Dear Shoma,
Congratulations on your retirement announcement and the phenomenal competitive skating career you have built over 21 years!
I'm so happy to have had the opportunity to support you and to witness your skills, your focus, your hard work, your winning spirit, your passion, your determination, your love for the sport, and all the other amazing qualities you have demonstrated. You have inspired me much and I am deeply grateful for all that I have learnt by your side!
Enjoy the next steps with confidence and pride, and know that I will always be rooting for you!
See you soon,
Stéphane
Stéphane Lambiel to Shoma Uno [x]
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Have I giffed this before? Yes.
Should you see it again? Also yes.
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Deanna Stellato-Dudek: 2000 Junior World Silver Medalist → 2024 World Champion
At the age of 40, Deanna Stellato-Dudek is the oldest woman to win a World Championships title in figure skating, with her pairs partner Maxime Deschamps for Canada. Deanna Stellato was the 1999 Junior Grand Prix Final Champion and 2000 Junior World Silver Medalist in the women's singles discipline. She retired from competitive skating in 2001, and returned as a pairs skater in 2016.
40 years is the new 20. That's what I'd like to say. [This record is] not something that I ever set out to do when I came back to skating, but I knew that if I were to accomplish my dreams, it would inevitably occur, because I'm the oldest everywhere. But it's something I carry with pride, and I'm very proud of it. I hope a lot of athletes stay around a lot longer. I hope it encourages people to not stop before they reach their potential. And I hope it transcends into other areas, not just in sports, but also in other areas of life [...]
[My 15-year-old self] would say, why did we stop? We're still skating, you know, 25 years later? I think my younger self would think I'm crazy, so she wouldn't think much of it at all. And she wanted to win the 2006 Olympics [...]
-- 2024 World Championships Free Skate Press Conference
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two videos of shoma as posted on nam nguyen's instagram stories
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2024 World Championships - March 22, 2024
Kaori Sakamoto → Victory Ceremony - Gold Medalist
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one thing tumblr gif makers are going to do is take a poorly lit, low contrast, hazy movie and make it look like it was shot in technicolor
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