Javier Fernandez

Figure skating in Spain is an unpopular sport, even national championships began to be held only in the 21st century, and even then not every year. Perhaps, to interrupt such indifference will be able to figure skater-single Javier Fernandez.

In April 1991, a postal worker, Enriquete Lopez, and a military mechanic, Antonio Fernandez, presented their younger brother to Laura. The boy was given the name Javier.

Parents encouraged children to play sports, despite the fact that a third of the family's income was spent on the payment of training. Like most Spanish boys, Fernandez preferred men's football, tennis and ice skating. My sister chose figure skating. Subsequently, Laura will break into the main tournament grid of european and world championships as a singles.

Fernandez owes her appearance at the rink to Laura. Although at the age of seven it is too late to start by the standards of figure skating, the boy showed remarkable diligence. Later, due to lack of financial support, her sister quit the sport and went into medicine, but still motivated Javier to continue training.

In an interview, Fernandez will say that Laura committed a noble act by deliberately putting an end to her own sports career. The family simply did not have enough money to pay for coaches for both children.

In 2008, the gifted young man, by that time already the champion of Spain and bronze medalist of the NRW Trophy tournament, was noticed by Russian coach Nikolay Morozov. Javier had the prospect of training in the United States. The only thing that overshadowed the situation - the financial issue: free were only the services of the legendary coach, and accommodation and related moments required a considerable amount of money.

Parents have invested in their son's career the last savings, the father even got a second job. It was necessary for Fernandez to come to Russia periodically for a mentor in order not to interrupt the training process. This continued until Morozov lost interest in free lessons.

During the period of cooperation with Nikolai Morozov, Fernandez proved himself at the European and World Championships, although he started from the places in the second ten. At the first in sports biography of the Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, Javier was the first participant from Spain in half a century.

In 2010, the figure skater joined the team of world champion and Olympic medalist Brian Orser. Under the guidance of the new coach, the athlete's performances began to bring the first victories. The titled mentor follows his own philosophy of educating champions - to act strictly according to plan. The student learned to really work on the ice, do five-hour rentals every day and not complain.

In the first adult tournament - the Merano Cup - Javier for the first time performed a jump of four turns in an arbitrary program. At the same time Fernandez won the Spanish championship for the fourth time, however, he did not have serious competitors there.

The following season, the Spaniard's chest was covered with two silver medals from the Grand Prix and a bronze medal from the final. In the Grand Prix finals twice more Javier became the second, seven times - the winner at different stages. According to statistics, since the beginning of performances in the "adult" Grand Prix without awards skater remained only once - in the beginning of 2011.

Since 2013, Fernandez has not conceded the palm of the championship in the European Championships. Only Evgeny Plushenko is ahead of him in terms of the number of medals of the highest sample. At the same time, the skater claims that each new victory for him is a separate event.

Suddenly, from 9th place in 2012 and immediately to 3rd in 2013, a solitary man climbed to the podium of the world championship. Later in this tournament, Javier won another bronze and two gold medals, simultaneously setting records for the sum of points scored. For Spain, Fernandez is the first world champion in this sport. At one time he lost Patrick Chan and Yuzuru Hanyu. In the national championship for eight years the athlete is an unconditional leader.

The Olympics in Sochi ended for the Spanish singles in a disappointing fourth place. Javier sensationally lost to young Russian Denis Ten. For unknown reasons, the judges took the quadruple jump for triple, the second triple salkhov was not counted at all.

However, that defeat, according to the skater, served as an impetus to further improve skating. The words of Brian Orser, who said that life goes on without a medal, and tomorrow the sun will rise again.

Javier Fernandez went down in the history of figure skating as the second singles, having scored more than 100 points in the short program (after Mikhail Kolyada), more than 200 - in the arbitrary and more than 300 - on the total (after the same brilliant Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu).

Two decades later, Javier Fernandez finally recognized her homeland by handing the figure skater the Gold Medal of the Royal Order. Spanish channel Eurosport has released a film about the preparation of the national hero for the 2018 Olympics.

Javier doesn't make secrets out of his personal life. Back in 2013, the figure skater officially confirmed that he maintains a relationship with his colleague from Japan, two-time world champion Miki Ando. The athletes posted a photo of the confession on their Instagram pages. 

The news surprised fans a lot, as there were rumors on the Internet that Ando lives with the coach, and Fernandez adheres to an unconventional orientation. No less a wave of surprise, and somewhere and joy caused the news that the Spanish athlete married a Russian girl. And the authorship of words was attributed to the coach Tatiana Tarasova.

However, in the summer of 2017, Miki confirmed that the skaters are still together. The absence of the couple at public events, the girl explained that she does not want to distract Javier from the preparations for the Olympic season.

As a true Spaniard Fernandez - a big fan of football, a fan of Real Madrid, on the social network he periodically posts videos from matches. For obvious reasons, the skater loves Japanese cuisine, does not give up the pleasure of eating sweets. In his spare time he plays video games, rides a bicycle.

Judging by the latest news, which appeared in the run-up to the Olympics in Korea, these Games, sadly, the last in the career of a skater. Perhaps that's why the main idea of his programs was to include Spanish motifs, so that the audience could see something related to his country. Moreover, despite the presence of such an outstanding representative of figure skating, in Spain this sport is still not popular. Javier thus wanted to make it clear that you should appreciate what you have.

The eminent athlete leaves because he no longer feels the energy and strength to keep up with the young people stepping on their heels. According to him, figure skating has moved far ahead, and it is necessary to soberly assess their strength. The same quadruple jumps, without which it is difficult to imagine a competitive program, are more difficult with each tournament. I don't want to make mistakes.

On the other hand, the experienced Javier sees no point in inserting two or three quadruple jumps into the programs, if in the end it turns out to be successful with only one. Against this background, not so much complicated, but purely executed program looks no worse.

As Fernandez says, it is possible to make mistakes at Grand Prix-level competitions, but not at the World Championships, and especially not at the Olympic Games.

2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 - Spanish champion 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 - Grand Prix Gold Medal 2013, 2014 - World Championship bronze medal, European Championship gold medal 2015, 2016 - World Championship gold medal, European Championship gold medal 2015 - two gold medals of the Grand Prix stages 2017 - European Championship gold medal, two gold medals of grand prix stages 2018 - European Championship gold medal

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