Michal Brezina

Michal Březina: Gaining New Perspective

By Hiro Yoshida

After calling time on a long and eventful competitive career, Michal Březina immediately began working as a coach and is busier than ever travelling with his students to events. I caught up with the four-time Czech Olympian at last month’s European Figure Skating Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania for a brief chat about life on the other side of the boards.

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Michal Brezina – “I need to find a way to make the people that I skate for proud again”

By Hiro Yoshida

It’s the morning after the night before in Bratislava, Slovakia at the European Championships and Michal Brezina is coming to terms with having had one of the worst skates of his career the day before. From being 3rd after the short programme, he plummeted down the rankings when not a single jump in his free skating routine went according to plan. He ended up in 10th place overall.

“I feel a lot better. I needed some time to be alone and really think about what happened,” Brezina said. “I had a drink with my coach and my dad. That helped me sleep a little bit, but not for too long.”
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2015 Europeans Recap – Men

If you had told anybody five years ago that Spain would have a three times in a row European figure skating champion, most people would have asked you if you were feeling alright. Yet here we are in 2015 and Javier Fernandez has captured his third consecutive European title, a feat that skaters like Alexei Urmanov, Ilia Kulik, Alexei Yagudin, Evgeni Plushenko or Brian Joubert were not able to accomplish. In fact, the last time there was a threepeat in the men’s event the Soviet Union still existed as a country when Alexander Fadeev won in Birmingham in 1989. The similiarities between Fernandez and Fadeev’s streaks continue in that they began in a pre-Olympic season and neither skater was able to collect a medal at the Olympics themselves with both finishing up in 4th place. Fernandez still has the opportunity to change that.

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That Was The Week That Was In Figure Skating (1-7 December 2014)

Here’s a short recap of some of the things that happened during the past week in the world of figure skating.

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That Was The Week That Was In Figure Skating (11-17 August 2014)

Here’s a short recap of what happened in the past week in the world of figure skating.

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