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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 lot of passionate chapters.
00:56To improve my skating skills.
01:00I tried to get any opportunity to skate.
01:03And especially in the winter, you know, I tried 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.
01:32Brian Orser se hizo mayor y protagonizó la época dorada del patinaje artÃstico.
01:38Sus duelos con Brian Boitano en la llamada Batalla de los Brian trascendieron las barreras del patinaje.
01:52We had everybody on the edge of their seats. And the media just loved it. And it was a great story.
02:04But the fame had for Brian a personal cost.
02:08Because of a protest, he was forced to announce his homosexuality. It was in 1988.
02:14You know, there was nothing that needed to be announced.
02:18There were circumstances later in my life, when I was professional,
02:22that required for me to announce that I was gay.
02:28But 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.
02:40And, 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, easy.
02:59It's easy and I'm a good.
03:01I live close to the road, I have a supermarket next to my house,
03:06I have a metro next to my house.
03:08I come here to the road, I know people, I'm good with everyone.
03:12So I'm in a good place where things are going well.
03:17I live outside of Spain since I was 17 years old.
03:20We're training at 100% every day and if you don't have that personal,
03:24many times you come down.
03:26I came down once when I was 19, 20 years old.
03:31Javier nació hace 25 years in the Madrileño de Cuatro Viendos.
03:36It's a peculiar place, right?
03:39The 5, just divide a little bit the right side of the Carabanchel,
03:42the left side of the military where they live.
03:45Well, it's a village of people, well, mainly military.
03:50Two children with whom I have played, basically, children of military.
03:54Javier siguió the steps of Laura,
03:56her sister-in-law and a great athlete that left the sport to be a nurse.
04:00In Javier se vio pronto la traza de un talento especial.
04:05Necesitaba mucho menos entrenamiento que cualquier otra persona de sus mismas caracterÃsticas,
04:10de alguna forma, y sà que se notaba a nivel de avanzar.
04:13VeÃas como siendo muy pequeño hacÃa saltos que otros necesitaban muchos más años para conseguir.
04:18Javier tenÃa 13 años cuando su familia se trasladó a Jaca para impulsar la carrera de Laura y la suya propia.
04:25Pero su gran salto vino cuando el técnico ruso Nikolai Morozov le ofreció entrenar gratis en Estados Unidos.
04:31TenÃa 17 años y no estaba preparado.
04:34No tenÃa 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 veÃamos que era su oportunidad.
04:48Tuve ataques de ansiedad, lo que pasa es que no sabes lo que es.
04:52Entonces estuve yendo al médico para ver si tenÃa algún problema.
04:56Y luego, bueno, me dijeron, 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.
05:13Él era un talento mejor que el skater que yo tenÃa.
05:16Pero pude ver que no estaba organizado, estaba fuera de forma.
05:19Era un tipo de random. ¿Quién sabe qué va a suceder con él?
05:23Asà que lo ganamos. Y lo ganamos bastante fácilmente.
05:27Javier pidió a Brian que le entrenara y este aceptó.
05:30Su recuerdo de los primeros meses es la crónica de un desastre.
05:35Normalmente empiezo a entrenar con los atletas en junio.
05:40Y asà hablé con la federación y le dije,
05:42¿Crees que podrÃamos llegar aquà en junio?
05:44Y ellos simplemente rÃos.
05:47Le traigo a Toronto al final de julio.
05:49No, no, no.
05:50No, no.
05:51Y eso era muy early.
05:52Pero él vino, vino a mi oficina,
05:56se presentó a mi oficina,
05:58¿qué tipo de música quieres ir a?
06:00¿Qué dirección quieres ir a?
06:03¿Cómo puedes verlo a un año?
06:05¿Qué objetivos de esta temporada?
06:07No, no.
06:09No, no.
06:10No, no.
06:12No, no.
06:13No, no.
06:14No, no, no...
06:15exactement.
06:16No, no.
06:17Good...
06:18Ah...
06:19It was kind of nice too because 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, they don't really want to think about it, you want to do.
06:33It's a personality type.
06:41And really there was no method to his madness in his training.
06:46If he felt like it, he would do it, and if he didn't feel like it, he wouldn't.
06:58And he didn't realize that we had a set schedule, and that I'm pretty strict about it.
07:04If you're going to skate at 12 o'clock, you should be on the ice at 12 o'clock, and not 12 o'clock.
07:09Entonces, bueno, pues sà que me pegó un par de gritos, le pegó una patada con el patina a un cacho de madera que hizo un agujero.
07:17We had some moments where we were like this, and we were butting heads, and I was screaming at him,
07:24and I actually was kind of surprised that he stayed around.
07:28Because if it had been me, I would have just said, I'm out of here, adios.
07:34But then he did his first competition, and he won the short program.
07:39And everybody's crying.
07:41You know, and that was, you know, three months of work.
07:46Brian me cambió la vida porque me dio una forma de entrenar.
07:51Me dio como felicidad, como ganas de hacer lo que yo estoy haciendo.
07:56I think the biggest message that got him going was that he realized that myself, Tracy, David, that we believed in him.
08:06Es su segundo padre allÃ.
08:09Él allà no tenÃa nadie de familia, pues el dÃa de la familia de Canadá le invitaban y se llevaba a su casa.
08:15A nosotros nos dio mucha tranquilidad saber que allà habÃa una persona que se hacÃa cargo de él en los momentos en los que él estuviera mal.
08:23En menos de un año, Javier ganó el primero de sus cinco campeonatos de Europa.
08:30El eco de su éxito llegó hasta Japón, donde el patinaje es un deporte de masas.
08:34Una misteriosa llamada convocó a Brian a una cita secreta.
08:38Yusuru Hanyu, el niño prodigio del patinaje en Japón, querÃa entrenar junto a Javier Fernández.
09:06I said, why, like, why do you want to come with me?
09:15And he just said, I want to come and train at your rink.
09:18I want to train with Fernández.
09:22I really wanted to practice with Harvey because it looks like really easy and then really constant with music, with competition.
09:35So I came back from Japan, I saw Harvey and I said, there's this gator that wants to come.
09:40I want to just talk to you about it and see if you're okay.
09:42And he said, who is it?
09:43And I said, it's Yusuru Hanyu.
09:46And he was like, that's fine.
09:49We didn't care.
09:50They're complete opposites.
09:59When you think about the Japanese culture versus the Spanish culture, when you think about, you know, Yusuru's here, very sheltered and very protected.
10:09You know, he has his mom with him.
10:12He does do his studies, university studies, and 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.
10:26He's very social.
10:26On the weekends, he can go downtown and have a beer with his friends.
10:29You know, whereas Yusuru's the opposite.
10:31This is five years living here.
10:36I usually feel strange because I usually speak Japanese with my family, with my friend.
10:49Los dos mejores patinadores entrenando juntos.
10:52Un espectáculo difÃcil de igualar y decaptar, dado que a Hanyu no le gustan las cámaras en la pista.
10:57When Yusuru first came, Javi would be coming to the rink with a ski jacket on.
11:06He'd be taking off his guards, sipping his coffee, and Yusuru would be doing a triple axel.
11:10And then you'd see Javi go, coffee down, jacket off, boom, got to get to work.
11:14Hay veces que estás en entrenamiento y tú estás teniendo un entrenamiento horroroso.
11:19Y la persona con la que tú compites, tú en un entrenamiento estupendo y te cabreas.
11:23Porque te cabreas, porque eres persona y porque tú quieres ser el mejor.
11:25They're both better because of each other.
11:28Javi's better because of Yuzu and Yuzu's better because of Javi.
11:34Los Juegos de Sochi en 2014 fueron la primera gran ocasión de medir su rivalidad.
11:40Para Javier, abanderado y gran figura española, las cosas no empezaron bien.
11:44And I remember seeing him on the phone and he was doing this interview a couple of days before and it went on forever.
11:51And I was saying to our team leader, we need to get him off the phone.
11:54And the longer he was on, there was one moment where he said something about the gays in Russia.
12:01And if they come, they should just behave or something like that.
12:05And it was a very innocent comment.
12:07There was no intent to offend anybody because he's the gayest, friendliest, straight guy I know.
12:27His coaches are gay.
12:28So, anyway, that was the first time I saw him ever cry.
12:34And he broke down into tears.
12:37I would have wished that that person, with all his good faith, would have said,
12:44¿te refieres a esto?
12:47And I would have said, no, please, no.
12:50Then they told me, no, don't open the social networks, no, don't open it.
12:54But I opened it, of course, I opened it, just to see it.
12:57And I was passing comments and comments.
12:59And this homophobic, how can it be?
13:01No, it's not banderado.
13:04It's that you get the world on top.
13:06And he wanted to fix everything right away.
13:14And I told him, I said, this is going to go away.
13:18It's the Olympics.
13:19Everything gets magnified big.
13:21And this will take a couple of days and it will be all forgotten.
13:25But I think it was on his back for the whole games.
13:30I think it started off, the momentum for the games started off like that.
13:33No, me preguntarás, ¿eso interfirió en tu competición?
13:38Pues mira, yo creo que no, pero nunca se sabe, ¿no?
13:41Tras varios dÃas de angustia, Javier se enfrentó al fin al momento decisivo.
13:45So all of a sudden you're out there competing and you're in great shape, but you're tired, you're mentally exhausted.
13:54You know, you're, you know, the country's watching, you know, there was some media and Javi cares, he cares what people think.
14:03So with all of that comes a responsibility and I think it wore him down.
14:10Mientras Hanyu se hacÃa con el oro a pesar de una caÃda, un error inconsciente apartó a Javier de las medallas.
14:17La repetición de un salto que no puntuaba le condenó a ser cuarto por un solo punto.
14:22Su entrenador asumió toda la responsabilidad.
14:24We missed a medal just by one silly mistake and 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 and, you know, he missed a bronze medal by, you know, a couple of points.
14:41When it comes in for me, it makes my teaching, my job easier as a coach to say to him, like, I know what you're feeling.
14:56Like, I actually know what you're feeling because I've been there.
14:59En Calgary 88, Orser también fue el abanderado de su paÃs.
15:03El éxito de Canadá dependÃa en gran medida de la actuación de Brian.
15:07I competed in two Olympics and won a medal in Canada.
15:12Brian was the biggest star.
15:15I was his teammate.
15:17And all of Canada, Brian Orser was the gold medal hope.
15:22And, you know, you know that Canada is a winter country and that we should medal.
15:28For one whole year leading up to the Olympics, everything I did reminded me of the Olympics.
15:35When I would go get gasoline in my car, they would sponsor the Canadian Olympic team.
15:40Every newspaper I picked up, I went to McDonald's or whatever.
15:44I was the one that all Canadians were expecting to win a gold medal.
15:49And, sure, there was a lot of pressure.
15:51I mean, that would have been a fantastic story and a great ending to the story.
15:58It didn't quite happen that way.
16:00But, you know, if it had to happen, it would have been fantastic.
16:06Brian Orser necesitaba un ejercicio perfecto para superar a su rival de siempre y ganar el oro.
16:11But, no lo logró.
16:19Marks for Brian Atano.
16:22It was gold or nothing and he won silver.
16:43And Brian lived through that.
16:45And so he lived through that.
16:47It was very, very painful.
16:48Very painful for Brian.
16:50And the front page of the paper was Brian Orser, a loser.
16:53He lived through it.
16:54And he's transcended it.
16:57So he's a wonderful role model about the bigger picture.
17:01So you just keep, especially when you're tired, you're going to want to work harder with the upper body.
17:15Keep the movements small.
17:17Just keep the knees.
17:18Really focus on keeping the knees going and then you won't have to work.
17:21It'll just happen.
17:22And, of course, I've learned from Xochitl.
17:24It gave me the chance and strength to continue training and to continue trying to work.
17:32The truth is that I was going to go back to the training and stay in the 100%.
17:37We were training him to be a world champion and I knew he could be a world champion.
17:45Everything was pointed out to that the Olympic champion, the favorite champion, Yusuru Hanyu, would win the gold also in the world.
17:55Until Javier appeared.
18:00And I had fallen in the program.
18:02I remember that.
18:04And, well, that's something that people can learn a lot.
18:08It's not necessary to be perfect to be able to win.
18:10Oh, my gosh.
18:13Well, I don't think he ever really believed that he could win a world title.
18:18The 29th of March of 2015, Javier was declared champion of the world.
18:23It's a bad idea.
18:25It's that if you think about it, you say,
18:26I come from Spain, that they're in this sport that we're going to win and we're going to cut.
18:40I remember Brian saying to me after Javier won his first world title and saying,
18:56this is our greatest success story.
18:59From where he was to where he is now in so many ways.
19:05After three days without training and thanks to the help of the doctors,
19:34Javier pudo calzarse los patines justo antes de la gran final.
19:39La persona que iba en cabeza en el programa corto me sacaba como una barbaridad.
19:46Yo ya estaba completamente seguro.
19:48Digo, ya no sé lo que voy a hacer.
19:50Un segundo puesto tampoco es nada malo.
19:54Pero luego como que cambié un poco el chip y dije,
19:56si hay alguna posibilidad yo de ganar, ahora que puedo patinar,
20:01es haciendo un programa perfecto.
20:04Y lo hizo.
20:08Y lo hizo.
20:23Javier gana su segundo mundial consecutivo
20:32y de nuevo por delante de Hanyu.
20:34La rivalidad entre ambos es ya historia del patinaje.
20:46A falta de un año para los próximos juegos,
20:49ambos patinadores continúan con su rutina en Toronto.
20:53Durante diez minutos,
20:54Hanyu accede a que la cámara les grave juntos.
20:56Yo creo que técnico, en el marco,
20:59son muy parecidas,
21:00son muy parecidas.
21:00Hanyu realmente florece más que Hanyu.
21:05Él realmente florece.
21:07Él se muere.
21:07Él es mucho más relajado que Hanyu.
21:11Creo que es por eso que tendrá mejor competencia.
21:13and Hanyu is really focused and really intense.
21:17I mean, a little bit too much, in my opinion.
21:19I can't understand the pressure from where is it.
21:24Thanks to Javi, if I beat too my pressure.
21:30When I feel nervous, he usually talking about something funny.
21:35So I think I owe what I want to him.
21:40Los cinco años de convivencia y rivalidad
21:44han marcado la relación entre Hanyu y Fernández.
21:47Sà que es cierto que a lo mejor sà que ha habido algún cambio entre nosotros.
21:52Cuando estamos ya compitiendo que yo le gano, que él me gana, que yo le gano,
21:55pues muchas veces esa amistad, por algún lado a lo mejor se puede distanciar.
22:02Y es algo bueno que nosotros sabemos, estamos en este deporte.
22:06Eso sÃ, si se distancia no es por mÃ.
22:08Yo no tengo ningún problema.
22:10Tras ganar su segundo Mundial, Javier atravesó por una época difÃcil.
22:22Justo después del Mundial, tenÃa momentos donde incluso no sabÃa cómo iba a afrontar la temporada,
22:27se sentÃa cansado, habÃa trabajado mucho en verano haciendo shows.
22:30Y sà que es cierto que, bueno, habÃa que marcar los pasos poco a poco,
22:37porque si mirábamos a largo plazo estaba un poco agobiado.
22:47Llega un momento que está cansado, ¿no?, de estar al máximo nivel.
22:50Después de las Olimpiadas, me tendré que sentar y pensar en lo que realmente quiero hacer.
23:07¿Qué dijimos en el flip?
23:09¿Recuerdas lo que dijimos en el flip?
23:10Entre los planes de Javier está el ser entrenador, pero no antes de su gran reto pendiente,
23:17los Juegos OlÃmpicos en 2018, su última oportunidad de alcanzar una medalla olÃmpica.
23:23Javi's secret to his success is his playfulness, his joy, his love, and it's pure.
23:46And that is going to be the secret to his success at the Olympic Games.
23:49It's what makes him special, and it makes him such a favorite with the audience.
23:53and the judges.
23:55You know what?
23:56He has all the tools.
23:58He has all the tools to win.
24:23He has all the tools to win.
24:38And that is going to be the best we can do with the risk for ourilloers.
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