Evan Lysacek
Evan Lysacek
Evan Frank Lysacekis an American figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, a two-timeFour Continents champion, the 2009 Grand Prix Final champion, and a two-timeU.S. national champion. Lysacek was the 2010 United States Olympic Committee's SportsMan of the Year, and the winner of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top U.S. amateur athlete of 2010. On January 22, 2016, he was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame...
ProfessionFigure Skater
Date of Birth4 June 1985
CityChicago, IL
became collapse dreamed falling hard include olympics short sick stomach stuck upwards veins
It's hard because I dreamed about the Olympics for upwards of a decade. And that dream didn't include getting sick with a stomach flu, getting stuck with IVs, having my veins collapse and falling in the short program. It became about something different ... courage.
certainly depth four great top wonderful
We've always had great depth in our men. Certainly we have it this year. And what I think is so wonderful about the top four is that each one has a completely different style.
hope proved
They kind of skipped over her, but she proved them wrong. I hope she can keep it up.
ahead entire life olympics ton waiting work
The Olympics has been a life-long dream. I know that I have a ton of work ahead of me, but it is work I have been waiting my entire life to do.
five last single thinking
I think when I was about 14 or 15 I decided, ?I think I'm going to go to the Olympics. So for about the last five years I've been thinking about it every day. Every single day.
burst definitely learning medal olympics scene seem
I'll definitely keep going. I'm learning about the sport and the Olympics and world championships. To come out and burst on the scene and get a medal doesn't seem realistic.
felt
In training, I've been doing the quad a lot and it's been going really well. This one felt good, and I was not braced for the fall.
good
I had an off night. Not good to do it at the Olympics.
arrived came clean competition four last pairs program short
After the pairs short program (Saturday), I have adrenaline. I came back like I had just arrived and I'm in competition mode. I've had four clean run-throughs in the last four days.
exactly hard junior olympics time won
I didn't know exactly what it meant. At the time I was doing the Junior Olympics I thought, ?Well, I won that, how hard can it be to do this other Olympics? It's just another step.
definitely eliminate trend trying
I definitely think the trend is we're trying to eliminate name-recognition from skating.
definitely stay
I definitely just wanted to stay on my feet,
best boost career coming confidence gives grand medals qualify season strong
I feel awesome. I've had a really strong season so far, the best of my career with two medals in the Grand Prix, and I was the only American to qualify for the finals. So that gives me a big boost of confidence coming in here.
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I could have sold it more, but I was trying to pace myself and take one thing at a time. Every few seconds I would think facial expression or choreography and I'd do something expression, but then I'd go back into my little zone. At the end I felt like I didn't remember. I wasn't sure if it had happened yet.