Evening With Champions

[Ptichka]

All right, so perhaps it was a little unfair of me to suggest anything about Katya and Ilya. It's just that after the skates of Cousins, Gordeeva, and Kulik the audience was going crazy, but cerainly in the mood to see more. The mood after the Protopopovs' skate was such that it was very hard to get back to seeing others' skate.

 

[lulu]

In the photo you saw, did it show if both Katia and Daria were wearing the same footwear? If Katia was in skates and Daria in shoes, that would make Daria look just about as tall as Katia. Also, when I saw Daria last March, she was standing next to Artur Dmitriev's son, who is about 16, IIRC, and at least as tall as Kulik, who is 5'11. And no, to all who may be--are certainly, lol--wondering about any that might be blossoming between Daria and Artur's son, I don't know of nor have heard of any rumors to that effect. All I heard is that his nickname is ArturD2, a la "Star Wars."

Rgirl

Hi Rgirl
Artur jr. is 13 years old, the same age as Daria. I would be very suprised if he was 5'11 already.
The ArturD2 nickname is great.
Hopefully, they were having a good time at the SOI show. Thanks for the little tidbit.

 

[Jaana]

All right, so perhaps it was a little unfair of me to suggest anything about Katya and Ilya. It's just that after the skates of Cousins, Gordeeva, and Kulik the audience was going crazy, but cerainly in the mood to see more. The mood after the Protopopovs' skate was such that it was very hard to get back to seeing others' skate.

Well, especially if refering to what you mention about the dance team coming after the Protopovs.

According to your words crowd sure welcomed Cousins, Katia and Ilia well! And in my opinion that is an excellent time to stop the show after such high note with crowd wanting more. They will come back next year to see more...

 

[Rgirl]

Hi Rgirl
Artur jr. is 13 years old, the same age as Daria. I would be very suprised if he was 5'11 already.
The ArturD2 nickname is great.
Hopefully, they were having a good time at the SOI show. Thanks for the little tidbit.

I stand corrected on Artur Jr.'s age (thanks Lulu) and perhaps his height. He looked to me to be as tall as Ilia when I caught a glimpse of them after the show, but it was only a glimpse and Artur, Jr. and Ilia are differently proportioned. Then again, I reached my full height at 13 as did a number of boys in my very large school, though most girls are taller than most boys until about the 10th or 11th grade. Also, some men continue gaining height into their early 20s (21, 22).

And yes, Daria and Artur Jr. did look to be having a good time at the SOI show, meaning they talked and laughed with each other through most of it -- except when Katia or Ilia were skating, natch. They were in a special section away from the audience lest anyone think they talked where it could have disturbed anyone.

Thus I'll voluntarily end my height guessing career and just say that IMO Daria is either now or will grow to be too tall to have an elite competitive ladies singles figure skating career. Of course I wish Daria every happiness, whatever career path she travels, whatever height she attains, physically or otherwise. Same for ArturD2, too.

Rgirl

 

[Vash01]

Thanks for the review. I really enjoyed it. I wish they would show this show on national TV like they used to, instead of on CN8 which we don't get here.

Vash

 

[Jaana]

Thanks for the review. I really enjoyed it. I wish they would show this show on national TV like they used to, instead of on CN8 which we don't get here.

Vash

There will though be that streaming video on the CN8 website plus I would imagine that some skating fans will be able to make captures out of both or either of them.

The link for these first photos from the event was posted on Katia forum and FSUniverse:

http://www.pbase.com/ychng/championsice

 

[Jaana]

Here a link for a review posted by Sarah on SkateFans list:

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/SkateFans/message/153094

 

[imanta]

Someone (jmfunnyface) just posted a link to pictures she took at this event. She said not to hotlink (not exactly sure what this means so I won't post the link here), but there are pictures of Daria standing next to people like Kimmie Meissner, Katia, Paul Wylie, etc....She is definitely still shorter than all of them. Don't know how tall that makes her & Katia could be wearing heels in the pictures next to her (off-ice). But she's shorter than Kimmie still, so...?? How tall is Kimmie? lol Not sure about that, but someone probably knows.

ETA: The site where jmfunnyface posted her message is gg-corner.de

 

[Ptichka]

How tall is Kimmie? lol Not sure about that, but someone probably kn

5'3"

 

[Jaana]

Someone (jmfunnyface) just posted a link to pictures she took at this event. She said not to hotlink (not exactly sure what this means so I won't post the link here), but there are pictures of Daria standing next to people like Kimmie Meissner, Katia, Paul Wylie, etc....She is definitely still shorter than all of them. Don't know how tall that makes her & Katia could be wearing heels in the pictures next to her (off-ice). But she's shorter than Kimmie still, so...?? How tall is Kimmie? lol Not sure about that, but someone probably knows.

ETA: The site where jmfunnyface posted her message is gg-corner.de

Imanta, I believe that by not hotlinking it is meant that one should not post a direct link to any of the photos shown on her photopage or make a visual post of any of the photos linked with her website. The mainpage link for the photos is always allowed to be posted.

Here is the direct link for Jmfunnyface´s review:

http://www.gg-corner.de/GGboard/viewtopic.php?t=1193&start=0&sid=1fe302a94ecd2b402ad0ce6cfccc68bd

Link for the photopage: http://community.webshots.com/album/478813571MJUNay

 

[imanta]

Thanks Jaana!

 

[Jaana]

Photos and video clips from EWC show

Laurie´s photos from the 2005 "An Evening with Champions" show:

Katia
http://koti.welho.com/mjylha2/index06aa.html

Ilia
http://www.kuliks-krew.com/photos/EWC05/EWC05.html

Yesterday was the first CN8 broadcast including streaming video and here you can download video clips that have been posted from the show (one needs to register for this section of the forum though):

http://fsvids.9.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=1187

The show will have a repeat of the broadcast including streaming video on Saturday, October 29th at 6:30 pm at

http://www.cn8.tv/shared/video/cn8winmedia.asx

 

[Jaana]

(Reminder from the rebroadcast)

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~ewc/index.htm

BTW, today the show will be replayed at 6:30pm EST on CN8 and there will again be live video stream:

http://www.cn8.tv/channel/article.asp?lArticleID=4664&lChannelID=604&subhead=cn8live