How does it feel to moon 1,000 Canucks? There’s only one person that would know the answer to this and that’s eight-time British champion Steven Cousins. Video camera in hand, Rockne Brubaker filmed for icenetwork.com this morning while his partner, Keauna McLaughlin, posed the question to Steven. He laughed a little sheepishly (as I imagine he did when the incident happened) and sarcastically said he was glad Keauna asked.
The performance was Skate Canada. Steven was out on the ice and slipped during his routine, falling to the ice. “I got up, finished the routine, and did my bows,” he said. “I bowed to one side of the arena and they all clapped, while the crowd behind me laughed and I couldn’t figure out why… so I turned around, bowed to the other side and they clapped while the people behind me started laughing.” It wasn’t until Steven left the ice that he found out he had torn his pants during his fall and when he bowed, he mooned the arena full of fans. Not knowing what to do, he ran into quick change and asked around to see if anyone had something he could wear for his next routine. He was in luck, Kurt Browning had one, but it had a maple leaf on it. “That’s okay, I live in Canada now,” Steven said he thought to himself. He donned the outfit and headed back to the ice.
It was a rough night for Steven and he missed another landing, falling to the ice. And once again, split Kurt’s outfit down the back, exposing his backside. Steven quickly changed and headed back to the hotel, ready for that night to be over.
“Thankfully it happened before YouTube was around,” Steven said, and I’ll admit I was a little bummed because I wouldn’t be able to see the incident myself on my computer.
Steven had a great sense of humor about it and Keauna, Rockne, Viktor Petrenko, Jozef Sabovcik and Jeffrey Buttle laughed nearly the whole way to the Nutter Center. Jeffrey admitted he’d had a similar experience. He fell back on his blade once and cut his outfit along with his thigh. “I still have the scar on my thigh,” he said, but never realized he cut himself “because of the adrenaline.”
“Wow, you’re flexible,” Keauna said to Jeffrey, which made ME laugh because just the day before I’d watched Keauna and Rockne rehearse, and thought exactly that – “wow, you guys are flexible.”
It’s getting close to go-time here at the Nutter Center in Dayton, OH, so I’ll wrap this post up before I miss the show! Tonight’s “Skate for the Heart” show with the music of Kenny G promises to be an amazing one! I caught a glimpse of the steamy tango routine with Shae-Lynn Bourne, Steven Cousins, Jeffrey Buttle and Viktor Petrenko and can’t wait to see what’s in store…
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