This year's Beijing Winter Olympics, The Chinese ice dance group Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu created the best results in the history of Chinese athletes in this event, and many ice and snow fans noticed that the duo, like ice dance masters from many other countries, had traveled to the International Skating School (LAM) in Montreal, Canada, to learn from the famous ice dance coach Marie-France. Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrick. Patrice Lauzon and his wife.
The couple was also a great ice dancer, having won world runners-up in the era when Soviet/Russian athletes monopolized the ice dance podium and won 5 Canadian national championships. But their real career glory began with the founding of LAM.
The couple began to work as ice dance coaches after retiring in 2007, and in 2014, they joined forces with former French skater Romain Haguenauer to found LAM, because of the teaching method, the teaching content is comprehensive, vivid, the training environment is superior and safe, LAM quickly attracted top ice dancers from all over the world to come to ask for advice, at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, only a pair of ice dance participants from LAM, Four years later, at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, it grew to four pairs, including the gold medal-winning Canadian duos of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, which made LAM famous, and at the Beijing Winter Olympics, a total of 23 ice dance pairs competed, including 10 pairs from LAM, including the champions of France's Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron. Bronze duo Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, AMERICAN duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Spanish duo Olivia Smart and Adrian Diaz, Chinese duo Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu, Canadian duo Funier. Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen, among others, have been called "the busiest people in the Capital Stadium."
The duo confessed that they were unexpected to achieve such a huge success so quickly, and they attributed the secret of success to "caring for people".
Because so many participants went out of the same door, this year's Winter Olympic Ice Dance Arena did not have the usual smell of gunpowder, but instead countless warm hugs between the same doors, and the applause of mutual congratulations after the completion of the game. Bodri said that when she fastened her skates before going to ice, she was surrounded by many former classmates from LAM, which helped ease her nervousness when she competed for the first time.
Although it's rare before that there have been so many combinations from the same school in the ice dance arena, Sorensen believes that this is very similar to the team environment of other projects, such as the Canadian short track speed skating team that also trains in Montreal, where everyone trains side by side every day, competes and promotes each other, which helps to make each student better, and it is appreciated to be able to get such an atmosphere in ice dance.
LAM's students praised LAM for providing a "positive energy" that only promotes together, there is no malicious competition, and the coaches have created LAM into a community with a good atmosphere, which allows all colleges to maintain a positive attitude, "everyone is a good friend".
There was also a precedent in skating that had a coach coach coaching multinational players, such as Brian Orser, also from Canada, who had to prepare sports coats from all these countries and change them frequently on the field in order to accommodate disciples from different countries.
Dubrey, 47, and Lawson, 46, have no such troubles, and they have been wearing special black coats in Beijing to show that they treat their disciples equally and impartially. The disciples spoke highly of this, saying that it reflected the professionalism of the coaches, who knew how to distribute their attention equally, so the students would never feel lonely on the field, and the atmosphere of the competition was like attending a party with all their friends, which made the competition a good time.