She used to remember the hall for 27,000 spectators well during training, but she already competed in it twice at the World Championships. “Only now they had to fix the ice here, because during the training of the sports pairs, someone dug a hole up to the pipes,” she described the small vicissitudes of the organizers.
They prepared the championship nine and four years ago. “In 2014, it was my second World Championship and I reached the final for the first time. I didn’t even expect it, it was a bit of luck when one girl spilled in the last heat and I advanced,” she recalls.
“But the memories are amazing, there is probably no other winter theater with such a capacity where a full hall would go,” he is looking forward to the Japanese audience.
For a long time, she was not sure that she would fly to the top of the season. After last winter, when she flashed the twelfth best short program at the Olympics in Beijing and finally finished twentieth, she did not defend her position as Czech number one. Barbora Vránková, ten years younger than her, topped her in the domestic competition.
But she had to miss the European Championship due to illness, and even Březinová, who underwent knee surgery, could not be surprised. “I’ve been in pain for a long time, after the national championship I received the results of the magnetic resonance imaging and decided to have the procedure, so that I might be able to prepare for the world championship,” she explained.
Vránková was unable to meet the points limit for the world championship, so the invitation to Saitama went to Březinová, who was the only Czech woman to achieve the required performance.
“I returned to the ice at the end of January, with a lot of rehabilitation. I even made it to one race so that I wouldn’t ride in front of a bunch of people immediately after the operation, but the stability of the jumps was still not ideal. Hopefully it will be better now,” hopes the 27-year-old figure skater, who is accompanied by her father Rudolf as a coach from the family team in Saitama.
The women’s short program, which Březinová rides to the music of Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics, will start on Wednesday at 7:50 a.m. CET, and the free ride to the theme of Zorra would await her on Friday from 9:20 a.m.
