European Championships 2011 in Bern (Switzerland)

I still don't know I like Kris but I realize that his technics and jumps are weak,he cannot win,I like Michael also....so I need to think.Ooo,Stephane,what can we do without you?Whom I will support?!

Yeah Stéphane will be missed and I will miss Johnny as well... I don't know who the other competitors are. If I find a list, I will update!

But Johnny is not EuropianChampionchips skater!We could have watched him on Worlds if he still compete

Right! See? My love for Johnny is blinding me (plus the amount of work!).

On another hand, a new Belgian skater will be competing. His name is Jorik Hendrickx. Our "old" Kevin Van der Perren will be there to defend our colors.

A PDF file containing the programm and schedule is available on the site previously quoted up above .

Some skaters who will compete in Bern:

Konstantin Menshov Russia
Artur Gachinski Russia
Michal Brezina Czech republik
Tomas Verner Czech republik
Brian Joubert France
Florent Amodio France
Kristoffer Berndtsson Sweden
Adrian Schultheiss Sweden
Javier Fernandez Spain
Samuel Contesti Italy
Jamal Othman Switzerland
Kevin Van den Perren Belgiun
Valtter Virtanen Finland

Please continue the list!

No Stephane, as you all know, but he will be skating at Gala!

Kevin is not bad BTW go to see the list of skaters

I checked from FSU forums: no Jamal Othman from Suidde, but Laurent Alvarez, Moris Pfeifhofer, and Stephane Walker.

Javier Raya will join Javier Fernandez from Spain.

Alban Preaubert is the 3rd guy from France.

Thank you girls! Thank you for the infos!

So here's the "practical" topic so to speak. So posting names of participants and so on... To debate (gently ) about who we would like to support/win,... I think Milana opened the right topic for this

Do you mean to make topics in "Male figure skating" ?

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Add to the Euros list -Zoltan KELEMEN ROU

I think you did it by asking us who we would support

EDIT: Ok, you completely posted something else YET very usefull! I'm sorry, I didn't look at the title the way I should have done it!

So, forget what I said! Discussions can be made HERE

It was US Nationals topic,it has a small list ))) whom we can support,in "Male figure skating" it will be wilder

Ahah yes it will! I'm totally off the wall lately, so tired that I can't see straight (and I still shouldn't be here!).

I'll be supporting my country, of course! I'm impatient to see what this Jorik can do. I'm looking forward to see Kevin too, of course. I really like Michal Brezina. And Artur Gachinski seems to be great.

I must say the excitement level will be much lower this time around, for the obvious reasons...
But I do like Florent, and from what little I have seen, Javi and Artur Gachinski may continue to impress me. I hope they will do well!! :-)

I hope Florent will place on the podium He's a very nice young man and very talented as well.

Florent really has "it", doesn't he? Very good skating skills, and boy he's a entertainer!

I know, that I'm going to be nervouse because of Brian Joubert. I wait his skating in Europeans.

I've always had a complicated "relationship" when it comes to Brian, really. I was a HUGE fan of Yagudin and when I was younger, I thought Brian wanted to stole his footwork sequences and so on... So I always kind of disliked him for the wrong reasons apparently xD. Because technically, he is good. Only a fool would say otherwise.

Florent has something the other "young" upcoming skaters doesn't. I haven't put my finger on it yet. But he's special, that's certain.

Jersey_Fierce wrote:

I've always had a complicated "relationship" when it comes to Brian, really. I was a HUGE fan of Yagudin and when I was younger, I thought Brian wanted to stole his footwork sequences and so on... So I always kind of disliked him for the wrong reasons apparently xD. Because technically, he is good. Only a fool would say otherwise.

Florent has something the other "young" upcoming skaters doesn't. I haven't put my finger on it yet. But he's special, that's certain.

When Brian first burst onto the scene, I thought exactly like you did, Julie! He was so "Yagudin" that I couldn't like him right away, because he looked like a copy or something. But he's very good looking guy and a great skater anyway! For me, he has always been in shade of Stephane, though, because I really prefer "artistic skating style" to "technical". Brian's technical skating can be very entertaining though!

I hated him at first because he was so self-sufficient. He also was choregraphed by Yagudin, a few months before Alexeï stopped competing so I thought it was all Brian's fault! Poor Brian xD. Oh, I was 13.

As for the good looking, he's not my type but that's a personnal aspect. He's a very good skater but the ancient hatred still remains and everytime I see him skate, I can't help but hope he'll fall... I'm such a bad girl .

Brian is very nice but not my type,definitely,he doesn't rouse my imagination,don't know whom to choose to be nervous about on Euros,I think I'll be calm

I'm nervous because I can't trust Brian's style. He falling down so easily, lol.

He is *straighteverybody'sfavouriteguy* and he touch my normal side in my soul.

Mostly I like men like Johnny & Stéphane. But I have many taste!

Like you guys I didn't particularly care for Brian before, I don't know his skating seemed too mechanical, never seemed very natural like Stephan's (it becomes very clear during the 4 kings performance when they are doing the same choreography side by side...). But in the recent years I started to feel sorry for him because he always has a miserable outing during big events falling all over the place, now I start to wish some better luck for him...

LiandOllie wrote:

Like you guys I didn't particularly care for Brian before, I don't know his skating seemed too mechanical, never seemed very natural like Stephan's (it becomes very clear during the 4 kings performance when they are doing the same choreography side by side...). But in the recent years I started to feel sorry for him because he always has a miserable outing during big events falling all over the place, now I start to wish some better luck for him...

Exactly how I feel, Licia! And, when he is on, he can be very good, too!

*When he is on*