| What's happening around the globe and @
home in Roller Sports..???? |
 This is
worldnews v.04 |
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| Loss of a
dedicated Official and volunteer in Victoria.. |
| Roller Sports
relies heavily on volunteers in all areas of the world and
Victoria is no exception. Sadly on Sunday December 2, Graeme
Thompson, husband of Julie Thompson, passed away. Graeme was the
Artistic League director for many years and also in charge of being
mc on many occasions along with wife Julie. My condolences to Julie
and family. |
| Thankyou.. we
hit the 20,000+ mark in one day!!!! |
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Traffic from Nov 10 - 26
2001.
(Displaying only Nov 22 -
26)
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Thankyou! It was a goal I had hoped we would
achieve, though I didnt think it would be possible, but thanks
to all of whom who have spread the word and checked in during
the 2001 Firenze Frenzy, we cracked the 20,000 mark for the
amount of hits in one day...
I am pleased to say that
on Sunday 25th of Nov, this site had 20,613 hits.. bringing our 14
day total to 165,853
hits.. An all time high for jsi and a sign that
next year will be even bigger and better.. And I'll be there
this time with a laptop to provide even better coverage!! So,
keep it in mind, coz next year... You'll hear it, see it and
live it.. right here.... Cheers... and
Thanks.. | |
| Roller Sports
Federations completely miss the boat during Worlds
2001... |
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Traffic to this site during 2001
Worlds to date -
Special
thanks to all the visitors to this site..
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During the 2001 World Artistic Championships I
have been flooded with email, and thank you to all those who
have written, from skaters, parents etc. from around the world
expressing their gratitude for all the updates on the World
Championships throughout the last two weeks. And within many
of the emails, people all seem to be of the same opinion that
the Federation they belong to just doesnt or hasn't supplied
any results or updates at all..
This
unfortunately is the truth, and its really a time when
Sporting bodies should focus great attention to their most
influential source of media, their websites. Members alike are
automatically going to go straight to their own countries site
to see how their skaters are doing and sadly enough, there's
no news there to be read. So hopefully in the future this will
change, and the proof is right here..
I am amazed and
so happy to tell you that since November 10, 2001, this site
has had 121,842 hits from around the
world. A large amount of that traffic is directed directly to
the Firenze section. So I am extremely pleased to have been
able to provide such up to date news for all and so many. It
would not have been possible without the assistance of
Jonelle McKane and Kristen Slade, both whom were
and are in Italy at the Championships & have sent so many
sms messages and emails..
Thankyou! | |
| Elise earns
herself the highest honour in British Skating... |
 After only just a few
years of hard work and dedication have really paid off
for Hazel Grove’s young 11yr old Elise Hadgraft. Not only has it earned her
some exceptional results at every level of her sport this year (up
to and including the European Championships), but also recognition
and acknowledgement from international TV giants SKY SPORTS. And on
top of that, she has just won the highest award in her sport in this
country - probably the youngest recipient ever! Elise has been
awarded the
On Saturday
10th November, while assisting at an official Training
Day in Fort William, Scotland, her Coach Miles Moorcroft called
Elise up in front of the assembled skaters, coaches and
parents. As far as
Elise knew, she was about to be asked to demonstrate a jump, spin or
other technique.
Instead, Miles
simply handed her a sealed envelope. On opening the letter, which
was from the Federation of Artistic Roller Skating (FARS - the
sport’s British governing body) Elise learned that they had decided
to present her with the Coggins Trophy.
The highest award in the sport
in Britain regardless of age, the Coggins Trophy is presented
annually to the skater whom the Board of FARS feel has given “the
best performance in an International Championships or
competition.” Elise was chosen in recognition of her
9th place at the 2001 Cadet European Championships and
her 6th at the Cup of Europe competition, held in Holland
shortly after the European Championships.
See here for SKY SPORTS for details.. Click here to read the PRESS
release in full.. (pdf format) |
| RESULTS: 18 Nov |
| Results: The JUNIOR Championships are now over and the
Seniors come in to action on Monday. To view all the results in full
go to our Firenze go directly to our Firenze2001 page... |
| Firenze Gala
special offering top dollar in prize money... |
| The finale of the World Artistic Championships will be
the spectacular Florence World Gala, in which the Top
3 Athletes from each event will perform in a special 30 minute
extravaganza.. This out of the ordinary style event will is an
effort to promote Artistic Roller Sports and demonstrate what could
be shown on TV in a span of 30mins.. A point scoring system will
entitle athletes to win $8000.00 for 1st prize, $5000.00 for 2nd
& $2000.00 for 3rd. To know more read here.. |
| THE ITLALIAN
ATHLETES OUT IN FORCE... |
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| Show Teams
Demonstrations Star in Firenze... |
 Team Show Skates: You may not
know alot about this event, not many of us do outside of Europe, but
it debuted at the World Championships earlier today in Firenze as a
demonstration event. Ten Teams took part in the display event, and
from what I was told - it was very impressive - though very very
similar to Precision - and perhaps too close for it to make any kind
of impact. Though I am sure more information will be available soon
as we learn if the event will also be included in the 'growing'
number of events being added to the World Art.
Championships.
Australia had its first
Official practise today and it went very well
indeed!! |
| Full list of
competitors at the championships... |
 Minus late nominating
countries, the Official Worlds Site now has the full listing of competitors in each discipline. Only updated on the
Italian section of the site. However, this should make it easier for
you if you dont know any Italian! Go here to view in full.. Heres a helpful guide..
OBBLIGATORI =
Figures, LIBERO
=
Singles, COMBINATA= Combined COPPIE ARTISTIC0 =
Pairs, COPPIE DANZA =
Dance, JUNIORES = Junior, SENIORES = Senior FEMMINILE = Ladies,
MASCHILE =
Mens
For more info and direct info from
the Offical Firenze site.. go here.. and
for more images of the venue and Italian Team - view here.. |
| Australian
Junior Team already take the floor in Italy... |
Aussie Junior skaters had
their first taste of an Italian winter today, and cold it was! The
Aust. Team arrived on Friday and other teams are also arriving as we
speak.. Aside from the brisk temperature, the team took to the floor
today for their first unofficial training session and all well it
went..
We have a great correspondent in Italy for this
site, Australian coach - Jonelle Mc Kane (coach of Caitlyn Botica). She's going to keep us up to date
via the wonders of sms!! (rink sideline email!!!)
So stay
tuned for regular updates!!! Go guys and good
skating..
For more info and direct info
from the Offical Firenze site.. go here.. |
| History of World Champions.. A look at the best
from 1947 - 2000, Firenze 2001 site. |
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| Style and grace
with a taste of Colombia... |
| Daniel
Cardenas, Junior and Junior World Class skater from the U.S wont
be at the World Championships this year but he is certainly hoping
to be in the future and he has be good enough to send in some news
about a skater from Colombia (and good friend of mine), Angelica
Acebedo. He reports she skated with stlye and grace, capturing
her 7th national title in Colombia. Daniel and Angelica are great
friends and he's happy to let us know that she will be representing
Colombia in Florence, Italy this year. Good Luck Angelica and the
rest of the Colombian Team.. |
| Elly earns
herself £100 from Sky Sports.... |
 Elise Hadgraft was featured in our
worldnews last month because Sky Sports in the UK had featured her
on their web site for young athletes in sport and her achivements in
artistic skating.. Well, as a result of the large amount of traffic
generated from this site and from general page views on the sky
site, Elly has won a £100 prize from them for being so
popular!! Congratulations...
See here for SKY
SPORTS for details..
Elise Hadgraft, 11, is one of
Britain's top artistic roller-skaters and is the second winner of
our new TeamUP Young Achiever monthly award. [...more] |
| Firenze 2001 E-Cards for
you to send for this years World
Championships! |
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FIRENZE
2001:
If you know of someone competing at the 2001 World Artistic
Championships in Florence this month and you would like to wish them
the best of luck.. well, you can now send them a special Firenze
2001 E-Card right from this site.. Its simple and quick, and if you
recieve a card, you can retreive it right here too! To view or to
send a card, go here.. |
| 2002 AUSTRALIAN
CHAMPIONSHIPS: |
Adelaide, South
Australia..
The 2002 Australian Roller Sports Championships
venue and dates have been confirmed.
And
the 2002
Artistic and Speed Roller Sports Championships will be held in
Adelaide from 7th to 12th July 2002.
The Indoor Speed and
Artistic Events will be at the Clipsal Powerhouse. The
road venue will be Grand Prix Track, Victoria Park Racecourse,
Fullarton Road, Fullarton. The road marathon will be held at Regency
Park Industrial Estate, Cnr. South Road and Grand Junction.
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| World Artistic
Championships... just around the corner.. |
2001 WORLD ARTISTIC
CHAMPIONSHIPS:
The countdown is on and it's only a just over
a week now before the Junior World Artistic Championship Teams will
start arriving in Florence, Italy.
The Official site for the
World Championships promises to be up to date with all the latest,
though I imagine, the Italian section of the site will feature most
updates and the English/Spanish areas will follow..
So
visit the site and keep up to the minute.. Good Luck to all
competing.. |
| Who's that
boy?? It wont be long before you are all
asking?? |
|
 Italian Youth Skater Roberto
Riva, remember the name - because if you haven't heard of him yet,
YOU WILL.. I have just watched some videos from the Cadet/Youth
European Championships and I have to say, there hasn't been anything
like him since Luca D'Alisera came on to the scene. Roberto's
performances at the Championships in Slovenia earned him no less
than five 10.0 perfect scores for his long program, consisting of a
magnificent triple lutz, flip, mape, salchow, & other
combinations. His spins are great and his artistic ability is
inspiring. Hopefully in the near future you will see Roberto
featured here on this site...
| Name: |
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Roberto Riva |
| Club: |
Roll Club
Cornate d'Adda |
| European
Championships |
No.1 - Freestyle - 1999 - 2001 |
| International Ranking: |
No.1 -
Freestyle - 1999 - 2000 Cadet
German Cup -
Freiburg |
| Italian
Championships: |
No.1 Freestyle - 1995
No.1 Freestyle -
1996
No.1 Freestyle - 1997
No.1 Freestyle -
1998
No.1 Freestyle - 1999 Cadet
No.1 Freestyle -
2000 Cadet
No.1 Freestyle - 2001
Youth | |
| 2001 Italian Artistic
Teams to compete in Florence: |
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2001
ITALIAN JUNIOR TEAM |
| Junior Ladies: 1)
BALDAN
ALICE-COMB 2) PROSPERI
CLAUDIA–FIGS 3)
TRAVERSA SONIA–F/S |
| Junior Men:
1)
BARBIERI ANDREA- F/S 2)
ANTONELLI FABIO–FIGS 3)
PROFITA DAVIDE–COMB |
| Dance: 1)FRASCHINI PAOLA & NOLI MARCO 2)BELLINI KATIA & FURGERI
MICHELE |
| Pairs: 1)NARDO IRENE
& BARBIERI ANDREA 2)CENNI MARTA & BOSIO
NICOLO’ |
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2001
ITALIAN SENIOR TEAM |
| Senior Ladies:
1)
FACCIOTTI ELISA–COMB 2)BARTOLOZZI
CRISTINA–COMB 3)COLACECI ERICA–F/S 4)GIULIANINI CRISTINA–FIGS. |
| Senior Men:
1)TOFANI
DANIELE–FIGS 2)D’ALISERA
LUCA–COMB 3)LALLAI
LUCA–F/S 4)PANCANI LEONARDO –
COMB. |
| Senior Dance: 1)BORNATI
EMANUELA & BORNATI MARCO 2)PIZZI MICHELA &
GROSSI FABIO 3)BONFATTI FEDERICA &
RIGHETTI
CRISTIAN |
| Senior Pairs: 1)PALAZZI ROSSI BEATRICE &
VENERUCCI PATRICK 2)GRANDI GAIA
& DALLARDA GIOVANNI
3)ZANFORLIN MARIKA & DEGLI ESPOSTI
FEDERICO | |
| Young new British
skater gets Sky high.... |
Elise Hadgraft: Young skater from
the UK contacted me via my site and since we have become great
friends. I've received some great videos from her and soon there
will be some more info on her on this site. For the moment, you can
check out her new addition to the SKY SPORTS web site.. heres a
sneak preview...
SKY SPORTS PROFILE:
There are
scores of talented youngsters in this country who you don't hear
about simply because their sport isn't massive in the UK. Artistic
roller skater Elise Hadgraft is a prime example.
This
wonderfully-skilful sport is huge on the continent and Elise has
been turning heads all round Europe this year with her captivating
displays of poise and elegance.
Elise, who became the British
free skating elementary champion for the first time in May, finished
tenth at the German Cup in Freiburg, a superb result against much
older girls... {..read more] |
| New athlete of the
month and feature interview.. |
 Dont forget to visit our 'athlete of
the month'. This month, we celebrate Caitlyn Botica from Australia
as she is about to compete at her first World Junior Championships.
Good Luck Caitlyn..
And we also have a special
feature interview with the Australian Team Coach for 2001 World
Championships, Steve Bowman, and I think you'll find that really
interesting. Enjoy.. |
| Is concern growing for
skaters attending the World Artistic Championships? |
| The U.S Federation met yesterday to make a final decision as
to whether or not the U.S Artistic Team would be sent to
Florence in November. The final decision was made and agreed that
the Team would attend, though all athletes must sign a document to
ensure that USACRS are released of all responsibility if
anything was to happen at any stage. All Athletes must decide by
Monday as to whether or not they will comply with this agreement and
as to if they will compete. It is said that replacements in
descending order of placement from the National Championships will
be given the opportunity to attend at this late stage if any skaters
choose not to compete. Our opinion poll
currently running on this site indicates that it is not in favour of
the staging of the event in Europe next month.. |
| FIRS site under attack
for the second time.. |
 FIRS seem to
be having some major problems at their Official site. For the second
time this month they have been hacked in to and their site
completely wiped and replaced with messages saying FIRS sux etc. The
latest hack seems to have come from a org. in Brazil by the looks of
the signage left on the site..
All seems to be back in working
order now as the down time was only over the weekend period..
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| Get your copy of your
event at Nationals 2001 on Video... |
| If you missed out on ordering your event on video at
Nationals this year for some reason, you can contact PRO-CAM here.
Every year they have been producing high quality videos, outstanding
quality actually. See below for contact information:
PRO-CAM: Contact Grant - Ph: 089 310 2151 or
email ... [here]
You can order any any event from the
championships. Each event is $45.
Price includes postage and also
a Nationals Highlight introduction clip on each
tape. |
| 2001 Australian Roller
Sports round up! |
| Its Saturday and the last item on the agenda is the closing
dinner party.. though with many people flying out of NSW due to
flight shortages, Im not sure how many are going? But usually the
night is sold out and pretty good.
In
closing the championships, there were some pretty good good events
to be seen. Though my attendance at the championships was limited, I
do believe that some of the skating was quite good. I saw the Junior
International ladies event final and it was pretty good. A close
call between Victorian Jenny Nisi (2nd in the short) and Lauren
Backrack (WA - 3rd in short) caused for good competition. A strong
opening performance from Lauren put the pressure on, and whilst no
great number of difficult items were performed by either, the
prorams themselves were good. Final result, Lauren pushing her way
in to 2nd to retain her spot on the Aust. Team from 2000. Winner
Caitlyn Botica gave a nice performance though failed to complete the
big items, scoring high 8.4 - 8.8 gave the highest marks of the
championships and best performance of all week.
Dance events
were taken up by many and some of the solo dance events were really
interesting, Senior OSP was great taken out by Erin Simpson with a
great 2nd place by Luisa Franzke, she really got the crowd going.
Amy van Effrink short program was great and almost saw her take the
no.1 position in the Senior Short program. She went on to take the
silver in the final. Great skate by Ashleigh Heasman in the Cadet
grade and by 2nd position Natasha Gundlack from SA. And I was quite
impressed by the girls from 'The Rink' in WA.. Angelina &
Joanna, they have some really good choreography and do some
interesting moves, coached by Susan Brooks, Joanna was 3rd in Junior
Ladies F/S. Theres so many to make note of but honestly, I just
wasnt there, most of the time I was in Sydney, shopping around and
doing other things.. but Im sure all went well.. I ll get some sort
of round up soon..
Roller Sports Victoria is updating the results daily... [here] |
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