European Figure Skating Championships 2009 Victory Ceremony Ladies

An awesome moment in Finnish figure skating history! 9980 spectators in the Hartwall Areena, Helsinki, followed an exciting Ladies competition and celebrated Finland' s first European Ladies figure skating title in history with Laura Lepistö' s win.

Defending champion Carolina Kostner of Italy took the silver medal and Susanna Pöykiö completed a successful day for Finland with the bronze medal. It was also the first time that two Finnish Ladies stood on the podium.

Commentators:

Tapio Suominen and Anuliisa Uotila

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• European
• Figure
• Skating
• Championships
• 2009
• Victory
• Ceremony
• Ladies
• Laura
• Lepistö
• suomi
• finland
• Susanna
• Pöykiö
• Kiira
• Korpi
• Jenni
• Vähämaa
• Carolina
• Kostner
• italy
• taitoluistelu
• helsinki
• hartwall
• arena

[Hewitt81]

Laura Lepistö is wonderful.

[yagudicandelo]

You have the point but she's better than three foot landing Caro plus Laura didn't mention " Asian robot babies" :D

[bwest1869]

Ihana rullaluistin!

[claudia26666]

Stupid Caro Kostner just because the ASIANS not Yuni and MAO beat her ass this year Olimpic, she had to be a sorry LOSER and said such a stupid thing and YES racist comment about them being a robot, sorry LOSER KOSTNER.

Typical Whitey attitude, I encounter many of them in real life, just because a minority can beat their superior ass they can't handle it.

[cheburashka19]

@yagudicandelo I know you wrote this comment a long time ago, but could you please send me a link to the interview/article where Kostner says that? I'm really curious to read it! Thanks!! ^__^

[yepheth]

@yagudicandelo although arguable, KOSTNER's declaration doesn't contain any form of racism. It's about referring to a kind of school of skating and psychologic attitude. Carolina is a sweet ,kind, sensible person. I think it's mostly a YOUR problem at seeing racial implications, it's your supposed form of political correctness that has racial thinking skizophrenic issues. So,calm down and feel free to bash her way to skate but stop blaming her for that.

[alcoholicglitterati]

OMG when did Caro say this about the asian skaters??

[waddleduckie1]

DimaOlerd.. Mao Asada is NOT a robot, and neither is Yu Na Kim. Stop being silly and stupid at the same time.

[yagudicandelo]

It's really a big shame that Caro mentioned " Asian robot babies". She should learn to curb her racism and arrogance at least during the interview. Now she wants Orser as her coach!! It's a laugh!! She only blames her coach for the disastrous performance in LA?

She was only fifth among European ladies at this WC in LA while Laura was above all the European ladies

[Uglefanatikeren]

That decition of the technical panel, not giving her credit for that spin was fair. That is what the rules tell them to do. It is a pretty silly mistake Kostner did on that intended change sit spin. But a very fair podium considering what the girls did through the competition. And btw, the spin is no value, not downgrade. Downgrade is for jumps only. :)