France Figure Skating Team in Nice
France Skating team sets Nice ice rink on fire
At three months from the Skating World Championships to be held in Nice from 26 March to 1 April, 2012, the champions of the France Figure Skating team have filled of enthusiasm a large audience of Nice people who came to admire, on the ice of the Christmas village, the demonstration their immense talent. On December 20, this true recital as a preview offered a foretaste of next spring hostilities.
During the press briefing, members of the France team have shown very relaxed and smiling in front of the journalists. All were very motivated, energized by the good atmosphere and the momentum that exists within the team. Humorously or seriously, depending on the issues, the Blues have recounted the difficulties of building a career, of studying, but also the satisfaction of being a champion and wanting to achieve great performance. The hope of winning medals would be the happy result of all those hours spent practicing relentlessly but with great pleasure to make happy an audience who came to encourage them. Brian Joubert, aged 27, French number one and leader of this team, already has 16 medals including, European and World titles, among which an eighth national title won last weekend, said it was important to make contact and to introduce to the Nice public, to feel a little like home. Brian Joubert feels in great shape, with the realization of his new title of champion of France, he told he felt again good sensations on the ice with good performances: "The first date is the European Championship in one month, I so feel on the right track and I must continue working to achieve, there is not much to change, I must keep this intensity, I should be able to do it. The World Championships arrive just after, they will come very quickly, it is the main goal this season, and even a very important goal for my career, for the career of French skaters. We have to be at the rendezvous, it will work, we will do everything to. The fact that this happens before a French audience that we already know that will support us, I think it will give us wings. It can bring pressure, from the moment we know that we did gave us the means during preparation, if we know we are not fully prepared, so it's for us to work and if we are ready, this will be only happiness! We are now in a little complicated period because of Christmas and New Year's Eve, we want to relax but mustn't, we have to keep our head in the handlebar. For the World Championship, I want to present major difficulties, such as the quadruple jump, adding a second quadruple jump, both in the short program or free one that I work during my workouts. I miss a little more regularity now. I feel good sensations thanks to the Championship of France feelings, that I had not felt for 2 years. I experienced very difficult times where I did not know if I was made for the competition or the top level and when you ask such questions, is not easy, but now I do not look back but in front of me. I tried to change things in my way of being, in my behavior, I just relativizes. I know especially that I'm nearing retirement, I have two years to hold and have no regrets, I want a one hundred percent commitment in these two last seasons. "
With his experience and his titles, 2007 World Champion Brian Joubert says he has nothing left to prove, just the desire to make people happy to see him skate and win. He added, "I want to give young people the desire to practice this discipline, I want to restart the France team tours and organize galas throughout France. These World Championships will help me."
For its part Nathalie Pechalat (dancing in couple with Fabien Bourzat) said: "Being two is not obvious. Occasionally I need a psychic help to manage this aspect, and regrets that at the Olympics, 20 years of work are judged on 4 minutes".
Fabien Bourzat said: "We have gone training to Moscow and the United States. It's nice to have another look at the sport." Ciprés Morgan: "We hope that Nice ice rink will be full, to encourage us." Bernice Mae Méité: "The violin, ballet... I had to stop everything for skating. With the S terminal, I had more time. "
The couple Vanessa and James Morgan Ciprés opened the gala, followed by the sparkling Mae Berenice Meite. The very promising couple Nathalie Péchelat and Fabien Bourzat, 2011 European champion, have delighted the public, who relentlessly cheer each of their sequences. Brian Joubert for his part, assured the final, skating with a disconcerting grace and lightness, including a brilliantly executed quadruple jump and a double axel.
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