How is figure skating in your home country?

Tell us about the conditions and any prospective skaters we might see in competition soon. We need to know so we cheer them up and maybe sponsor them with... our great support !
How is it in Romania, Portugal, Brazil, Ukraine etc?

Well, in Canada, figure skating is obviously very good! We are very spoiled with all the opportunities we have. I do not know much about figure skating in Romania, though I skate representing my club here in Canada. We are doing senior dance tests next week. I am very nervous, and I hope I pass!! My partner is good, though. So we should be ok

But you made me think. I will look up some stuff on figure skating in Romania. Incase I ever go back and want to coach or something

xox

Figure skating....If it had been in our country it would be amazing,but I think we have only one skating rink for the whole country,anyhow the situation isn't very good But I don't stop to hope that may be one day all will change and finally...nonsense
P.S. SaraSofia,good luck for your dance tests

SaraSofia wrote:

Well, in Canada, figure skating is obviously very good! We are very spoiled with all the opportunities we have. I do not know much about figure skating in Romania, though I skate representing my club here in Canada. We are doing senior dance tests next week. I am very nervous, and I hope I pass!! My partner is good, though. So we should be ok

But you made me think. I will look up some stuff on figure skating in Romania. Incase I ever go back and want to coach or something

xox

Oh!!!!! You are a figure-skater!!!!!

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Oh!!!!! You are a figure-skater!!!!!

I am! I only started when I moved to Canada, but have been skating in shows and things ever since. I have been skating with the same partner for 6 years...I had to do ice dance because I am VERY tall for a figure skater!! (170 cms) That and I can't jump to save my life

We are spoiled with our arena. It's very nice!

Well...if i talk about France...It's obvious that there's a lot of skaters and ice rinks

But in Reunion we don't have any because of the weather we have only 2 sesons: Summer & Winter.

It's summer from October to June! And during Winter it doesn't go under 24 ° C (It's mostly around 26°/27°) so it's almost impossible to have ice rinks.

quoting Bea!

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In my country there isn't Figureskating! There is no tradition at all No one skates on the ice. There are no ice rings except one in Serra da Estrela!
But some young peolpe rollerskate, which is very popular here. No ice hockey, but there is rollerskating hockey.

Unfortunately that's the plain truth
I don't believe we will ever have real skaters like you all have!!It's so sad! ... and what's more upsetting is that lots of people here like the sport..

SaraSofia wrote:

Well, in Canada, figure skating is obviously very good! We are very spoiled with all the opportunities we have. I do not know much about figure skating in Romania, though I skate representing my club here in Canada. We are doing senior dance tests next week. I am very nervous, and I hope I pass!! My partner is good, though. So we should be ok

But you made me think. I will look up some stuff on figure skating in Romania. Incase I ever go back and want to coach or something

xox

Oh please come....
We need people and the willingness to do smth and involve in the sport. Actually the situation is not very good. I even spoke with our only girl, who was at euros and she told me that it is not possible to have performance in Romania because of the poor conditions

And there aren't skating rinks that can be used off-season...all of them are for the season.

I heard our commentators saying that there are chances to build one in the future and maybe bid for the 2010 Euros...but than, both of them admitted it's not yet possible and everything in doubtful so far.

Ahm....but to have Euros in my country is smth I will not dare to dream about. At least not in the very near future

Bea wrote:

I would like to tell you about figureskating in Brazil, but I haven't any info about it..
But, I wouldn't be too astonished if they come up with some skaters ..
They are a very huge country, so we never can say...

I doubt there's figure skating in Brazil.
But maybe we'll see someday a Brazilian skater, why not. I'm curious to know if there are ice rinks in Brazil

Vania wrote:

Bea wrote:

I would like to tell you about figureskating in Brazil, but I haven't any info about it..
But, I wouldn't be too astonished if they come up with some skaters ..
They are a very huge country, so we never can say...

I doubt there's figure skating in Brazil.
But maybe we'll see someday a Brazilian skater, why not. I'm curious to know if there are ice rinks in Brazil

Some months ago I watched figure skating competition at the winter Universiade and there was a girl from Brasil.She wasn't very good,but it doesn't matter.So the figure skating in Brasil is developing,that's very good!

All I can say is that in this country we are doing a vey big effort about winter sport..
I think young people are responding and the city of JACA is on the race to organize winter Olympics in 2010...
I think that by then we will be ready to compete, I mean really compete!


BESOS!

In Poland the situation in figuire skating is not very optimistic. After Dorota and Mariusz retired, the only hope for near future in skating is Dominika Piątkowska and Dmitri Khromin, the other pairs couple. In ice dance there are 3 couples, a little bit better situation with solo ladies and men, but the Polish champion Przemek Domański told me that he can't do the quads and probably it's to late for him to learn that, so for the next couple of years we can only dream about top ten places for our competitors.
There are 9 clubs in the county, with quite good condition, I practice a little in Katowice (not in the club but in so called "skating school") and it's quite ok there. The best club is in Oświęcim (Dorota and Mariusz come from here), but it has financial problems recently, sponsor withdrew from skating, hockey is still sponsored. And there are not many well qualified coaches.

Queridas mias,
In my last post I meant the Winter Games 2014..of course...
The W.G in 2010 are in Vancouver...



BESOS!

rosee wrote:

Well...if i talk about France...It's obvious that there's a lot of skaters and ice rinks

Yes, Rosee is right ! Many ice rinks in France, many trainers, many good clubs, many skaters...

But I can't say that the conditions are very very good for skaters. The FFSG (it means "Fédération française des sports de glace", it's the French FS fed) is the worst sporting federation in France (the best are for football, rugby, swimming and tennis). Not enough money, no good officials...
Well, conditions are better than in Romania, Bulgaria or Portugal, but it's not Russia, USA, Canada...

And we have the chance to have a GP event (Paris for seniors, Courchevel for juniors) and some galas.