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00:26In the Cricket Club of Toronto, he teaches a key figure in the history of artistic skating.
00:35The life of Brian Orser is a number of passionate chapters.
00:40Well, like every Canadian boy I played ice hockey first.
00:46My skating skills were really pretty bad.
00:50So my parents just put me into figure skating just to improve my skating skills.
00:59I tried to get any opportunity to skate.
01:03And especially in the winter, you know, I'd try to find a lake or something outdoors even to skate.
01:10I loved skating fast. I loved jumping. I loved skating free.
01:16And it was just something that was, I think, just part of me.
01:22I had my challenges when I was younger, and I had a lot of kids who were bullying me and giving me a hard time.
01:29But I just loved it.
01:33Brian Orser se hizo mayor y protagonizó la época dorada del patinaje artístico.
01:38Sus duelos con Brian Boitano en la llamada Batalla de los Brian trascendieron las barreras del patinaje.
01:44We had everybody on the edge of their seats. And the media just loved it. And it was a great story.
02:01But the fame had for Brian a personal cost.
02:07Because of a protest, he was forced to announce his homosexuality. It was in 1988.
02:13You know, it was nothing that needed to be announced.
02:18There were circumstances later in my life, when I was professional, that required for me to announce that I was gay.
02:27But the thing is, I mean, that's one of the great things about Canada.
02:32People don't, I mean, in Canada, they really don't see that as any kind of issue.
02:37And so when I came out, it was like, okay, and, you know, when are you going to skate next?
02:44Really, that was, that was, that was the cool thing.
02:48Brian ha entrenado a los mejores del mundo, entre ellos Javier Fernández.
02:55Well, my life in Toronto is, eh, it's easy. It's easy and I'm a good one.
03:02I live near the road, I have a supermarket next to my house, I have a metro next to my house.
03:08I live near the road, I know the people, I live well with everyone.
03:12So, I'm in a good place where things are going well.
03:17I live outside of Spain since 17 years old.
03:20We are training at 100% every day and if you don't have that personal, many times you come down.
03:26I came down once when I was 19, 20 years old.
03:31Javier nació hace 25 years old in the Madrileño de Cuatro Vientos.
03:37It's a peculiar place, you know, the 5, just divide a little bit the right side of the Carabanchel,
03:42the left side of the military, where they live.
03:45It's a village of people, well, mainly military.
03:50Two children with whom I have played, basically, children of military.
03:54Javier siguió los pasos de Laura,
03:56su hermana mayor y una destacada patinadora que dejó el deporte para ser enfermera.
04:01In Javier se vio pronto la traza de un talento especial.
04:04Necesitaba mucho menos entrenamiento que cualquier otra persona de sus mismas características,
04:09de alguna forma, y sí que se notaba a nivel de avanzar.
04:13Veías como siendo muy pequeño hacía saltos que otros necesitaban muchos más años para conseguir.
04:17Javier tenía 13 años cuando su familia se trasladó a Jaca para impulsar la carrera de Laura y la suya propia.
04:24Pero su gran salto vino cuando el técnico ruso Nikolai Morozov le ofreció entrenar gratis en Estados Unidos.
04:31Tenía 17 años y no estaba preparado.
04:34No tenía capacidad para vivir solo o independizarse como lo hizo.
04:40Tuvo que aprender, pues eso, a la fuerza.
04:43Apoyamos la decisión de que él se fuera porque veíamos que era su oportunidad.
04:48Tuve ataques de ansiedad, lo que pasa es que no sabes lo que es, entonces estuve yendo al médico para ver si tenía algún problema.
04:56Y luego, bueno, me dijeron, yo creemos que es un ataque de ansiedad, que estás nervioso, intenta relajarte,
05:01pero tú hasta que eso no lo sabes, tampoco sabes cómo lucharlo, ¿no?
05:08Tras dos tormentosos años, Javier conoció a Brian en una competición.
05:27Javier pidió a Brian que le entrenara y este aceptó.
05:31Su recuerdo de los primeros meses es la crónica de un desastre.
05:35Normalmente empiezo a entrenar con los atletas en junio.
05:40Y así hablé con la federación y dije, ¿crees que podríamos llegar aquí en junio?
05:44Y ellos simplemente ríos.
05:47Le trajo a Toronto al final de julio.
05:50Incluso eso fue early para Javi, pero...
05:53Él vino, ¿sabes?
05:55Él vino a mi oficio, se presentó a él.
05:58¿Qué tipo de música quieres skater?
05:59¿Qué tipo de música quieres ir?
06:01¿Qué dirección quieres quieres ir?
06:02¿Cómo quieres verlo?
06:03¿Cómo quieres verlo en un año de ahora?
06:05¿Cuáles son tus objetivos para esta temporada?
06:07Él dijo, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
06:11Él tenía ni idea.
06:12Lo he que querías hacer.
06:14La tendencia nos llamamos.
06:15¡No, no, no, no, no, no!
06:16Alejandro, te.
06:17¡No, no!
06:18Lo he que decimos, que acumbramos a empezar desde el principio.
06:21Because we got to start from the beginning with him.
06:24We had this little diamond in the rough that needed some direction.
06:28When people are naturals and it comes easily,
06:31they don't really want to think about it.
06:32You want to do it. It's a personality type.
06:38Come on, pull!
06:41And really there was no method to his madness in his training.
06:45If he felt like it, he would do it,
06:48and if he didn't feel like it, he wouldn't.
06:51I've also come back a little bit.
06:53I've also come back to bed and I haven't come to training.
06:58He didn't realize that we had a set schedule.
07:01And that I'm pretty strict about it.
07:03If you're going to skate at 12 o'clock,
07:05you should be on the ice at 12 o'clock.
07:07And not 12 o'clock at 1.
07:09So, well, he hit me a couple of screams.
07:11He hit a foot with the bike
07:14to a hole in a hole.
07:16We had some moments where we were like this.
07:19And we were butting heads.
07:21And I was screaming at him.
07:23And I actually was kind of surprised that he stayed around.
07:27Because if it had been me,
07:29I would have just said, I'm out of here. Adios.
07:32But then he did his first competition.
07:37And he won the short program.
07:39And everybody's crying.
07:41You know, and that was, you know, three months of work.
07:45Brian changed my life
07:47because he gave me a way to train.
07:50He gave me happiness,
07:52and the desire to do what I'm doing.
07:56I think the biggest message that got him going
08:00was that he realized that myself, Tracy, David,
08:04that we believed in him.
08:06He believed in him.
08:08It's his second father.
08:09He didn't have anyone there.
08:11Well, on the day of Canada,
08:13he invited them and he took them to his house.
08:15And we gave him a lot of calmness.
08:17There was a person who took him in the moment
08:21when he was hurt.
08:23In less than a year,
08:26Javier won the first of his five European championships.
08:29The echo of his success came to Japan,
08:32where the skating is a mass sport.
08:34A mysterious call
08:36invited Brian to a secret appointment.
08:38They wanted to keep it top secret.
08:41I had no idea who it was.
08:43I was going to Japan.
08:44They took me to some hotel.
08:46We had a private meeting.
08:48I walked in and there's you, Zero Hanyu.
08:51I was like, this is the last person on earth
08:54that I actually thought would be asking me to teach.
09:01Yuzuru Hanyu,
09:02el niño prodigio del patinaje en Japón,
09:04quería entrenar junto a Javier Fernández.
09:11I said, why?
09:12Like, why do you want to come with me?
09:14And he just said,
09:16I want to come and train at your rink.
09:18I want to train with Fernández.
09:20I really wanted to practice with Javier,
09:26because it looks like really easy
09:29and really constant with music, with competition.
09:35So I came back from Japan.
09:36I saw Javier and I said,
09:38there's this gator that wants to come.
09:40I want to just talk to you about it
09:41and see if you're okay.
09:42And he said, who is it?
09:43And I said, it's Yuzuru Hanyu.
09:46And he was like, hmm, that's fine.
09:49He didn't care.
09:50They're complete opposites.
09:59When you think about the Japanese culture
10:01versus the Spanish culture.
10:03When you think about, you know, Yuzuru's here,
10:05very sheltered and very protected.
10:09He has his mom with him.
10:12He does do his studies, university studies.
10:15And he's not social at all.
10:17Now, you have Fernández, who is here on his own.
10:20He has his own apartment.
10:22He does his own cooking, his own cleaning.
10:24And he has some friends.
10:25He's very social.
10:26On the weekends, he can go downtown
10:28and have a beer with his friends.
10:29You know, whereas Yuzuru's the opposite.
10:32This is five years living here.
10:36I usually feel strange.
10:39Because I usually speak in Japanese
10:43with my family, with my friend.
10:49Los dos mejores patinadores entrenando juntos.
10:52Un espectáculo difícil de igualar y de captar,
10:55dado que a Hanyu no le gustan las cámaras en la pista.
10:59When Yuzuru first came,
11:01Javi would be coming to the rink
11:03with his ski jacket on.
11:05He'd be taking off his guards,
11:07sipping his coffee,
11:08and Yuzuru would be doing a triple axel.
11:10And then you'd see Javi go,
11:11coffee down, jacket off,
11:13boom, got to get to work.
11:15There are times when you're in training
11:16and you're having a horrible training.
11:18And the person with whom you compete
11:20has a great training,
11:22and you're crazy.
11:23Why are you crazy?
11:24Because you're a person
11:25and you want to be the best.
11:26They're both better because of each other.
11:28Javi's better because of Yuzu
11:30and Yuzu's better because of Javi.
11:31Los Juegos de Sochi en 2014
11:36fueron la primera gran ocasión
11:38de medir su rivalidad.
11:40Para Javier, abanderado y gran figura española,
11:43las cosas no empezaron bien.
11:44I remember seeing him on the phone
11:46and he was doing this interview
11:47a couple days before
11:48and it went on forever.
11:50And I was saying to our team leader,
11:52we need to get him off the phone.
11:53And the longer he was on,
11:55there was one moment where he said something
11:58about the gays in Russia
12:01and if they come,
12:02they should just behave or something like that.
12:05And it was a very innocent comment.
12:07There was no intent to offend anybody
12:22because he's the gayest, friendliest straight guy I know.
12:26His coaches are gay.
12:29So, anyway, that was the first time I saw him ever cry.
12:34And he broke down into tears.
12:38I would have wanted that person
12:42with all his good faith,
12:43he would have said,
12:44are you referring to this?
12:48And he would have said,
12:49no, please, no.
12:50Then they told me,
12:51don't open the social networks,
12:52don't open them.
12:53But I opened them,
12:55I opened them,
12:56just to see them
12:57and I was passing comments
12:58and comments
12:59and this homophobic,
13:00how can it be?
13:01It's not mandated.
13:04It's that the world comes up.
13:08And he wanted to fix everything right away.
13:13And I told him,
13:14I said,
13:15this is,
13:16this is going to go,
13:17it's going to go away.
13:18It's the Olympics.
13:19Everything gets magnified big.
13:21And this will take a couple of days
13:23and it will be all forgotten.
13:25But I think it was,
13:27it was on his back
13:29for the whole games.
13:30I think it started off,
13:31the momentum for the game started off like that.
13:34No,
13:35me preguntarás,
13:36is that interfered in your competition?
13:38Well,
13:39I think it's not,
13:40but it's never known.
13:41After several days of anguish,
13:43Javier finally faced the decisive moment.
13:46So all of a sudden you're out there competing
13:49and you're in great shape,
13:51but you're tired.
13:52You're mentally exhausted.
13:54You know,
13:55you're,
13:56you know the country is watching.
13:58You know there was some media.
14:00And how he cares,
14:02he cares what people think.
14:06So with all of that comes a responsibility
14:09and I think it wore him down.
14:11Mientras Janius se hacía con el oro
14:12a pesar de una caída,
14:13un error inconsciente apartó a Javier de las medallas.
14:17La repetición de un salto que no puntuaba
14:19le condenó a ser cuarto por un solo punto.
14:22Su entrenador asumió toda la responsabilidad.
14:25We missed a medal just by one silly mistake.
14:28And I wish I was maybe more alert at the time.
14:32It caught me off guard.
14:34He thought he was doing the right thing.
14:37And, you know,
14:38he missed a bronze medal by, you know,
14:40a couple of points.
14:47When it comes in for me,
14:48it makes my teaching,
14:49my job easier as a coach
14:52to say to him,
14:54like, I know what you're feeling.
14:56Like, I actually know what you're feeling,
14:57because I've been there.
14:59In Calgary 88,
15:00Orser también fue el abanderado de su país.
15:03El éxito de Canadá dependía en gran medida
15:06de la actuación de Brian.
15:08I competed in two Olympics
15:10and won a medal in Canada.
15:12Brian was the biggest star.
15:15I was his teammate.
15:17And all of Canada,
15:19Brian Orser was the gold medal hope.
15:22And, you know,
15:23you know that Canada is a winter country
15:26and that we should medal.
15:29For one whole year leading up to the Olympics,
15:32everything I did reminded me of the Olympics.
15:35When I would go get gasoline in my car,
15:38they would sponsor the Canadian Olympic team.
15:40Every newspaper I picked up,
15:42I went to McDonald's or whatever.
15:44I was the one that all Canadians were,
15:47expecting to win a gold medal.
15:49And sure, there was a lot of pressure.
15:53I mean, that would have been a fantastic story
15:56and a great ending to the story.
15:58It didn't quite happen that way.
16:00But, you know,
16:02if it had happened,
16:03it would have been fantastic.
16:06Brian Orser necesitaba un ejercicio perfecto
16:08para superar a su rival de siempre
16:10y ganar el oro.
16:11Pero no lo logró.
16:13Marks for Brian Atano.
16:23It was gold or nothing, and he won silver.
16:26And Brian lived through that.
16:28And so he lived through that.
16:30It was very, very painful.
16:32Very painful for Brian.
16:33The front page of the paper was,
16:34Brian Orser a loser.
16:35He lived through it.
16:36And he's transcended it.
16:37So he's a wonderful role model
16:38about the bigger picture.
16:39It was gold or nothing,
16:42and he won silver.
16:43And Brian lived through that.
16:44And so he lived through that.
16:46It was very, very painful.
16:48Very painful for Brian.
16:50The front page of the paper was,
16:51Brian Orser a loser.
16:52He lived through it.
16:54And he's transcended it.
16:56So he's a wonderful role model
16:59about the bigger picture.
17:05So you just keep, especially when you're tired,
17:10you're going to want to work harder with the upper body.
17:15Keep the movement small.
17:17Just keep the knees.
17:18Really focus on keeping the knees going,
17:20and then you won't have to work.
17:21It'll just happen.
17:22And of course, I've learned from Sochi.
17:24It gave me the desire and the strength
17:26to continue training and to continue to work.
17:32Breathe.
17:33The truth is that I was going back to the training
17:35and staying in the training
17:37at 100%.
17:41We were training him
17:42to be a world champion.
17:44And I knew he could be a world champion.
17:47Everything pointed out
17:48that the Olympic champion
17:49and the favorite champion,
17:50Yusuru Hanyu,
17:51would also win gold in the world.
17:55Until Javier appeared.
17:57Oh my gosh.
17:58Well, I don't think he ever really believed
17:59that he could win a world title.
18:00The 29th of March of 2015,
18:01Javier was declared champion of the world.
18:02It's a bad idea.
18:03It's a bad idea.
18:04It's a bad idea.
18:05It's a bad idea.
18:06It's a bad idea.
18:07It's a bad idea.
18:08It's a bad idea.
18:09It's a bad idea.
18:10That's what I like.
18:11Oh my gosh.
18:12I don't think he ever really believed
18:13that he could win a world title.
18:14The 29th of June 2015,
18:16Javier's declared champion of the world.
18:17Oh my gosh.
18:19Well, I think he ever really believed
18:20that he could win a world title.
18:22the world champion.
18:24I remember Brian saying to me after having one as well,
18:53and saying this is our greatest success story from where he was to where he is now in so many ways.
19:23After three days without training, and thanks to the help of the doctors, Javier could
19:35have been able to climb up just before the grand final.
19:37The person who was in the head of the short program was like a barbarian.
19:43Ladies and gentlemen, Javier Fernández.
19:45I was already completely sure, and I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do,
19:49but a second position is not bad.
19:51But then I changed the chip a little, and I said, if there is a possibility of winning,
19:57now that I can climb, it's doing a perfect program.
20:01And he did a perfect program.
20:07And he did it.
20:09Javier gana su segundo mundial consecutivo, y de nuevo por delante de Jaño.
20:33La rivalidad entre ambos es ya historia del patinaje.
20:45A falta de un año para los próximos juegos, ambos patinadores continúan con su rutina en Toronto.
20:51Durante diez minutos, Jaño accede a que la cámara les grabe juntos.
20:57I think technically on the ice, they're pretty much the same.
21:01Jaño really flies more than Javier.
21:05He really flies. He just soars.
21:08He's much more relaxed than Jaño.
21:10I think that's why he tends to compete better.
21:13And Jaño is really focused and really intense.
21:16I mean, a little bit too much, in my opinion.
21:19I can't understand the pressure from where, where is it.
21:24I think thanks to Javi, if I beat my pressure.
21:29When I feel nervous, he usually talking about something funny.
21:34So, I think I owe what I want to him.
21:40The five years of rivalry and rivalry have marked the relationship between Jaño and Fernández.
21:47It's true that maybe there's been a change between us.
21:51When we compete, we win, we win, we win, we win.
21:55We win, we win, we win, we win, we win, we win.
22:10Before winning his second World Cup, Javier's second World Cup, Javier's second World Cup.
22:14After having a difficult time, Javier's second World Cup.
22:17Just after the World Cup, Javier's second World Cup, Javier's second World Cup.
22:23I had moments where I didn't even know how to face the season,
22:27I felt tired, I had worked a lot in summer doing shows.
22:33And it's true that I had to mark the steps little by little,
22:37because if we looked at the long term, I was a little agobiado.
22:46There's a moment where he's tired,
22:48to be at the maximum level.
22:53After the Olympics, I would have to sit and think about what I really want to do.
23:07What did we say in the flip?
23:08Do you remember what we said in the flip?
23:10Between Javier's plans is to be a coach,
23:13but not before his great goal,
23:16the Olympic Games in 2018,
23:19his last chance to win a Olympic medal.
23:23Javi's secret to his success is his playfulness, his joy, his love, and it's pure.
23:41And that is going to be the secret to his success at the Olympic Games.
23:45It's what makes him special,
23:46and it makes him such a favorite with the audience and the judges.
23:50You know what? He has all the tools.
23:52He has all the tools to win.
23:54He has all the tools to win.
23:59It's a bit the way I have it.
24:01If people see it from me,
24:03then thanks to my family,
24:05and I have to keep going.
24:07Thank you very much.
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