Winter Olympics 2010, Vancouver

The Winter Olympics in Vancouver / CAN will begin in some days , and Albena and Maxim (hopefully) will be there with Brian Joubert .
We hope for fantastic Winter Games in figure skating, for many good programmes (especially for two fantastic programmes without mistakes of Brian ), and for at least some photos of Albena and Maxim in Vancouver !

MAY THE BEST SKATERS WIN THE MEDALS!
EQUAL FROM WHICH COUNTRY THEY ARE!

Here´s the schedule for the figure skating events (in Vancouver time):
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-figure-skating-schedule-results/

Petra wrote:

The Winter Olympics in Vancouver / CAN will begin in some days , and Albena and Maxim (hopefully) will be there with Brian Joubert .
We hope for fantastic Winter Games in figure skating, for many good programmes (especially for two fantastic programmes without mistakes of Brian ), and for at least some photos of Albena and Maxim in Vancouver !

MAY THE BEST SKATERS WIN THE MEDALS!
EQUAL FROM WHICH COUNTRY THEY ARE!

Here´s the schedule for the figure skating events (in Vancouver time):
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-figure-skating-schedule-results/

Are you sure THEY will be there? Do they have accreditations? (I read about a limited amount of them). Tell me, you are sure!!!!

Well, most of the routines begin at about 4 a.m. Moscow time - so I think I'm going be become an early riser! (and biathlon will be at about midnight - that's so unfair - I won't be able to see a lot of biathlon events)

As far as I know they have accreditations...
Hm, I hope I´m not soooo wrong and don´t mix something now...
I think somewhere long ago we have had an article about their accreditation for Olympics..
But I´m not 100% sure, because they are listed for IceAge shows at the same time.

Vala, therefore I wrote:

Petra wrote:

(hopefully)

P.S.: And if it really turns out that they are not there, then Vania can easily move this topic elsewhere...

Vala! I found the post I long ago made because of their accreditation for Vancouver! The original post is in the "Choreographer-topic"!

Here´s the scan of my post:

Quote :

Subject: Re: Albena and Maxim as choreographers / coaches ))) Sat 21 Nov - 22:14

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Albena and Maxim received an accreditation for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver!!! By the French skating federation ! They will be in Vancouver with Joubert!!!

http://gong.bg/view_article.php?article_id=103351

Translation by google:
"Albena and Maxim in Vancouver
by Irina Tzekova / November 18, 2009 17:10
Bulgaria will still attend the Olympic figure skating tournament in Vancouver, where it presented twice by the dance world champions Albena Denkova and Maxim Stavisky. The duet is accredited, by the French Federation.
Albena and Maxim are working this season as the star choreographers of Brian Joubert, one of the contenders for Olympic gold in men. Denkova and Staviski spend more time in France and only fly to Moscow to participate in "Ice Age".
French specialists appreciate the work of our couple dance, which is considered a pioneer in modern figure skating choreography. Some maintain that came up with Albena and Maxim are still hit and dance for their voluntary second world title in Tokyo `07 went into the history of ice sports.
Now Brian Joubert will interpret their work, the question is whether it will succeed to play the ideas of our great champions."

Thank you, Petra!!!!

Petra, thanks for the schedule! Very useful!
Yes, Vala, unfortunately the competitions are too late (or early) European time, and this time, since A&M don't compete, I have no reason to wake up early , as in Calgary, when the competition started at about 2 a.m.... I presume Eurosport will broadcast the most interesting also in daytime, not only in the nights...

And me too, I think Albena and Max will be there

Vania wrote:

Petra, thanks for the schedule! Very useful!
Yes, Vala, unfortunately the competitions are too late (or early) European time, and this time, since A&M don't compete, I have no reason to wake up early , as in Calgary, when the competition started at about 2 a.m.... I presume Eurosport will broadcast the most interesting also in daytime, not only in the nights...

And me too, I think Albena and Max will be there

So, I can't believe you, Vanechka, you won't wake up so see A&M near Joubert???? That's a shame!

Oh, Calgary... I remember that for some reason I couldn't see the Free Dance life and when I switched on the recorder the first thing I saw was Belbin and Agosto on the podium.

I think I'll stay awake for men and dances :

Off - Vanechka - I began to study Bulgarian!!!!

Russian posters write that Brian tomorrow will leave for Vancouver. With Maxim. About Albena they did not write... But I presume she will be there too. Normally where one of them is going to, the other one is going to too...

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

So, I can't believe you, Vanechka, you won't wake up so see A&M near Joubert???? That's a shame!

...
Off - Vanechka - I began to study Bulgarian!!!!

Hm... Maybe I will Maybe I'll take a few days of holiday (I have some days left from last year) and I'll sleep in the day, so I could stay awake in the nights and watch the Olympics !

Wow, Vala, you began to study Bulgarian! Great! If you need help - you can ask me! I'll be glad to help you (sorry for the off-topic! )

It seems it will be possible to watch the Olympics here live .
That´s good to know for countries with nearly no figure skating broadcast from Olympics!

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/

Thanks to Brian´s forum for the link!

It only works for users from Europe! (Sorry for all the others!)
If you want to know when they broadcast the different sport events, click here:

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/epg/index.html

and then click through the different dates. When you have found the event you want to watch there in the same info-line is given the broadcast channel. You can choose the right channel by clicking on the first link I gave in this post. Then scroll to the bottom of the page that opens. There you will find the channel. Click on it and it should work!

http://www.24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=375148 (in Bulgarian)

Translation by google:
"Albena and Maxim travel will travel at weekend
Albena Denkova and Maxim Stavisky will travel to Vancouver at the end of the week. Double world champion in figure skating of ice dancing in a few months prepared the choreography of the French title hope for Brian Joubert. Former gold medalist at the world is still recovering from a leg injury received in training. According to this one can estimate that Joubert is not sufficiently strong mentality and this may prevent him from fighting with Evgeni Plushenko, Evan Lisachek, Stephane Lambiel and others in Vancouver.
Denkova and Staviski are still in Poitiers, where they train Brian. Bulgarian couple previously had holdings in several galaprograms.
For gold is tight Tannith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto. American dance couple rely on specialists Natalia Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov with which Albena and Maxim won the title. (24 hours)"

The Olympics start tonight!
Good luck to all the athletes! And especially to Albena&Max! I wish them that Brian brings them an olympic medal!

Good luck to all, best skating for Brian with medal and wonderful time for Albenka and Max .

I'm watching the opening ceremony now, although Eurosport didn't broadcast the entire ceremony... It's a shame I love to watch the parade of the nations (and love the choice of Switzerland and Belgium for flag-bearers )

It was exciting to see Stephane Lambiel carrying the Swiss flag ahead of his fellow countrymen in the opening ceremonies.

The television commentator did not even mention it. I'm thinking he was not familiar with many of the Olympians.

None of the other skaters were flag bearers for their countries.

joyva wrote:

None of the other skaters were flag bearers for their countries.

Yes, except of Stéphane and Kevin. I think there was another skater, from North Korea, but I've never heard his name .

Edit:
The full list of the flag-bearers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics_national_flag_bearers
Somehow, I was expecting to see Bjoerndalen with the Norwegian flag , but it wasn't him...

Vania wrote:

joyva wrote:

None of the other skaters were flag bearers for their countries.

Yes, except of Stéphane and Kevin. I think there was another skater, from North Korea, but I've never heard his name .

Edit:
The full list of the flag-bearers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics_national_flag_bearers
Somehow, I was expecting to see Bjoerndalen with the Norwegian flag , but it wasn't him...

Julia Sebestyen, Hungary...

A link to the participants in figure skating !

http://www.isuresults.com/results/owg2010/index.htm

P.S.: Brian has arrived in Vancouver yesterday and has had his first practice on the ice today...

Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy yesterday have had a little training accident on the ice . One of Alionas skates cut into Robins hand...
They had to stop training , but later said that it had looked worser as it is. They say nothing bad has happened ! And Robin said the cut will not handicap him during SP and LP !

Goooooo!

piemontesina wrote:

Vania wrote:

joyva wrote:

None of the other skaters were flag bearers for their countries.

Yes, except of Stéphane and Kevin. I think there was another skater, from North Korea, but I've never heard his name .

Edit:
The full list of the flag-bearers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics_national_flag_bearers
Somehow, I was expecting to see Bjoerndalen with the Norwegian flag , but it wasn't him...

Julia Sebestyen, Hungary...

Alexandra Zaretsky, Israel...

Petra wrote:

Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy yesterday have had a little training accident on the ice . One of Alionas skates cut into Robins hand...
They had to stop training , but later said that it had looked worser as it is. They say nothing bad has happened ! And Robin said the cut will not handicap him during SP and LP !

Goooooo!

Petra, I am sure they will be great!!!

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Julia Sebestyen, Hungary...


Alexandra Zaretsky, Israel...

Eurosport didn't broadcast this part .

I'm watching now the pairs SP. Aliona and Robin are second, but only 0,70 points behind Good luck to them, tonight!

This is the start list for the men's SP:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-figure-skating/schedule-and-results/men-short-program_fsm010201uH.html

On the site of the OPG there are quizzes for all the sports, with new questions every day.
this is the figure skating quiz

http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-quiz/figure-skating-quiz_233734KF.html

Result pairs after SP:

1. SHEN Xue / ZHAO Hongbo CHN 76.66
2. SAVCHENKO Aliona / SZOLKOWY Robin GER 75.96
3. KAVAGUTI Yuko / SMIRNOV Alexander RUS 74.16
4. PANG Qing / TONG Jian CHN 71.50
5. ZHANG Dan / ZHANG Hao CHN 71.28
6. DUBE Jessica / DAVISON Bryce CAN 65.36
7. LANGLOIS Anabelle / HAY Cody CAN 64.20
8. MUKHORTOVA Maria / TRANKOV Maxim RUS 63.44
9. VOLOSOZHAR Tatiana / MOROZOV Stanislav UKR 62.14
10.EVORA Amanda / LADWIG Mark USA 57.86
11.DELLA MONICA Nicole / KOCON Yannick ITA 56.82
12.BAZAROVA Vera / LARIONOV Yuri RUS 56.54
13.MORAND Anais / DORSAZ Antoine SUI 55.34
14.DENNEY Caydee / BARRETT Jeremy USA 53.26
15.JAMES Vanessa / BONHEUR Yannick FRA 51.16
16.KEMP Stacey / KING David GBR 48.28
17.HAUSCH Maylin / WENDE Daniel GER 45.46
18.SERGEJEVA Maria / GLEBOV Ilja EST 42.18
19.KOSTENKO Ekaterina / TALAN Roman UKR 39.54
20.SULEJ Joanna / CHRUSCINSKI Mateusz POL 39.30

Petra wrote:

Result pairs after SP:

1. SHEN Xue / ZHAO Hongbo CHN 76.66
2. SAVCHENKO Aliona / SZOLKOWY Robin GER 75.96
3. KAVAGUTI Yuko / SMIRNOV Alexander RUS 74.16
4. PANG Qing / TONG Jian CHN 71.50
5. ZHANG Dan / ZHANG Hao CHN 71.28
6. DUBE Jessica / DAVISON Bryce CAN 65.36
7. LANGLOIS Anabelle / HAY Cody CAN 64.20
8. MUKHORTOVA Maria / TRANKOV Maxim RUS 63.44
9. VOLOSOZHAR Tatiana / MOROZOV Stanislav UKR 62.14
10.EVORA Amanda / LADWIG Mark USA 57.86
11.DELLA MONICA Nicole / KOCON Yannick ITA 56.82
12.BAZAROVA Vera / LARIONOV Yuri RUS 56.54
13.MORAND Anais / DORSAZ Antoine SUI 55.34
14.DENNEY Caydee / BARRETT Jeremy USA 53.26
15.JAMES Vanessa / BONHEUR Yannick FRA 51.16
16.KEMP Stacey / KING David GBR 48.28
17.HAUSCH Maylin / WENDE Daniel GER 45.46
18.SERGEJEVA Maria / GLEBOV Ilja EST 42.18
19.KOSTENKO Ekaterina / TALAN Roman UKR 39.54
20.SULEJ Joanna / CHRUSCINSKI Mateusz POL 39.30

It's thrilling !!!
But you must feel confident, they are in fine form!!