Hey Angie :-)

The reasons why I thought Stefan Lindeman just could maybe win with Stephane was that:

1. At the beginning of the season strange things happen. For example at Skate America 2 years ago (and that's a month further into the season) Alexei Yagudin lost to Timothy Goebel. What's more Tim had previously (1999/2000 season) been 10th at World Championships whilst Alexei had won them. So that was pretty strange!

2. Stefan Lindeman has landed a 3axel/3toe/2loop in competition and had also been attempting a 4toe all through last season (at Euros he fell, but previous to Euros I had seen him put a hand down on the quad, which isn't a very bad mistake).  Stephane has not attempted any such jumps in competition and if Stefan had landed these, it would be unlikely that Stephane would have won.

And your other question :-) "Nailing" comes from the verb "to nail", which means "to fasten something with a nail". In this sens it means that Stephane was landing the two jumps surely. I guess the meaning connection isn't obvious here, but when you think about it (for hours and hours ;-)) it does kind of start making sens... Well... I think it does...

Hope this answers your questions :-)

Monika

 Angie wrote:

  Hi ya all!

I recieved a sms today (before I read your messages) from Kata from
Slovakia who told me Stéphane won! And I saw just now who was
competeting! I not surprised at all he won! Could he really lose to
Lindemann? That would have mean he's in bad form this season...or he
wanted to lose! Lol! Okay, I don't want to be nasty to Stephan
Lindemann, but Stéphane couldn't lose to Stephan (did u understand?
lol!)!
Btw, I don't really understand what it means the Stéphane was
nailing his 3axel and 4toe. Does it mean he manages it? Or what?

Okay,
c ya soon,
hugs,
Angie.
--- In stephane_lambiel@y..., "Monika Sulik" <rozoweskarpetki@y...>
wrote:
> 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 Timchenko has withdrawn, not telling you anything more, so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


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