Day 2 started out pretty busy for me. I went in early at around 3pm (my shift actually started at 3:45pm) and was put immediately to work. The 3 China pairs had just finished skating so the venue was crawling with Chinese media people. I’m sort of sad that I missed watching them skate but I’m sure I’ll get another opportunity too. The next group had the famous pair from Germany, the World Champions. I think their names are Alona and Robin (last names are purposely omitted as they are long, complicated and foreign). I think something was wrong as they didn’t stay on the ice for too long, but from what I was able to see they were pretty good. The other pairs on the ice clearly have to improve a great deal to compete with them. After the pairs left, it got pretty quiet for a while. The men were able to practice for the rest of the night. There was a guy from Kazakhstan and his jumps were pretty impressive, although I had more fun saying “Kazakhstan” all night. The next group of men skaters were from Romania (the same guy as from my last post) and a guy from Germany (Stefan something). Stefan was a pretty solid skater and landed some impressive jumps and combinations. BREZINA was back again for another practice run and I was rink side all through his practice (I was pretty much rink side for most of the men’s practices). He managed to land 3 perfect quadruple toe jumps. It was pretty fantastic to be able to watch him do that about 8 feet away from me. My shift ended early due to the lack of athletes, but I think that will change during my next shift where pre-practices are done and real practices start. I can’t wait!
Sorry for the short post, but homework awaits.
