Who are your favourite figure skaters?
1. Female:
2. Male:
3. Pairs:
4. Ice Dancers:
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1. Eligible... Slutskaya. Pro/Retired... Yuka Sato off the top of my head
2. Eligible... Evgeni Plushenko no contest, Pro/Retired... ILIA KULIK
3. Eligible... Shen & Zhao, Pro/Retired... Gordeeva/Grinkov no contest, Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze come close
4. Eligible... don't really have any, Pro/Retired... ANASSINA/PEIZERAT
Ladies are just off the top of my head, the rest are my definite answers. I have plenty of other favorites, especially in pro men: Yagudin, Petrenko, Urmanov, in particular. Ladies, I love Ando, Arakawa, Asada, Onda, Oda, Suguri, Sokolova. Pro ladies I love Baiul, Chen, Gordeeva, Witt, Yamaguchi. I think that's about all I can think of at the moment. Pairs, I love all the Chinese pairs we saw; Pang/Tong, Shen/Zhao, Zhang/Zhang. That's about it though. For dance I only really liked Anassina/Peizerat
Show what you are capable of on ice. Olympic Champion Evgeni Plushenko
Good answers! Pairs, I love all the Chinese pairs we saw; Pang/Tong, Shen/Zhao, Zhang/Zhang. They were/are fantastic!
You mention Anassina/Peizerat as the feuding pair from Italy, who are married to each other? LOL That makes you wonder, too. But, yes, they skate very well, as do others whom I recall by the nations which they respresent.
Male Figure Skaters: also have wide variety of favorites, especially Jeffrey Buttle (Canada), Stephane Lambiel (Switzerland) and Brian Joubert (France) although I may have already mentioned these, as well as others whom I recall by nationality. They should each be granted his own page on IMDb.com!
Marina Anassina and Gwendal Peizerat won gold in Salt Lake City, and have at least one World Championship on their resume. She's Russian, he's French. They represent France. Their signature move is where she lifts him.
Such a shame about Joubert! In 04 he got Worlds Silver, much like Goebel in 03, and afterwards both skaters had horrible seasons. Tim has gone through worse though I think, poor guy.
Show what you are capable of on ice. Olympic Champion Evgeni Plushenko