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I Get a Detention
Because I have been sooo busy that I never got to publish the rest of my yearbooks. And now the new season has begun and so much has happened that they are not relevant, but whatever, any predictions are pretty much irrelevant in this sport from one week to the next these days. So here is what I...
2008-09 US Yearbook: Ice Dancing Edition
Now that school's out, I figured it's time for a 2008-09 yearbook. I chose the skaters who I think are most likely to be in the Olympic mix next year (due to their placements as well as presence on the Grand Prix circuit next season and possibly other mystery factors), but due to time constraints...
EVAN LYSACEK WINS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!
Sorry, I was a little excited. Because after watching several skaters stumble their way through watered down programs, American Evan Lysacek came out there and Won. He was clean, and he sold it, and he was great. And all without the quad! heh. There are some major reasons why this is a great...
Ladies Worlds Preview
Well, let's not kid ourselves. I am going to go along with pretty much everyone else in the world and assume that the ladies world championship will be won by either Korea's Yu-na Kim or Japan's Mao Asada. But it's worth taking a look at the field anyway: Japan's Mao Asada: Asada is the reigning...
Savchenko and Szolkowy Lead at Worlds after Short
Reigning Champions from Germany Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy lead the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships after the short program. Russia's Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov are second, while Chinese pair Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang have the third slot. Russian couple Maria Mukhortova...
World Championships Men's Preview
The men's short program takes place tomorrow at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles. Make no bones about it, this competition is going to make a statement. If someone wins (again) without a quad, like Jeffrey Buttle did last year, then it will be further proof that a new era...
World Pairs Preview
The 2009 world championships pairs short program takes place tomorrow in Los Angeles. Here is a look at some of the top couples that will likely be contending for medals this week. I'm not going to hit all the couples, just the ones I think have the best chance at being on the podium. There's...
Scoring Article
Here is your requisite article that always comes out around the time of the worlds or I suppose, the Olympics, talking about how the new scoring system is killing skating. The article is from the LA TImes. If Kim Yu-Na gets 72.24 points for her short program at this week's World Figure Skating...
Hersh's Money on Joubert?
First of all, would you say Joubert is favored to win this year's world championships? I haven't written my preview yet, but I am pretty sure I am going to struggle with Joubert's placement. He hasn't been at all consistent this year and the tide seems to be turning toward the pretty skaters...
Worlds Ice Dance Preview
Wow. This category is ridiculous. Nearly all of the couples I think of as gold medal contenders have missed part of the season due to injury. And the only couple to win all of their competitions this season, reigning World Champs Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder of France, withdrew from...
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