(one of the comments from instagram):
Thank you for a wonderful show! It was surreal watching you perform under all that rain! :clapper: :clapper: :clapper: Bravo!
Channel One tells about their skating in the rain in Verona:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0tYhH-cYE
NTV
(NTV is one more reputable TV channel):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHSqDADGgk&t=5m55s
Yagudin tells on this video, that they were ready to ask the audience whether they should skate or not - to ask to show thumbs up or thumbs down.
an Italian video:
https://www.rainews.it/tgr/veneto/v...gno-ad6ac015-2f28-461f-814f-281ba8843de0.html
They translated some texts, but most of the texts were in Russian.
Famous singer Toto Cutugno was also invited to sing after the performance, he even sang in Russian.
averbukhofficial: They say life gives us only those difficulties which we can overcome. Before yesterday I couldn't imagine, that we could cope with such a stressful situation. We've been preparing to the performance in Verona for nearly a year. I've been keeping myself informed about weather outlook during last month. I kept coming here by plane almost every week, and always the sun was bright. But of course, yesterday Verona was filled up with rain. I'm afraid I can't find the words to tell what was it like for us yesterday. Yet today I want to thank the audience very much - we had more than 8000 viewers. You've been waiting at the entrance for about 2 hours, you steadfastly endured the whole performance, and then you were standing to greet our guys.
I couldn't believe my eyes: in the end you got up, but you didn't hurry to get somewhere where you could warm yourselves, - you got up to show us your respect. Bravo to you!
My team - if you were not assused we could do it guys, I don't know what could be. I was looking for my fear in your eyes, but each of you was saying: "Ilya, we'll do it!" All the technical staff, administration team, the director of the project Ekaterina Tsanava, for whom the project in Verona has been all her life for half a year (to a large extent we should thank her that we performed here). All of you instilled confidence in me that we shouldn't change the date. All of you were ready to go to the ice, even though the ice wasn't ready, you were ready to skate in the driving rain. I want to thank you again and again.
We have conquered the summit which seemed to be a fairy tale a year ago. Now nothing can scare us for sure.
Vivat Verona! Vivat Italy! Thank you, that you let us show what we can do. And of course, we thank the @russian.seasons festival, we were a part of it. I always believed there would be a day, when our work would be taken as an art. This is my main victory. See you in Turin, now nothing can scare us!
katiaagordeeva: It was always amazing for me how Ilya Averbukh and Katya Tsanava helped their team out of any difficult situations! If a trouble doesn't break us, it makes us stronger! You become stronger and stronger. More professed! Congratulations!! I wasn't there, I didn't see you.. but I felt! Awesome!! I'm really happy for you!! :clapper: :clapper: :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BopX5ySgTUo/
Artemiy Marinin skates in the "Nutcracker" in Sochi. Maxim Marinin says it was his (Maxim's) idea. He says Artemiy has become better as a skater, so now Maxim isn't shy to show him.
Averbukh thinks, that "The Nutcracker" in Sochi is successful as well, so he adds 2 more shows in September: September 2 and September 16.
