
1992 Olympic Champion in women's singles Kristi Yamaguchi with Sophie Gayot
By Sophie Gayot
Besides
trying many different foods, I also very much enjoy ice skating. So last night what better place could I have been than at Staples Center to attend the first day of the World Figure Skating Championships. Of course I had to have dinner first and decided to head to the new
Rock ‘N Fish restaurant at L.A. Live. I enjoyed sampling the signature dishes made famous by its
parent location in Manhattan Beach.
Accompanied by two former world competing figure skaters, Danielle Carr McGrath (1992, 1994, 1998 Olympic Competitor, 14-time World Pairs competitor, 19-time Australian National Pair Champion) and Lily Lee Fugier (1994 Olympic Competitor, 6-time World Figure Skating Competitor, 5-time Korean National Champion), I watched the Pairs Short Program, (2 minutes and 40 seconds with 7 required elements) in complete and utter amazement. I’m glad we stayed until the very end as the winners, German skaters Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, performed last.
Click here to see the winners of the
2009 Pairs Short program of the World Figure Skating Championships.
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Winners Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy from Germany
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1992 Olympic Champion in women’s singles Kristi Yamaguchi with Sophie Gayot
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2nd place – Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov from Russia
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3rd place – Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao from China