29th of march

"Bulgaria Jubilates World Skating Champions

Sports
Bulgaria welcomed World Skating Champions, Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski, who brought the nation's first gold medals on the ice.

Over 70 people, relatives, friends and fans, gathered at Sofia airport to give a hearty welcome to Albena and Maxim.

You made history in that sport for Bulgaria, Vessela Lecheva, chair of Bulgaria's Sports Agency said at the airport.

Albena and Maxim expressed their gratitude to Bulgaria's President Parvanov, Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev. We are really happy to bring joy to us and to all figure skating fans. The whole fight was definitely worth it, Albena pointed out.

The champs modestly said that they are still not used to the title, underlining that they were really surprised by the victory.

Our dreams came true with the world title, I have to say that it was a chimera for us, we were afraid to dream of it, Albena added.

The world champions are still not sure whether they are to give up skating. I don't know, we will have to take a good rest and seriously think it over, Albena Denkov said. We know that it would be very hard for us to compete over the next year, her partner Maxim added.

Partners since 1996, the ice dancers of Bulgaria own all of their country's medals at worlds and European championships. They received the silver medal at the 2004 World championships in Germany and took bronze at the 2003 championships in Washington, US.

Last Friday they added gold after fabulous performance in Calgary, Canada."


(from novinite.com)

another article.
and i have also a photo related to it. it's albena and maxim in the airport, but i have to figure out how to post the link here...

i'll put the photos int the photo section

enjoy

Hola Alexandra!
Thanks for the article!. I am so happy that they wre received in triumph in Sofia . They do deserve it!!

But I am a bit sad because they say that they are not sure about skating next here .
They say that they ae going to think it over!
I hope they reconsider, but, we have to respect their decision!!

Dear, I don't know how to post links here either

I was never very good with this ind of stuff.

If you figure it out, please let me know .

Thanks for the article, Alexandra!!! I hadn't seen it, yet.

To post links it is very simple. You write [url] write the link here [/url]. This should work, I hope.

i've send the photos through yousendit.com

i was thinking: if it works with videos it has to work with photos as well. so, i did like this. and it's working

i would be very, very sad if they will retire. but as you said. it is their decision and i'm gonna respect it. and also encourage them to do whatever makes them happy, keeps them safe and makes their dreams come true.

albena and maxim said they do not belive yet they won. it is still new to them and they did not dared to dream about this. i can understan why they did not dared to do that. remember we were the same when we talked in GB. we were afraid, i imgine they felt twice as bad. but now, they have to belive and get used with this. they are winners, champions...they deserved to win for such a long time.

i hope they will dance in the next season...i'd like that so much

you're welcome

next time i'll check the link issue