New Russian Katia interview
Katia gave a recent Russian interview when she was in St. Petersburg for Artur Dmitriev's show. This is definitely the longest interview Katia's ever given--in any language--for at least three or four years and she answers a lot of the questions her fans have been curious about for a long time. Here are a couple of translations:
"You can see just once how Hamilton and Browning are greeted and you’ll understand that the youngsters have to skate and skate more, titles notwithstanding, to gain the same admiration."
Katia also talked a little bit about the special guest stars in this year's SOI show:
"As it was last year, I am invited as a guest performer to SOI. The owners felt that with every year there are less and less skaters who can skate the entire tour without a break. They split the tour appearances between me, Kristi Yamaguchi, Scott Hamilton, and Kurt Browning, giving us 10-15 shows each. As far as I know, Oksana Baiul will be on tour for some time too."
She said Ilia's SOI contract was not renewed after Alexei joined the tour and it sounds like Ilia's disappointed about that.
Oh yeah, here's the link to the original article in case anybody here can read Russian:
Re: New Russian Katia interview
Thanks for the links, jcspkbfan!! I really loved this quote:
"Not everyone can spend more then 200$ in one evening".
There's lots of analysis about why skating revenues are declining, but she's right, that's #1 among people I know who no longer go to CSOI. Unfortunately, they're pricing themselves out of the casual fan market. We're devoted fans, so we're willing (when able) to shell out a lot of money to see our favourite skaters. For the casual fan, though, it's quite an investment, especially if you're taking children.
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