Kiira Korpi News Blog

Kiira got through to the University

Kiira was accepted to the Tampere University to study corporate management. She must have done superbly in the examination, since only 20 out of 759 applicants were accepted! VERY well done!
Short Finnish news article about this:
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/viihde/uutinen.asp?id=1552699
Mixi
P.S. I just noticed that I have Inbox here… :) Sorry to the people who have emailed and I have completely ignored. Didn’t know about Inbox at all before now…

Thanks Mixi for the news. I’m adding some comment’s here because the blacklist system seems to be deleting all the comments and can’t figure out how to fix it right now.

So yes, wery well done! But just to clarify, 20 is the amount of new students accepted to the Management and Organization major subject in the …

GP Series and New Programs

Grand Prix of Figure Skating series
The assignments for season 2008/09 GP-series have been dealt. All four Finnish ladies recieved the full two assignments, Kiira getting the Canadian and French GP’s. Complete list of assignments for ladies discipline is available here (pdf).
HomeSense Skate Canada International, Oct. 31 – Nov. 2 (Ottawa, Canada)
http://www.skatecanada.ca/en/events_results/events/hssci08.cfm

Trophée Eric Bompard Cachemire, Nov. 13 – 16 (Paris, France)
http://www.eric-bompard.com/trophee_eric_bompard.php

New free skate program for the coming season
Aamulehti chatted with Kiira about her choices for music.
Every spring skaters and their coaches and choreographers go through all the music in the world and make selections for the new programs.
Too often a worn out classic gets selected.
Kiira Korpi doesn’t want to do again something that has been done hundreds of times already. On …

Videos from the graduation ceremony

New photos

Here are some photos from the new issue of women’s magazine “Me Naiset”, May 29th 2008. The article is mainly about Kiira’s and Laura Lepistö’s graduation and future plans. Ville, I think you were about to post something about this magazine - if you wish, you can by all means use these photos if need be.
Cover:

Pictures from inside:

Breaking news…

Update: Video from YLE Sports News
Kiira gets her student cap. Yeah, the tabloid-papers seem to be all over her…

http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/200805317730283_vi.shtml
But anyway, congratulations to Kiira and everyone else who graduates. Enjoy the summer while it lasts, the real studies haven’t even begun yet…

Just a bunch of updates…

I’ts been quiet lately, so here’s a bunch of updates regarding graduation and plans for summer.

Excerpts from Iltalehti’s graduation extra:

Kiira Korpi is aiming for School of Economics
Figure skater Kiira Korpi has a busy summer ahead. First goal for the summer is the entrance exam to the School of Economics in University of Tampere. Burden of the future is eased by a renewed sponsor deal with Valio and matriculation exams that went well.
Kiira, who spent four years in Sampo upper seconday school took the exams in three occasions.
- This spring I took only the exam in English language. Last fall I did math, German and Swedish and on spring before that the Finnish language. The exams went well, with an overall …

Kiira Korpi graduates

The upper secondary schools (Finnish “high school") have begun publishing the names of this springs graduates, and a familiar name can be found from this list by Aamulehti.
Congratulations!
Aamulehti also had a little interview with Kiira:
Final push: After the entrance exams for School of Economics there’s just skating.
Korpi’s matriculation exam included among others tests from two a-level foreign languages and advanced level mathematics. Although the exams went well, combining school with competitive sports hasn’t always been easy.
- It has required discipline, good planning, scheduling, co-operation from school and skating people and ability to adjust.
Love for skating has kept her going. Korpi isn’t spending time in night clubs even if her age would allow it. The fan has had to pass part …

Japan Open 2008 was over

Japan Open 2008 (competition) and Carnival on Ice (gala) was just over.In summary, Team Europe was 2nd place just few points behind Team Japan. Kiira skated to “Phantom” program with her glittering pink dress but was not so good at skating - fell once and missed jumps. You can see detailed results here (pdf file). At the gala, she skated to “ABBA” program in a dreamy atmosphere with a little bit different costume than the Euros - a blue (or purple?) shirt and a pink short pants. I succeeded to have a short interview with her before the competition. Just a moment to write the article. Photo ©Yuko Sudo

Suggestions to Kiira are now wanted

Hi everyone, Kiira is coming to Japan and she seems to look for something new and inspiring for her new Free Skating program. So, if you have some impressions, suggestions, opinions etc. to her FS, please let me know it with comments here. Skating elements, choreography, music, costumes… everything will be welcomed. I’ll manage to tell her or her team about it. Thanks, P.S.When you recommend her such as songs, costumes or elements, if you know the URL (address) of YouTube (or something like that),please tell us to help identifying it easily.

Japan Open 2008 is coming!

Japan Open 2008, the last competition and exhibition of 2007-08 season, is coming soon! http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/japanopen2008/
Date: Sun. April 20th, 2008
Time: 13:00 (competition) 18:00 (exhibition)
Venue: Saitama Super Arena
Japan Open is an invitational team-competition between Europe, North America and Japan and Kiira will participate with Sarah Meier, Stephane Lambiel and Evgeni Plushenko as a member of Team Europe. See participants.
It’s the third time for Kiira to come to participate Japan Open. After the competition, a Gala exhibition called “Carnival on Ice” will be held http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/coi2008/and all the skaters will perform their exhibition programs.