aservin
11-05-2002, 02:59 PM
Here is a new article about Lina Johansson from a Swedish newspaper. They wrote about her now because she have made the junior grand prix final. It`s very big news in Sweden.
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=672&a=73402 (http://)
I will translate the article for you who don`t can read swedish.
Young Lina can already the art
The figureskatingworld is well mapped. Therefor many people in the figureskating world who knows all about everyone was surprised on the practise of the 5th junior grand prix in Bratislava.
A young, small and unknown skater did tripple after tripple on the ice.
"Swedish? Is that possible? Trained in USA? No.
The astonishment was not so strange. Because not even the Swedish figureskating association knew how good Lina was. She was only the substitute to the competition and was going because one other skater was injured. It was a short time for her to prepare and she didn`t get any country clothes with her in her bagage. So it wasn`t so strange that the experts didn´t know from what country she was. She walked around in her Malmö figureskatingclub clothes.
So unexperienced and so unafraid, Lina skated like a World star. The short program was a hit and in the long program was it only the tripple salcow who let her down. The victory was sensational and when the news that Åsa Persson not was going to Chemnitz, Lina went there and finished fourth.
Every skater are allowed to do two competitions to qualifie to the top 8 who is going to the final in Haag. Lina Johansson was very nervous at home when the 8th competition in Italy was this weekeand.
It went for the best. And she was going to the final.
Lina Johansson had her 14th birthday the 26th of September. The girls she are competing againt are allowed to be 19 years old.
Carina Skoog at the Swedish figureskating associationg says that this is the biggest achivement for swedish figureskating since Gillis Grafström and Ulrich Salchows days.
-This is a fantastic brakethrough. We have knowed her as a noviceskater, but she is still very knew for us, Skoog says.
For the people around the rink in Malmö Lina Johansson is a wellknowned face. She was six years old when Ela Magnusson saw her in the icehockey school.
- I thought that she was a boy because she had galler at her helmet, Ela explain. Ela is a former eliteskater from Poland.
1989 she was touring whith Holiday on ice, came to Malmö, and met her husband Lars and is now the coach to Lina Johansson.
Ela is a little bit low in her talking about Lina. - I have seen many talanted girls who have been just talanted like Lina. The big difference is her mentality. She is loves the sport and loves to practise to get better, Ela says.
Swedish figureskating ís not known to have so big results in modern time. And here comes an 8th grader from Dammfriskolan in Malmö and do five tripplejumps and already have practised tripple axel a few times.
Lina is only 150 cm and weight 38 kilos.
It take much strength to do tripplejumps. Lina has an strength trainer who is the strenghtrainer to MIF redhawks, the hockey team. A big help in her development as a skater has ISU:s talent program been. Here skaters from lesser known figurekating countries have had she chance to work under the best coaches in the world. This summer Lina also was in Switzerland for two weeks to work for Viktor Kudriatsev and there she saw who much work you have to do to be a good figureskater.
Ela Magnusson is not afraid for Linas development for the future. Not the mental and not the physical. -Both her parents are short. I don´t think that Lina will be bigger than 155.
As an immigrant to Sweden she is surprised over that sweden thinks that it is inpossible to take up an superstar in figureskating at home. The complain about little icetime and they say that you have to be in North america to be a good skater.
-Sweden is a very good country and we have very big stars in Tennis , Icehockey and many other sports. Why not in figureskating? We wish that we had better icetimes but it is not much more that we need.
It will be many travels around the world for Lina in the future, but not necesserely a move to USA. The stability with the family and friends in Malmö will come first at the moment.
In january is it figureskatingparty in Linas hometown, but the town´s new star is one year to young to compete in Europeans. Instead she have to set her goals to junior grand prix final, Europeans youth olympics days and junior worlds.
In Ela Magnussons head there is much bigger things in her mind. - We are practising for the Winterolympics in Torin 2006.
How good do you think that Lina can be if she continue to develop as a skater as she have done know?
-Sarah Hughes was 16 years old when she took olympic gold in Salt Lake City. So why is it impossible for Lina?
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=672&a=73402 (http://)
I will translate the article for you who don`t can read swedish.
Young Lina can already the art
The figureskatingworld is well mapped. Therefor many people in the figureskating world who knows all about everyone was surprised on the practise of the 5th junior grand prix in Bratislava.
A young, small and unknown skater did tripple after tripple on the ice.
"Swedish? Is that possible? Trained in USA? No.
The astonishment was not so strange. Because not even the Swedish figureskating association knew how good Lina was. She was only the substitute to the competition and was going because one other skater was injured. It was a short time for her to prepare and she didn`t get any country clothes with her in her bagage. So it wasn`t so strange that the experts didn´t know from what country she was. She walked around in her Malmö figureskatingclub clothes.
So unexperienced and so unafraid, Lina skated like a World star. The short program was a hit and in the long program was it only the tripple salcow who let her down. The victory was sensational and when the news that Åsa Persson not was going to Chemnitz, Lina went there and finished fourth.
Every skater are allowed to do two competitions to qualifie to the top 8 who is going to the final in Haag. Lina Johansson was very nervous at home when the 8th competition in Italy was this weekeand.
It went for the best. And she was going to the final.
Lina Johansson had her 14th birthday the 26th of September. The girls she are competing againt are allowed to be 19 years old.
Carina Skoog at the Swedish figureskating associationg says that this is the biggest achivement for swedish figureskating since Gillis Grafström and Ulrich Salchows days.
-This is a fantastic brakethrough. We have knowed her as a noviceskater, but she is still very knew for us, Skoog says.
For the people around the rink in Malmö Lina Johansson is a wellknowned face. She was six years old when Ela Magnusson saw her in the icehockey school.
- I thought that she was a boy because she had galler at her helmet, Ela explain. Ela is a former eliteskater from Poland.
1989 she was touring whith Holiday on ice, came to Malmö, and met her husband Lars and is now the coach to Lina Johansson.
Ela is a little bit low in her talking about Lina. - I have seen many talanted girls who have been just talanted like Lina. The big difference is her mentality. She is loves the sport and loves to practise to get better, Ela says.
Swedish figureskating ís not known to have so big results in modern time. And here comes an 8th grader from Dammfriskolan in Malmö and do five tripplejumps and already have practised tripple axel a few times.
Lina is only 150 cm and weight 38 kilos.
It take much strength to do tripplejumps. Lina has an strength trainer who is the strenghtrainer to MIF redhawks, the hockey team. A big help in her development as a skater has ISU:s talent program been. Here skaters from lesser known figurekating countries have had she chance to work under the best coaches in the world. This summer Lina also was in Switzerland for two weeks to work for Viktor Kudriatsev and there she saw who much work you have to do to be a good figureskater.
Ela Magnusson is not afraid for Linas development for the future. Not the mental and not the physical. -Both her parents are short. I don´t think that Lina will be bigger than 155.
As an immigrant to Sweden she is surprised over that sweden thinks that it is inpossible to take up an superstar in figureskating at home. The complain about little icetime and they say that you have to be in North america to be a good skater.
-Sweden is a very good country and we have very big stars in Tennis , Icehockey and many other sports. Why not in figureskating? We wish that we had better icetimes but it is not much more that we need.
It will be many travels around the world for Lina in the future, but not necesserely a move to USA. The stability with the family and friends in Malmö will come first at the moment.
In january is it figureskatingparty in Linas hometown, but the town´s new star is one year to young to compete in Europeans. Instead she have to set her goals to junior grand prix final, Europeans youth olympics days and junior worlds.
In Ela Magnussons head there is much bigger things in her mind. - We are practising for the Winterolympics in Torin 2006.
How good do you think that Lina can be if she continue to develop as a skater as she have done know?
-Sarah Hughes was 16 years old when she took olympic gold in Salt Lake City. So why is it impossible for Lina?