In difficulty at the start of the season, Adam Siao Him Fa will skip the European Figure Skating Championships in Sheffield.
If it was likely to see the adopted Niçois go to Sheffield in England for the next European Championships (from January 14 to 18), Adam Siao Him Fa will finally leave his place to Kevin Aymoz, to join François Pitot.
European champion in 2023 and 2024 and bronze medalist last year, Siao Him Fa must regain confidence after a delicate first part of the season. Despite everything, he still reached 2nd place during the French and Finnish Grand Prix and qualified for the final in Nagoya (5th), despite numerous falls.
Training while waiting for the Games
A purely sporting choice which should allow the skater to better prepare for the Winter Olympic Games in Milan – Cortina d’Ampezzo (February 6-22, 2026). “He must regain physical freshness and repetition in training, and re-establish the objective of the Games. He is also paying for his injuries from last season and was chasing time. You have to give him a long enough sequence to prepare for the most important deadline. I had the idea of this impasse, Cédric (Tour, his trainer) too. And Adam was completely on board. » declared Djamel Cheikh, the DTN of ice sports.
Cheikh assures him, this choice has absolutely nothing to do with a sanction: “It’s a question of adjustments and stabilization. The shared diagnosis that we make with the coaches is that by adding a deadline like the Europe for Adam, it will be destabilizing and it could be bad for the Games. During the French Championships (2nd behind Aymoz), even if it was not good accounting, and even a poor performance (244.43 points), we saw things evolving, that the work done in mental preparation and psychology is starting to bear fruit,” he continued.
During the next Games, Adam Siao Him Fa hopes to be able to do better than at the Beijing Games in 2021, where he finished in 14th place.
