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- Feb 24, 2012
It is off season and while we wait for the Olympic season to begins I was thinking (and googling/youtubing) the characters of skating. And there are a lot. They may not have a gold medal necessarily but there are tonnes of interesting characters. Not always good and often infamous but nonetheless interesting.
Here are some of mine.
Toller Cranston - on and off the ice he had the fiery temperment and made bold statements and sometimes on the canvas as well. He skated and speaks with emotion and reckless abandon.
Midori Ito - not only huge jumps and the triple axel but a cute and infectious personality.
Oksana/Pasha Grtischuk - She was a diva, she was a soap opera on ice queen and she stireed up trouble all the time and in the end thought she was bigger than she actually was from her Marilyn Monroe impesonation attempt, to villainizing the orphan waif Oksana Baiul and of course her relationship with the married Zhulin and the homebody Usova cat fight or soup fight only topped by her outlandish behaviour and statements well she was the real thing or diva!
Bowman the Showman - Christopher. He was reckless. He was dangerous. He was playful and sexy. You loved him. You hated him and he died a tragic death. He lived on the edge - too bad he slipped off way too early.
Surya Bonaly - she became famous for her athleticism, her creative movie of the week story only found out to be made up, and of course she caused a stir when she felt she had been robbed of world gold. Unapologetic and at the same time perhaps the victim of a skating mom - wow.
Tonya Harding - she was not your every day princess from smoking to her dress to her wild life ways. Great jumps over powered by bad behaviour.
Nicolai Morozov - he was really not much of a player when it came to skater but he was when it came to coaching,choreography and of course courting woman - young skating women in particular. Sadly often his relationships overshadowed his success as a coach/choreographer.
Johnny Weir(d) - Johnny is a flamboyant peacock that loves his feathers, sequins and designer bags. he is over the top. He does not know how to reign it in. Subtlety is not his thing. He is a diva in his own right and mind.
Tarasova - the diva coach who knows what she wants, how she sees it and what she expects!
Emanual Sandu - maybe he was the original Johnny Weir. Tempermental. Dramatic. ARtistic fiery temper. He never got over not going to the olympics on his first chance.
Here are some of mine.
Toller Cranston - on and off the ice he had the fiery temperment and made bold statements and sometimes on the canvas as well. He skated and speaks with emotion and reckless abandon.
Midori Ito - not only huge jumps and the triple axel but a cute and infectious personality.
Oksana/Pasha Grtischuk - She was a diva, she was a soap opera on ice queen and she stireed up trouble all the time and in the end thought she was bigger than she actually was from her Marilyn Monroe impesonation attempt, to villainizing the orphan waif Oksana Baiul and of course her relationship with the married Zhulin and the homebody Usova cat fight or soup fight only topped by her outlandish behaviour and statements well she was the real thing or diva!
Bowman the Showman - Christopher. He was reckless. He was dangerous. He was playful and sexy. You loved him. You hated him and he died a tragic death. He lived on the edge - too bad he slipped off way too early.
Surya Bonaly - she became famous for her athleticism, her creative movie of the week story only found out to be made up, and of course she caused a stir when she felt she had been robbed of world gold. Unapologetic and at the same time perhaps the victim of a skating mom - wow.
Tonya Harding - she was not your every day princess from smoking to her dress to her wild life ways. Great jumps over powered by bad behaviour.
Nicolai Morozov - he was really not much of a player when it came to skater but he was when it came to coaching,choreography and of course courting woman - young skating women in particular. Sadly often his relationships overshadowed his success as a coach/choreographer.
Johnny Weir(d) - Johnny is a flamboyant peacock that loves his feathers, sequins and designer bags. he is over the top. He does not know how to reign it in. Subtlety is not his thing. He is a diva in his own right and mind.
Tarasova - the diva coach who knows what she wants, how she sees it and what she expects!
Emanual Sandu - maybe he was the original Johnny Weir. Tempermental. Dramatic. ARtistic fiery temper. He never got over not going to the olympics on his first chance.
, when she is over the top with the drama in the program while doing zero transitions and she expects all the PCS, when she is look at how good I am now I've fixed my flutz and my underrotation issues:rofl2:
