Last Updated 03 April 2002 19:45

The Final Credits

The Figure Skating Season starred...

My favourite Female Skaters	Elena Liashenko...No.1 Fumie Siguri...No.2 Viktoria Volchkova...No.3
My favourite Male Skaters	Alexei Yagudin...No.1 Timothy Goebel...No.2 Alexander Abt...No.3
My favourite Pair Skaters	Sale & Pelletier Shen & Zhao Ina & Zimmermann
My favourite Ice Dancers	Bourne & Kraatz
Gone, but not forgotten	Elvis Stokjo Todd Eldredge Maria Butyrskaya
Olympic Champions	Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze Alexei Yagudin Anissina & Peizerat Sarah Hughes
World Champions	Alexei Yagudin Shen & Zhao Lobacheva & Averbukh Irina Slutskaya
Quad King	Timothy Goebel
Triple-Triple Queen	Sarah Hughes
The most glamorous	Jennifer Robinson

it should have been...

Olympic Gold	Sale & Pelletier Irina Slutskaya
Olympic Silver	Timothy Goebel
World Championships Bronze	Pang & Tong Drobiazko & Vanagas

My favourite routines...

Timothy Goebel's free programme An American in Paris

Bourne & Kraatz's free dance to a Michael Jackson Medley

Elena Liashenko's short programme to Chocolat

Sylvia Fontana's short programme to Another Cha Cha / Mexico con Amor

Jennifer Robinson's free programme to Liebestraum

So many of the skaters are an inspiration, but special thanks to...

Timothy Goebel	His American in Paris free programme has given me the motivation to start practicing my keyboard again.
Elena Liashenko	Failure to see her short programme until the World Championships made me take the 't' of can't, and start learning some of the Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto
Viktoria Volchkova, Fumie Siguri	Skating to Moonlight Sonata. I'm dreaming now, but I'd love to be involved in a live performance with me playing the first movement and either of them skating to it. A certain song by Gabrielle comes to mind!!

The end of the World Championships brings down the curtain on a season, which unfortunately will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

I must say a big thanks to all the skaters, because, without them, I'd have to follow some second-rate sport, like soccer (only joking!!). Seriously though, so many of the skaters are a big inspiration.

Again, a big thanks to Eurosport for their coverage during the season. Don't know what I'd do without them.

Missed Tamara Dorofejev this season. Hope to see more of her next season...as well as Matthew Savoie, Jeffrey Buttle, Sasha Cohen and Vanessa Gusmeroli, amongst others.

Signing off now...for a bit. Thanks for your company. Maybe we'll do the same again next season? Hope so!!

c u soon

M C Nige