traditional ignition ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece, on 17 September 2019. The next day the flame was flown to Switzerland and then embarked on a tour stopping in each of the 26 cantons of the country. The flame is scheduled to return to Lausanne for a traditional torch relay just before the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Youth Olympic Games on 9 January 2020.
The Torch Tour gives the public the chance to view the Youth Olympic flame and to enjoy the YOG experience. At each of the Torch Tour stops, one or two Swiss Olympians are given the honour to bring out a torch to the stage and light a small Olympic cauldron which then burns just for the duration of the torch event. The tour stops have been popular with children and included information panels and learning activities.
2. Torch Tour stop in Champéry
Official Lausanne 2020 video clip from the Champéry flame event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGI3uYss0tw
In its last stage, the Torch Tour has been visiting all the actual competition sites for the Winter Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020. Champéry will host the curling competition. As in all other tour stops, in Champéry there was also a white travelling stage with a large screen used for video presentations of the various Olympic venues hosting YOG disciplines and a video about the mascot Yodli (a hybrid animal combining three typical Swiss mountain animals: a cow, a goat and a St. Bernard dog), who then appeared live on the stage. Shown next, and this is already in Pianomaya’s video, was a short videoclip about the journey of the Lausanne 2020 Olympic Flame by car, plane and train from Athens via Geneva airport to Lausanne. (You can see this official video of the flame’s journey to Switzerland here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaHJR1v0fA)
And then finally came the moment that everyone was waiting for. Two local Olympians emerged from the tourist office, jointly carrying the torch. Stéphane together with Camillia Berra (Swiss freestyle skier participating in the 2014 Sochi Games) slowly made their way through the crowd up to the stage where they lit up the cauldron. Everyone cheered enthusiastically. The screen was displaying a photo of Stéphane with the costume from his programs "Four Seasons" at Art on Ice 2017 as well as “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” and another photo of Camillia “in action” on her skis. The MC then asked both athletes several questions, alternating between the two. Stéphane got more attention of course. J
After the athletes left, the public was given an opportunity to take photos with Yodli and to see the two “travelling” lanterns containing the Olympic flame as transported across Switzerland. It even stopped raining in the afternoon and by the end of the event, the grey sky started to clear up a little and even some of the mountains came out of the clouds.
3. Loose English translation of the parts of pianomaya’s video directly concerning Stéphane
Master of Ceremonies (MC): Wow, hello! What a pleasure… Stéphane, it is a bit of a mad rush today, but it's a pleasure. What honour and privilege to be able to light this Olympic cauldron. How does it feel to you, having participated in three Olympic Games, three Olympiads?
SL: It's heart-warming and it represents a little bit the performance and efforts of the athletes who will be in Lausanne these next weeks. I wish them all the happiness, a lot of nice performances and for the spectators to be able to enjoy (them). Good luck to all the athletes!
MC: That's nice! Bravo, Stéphane. Will you be there to coach the youth?
SL: I will be there a few days. Unfortunately, my schedule is very full. I have to prepare for the European Championships with my students so I will be sort of switching my schedule between the Games / YOG and the coaching and I will follow it on the news.
MC: Ladies and gentlemen, Stéphane Lambiel.
(then speaking with Camillia)
2nd round of questions:
MC: There are quite a number of young people today. All these young faces… they perhaps dream of participating one day in the YOG and why not later, like you, in the Olympic Games. What can you tell them, what kind of message can you give to all these young people?
SL: Well, already go watch all the competitions because it’s very inspiring to see the youth. And the youth are the champions of tomorrow and already have performances which are almost as impressive as those of the big champions seen on TV. So I encourage everyone to go see the competitions, whether curling here in Champéry or figure skating in Lausanne, or hockey. Maybe St. Moritz is a bit far but I encourage all the people on the other side of Switzerland to go see the disciplines. I'd love to be able to go see speed skating on the frozen lake, that will be magic. So this I think is the first step, to be inspired by these young people. And then the second step, to get to work and do everything in order to arrive to the top, and to outdo oneself. Because in the end, this flame is the flame that we have inside us; let it burn, ready to achieve beautiful things.
MC: And also the flame gets us excited and you thrilled us yourself...
