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Saturday night is the setting for the third live broadcast of “Skal vi danse” from the H3 Arena in Fornebu. Movie night is this week’s theme, so couples will be moving around the dance floor to famous songs from the blockbusters.
Training for this week’s dance started already on Sunday, the day after the previous dance. So they have only had a week to prepare and they have worked hard to reach the goal. For most people it would probably have been more than enough to work with him in a week, but not for Birgit Skarstein (31).
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Train several times a day and try to divide your time between dance training and roots training. The hours he has put into the latter sport have proven to be worth it.
On Saturday, he took the NM gold in rowing, just hours before taking the floor.
I want to sleep
– I’m a little tired now, I must admit, she smiles at Dagbladet.
Skarstein takes the time to speak after the dress rehearsal in Fornebu. Thus he has gone directly from the Norwegian championship to dance, almost without rest.
– I just had to jump in the shower and leave. Could have managed to eat a little and. It has been happening all day, but I am very happy. Now I’m trying to see if I can get half an hour in the eye before shipping here, says Skarstein.
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She says it was great to reach the finish line and that all the work she has done has been worth it. Skarstein has had two root workouts a day in recent months.
– Now I can cut one of those workouts at least. Now the season is over for us, and this is not a stupid ending, he says, continuing:
– Normally we end with the Olympics, but this time it was not. At least now I can focus more on dancing, something I look forward to. Maybe I can relax a bit too, she laughs.
She still has plans to perform at her best on the dance floor later tonight, and hopes that today’s achievement doesn’t go beyond what she and her dance partner Philip Raabe planned.
– We will dance a tango to the music of the “Moulin Rouge” and I will wear diamonds. I think it will be very good, he says.
This is Skarstein’s fifth NM gold rowing. She already has ten World Cup medals.
– he gets pretty angry
Eliminate criticism
The last two Saturdays, Skarstein has impressed both the spectators and the judges with his movements on the ground in “Skal vi danse”. Together with her dance partner, she has shown that sitting in a wheelchair is not an obstacle to the joy or creativity of dancing, something for which she has also been praised by experts.
Still, it’s still difficult to go through a comment field without more people jumping in. Comments that she should not participate or that she should participate in a competition where everyone is in a wheelchair is common.
Touched the hall to tears
Skarstein herself has told Dagbladet, among others, that she sweeps away criticism, and with her participation she will show that it is entirely possible to excel on the court in her situation.
– Of course we have to do things a little differently and maybe practice a little harder, but I see it as an advantage. I will work as hard as I can to be able to comply, and I will get some good help from Philip for that. This is the first time he’s done this too, so we both learn as we work, she said just before the premiere.
