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Jan Čejvan
Jan Čejvan (born 14 June 1976) is a Slovene former competitive figure skater. He is the 1993–2000 national champion and competed in the final segment at three ISU Championships – the 1995 World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary; the 1996 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the 1999 European Championships in Prague, Czech Republic. He has worked as an ISU technical specialist for Slovenia and the coach of Daša Grm. Programs Results ''GP: Grand Prix Grand Prix ( , meaning ''Grand Prize''; plural Grands Prix), is a name sometimes used for competitions or sport events, alluding to the winner receiving a prize, trophy or honour Grand Prix or grand prix may refer to: Arts and entertainment ...'' References External links * 1976 births Slovenian male single skaters Living people International Skating Union technical specialists Sportspeople from Ljubljana Competitors at the 2003 Winter Universiade {{Slovenia-figure-skating-bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daša Grm
Daša Grm (born 18 April 1991) is a Slovenian retired figure skater. She is a two-time Dragon Trophy champion (2012, 2016), the 2015 Hellmut Seibt Memorial champion, the 2017 Ice Challenge champion, a two-time Golden Bear of Zagreb silver medalist (2013, 2017), and a seven-time Slovenia national champion (2014–2020). She has competed in the final segment at eight ISU Championships, including four World Championships (2015, 2018, 2019, 2022). Personal life Daša Grm was born on 18 April 1991 in Celje, Slovenia. She studied kinesiology at university and graduated with a bachelor's degree. Her father, Stanislav Grm, is a former ski jumper. Career Grm appeared on the novice level until the end of the 2003–04 season. She competed at her first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in autumn 2004. Her ISU Championship debut came in March 2006 at the World Junior Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She finished 25th that year and 43rd in 2007 in Oberstdorf, Germany. Grm made her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trophée Éric Bompard
The Grand Prix de France is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It was previously known as the Grand Prix International de Paris (1987–1993), Trophée de France (1994–1995, 2016), Trophée Lalique (1996–2003), Trophée Éric Bompard (2004–2015), and Internationaux de France (2017–2021). Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Organized by the French Federation of Ice Sports, the event is most often held in Paris but is also hosted by other cities – Albertville in 1991, Lyon in 1994, Bordeaux in 1995, 2014, and 2015, Grenoble from 2017 to 2021, and Angers in 2022 and 2023. History The competition was first held in 1987 in Paris as the ''Grand Prix International de Paris''. In 1991, Albertville hosted it as a pre-Olympic event. In 1994, it took place in Lyon and became known as ''Trophée de France''. It retained the name in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Figure Skating Championships
The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European champion. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The event is sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU) and is the sport's oldest competition. The first European Championships was held in 1891 in Hamburg, Germany and featured one segment, compulsory figures, with seven competitors, all men from Germany and Austria. It has been, other than five periods, held continuously since 1891, and has been sanctioned by the ISU since 1893. Women were allowed to compete for the first time in 1930, which is also the first time pairs skating was added to the competition. Ice dance was added in 1954. Only eligible skaters from ISU member countries in Europe can compete, and skaters must have reached at least the age of 15 before July 1 preceding the competition. ISU member count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships (''"Worlds"'') is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the categories of single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Generally held in March, the World Championships are considered the most prestigious of the ISU Figure Skating Championships. With the exception of the Olympic title, a world title is considered to be the highest competitive achievement in figure skating. The corresponding competition for junior-level skaters is the World Junior Figure Skating Championships, World Junior Championships. The corresponding competition for senior-level synchronized skating is the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships, World Synchronized Skating Championships and for junior level the ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships, World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships. History The Internationale Eislauf-Vereinigung (Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISU Grand Prix Of Figure Skating
The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating (known as ISU Champions Series from 1995 to 1997) is a series of senior international figure skating competitions organized by the International Skating Union. The invitational series was inaugurated in 1995, incorporating several previously existing events. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of single skating, men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The junior-level equivalent is the ISU Junior Grand Prix. Seasons Summary Competitions Currently, the sanctioned competitions for the Grand Prix are: * Skate America. First held in 1979 as Norton Skate, the event has been part of the series since 1995 and its location changes yearly. * Skate Canada International. First held in 1973, the event has been part of the series since 1995 and its location changes yearly. It was cancelled in 2020 Skate Canada International, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. * Grand Prix de France (figure skating), Grand Prix de France (Grand P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Arnold
David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is a British film composer whose credits include scoring five James Bond films, as well as ''Stargate'' (1994), '' Independence Day'' (1996), ''Godzilla'' (1998) and the television series '' Little Britain'' and '' Sherlock''. For ''Independence Day'' he received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television and for '' Sherlock'' he, and co-composer Michael Price, won a Creative Arts Emmy for the score of "His Last Vow", the final episode in the third series. Arnold scored the BBC / Amazon Prime series ''Good Omens'' (2019) adapted by Neil Gaiman from his book ''Good Omens'', written with Terry Pratchett. Arnold is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Career While attending a Sixth Form College in Luton, Arnold became friends with director Danny Cannon. Cannon initially created short films for which Arnold was asked to write the music. The two made their res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independence Day (1996 Film)
''Independence Day'' (also promoted as ''ID4'') is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin. It stars an ensemble cast that consists of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, and Harvey Fierstein. The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by a powerful extraterrestrial race. With the other people of the world, they launch a counterattack on July 4— Independence Day in the United States. While promoting ''Stargate'' in Europe, Emmerich conceived the film while answering a question about his belief in the existence of alien life. Devlin and Emmerich decided to incorporate a large-scale attack having noticed that aliens in most invasion films travel long distances in outer space only to remain hidden when reaching Earth. Shooting began on July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for five films in the ''Star Trek'' franchise and three in the Rambo (franchise), ''Rambo'' franchise, as well as for ''Logan's Run (film), Logan's Run'', ''Planet of the Apes (1968 film), Planet of the Apes'', ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', ''Patton (film), Patton'', ''Chinatown (1974 film), Chinatown'', ''Alien (1979 film), Alien'', ''Poltergeist (1982 film), Poltergeist'', ''Gremlins'', ''Hoosiers (film), Hoosiers'', ''Total Recall (1990 film), Total Recall'', ''Air Force One (film), Air Force One'', ''L.A. Confidential (film), L.A. Confidential'', ''Mulan (1998 film), Mulan'', and ''The Mummy (1999 film), The Mummy''. He also composed the #Studio fanfares, fanfares accompanying the production logos used by multiple major film studios, and music for the Disney attraction Soarin'. He collaborated with directors including Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ghost And The Darkness
''The Ghost and the Darkness'' is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898. The film received mixed reviews and was considered a box office disappointment, having grossed only $75 million against a production budget of $55 million. It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler. Plot In 1898, Robert Beaumont, the primary financier of a railway project in Tsavo, Kenya, seeks out the expertise of Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson, an Anglo-Irish British military engineer, to get the project on schedule. Patterson travels from England to Tsavo, promising his wife, Helena, that he will complete the bridge and be back in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Acropolis
''Live at the Acropolis'' is the first live album and concert film by the Greek keyboardist, composer, and producer Yanni, released on March 1, 1994, on Private Music. It was recorded at the Herodes Atticus Theatre in Athens, Greece during his 1993 tour in support of his eighth studio album, '' In My Time'' (1993). The concert took a year and a half to organise and cost Yanni $2 million of his own money to fund. He performs with his six-piece band and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Shahrdad Rohani. The album was mixed and produced by Yanni in his studio, and was made into a television special which aired in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). ''Live at the Acropolis'' received a mostly positive reception from music critics. It was an instant commercial success, reaching number one on the ''Billboard'' New Age Albums chart and number 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200. It remains Yanni's highest selling release with 4 million albums and 600,000 home v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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