**June 2009**
June 3, Grand Prix assignments are out and Kevin has been assigned to Cup of Russia and Skate Canada! Cup of Russia will take place from October 29 untill November 1 in Moscow and Skate Canada will be from November 19 untill the 22nd in Kitchener. More information can be found on the ISU website.
**April 2009**
26 April, There are already quite a few pictures from the ice-fantillusion shows up on Absolute skating! Check out the highlights from the shows here!
23 April, Liedekerke Belgium is this weekend really the place where you should be if you are a skating fan, if you love the movies, or are just in the mood for a good show. Rehearsal time is over and the skaters are ready for it. A bunch of schoolchildren from the area already had the privilege to see a preview of the show and so did we. As we nowadays do expect from Kevin and his wife Jenna, the Ice Fantillusion show is a real spectacle. From sinking boats to drunken sailors, seductive Can Can dancers to the real 007, it’s all there and much much more. Got an afternoon or evening to spare?? Come and see, we promise you won’t regret it!!
For more information on the show, check our Ice Fantillusion pages!
Mail Marleen de Gols for more information and tickets for Friday or Saturday at 19.30 and Sunday at 15.00.
22
April, After a short vacation following the World Championships
in Los Angeles, Kevin and his wife Jenna joined the Kids
on Ice show in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, held on 3,4 and 5 April.
European's biggest children ice-show as proven by the more
than 250 children from the age of 3 till 18 years old
joining!
A few hours after they landed on European soil, Kevin and Jenna performed
in the Friday evening show, followed by the Saturday and the Sunday shows.
All were a big succes. Interwoven in the story - a journey through Big
Cities - Kevin skated three programs. Two times alone on the music “Fever”
and a mixture of music from Safri Duo and one time paired up with his
wife Jenna. Jenna herself skated a few solo's as well. Even though they
were both pretty tired from traveling and having jet-lag, they both skated
great and loved being there in a joyful and relaxed atmosphere!
Kids on Ice was very worth your while, an entertaining journey on ice
in incredible costumes and choreographies by the many skaters and we will
surely tell you more on Absolute Skating soon!
They had several new costumes, one of which they are proudly showing off in the photo to your left. These costumes were specifically made for Ice Fantillusion and fitted well in Kids on Ice as well. Do you want to see these and lots of other costumes - not to forget the skaters ;) - in the flesh? Join Kevin and Jenna and all the skaters of Heuvelkouter in Liederkerke for the fabulous Ice Fantillusion shows EXTRAVAGANZA!
For information and
reservations contact marleen.degols@telenet.be
marleen.degols@telenet.be
Don't miss it!! Your options are:
Friday 24 april 2009: 19.30
Saturday 25 april 2009: 19.30
Sunday 26 april 2009: 15.00
**March 2009**
27 March, Unfortunately Kevin was not able to climb up the standings at the world championships and ended up in 14th place with a total score of 198.35 points. Kevin did land a quad at the beginning of the LP and 4 other nice triples. Unfortunately he had some trouble with his Axels this time as he jumped them only double. Full result details and protocols can be found here.
26 March, Yesterday Kevin skated the short program at the World Championships. He jumped a beautiful triple axel and a triple loop, but doubled the flip in the combination and therefor lost a lot of points. The standard of the short program was really high and so Kevin is now in 14th place with 70.15 points. Full result details and the starting order for the long program today can be found here.
Fight back up Kevin!! we know you can do it!!
19 March, Congratulations
to Kevin for winning the silver medal at the Challenge Cup in The Hague!
Check out some pics, including a medal one here!
We want to remind you about the article in "Het Pajottenland"
as written in last news entry. This will appear this week.
Next week (March 22-29)
Kevin will participate in the Worlds Championships in Los Angeles. The
official site you can find here.
Break a leg Kevin!! (but not really :p)
1 March, A
little while back Titia had the opportunity -as previously told here-
to witness a training for the Ice Fantillusion shows. Want to see what
she has to say about that? Check out her article on Absolute
Skating. Also, part 2 of that article beholds the AS-photo-album of
the last show.
Another album of the same show with different photos you can find here,
or in the list on the sites photogallery. The
album is 14 pages long. Enjoy! :)
Take note that the whole Ice Fantillusion
section has been revamped. Aside the current show information -with the
most actual information we receive - it now contains a separate page concluding
a presentation and all information for each past show. Enjoy!
Next week Kevin will compete at the Challenge Cup in The Hague. The schedule
has been updated. Good luck Kevin.
Also keep an eye out for the sports-edition of "Het Pajottenland" of 19 March - "Sportief Pajottenland". This newspaper appears in whole Pajottenland & Groot-Ninove, Belgium and will contain a preview article for Worlds, featuring Kevin.
**January 2009**
22
January, we congratulate Kevin with the win of his second bronze
medal at the European Championships 2009!!
- Look for detailed results here
21 January, The
European Championships in Helsinki are going on as we speak. Despite some
rumours he might withdraw for returning hip-ache, Kevin skated his SP
a little bit ago. He jumped 3 Axel, 3 Flip - 3 Toe and 3 Loop cleanly,
got 75.80 points, improved his personal best with that and is in a 4h
spot. YAY. Good luck for the LP tomorrow Kevin!
For
more results click here.
Saturday January 3th several skaters of Ice Fantillusion had their first
practice lead by Kevin and Jenna for the show Movie Extravanganza, which
can be seen in April. Titia had the chance to visit and watched a perfomance
fitting to the theme Moulin Rouge. Despite it being the first practice
it looked really great and professional. Awesome music and a perfectly
fitting choreography. As we gotten used to from Ice Fantillusion. That
promises much for April!
For more on the show, visit our Ice Fantillusion
page, or the newly made site IceFantillusion.com!
**October
2008**
27 November, After
having had some server issues we are back online.
Past weekend Kevin skated in Cup of Russia, and reached with 69.68 for
his SP and 129.45 for his LP a 6th place. Considering the late training
start for this competition, he did very well. Good job Kevin!
For more details, check
here
3
November, Today
Kevin has put his first steps on the ice.
After the prescribed resting period for his injury that is, of course.
He did have a torn muscle in his back, which was more serious as initially
deemed after Finlandia. The doctors prescribed 4 weeks rest, no training
whatsoever. He now has rested 3 weeks and feels no pain at all anymore,
that combined with being bored and wanting to be ready for his next Grand
Prix (Cup of Russia) he decided to do a small try-out today. And it went
well, he did a run through of his SP, all clean. Of course he can't say
yet if he will be ready in time for CoR, but for sure he's gonna try.
Much succes with that Kevin!
Next to that, the preparations for the Ice
Fantillusion shows in April are in full process and he is very proud
of the Skate Canada accomplishments of his wife Jenna.
21 October,
It has appeared in many news magazines like >>this<<
that Kevin is withdrawing from Skate America due to his injury of last
week in Finland. At first it seemed rather harmless, but now it appears
to be a torn muscle.
We are sorry to hear Kevin and wish you a speedy recovery.
14
October, Kevin finished in a 6th place at the short program at
the Finlandia Trophy with 63.68 points. - Check for more detailed scoring
>>here<<
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Unfortunately during the practice for the free program he got lumbago
(low back pain) and decided it was better to withdraw from the competition.
He hopes it will be okay again in time for Skate America, 23-26 October.
And of course so do we! Best wishes Kevin!
Btw, atm you can check out this Finlandia SP on Youtube >>here<<
October
8, Last week during an event organised by Damart in Liederkerke,
the home of his iceclub Heuvelkouter, Kevin premiered his new short program.
Rumours of an interesting costume got definetly confirmed as you can see
here. ;)
The reason why Kevin chose to show his short program then and there for
the first time, is because the fashion brand Damart
and he decided to join forces in a Sponsorship/Partnership. We are very
happy for both.
That was not the only premiere though, this weekend, 9 - 12 October, will be Kevins first competition of the season. Finlandia Trophy, in Helsinki. Check out their site for more details during the weekend. We wish you a good kick off of the season Kevin!
**June 2008**
June
30, Regarding Kevins decision to leave Vera Vandecaveye after
5 years of training with her, to go to Silvie de Rijcke, Kevin explains
that the past year he has been thinking about/wanting to leave because
of personal as well as professional reasons. He plans to disclose more
about this later, in full detail.
Right now a decision really needed to be made and he feels, that despite not always having taken the best decisions in his career, this one certainly is the best he ever made and he is extremely happy he finally cut the knot.
A skating camp was planned this August in Belfast, Ireland, which has been recently cancelled. Kevin explains that this is also due to the situation surrounding his coach. "Jenna and I would have done anything to let the skating camp go through in whatever form or arrangements made, but unfortunately that didn't seem possible. We regret this dearly, especially towards the children that were looking forward to it very much. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with our whishes."
A shame indeed.
We wish him more luck and peace with his new coach.
June 29,
We received the pics of the wedding and the honeymoon and these you can
find in the photo album. Having had a great
time, the couple is finally home and settling in, tho they have to leave
for a show in Italy next weekend again.
Kevin was happy to tell us his training is going well, better than scheduled
even. As reported in several media, his operation did turn out to be more
complicated and took longer, thus prolonging his rehabilitation, but he's
making fast progress and can start practicing on the quads again next
week.
He has switched coaches, from now on he will train with Silvie de Rijcke.
The music for his new short program is selected and will be Night on a
Bald Mountain, the choreography is yet to be made. For his long program
he intends to keep the Safri Duo one he skated at Worlds, but amended.
He's happy with the Grand Prix's assignments he received, and next to
that he intends to do the Ondrej Nepala Memorial in Bratislava and would
he be invited he'd like to do the Finlandia Trophy. As you can tell, the
schedule is updated, as well as the profile
and the program pages.
We also added content details
on the Ice Fantillusion shows, that
were rescheduled from December to April, as we announced in March.
Happy browsing on the new bits, and we keep you updated when we learn
more!
**May 2008**
May 25,
As most fans know, last week, May 17, Kevin and Jenna got married!
Unfortunately something went wrong with sending pictures our way, luckily
Jenna got a lot of cute ones on her site. Check them out here!
Some more pictures can be found here.
Congratulations to the obviously very happy couple!
Check back with us for the promised pics sometime after their honeymoon
has ended and of course for other updates in the meantime!
**March
2008**
March 22, Today
Kevin skated his new great LP on Safri Duo. He dug up his old SP from
the seasons 2004/2005 & 2005/2006 on the same music and extended it,
added bits and pieces of music to the original mix and fitted the program
to it.
The old theme used to be "getting lost in a computergame frantically
searching for the exit". Searching for 2.40 or a little longer, doesn't
matter all that much now, does it?? - well perhaps for the poor lost
one - Especially not if it's Kevin doing the moves. - can we
just say the longer the better? -
He skated an absolutely awesome program which:
* brought down the house
* made everybody including himself ecstatic
* was the third best of the day
* received the second best technical score
And with that program he completely smashed his old personal best with
+7 points to 145.78.
How can we not say well done Kevin??!!
He climbed up from 9th to 6th place, his best standing in the World Champs
ever. Kevin, we are proud of you!
Click on the links for detailed results of the free
skate and the end
results.
March 22, Yesterday Kevin skated a clean short program (he choose
to not attempt a quad) and gained a new personal best of 70.24 points
for that, which landed him in 9th place. Congratulations Kevin! >>Check
here for more detailed results<<
Today the excitement will continue, with the long program, the deciding
finale, in which Kevin will skate as 15th.
>>click here for startorders<< We hope it will be a competition
just as great as yesterday and are praying to the skategods for Kevin,
who will skate his new LP, YAY!
March 20, Kevin is as
we speak currently in Sweden, to participate in the World
Championships in Göteborg. Tomorrow, March 21, the short program
for the men will take place, and Kevin has drawn the very
last starting number. We are thrilled to see him skating with the
cremé de la cremé and wish him lots of luck!
Oh, an additional tidbit of news, the data for the Ice Fantillusion shows
have been moved to April 24, 25 en 26, 2009 with a natural change of theme
as well. More on that later tho!!
Keep your fingers crossed for Kevin tomorrow and Saturday!
March 3, after returning from Croatia, Kevin calmly started working on changing his long program, as he had told us in Zagreb he would. He wasn't unhappy with the results of the EC, in these circumstances it's how things went, but he was trixing with it, in order to get completely satisfied. What we didn't expect was, that he'd change it entirely and surprisingly he just told us he did, it will be completely Safri Duo! We are very excited to see what he made of it!
We are happy to tell you that, just like past shows, there is a DVD available of the 2007 Ice Fantillusion Christmas show. If you are interested, contact Marleen de Gols for ordering details, or if you come from Belgium, check out the instructions on the messageboard.
The
dates for the new Ice Fantillusion shows are known, and will be 19-20-21
December 2008.
If you can't make it to the World Championships in Sweden, you got another
chance to see Kevin skating live, in the Gala
International de Jambes on March 30.
Furthermore we have added some article links to the Dutch section of the
page, and of course amended the programs & schedulepages.
This link
we didn't add to the articles, since it's not really about Kevin, it's
fun though!
**February
2008****
February 5, Kevin finished 5th at the 2008 European Championships,
with a total score of 199.57. He was 4th after the short program, with
a score of 66.33. He ranked 5th in the free skate, with a score of 133.24.
**Januari 2008**
January 19,
Next up is for Kevin to attend at the European Championchips in Zagreb
the following week, you can read the competition schedule here.
Most of our webcrew will be there to cheer Kevin on so news updates can
be a bit scarce during Euros although nice Caroline Pare has offered to
keep the site updated, so we will try to get some news to you anyway.
To be sure, just keep an eye on Kevins
MB for the latest news.
We feel much exited to be there and see it in all its glory in person
and we wish Kevin (and of course, Jenna) good luck and skating bliss.
To not keep you from total lack of Kevin during, we´re happy to
announce we have the promised detailed article from his Christmas show
with pictures and vids published on Absolute Skating here.
Of course the videos featuring Kevin are also on the video page on this
site.
We have also updated the articles page
here
with a few new articles, Flemish as well as English links (check out the
cute pics in the Ice Bowl one!) and added on the welcome page a sitemap
for easier browsing for the ones with smaller screens.
Januari
17, Right before Christmas, on Friday 21 and Saturday the 22th
of December, Kevins fans have been spoiled with yet again another magnificient
edition of the show Ice Fantillusion, “Christmas Wishes” it
was this time. The show was different from what we are used to, but not
less great because of that! This time no stories about cartoon figures
who reanimate all kinds of adventures, but a show with individual and
groupacts, based on of course Christmas, togetherness, love and caring
for each other. Despite the relatively short rehearsal period it was an
amazing show. The choreography was original and captivating and the music
was funky and feel-good. The skaters themselves had a visibly good time!!
Amazed about the fact that Kevins shows touches us every time again and
invokes soo much positive feelings, we went home and we are still enjoying
the afterglow of this event.
A detailed report of this will follow soon on Absolute Skating, as well
as photo-albums both there and here. We will keep you posted about that,
but we don’t want to leave it just like this right now. Have a look
at our scene impressions of the show –courtesy of the incredible
Manda- just click the images to see a larger pic. This will open in a
new window, where you can save it - or rightclick save target as, if you
want to download them to your pc immediately.
Act 1
Magical Christmas |
The Golden Sixties |
Toy Story |
Winter Wonderland |
Koffie & Gebak |
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Special Guest Stars: Staf & Dean!
Act 2
Once Upon a December |
Swinging Christmas |
Romantic Christmas |
Partytime! |
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Furthermore, there have been some concerns wandering around on internet about Kevins health. Things stand like this; at the end of the year, Kevin had some thorough exams, to determine why his backinjury keeps returning. The results are that it’s coming from the hip caused by a fall at NHK Trophy in 2005, instead of the back like previously assumed. This means that the backache won’t pass completely until the problem in the hip is resolved. At this moment, both problems are under medical care, so Kevin can continue his season as planned. He will have surgery after the season ends, for a more permanent solution.
He was not happy with this
being in the news, he would rather have kept things private and it’s
not like this momentarily changes much to his immediate plans. We want
to thank Kevin for explaining this for his fans, and wish him the most
easy dealing with it as possible!
**December
2007**
December 20, As Kevins fans undoubtly know by now, the yearly Ice Fantillusion shows have this year been moved to December 20 and 21 and are called “Christmas Wishes”. Having checked out the scene and the dress rehearsal yesterday, all we can say is “wow”. The audience is in for quite a surprise!!
Check out the Ice
Fantillusion page for more info on IF, and to keep updated with happenings
in Liederkerke, check
this thread on the mb. We’ll have fun!
December 16, Kevin skated the Free Program yesterday and received
116.69 points for that, placing him 6th for the LP and 6th overall. As
you can see compared to other season scores, this is not his best. Things
didn't go so well, he fell hard on the Quad, doubled the Axel and made
several other (minor) mistakes as well. Check out the Judges Scores here
(PDF file) for specific details. This was caused by hurting his back in
the fall, and he limped a little going off the ice.
Reports came from Torino that he was reeled off by ambulance, but we received
these words from Jenna -his fiancee- "he is absolutely fine, he hurt
his back a little but they over exaggerated it so much and took him to
hospital, theres no problem and no need to worry, everything is ok!!!"
So we are pretty relieved to hear that. 6th place in the Grand Prix Finals
is by no means a meagre achievement, so hereby we do want to congratulate
Kevin and of course wish him all the best for a speedy recovery!!
December 14, The Grand Prix Finale takes place this weekend and
Kevin has just skated his Short Program with 4T-3T combination, 3A and
3Lz, PERFECTLY CLEAN! He recieved a score of 72.83 for
it, which is his seasons best. With that he is in a 5th position. We are
proud of you Kevin and wish you the best for tomorrows LP!
On the other side of the coin, he did not make the final selection
for sportsman of the year he was nominated for, as mentioned below. Awww.
December 3, In the past weekend the last Grand Prix, NHK Trophy
has been completed and with the results there we can happily announce
that Kevin has made it to the top 6 and will be invited to the Grand Prix
Finals that will take place December 13-17th in Torino Italy. You can
check the unofficial list to who will be invited here.
Kevin was very happy to hear he made the 6th spot after all. In the back
of his mind he had taken the option into account and adjusted his training
schedule to it. Despite having been sick and only able to fully return
to the ice 2 weeks ago, he feels like he´s in shape and well prepared
“I am gonna try to do 2 quads in the free, but everything else stays
the same…” And after asking what he expects he claims “I
will try to skate as good as possible and then see how far I get. After
all participating is more important than winning.” Spoken like a
true sportsman! And to that he had a good laugh.
Aside that news, he confirmed he will be skating in Kids on Ice in December, he thinks they’ll be in December 29 & 30th. He’s busy busy busy with the Ice Fantillusion Christmas shows and already admitted it’s not gonna be as small as initially planned after all. (who would have guessed? :P)
We wish Kevin lots of good fortune with training, preparations for all the shows, the upcoming competition, and a great December in general!
Also check out this article on Kevin, by JB Mittan on Skate Today!
**November 2007**
November 26, Ever since
Kevin got out of the plane from Canada, he’s been suffering from
sinusitus. Even more so the accomplishment that he achieved that 4th place
at TEB in France, since he was still on a high fever then. It is the reason
tho why he decided not to try the quad in either of his programs. Last
weekend Belgian Nationals took place and Kevin, still being sick decided
not to compete, but was there to be supportive of the event, as you can
see in a nice –Flemish- article here
(well mostly in the photo)
We hope you recover soon Kevin!!
Also this weekend was Cup of Russia,
and with that there is an update on the Grand
Prix Finals placements. Stephane Lambiel (#2) and Johnny Weir (#1)
gained enough points to move ahead of Kevin in the list, making him 5th
now. This means, only one other skater may get in between, for Kevin to
be one of the top 6 scoring skaters and be immediately invited to the
Finals.
Skaters competing at the next (and decisive) competition that still have
a shot to place above or tie with Kevin are:
*Sergei Davydov - needs at least #2 at NHK
*Stephen Carriere - needs at least #2 at NHK
*Daisuke Takahashi – needs at least #5 at NHK
And newly added because his last 2 assigned competitions were CoR and
NHK is Andrei Griazev. He will need at least #3 spot at NHK.
If any of these skaters end up in a tie with Kevin, additional criteria
will get taken into consideration to determine in which order they will
be placed.
We will again keep you updated on the issue.
On November 19th it got announced that Kevin is nominated
for
sportsman of the year (Sportgala 2007). Sunday december 16th the winners
will be announced. Congratulations and good luck Kevin!
November
17, With a score of 70.60 for his Short Program (3th position)
and 134.15 for his Long, Kevin came 2.36 points short of a 3th place at
the TEB in Paris. He skipped the quad in his long program, but did land
a clean triple Axel in the long, after doubling that one in the short
program. For more detailed results, check the protocols of the SP here
and the LP here.
Patrick Chan, Sergei Voronov and Alban Preaubert won the medals, Kevin
gained a 4th place. Congrats guys!
A Flemish news-article on
TEB with a nice photo
is added to the article page.
With this competition ended and the points gained counted up, Kevin is
third in the
Grand Prix Finals placements. The top 6 will be invited to compete
in the Grand Prix Finale in Torino Italy. Of course with still 2 Grand
Prixs -NHK and CoR- to go, this is not a final result. A quick (and hopefully
correct) calculation leads us to conclude that at this moment there are
6 guys that still have assigned competitions and could potentially collect
more points -or tie- with Kevin. These are:
*Sergei Davydov - needs at least #2 at NHK
*Stephen Carriere - needs at least #2 at NHK
*Stephane Lambiel – needs at least #3 at CoR
*Jeffrey Buttle – needs at least #3 at CoR
*Daisuke Takahashi – needs at least #5 at NHK
*Johnny Weir – needs at least #5 at CoR
We will keep you posted on any developments in this matter.
November 15, New photo album "Italian Tour 2007", check
it out here. We
wish Kevin a great weekend at Trophée
Eric Bompard Cachemire in Paris,
France and are keeping our fingers crossed!
November
6, 2 Flemish and one English link added to the Articles
page
November 4, Kevin just won the silver medal at Skate Canada!
He was 5th after the SP with a score of 66.11, but he managed to WIN the
Free Skate, with 136.44 points, with 0.87 points more than Brian Joubert,
however Brian had enough lead on the SP to maintain in first position
overall. We are pleased to report he landed the quad Toeloop and triple
Axel. Well done Kevin!
Reuters
News with a photo
• Articles
updated with 2 new ones from Ice Network
November 2, time for the new site to launch!! Message from Kevin:
"Welcome to this new site. The old was in need of some renewal
and I think we have succeeded. Have fun!!"
We wish the same as Kevin and hope you enjoy the site we created in a
joined effort with him (and Jenna). Do you have any comments or requests,
feel free to mail us here!
We'd like to extend a special thanks to Anette & Daphne without whom
this project would not have been realised and to Ioana & Manda for
their continuing support.
Have fun browsing, and 'Toi Toi Toi' to Kevin in Canada!! ~ Mireille &
Titia
November 1, Icenetwork keeps up with the practices in Canada. Read a very nice part about Kevin jumping quads, including a short quote here
**October
2007**
October 30, Kevin left Belgium to compete in Skate
Canada later this week.
October 11 - 14, Kevin competed at the Finlandia
Trophy. Unfortunately
in practice a part of the toepick on Kevin's right skate got damaged due
to a collision with Anton Kovalevski which needed to be fixed by the skate
sharpener. This led to the blade feeling different. Despite that, with
a score of 52.98 for
his short porgram (placed sixth) and 115.66 for the long program (third
place) he wins the bronze medal.
The judges weren't real enthusiastic about
the short program on Safri Duo, so he changed it and now skates to Xotica.
**September 2007**
September 20 - 22, Kevin competed at the Ondrej
Nepela Memorial in Bratislava Slovakia. With a score of 56.25 for
his short progam (placed second) and 109.46 for his long program he wins
the competition. Congratulations Kevin! For detailed results check >>here<<
Kevin announces his short program music to be on the track Heartbeat by Safri Duo, a theme that will return in his costume as well as in his choreography. He proudly showed us his Long Program costume >>link to pic<< which will be on the soundtrack on Lawrence of Arabia. He realises he has tried this before and then midseason changed his mind, something didn't feel right back then, but since he really likes the music, he decided to give it another go this season.
**August
2007**
After skating in the Italian tour (picture below) together with his fiancee
Jenna McCorkel Kevin returned home and resumed his regular training.
