Don't know if this thread has been started by anyone but Laura has decided to retire. http://yle.fi/urheilu/lajit/muut/tai...a_3359459.html
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03-25-2012, 07:31 PM #1Registered User
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Laura Lepisto calls it a career.
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03-25-2012, 07:37 PM #2
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I had hoped she would recover and compete again.
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Not surprising but sad nonetheless
She never got to skate to her potential
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03-25-2012, 07:48 PM #4Registered User
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This has been informed in the Finnish Skating News -thread, but sure, deserves its own thread, too.
Originally Posted by Jammers
Here is the video of a tv-program, where her retirement was announced today
Laura can be seen/heard in sections:
1:20 - 7:00 (interviewed at her parents' home, with her father)
11:40 - 16:15 (interviewed at her training hall, with her coach Virpi Horttana, both of them getting little teary eyed...)
19:45 - 23:20 (Laura on ice in the training hall, also interviewed)
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03-25-2012, 07:55 PM #5Registered User
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Too bad but world bronze was a big accomplishment
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03-25-2012, 07:59 PM #6Registered User
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Laura is and will always be one of my sentimental favorites
her jump arsenals may not be that high but her artistry, skating skills and presentation she has impressed me the most.
you will be missed beautiful Laura
good luck to your new life
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Very sad. She will be missed.
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03-25-2012, 09:02 PM #8Watch me move
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That's really a shame. I loved her skating.
I would have been here sooner, but the bus kept stopping for other people to get on it. - Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory
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03-25-2012, 09:07 PM #9Hanging loose
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Well, she came pretty close in the Olympics, with five triples (3T-3T, triple lutz, and two triple loops, just doubling the salchow) with a score of 126+. I'm sorry to see her go. Originally Posted by oleada
She never got to skate to her potential"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust." ~ 'A Modest Proposal' ~ Jonathan Swift
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03-25-2012, 09:16 PM #11Registered User
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Truly a shame
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03-25-2012, 09:23 PM #12
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03-25-2012, 09:27 PM #13Brazilian Eurotrash
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I was too hoping she would come back somehow.signature schizophrenia
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03-25-2012, 09:47 PM #14
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What was her injury?
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There is sadness in my heart.
All the very best for the future Laura! You were a beauty on the ice.
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03-25-2012, 10:12 PM #16
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i never was a big fan of her to be honest, but looking back, 2007, 2008, how bright finnish ladies skating future seemed to be with poykio still on the line, korpi and especially laura and jenni vähamaa in coming.
so sad to summarize now, what a disappointing ending for poykio, vähämaa history long ago, korpi never manages to totally rock a main competition with two great skates and now lepistö retiring.
wish her the best for the future and remember her tears in the press confernce hence makes me still sad.
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03-25-2012, 10:21 PM #17
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I'm sorry that injury forced the decision.
A shame that she couldn't end her career on her own terms.
The very best to Laura in the future.
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03-25-2012, 10:29 PM #18
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What a shame for Laura and the fans. I'm glad she will always be a European Champion and World medalist, but as skatesindreams said, it's a shame she couldn't retire on her own terms.
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This is incredibly sad news. I am devestated for the girl and for the sport, to lose an amazing talent in such a forced manner. Her time as a senior was actually quite brief, but so effective and her Olympic skate is one of my all time favourites. It is genuinely depressing to think she won't be at a competetive event again. One of the all time best Europeans.
To be let down by your own body, especially when she seemed to everything right, developing the harder jumps as she matured, pushing her self in increments....
to the talent, sad for her, her coach, her family and fans.
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