Marie Gicquel, edited by Alexandre Dalifard 2:51 p.m., February 05, 2023
After three years of absence, the skating show "Holiday on Ice" returns for a tour throughout France.
While skating champion Sarah Abitbol has been on this show for 20 years, this year she returns with a strong number about the sexual abuse she suffered from her coach.
One of the world's most famous skating shows is making a comeback.
Holiday on Ice
returns after three years of absence for a tour throughout France.
The tour is currently at the Dôme de Paris until February 12, with one of its stars, skating champion Sarah Abitbol.
She has been participating for 20 years, but this year, the champion returns with a strong number on the sexual abuse of her trainer that she suffered.
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A grueling but therapeutic exercise
After breaking the ice, it took courage for Sarah Abitbol to get back on the skates.
Here she is back on the
Holiday on Ice ice rink.
In her sequined purple costume, she tries to escape black monsters.
"I approached the director Yves Barta who said to me: 'I have ideas with rubber bands, I would like you to be caught in a spider's web'", she says.
Accompanied by the music of Lara Fabian, who helped her, the champion replays her trauma.
A strenuous but therapeutic exercise.
"When he explained the number to me, the tears flowed," said Sarah Abitbol.
The initiator of the MeToo movement in sport does not only seek to exteriorize the demon.
"This number is there to raise awareness and that people can discuss with their children", specifies the skater.
The fight goes on.
After this tour, the champion will devote herself to the production of a film retracing her career and what she calls her accident.