Brian Joubert wants to defend his title

[evplu]

On 3.3 there was a press conferece in Poitiers which sad that Brian will defenitly come to Göteborg.

He isn´t in his top form (70 %)

But he is optimistic to skate better than in Zagreb


here is an article in french


http://actualite.aol.fr/sport/mondi...cle_cat/article_titre/article_id/article.html

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

If there are no health problems, I would be happy to see Brian skate Worlds. He's one of the Four Horesemen: Brian, Tomas, Daisuke and Lambiel, all of whom, I can safely pick - one of them will win. Who? dunno!

Others making this an exciting contest: Johnny, Evan, Jeffree, Patrick, Sergei, Stephen.

There you have the top four in no particular order. You also have the next top six in no particular order.

I don't think anyone can put these ten in the resulting order.

Joe

Added later: I forgot Kevin v.d.p. He could easily sneed in the top ten and oust, Stephen or Sergei;

 

[skatergirl45]

In attempt to translate the article(my french class isn't for nothing!!!), I want to say that Brain says that he is feeling better than the start of the season but his stomach continues to plague him. The second half of the article(I belive lol) is about his girlfriend Valentina.........

 

[evplu]

He sad that he has found his form again.

He was by the doctors because of the problem with his coronary arteries.

The test was good but his mother mentioned that he must take care of his heart.
It is neccesary to continure the controlls. That sounds sensíbly

But it seemed that isn´t serious anymore.

His girlfriend Valentina stay for a week-end with him in Poitiers. He is really lucky about it.

 

[Medusa]

Les examens médicaux pratiqués après ses ennuis de santé de début de saison qui ont révélé un épaississement des artères coronaires ont été positifs mais "il doit continuer à surveiller son coeur", précise sa mère, Raymonde Joubert.

Okay, the article may say that the examinations produced positive results overall - but can I still be worried? Because that kind of illness in a 23-year-old is really scary - the possible causes that come into my mind are that it is a genetic condition, in which case he has a big problem for the rest of his career/life - or that he didn't just suffer a muscle inflammation during his viral infection in autumn but also some kind of vasculitis which could cause his condition, in that case he should rest and rest and rest...

 

[kandidy]

His body is so prone to illness. He has to remove one of his kidney when he was a child. Last year, still infected with unidentified virus. Poor man, I eally like his James Bond^^.

 

[evplu]

The heart problems come from the virusinfection.

I´m worried too.
He get a sponser this year. I belive that he try to compete for this reason.

In his age it is really horrible! Maybe he can skate but there will be a live after skating.

I think we all will see his condition in Göteborg.

I wish him all the best but at first full recovery from the virus!!!!!!

 

[merrybari]

This is such sad news. I hope he will take the time he needs to completely heal, but it doesn't sound like he plans to do that.

You are so right - there is a life after skating. He needs to take care of his long-term health.

This is very worrisome.

Best wishes to Brian for health and healing.

 

[Audrey19]

That doesn't sound good... I just hope he stays realistic and doesn't overestimate his physical abilities! If he doesn't take the time for a full recovery, who knows what could happen? Hopefully he's reasonnable enough to be aware of the possible consequences. Better skipping worlds than having long-term and serious health problems.
I wish him a fast recovery!

 

[evplu]

I have read in another article that he is really optimistic for the worls.

The last medical tests were poitive and he belive that he will be in 100% top form at the long programm.

At the moment he has only 70% but he belive that the rest will come in a week.

I don´t know, i think his mother who loves him reallly much is more worried about his health than him.


Maybe they are only careful and there is no serious problem anymore.
No doctor can let him skate if it could damage his heart!

I hope so!

I love his skating and I will be in Göteborg!
But I like him too as a person, so the health is more important!
I watch him skating since he was 17 years old.

I belive that his mother will take care of him

 

[Tinymavy15]

I really doubt that he could win again, esp with this very sad illness. Such a pity, becasue I really think Brian was improving this year, his SP was diffrent, I think Kurt Browning really helped him there, footwork much faster and more difficult. I think it would have been a good season for him.

get welll soon brian.remeber that 2010 is more important than 2008.

 

[NatachaHatawa]

I've been following Brian's career for ages and I know how he can just pick himself up and skate brilliantly, even ill.
Brian has been very stressed since the beginning of the season, because he knows that at some point someone's gonna beat him as no'one is invincible. This happended at the Euros and what's more, he was beaten not by one, but by two other guys. I hope that this defeat relieved a lot of the stress Brian had.

Although Brian is never honest to others about his condition ( he always says he's ready, just to put pressure on the other competitors) sometimes he isn't honest with himself, which is quite worrying. This was the case during the olympic season - a season of lying to himself resulted in his sixth place. However, Brian has matured and at the last Euros he didn't lie to himself about his condition, so that's positive.

Brian also underestimates his competitors. He is right in seeing Daisuke and Stéphane as his main adverseries, but he dissmisses Tomas, which is a mistake. Brian needs to give himself a specific person to fight against, but when his main contender turns out to be someone he didn't think of, this often stresses him and makes him blunder. It's also the same when he doesn't have any of those main contnders against him at all. He fears to be beaten by someone whome he shouldn't be beaten by, and then his skating goes pear-shaped because of that stress. That was partly what happended at the 05 worlds. He was expecting to have to fight against Plushenko for the title, but not only did the latter drop out, but he was against an increasingly favorite Lambiel, who, two months before at the Euros, wasn't considered as someone who could challenge Brian. But as I said, Brian has matured, and he handles stress better than before.

I'd love to see Brian become world champ again, but if it's gonna happen, Brian's going to have to give it all he's got, and fight as if he were against his old ennemy, Plushenko.

 

[Jennifer Lyon]

This year's gold medal is up for grabs. Brian has a pretty good shot at it, but so do a lot of the other guys. I expect we'll see some surprises on the podium.