I actually wrote this e-mail yesterday and only just sent it and now
when I checked, the results of the SP were posted on the official
page... Timchenko has withdrawn, not telling you anything more, so I
don't spoil anything for anyone ;-) You can access the results at:
http://www.kraso.sk/nepela/results.php
Monika
--- In stephane_lambiel@y..., "Monika Sulik" <rozoweskarpetki@y...>
wrote:
> Stephane is doing his first competition of the season!!! (well
> unless I missed out on something he did previous to the
competition
> just taking place - I haven't actually been checking out the
junior
> Grand Prixs, it's almost certainly his first senior competition of
> the season though ;-)).
>
> The official page of the Ondrej Nepela Memorial in Bratislava is:
> http://www.kraso.sk/nepela/
>
> The entries in the men's are (these are not results, just entries,
> so don't worry about Stephane being last ;-)):
>
> Ondrej Hotarek CZE
> Lukas Rakowski CZE
> Alexei Kozlov EST
> Stefan Lindeman GER
> Silvio Smalun GER
> Maciej Kus POL
> Stanislav Timchenko RUS
> Ivan Kincik SVK
> Juraj Sviatko SVK
> Gregor Urbas SLO
> Stephane Lambiel SUI
>
> It looks like Stephane has a very big chance of gold in this event
> and almost certainly will win a medal. His main rival will
probably
> be Stefan Lindeman. Another guy to maybe watch out for would be
> Stanislav Timchenko. I haven't seen him, but he's from Russia and
> Russia have a very strong field in men's as we all know. I think
> these three would be my predictions for the medals here, I just
> don't know the order, although I think it's easy to guess who I
want
> to win gold ;-) Other skaters, who could surprise us and get on to
> the podium would be Juraj Sviatko, Gregor Urbas and Silvio Smalun.
I
> doubt anyone else can (although I admit I know absolutely nothing
> about Ondrej Hotarek and Ivan Kincik). It's unlikely that Stephane
> and Stefan finish off the podium though.
> I would very much like to hear predictions of other people on this
> list :-)
>
> This event will almost certainly not be televised - well there's
> maybe a vague chance of something being shown on Slovakian TV, but
> it certainly won't be shown anywhere else.
>
> Monika