November 20, 2004
STARS ON ICE BELGIUM
by Luise
Since we have some reviews of the Saturday show here, I´ll just report what happend on Sunday. I hope it´s ok! We were able to watch the pratice on Sunday, which was pretty cool! Katia was one of the first skaters out there, skating around, only doing few jumps but all were perfect! I think she even did a very clean triple Toe but I´m not sure. Was too excited to see her to realize what jumps she´s doing... But I could watch her doing crossovers forever! She´s sooo good! And soooo beautyful, you can´t believe it when you see her. Ilia came out a little bit later. When she stopped skating, she sat down on the plattform on where the moderators of the show were sitting and Ilia practiced axel. He had problems with triple, doubled all of them, seemed kind of frustrated. Katia showed him with her arms how to hoöld the position in the air. After each attemp he came back to her, talking to her. I think, it was serious of her, helping him with the jumps, also Ilia is a skater who uses to practice on his own and usually has the best technic. But it was cute to see them talking.
The Sunday-show was better than that one on Saturday. Everybody was more "on"! Katia had a fall at the caruso-program, but she did a clean jump at the retake, so I guess they´ll show her on TV! Her Heartburn-Number was clean! LOVED Caruso sooo jzch, liked Heartburn, too, but I like Caruso better. Ilia also had a great night, jumping one of the best triple axel ever! It was HUGE!!!!! And this, after he did just one in practice! He´s amazing!
After the show, we from the Krew went to the hotel again. When the skaters arrived they fastly walked to their rooms so we were to shy to stop them. But later, they came back. Katia was beautiluuly dressed up. She´s soooooooo beautyful! She and Ilia sat down, waiting for Oksana I think. I asdked them if I could take a photo of them and Katia said "Yes, of course". I think, Ilia put his arm arround her, but I´m not sure. Was too excited to see them. Katia asked where we´re from, told us, that the ice was very bad. She asked if we´ve been at both shows and if we liked their numbers. She was sooo nice! Never expected that she´ll talk that much! She said she´ll skate to Heartburn at Stars on Ice but wasn´t sure which will be her second number, maybe Caruso, but maybe something else. Then, she wanted to know who had won the ladies competition at Trophee Eric Bompart. Mayi asked if they very able to sightseeing in Antwerp and they said no. Then, Oksana came and they left. But I was soooo happy! Oh, and I forgot that I was able to take a photo with her. Well, let´s see how ugly I´ll look on the pic with beauty Katia next to me but just standing next to her was the best thing! Really enjoyed this weekend! And it was GREAT to meet so many fans of Katia and Ilia! I´ll never forget it!
Luise
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