官网上的 世锦赛之前的一个采访
Michal Březina: I have had the hockey skates on once and will never put them on again.
Author: editecka 27.04.2010 21:06:35
The article of 4th April 2010.
While at the last Olympic Games in Torino, there was nobody at all from our city or region among the contestants, at this year’s Olympics there were five citizens of Brno and four other contestants who study in Brno, representing the city and South Moravia. If we leave aside the seventh place which our ice-hockey players finished in, the most successful Brno representative at the Vancouver Olympic Games was one citizen of Brno, Michal Březina, who will turn twenty this year.
Michal Březina has become our number one in Men’s Figure Skating this year. At the European Senior Championship he got the unpopular ‘fourth place potato medal’, but that fourth place in Tallin has been his greatest achievement so far. Then came the Olympic Games and the third best place among the European contestants and the ninth place overall. The best placement for a Czech figure skater since 1992. His performance in Vancouver was highly rated by the experts and our former figure skating star, 1949 and 1950 World Champion Ája Vrzáňová, described it as fantastic. According to this member of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, it could mean a gold medal for Michal in Sochi in four years.
Was everything whirling around you after achieving such results?
Actually everything is still whirling, including me. Figuratively and literally. For me this is only the beginning. It is true that most of my biggest rivals might not compete at the Olympics in four years, but I want to beat them if they do. I am not thinking about the next Olympic Games at the moment. I take it from one competition to the next one. The Men’s World Championship is ahead of me (the interview was conducted before the World Figure Skating Championship in Torino took place). People compete in order to win. And I do want to win.
Who got you interested in figure skating? It is said that your Dad, a good former figure skater himself…
That is true I was first inspired by the victory of our ice-hockey players at the Olympic Games in Nagano. To this day I think back to the atmosphere of that morning’s live broadcast in February 1998. Immediately afterwards, like the majority of boys, I wanted to play ice-hockey and be with Jágr. I started to learn skating and it went so well that my dad only had to show me the right direction. I began to enjoy figure skating and became the National Junior Champion and that was it.
So, you are not sorry that you put on figure skates instead of the hockey ones?
I have had the hockey skates on once and will never put them on again. The first time I went on ice, I ended up flat on my stomach…(laughter).
But you still have friends among the ice-hockey players, don’t you?
I get on well with Petr Čajánek. And in Vancouver I met up with Jaromír Jágr. When I was watching the live broadcast from Nagano those twelve year ago, I would never have thought that I could be in the same Olympic expedition as this ice-hockey whizz.
A lot has been written about your figure skating talent. Your triple axel and the triple flip-triple toe loop combination are admired. Many people go in fear when you are approaching a jump. Will he jump, won’t he jump…What do you think about when you are approaching a jump?
When I am approaching a jump, I do not think about anything. I ‘switch off’. The take-off, the rotation, the landing. It is automatic. When jumping my head is two and half metres up in the air, the length of the jump is over three metres and it all takes a little over one second. When one is thinking about what they have to or mustn’t do, they miss that one hundredth of the take-off and the jump is over. When approaching a jump I try to keep my head clear.
Do you also keep your head clear of a girlfriend?
I have friends who are female but currently I am not considering a deeper relationship. At the moment I am definitely not planning to be photographed accompanied by girls at different afterparties. When you want to win, you have to sacrifice something.
Someone might consider it a recreation. How do you relax? Supposedly you like old Czech films…
I like the ones with Vlasta Burian the best. I also listen to music. At the moment my favourite is a Canadian singer called Michael Bublé. I listen to The Beatles, Luis Armstrong or Frank Sinatra. It is a great way of relaxing.
Probably you are not planning to rest much after the World Figure Skating Championship in Torino. Your fans have prepared a birthday party for you during the Benefit event Brno Easter on Ice, that has included that Armstrong, and also you were invited by Evgeni Plushenko…
It is a show called The Ice Olympic Tour which Stéphane Lambiel, Aliona Savchenko, Robin Szolkowy and other celebrities will perform in. That show should arrive here in the middle of April and so I hope that I will meet some of my fans there. At the moment I would like to thank them for the birthday cards and their affection.
Profile
Michal Březina was born on 30th March 1990 in Brno. His Dad, Rudolf, got him into figure skating and his Mum Edita and fourteen-year-old sister Eliška, also a figure skater, encourage him as well. He is a member of the figure skating club TJ Stadion Brno and his coaches are Petr Starec, Karel Fajfr and Karol Divín. Michal is studying at the Johann Gregor Mendel Grammar School in Brno and next year he will be preparing for his A-levels. He is 172 cm tall and keeps his weight at 64 kg. He became the National Junior Champion for the first time in 2005 and retained the title in 2006 and also 2007. He participated in the World Junior Championship for the first time in 2007 and he finished in the sixteenth place. In 2009 he was in tenth place and at this year’s European Championship he reached forth place. This year he won the title of the National Senior Champion. So far his greatest achievement was tenth place at the Olympic Games in Vancouver, he was third among the European contestants. At the end of March he had a premiere at the World Championship in Torino, which concluded after the editorial of this issue.
Michal Brezina:我穿了一次球刀后，就再也不要穿了
上一届都灵冬奥会，我们城市/周边地区没有任何选手参加。而今年的参赛者中，有五名来自布尔诺（捷克第二大城市），另外还有四位在这个城市学习，代表这座城市以及South Moravia。除去冬奥会冰球获得第7名之外，布尔诺选手的最大成功，来自于刚刚满20岁的Michal Brezina。
Michal Brezian在今年成为了本国男子单人滑冠军。在塔林举办的欧锦赛上，他遗憾的得到了第四名，但是这个名次已经是目前他的最好成绩。在接下来的冬奥会上，他取得了第9名，在欧洲选手中排名第三(前面有普鲁申科和兰比尔)，这是自1992年以来捷克选手取得的最好成绩。此外，他在温哥华的表现得到了捷克花滑专家，前世界冠军(1949 1950l两届) Ája Vrzáňová的高度评价(应该这位就是陈露世锦brezina滑完陈露说过的那位捷克花滑史上最杰出的运动员。= = 爷爷辈了)。在目前花滑知名选手的殿堂中，四年后的索契，Brezina和有可能是金牌的有力争夺者。(捷克国内好乐观的好早><)
Q：你取得这样的成绩之后，所有的事情都开始围着你转了么？(可能翻得不对)
A：事实上，所有事情都在转，包括我自己，比喻意义和字面意义上都是。对我来说，这仅仅是个开始。我的很多强大的对手可能很多不能坚持到4年之后，这是事实，但是如果他们可以，我希望能够战胜他们。我现在没有考虑四年后的冬奥会，我需要依次经历各个比赛。现在，世锦赛正在眼前（采访时还没开）。人们比赛是为了胜利，而我很渴望胜利。
Q：谁让你对花滑产生兴趣的？据说是你爸爸？他自己之前就是不错的花滑选手。
A：其实最早我是被98年长野冬奥会捷克冰球的选手们所激励的。现在，我还会想起98年2月早上看直播时的感觉。这之后不久，就和大多数男孩子一样，我想和Jágr(捷克当时的冰球明星)一起打冰球。我开始学习滑冰，而父亲也只是给我指出方向而已。后来渐渐喜欢上花滑，直到成为捷克青年组的冠军。
Q：所以你对从事花滑而不是冰球项目，一点也不遗憾了？
A：我就穿过一次球刀，就再也不打算穿了。第一次上冰，我直接平展在冰面上。(笑)
Q：不过你还是在冰球选手中有不少朋友的，不是么？
A：我和Petr Čajánek关系很好，我还在温哥华遇到了Jaromír Jágr(前面说的冰球star)。当我12年前看长野冬奥会直播的时候，我可一点没想过可以和这些冰球选手一起，成为冬奥远征队的一员。
Q：现在已经有不少描述你花滑天赋的文字。你的3A以及3F-3T得到了很高的评价。很多人在你跳跃前都很紧张。你在即将跳跃的时候想什么呢？
A ：当我要跳的时候，我不会想任何事情。起跳、空中旋转、落地都是一个自然而然的过程。在跳跃的时候，跳跃高度2米5（头离地），跳跃远度3米，而这些仅仅在不到1秒中的时间里完成。如果在这个时候还要想什么要做什么不能做，就会延误起跳的时间，跳跃就完了。所以在跳跃开始时，我只是试图保持头脑清晰。
Q：那你在交女友方面也这么头脑清晰么？
A：我有女性好友，但是现在并不打算有更深层次的发展。我还没打算在场下被拍到各种和女孩子一起的照片。既然你渴望胜利，你就必须牺牲掉一些东西。（世锦赛后前四名场下采访，被问时回答是有GF的）
Q：你休息的时候有什么娱乐？好像你很喜欢捷克老电影。
A：我最喜欢Vlasta Burian(1891-1962,果然老)的电影。我也听音乐，最近我最喜欢的是加拿大歌手Michael Bublé，我还听The Beatles(披头士), Luis Armstrong 或者Frank Sinatra（1915-1998）。这是个相当不错的放松方式。(好怀旧…….)
Q：好像你不打算在都灵世锦赛后休息太多。你的fans会在the Benefit event Brno Easter on Ice（Luis Armstrong也参加）上给你庆祝生日。你也被邀请参加普鲁申科的SHOW……
A：具体叫做The Ice Olympic Tour，里面还有兰比尔，S&S等其他选手。大概在4月可以来到捷克，我很希望到时候可以看到我的fans。我想感谢他们对我的喜爱和生日卡片。
资料
Michal Březina于1990年3月30日生于布尔诺。他的父亲Rudolf带他开始滑冰，母亲Edita和14岁的妹妹Eliška 也是花滑选手（一家子花滑）。目前他是俱乐部TJ Stadion Brno的成员，教练包括Petr Starec, Karel Fajfr 以及 Karol Divín。现在他在Johann Gregor Mendel Grammar School学习，明年准备自己的A-levels。1米72，64kg。在05年夺得国内青年组冠军后，又在06 07两年蝉联。07年第一次世青赛16名，09年的欧锦赛第10，今年第四。今年他成为了捷克冠军，目前最好的成绩是冬奥会的第10名（欧洲选手中排名第三）。3月末他将参加世锦赛。 |
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