siberia82
Number of posts : 97 Location : Canada Registration date : 2010-11-21
| Subject: 2009 Swedish Nationals Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:38 am | |
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siberia82
Number of posts : 97 Location : Canada Registration date : 2010-11-21
| Subject: Re: 2009 Swedish Nationals Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:32 am | |
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2009 Swedish Male Skaters News (SVT) 26.35 MB
Orion from GoldenSkate was kind enough to provide an English translation for the news clip! Speaker: Who will get the desirable ticket to the Olympic Games? The competition is stimulating but is it on equal terms?
Official: According to the criteria set by the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK), two of the skaters are already eligible. They are Alexander Majorov and Adrian Schultheiss.
Speaker: However, not Kristoffer Berntsson. He who has been the greatest figure skating star in Sweden for many years.
Official: We will only send him to the Olympics if he has a chance to medal. Thus the European Championships will be a very important competition to prove himself.
Speaker: Alexander Majorov, the youngest of the three skaters, 18 years old, had a small chance to make it but a couple of minor mistakes destroyed the chances for this up-and-coming skater. And then there were only two left, fighting over one ticket to the Olympics.
Alexander: Kristoffer is the most experienced one, but right now Adrian is the better skater. There's no doubt about that.
Interviewer: How is he the better skater?
Alexander: His jumps are better and that's what counts in figureskating. Presentation doesn't count for much, you only get a few points for that.
Speaker: Adrian Schultheiss - he likes to be different, to stand out on the ice. In his new long program he acts schizophrenic and crazy. He is a good technician and jumper. During the warmup he nailed a quadruple. Kristoffer Berntsson is the most experienced of the two. Good in the presentation of his programs. Here he is on his way to his fourth consecutive Swedish gold medal win. However, that is not enough to procure him a ticket to the Olympics.
Kristoffer: The Olympics is my dream and it is what is driving me on every day - when I'm skating, when I'm at the skating rink, when I'm running, when I do weightlifting - all the time - to push that extra mile, get those extra few percent out of me - which is what is needed to be able to skate this well.
Speaker: The European Championships will now be the deciding factor in who gets the only ticket to the Olympics.
Adrian: I hope it will be a great European Championships for both me and Kristoffer and we will fight for the one place to the Olympics there. I think it's the right place to decide who's really the best because the judges in Sweden sometimes have a favorite they're pushing for.
Interviewer: Kristoffer has a much tougher road to get to Vancouver than Adrian, for instance?
Official: Yes, because he is already 27 and when we get to Sochi, he would be 31 and it's doubtful whether he'll continue that long.
Kristoffer: (shrugging and sighing) Of course, I'm dreaming about going to the Olympics, but I don't want to take out anything in advance. I only concentrate on what I can do, then we'll see what the judges say and what the Swedish Olympic Committee will say. | |
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