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Dreams On Ice 2014: http://www.absoluteskating.com/articles ... onice.htmlAugust 9, 2014 By Atsuko KuryuThe Dreams on Ice shows 2014, one of Japan's most famous annual skating events, were held June 27 - 29, as usual at the Shin Yokohama Skating Center. The shows officially end the season as well as serving as a kick-off event for the 2014/2015 season. Eleven eligible Japanese single skaters, a couple of ice dancers and a synchronized team performed. As the icing on the cake seven gorgeous guest skaters were added. All the tickets quickly sold out and the seats were filled up with fans of various ages. There had usually been many middle aged women and of course there were many still, however, we could also spot families in the venue, and young women. The ones wearing short skirts particularly drew my attention; they were most likely there because of Olympic gold medalist, Yuzuru Hanyu. Once he appeared on the ice there was loud screaming and cheering in the stands, and we confirmed that a new Japanese figure skating superstar was born.
The venue especially welcomed Russian multi Olympic medalist Evgeni Plushenko, Akiko Suzuki and Nobunari Oda, who all gave super-amazing performances and entertained the audience fully. The crowd gave them standing ovations. The other guest skaters were also given generous applause. World gold medalists, Italian ice dancers Anna Cappellini /Luca Lanotte, showed off their chic and elegant style, World bronze medalist, Javier Fernandez of Spain, skated to modern rock music, Russian hope Elena Radionova sparkled with her cuteness, and Miki Ando showed her great expressiveness. This was however mostly an event for Japanese eligible skaters, so let me first recap the performances of the Japanese youngsters.
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Evgeni Plushenko, besides him already being a legend? I wondered as it didn't seem necessarily for him to even perform; as soon as he appeared on the ice it made the audience wild with excitement. Nevertheless, he skated to the famous "Storm", where he jumped and did gorgeous and fast step sequences. He even tried a triple Axel and almost fully rotated and landed it. You would never believe he had surgery a few months ago. The whole audience was involved in the euphoria during his performance and after he finished they gave him one of the biggest standing ovations ever. Evgeny was asked about his injury by the reporters at the press conference. He replied he was doing better and can jump again, even do triple Axels. He will spend a lot of time resting but has some shows to do in China. He chose the Storm music because he feels it suits him and people like it. Evgeny will not compete this coming season because of a new project he's starting, but he would like to do another Olympic competition, his fifth, since he knows of no other athlete who has done that. The new project is a fairy tale family show starring great skaters and gymnast. He's financing the project which will premiere in Moscow in December.
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