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Grand Prix Season Winners and Losers
Now that the Grand Prix of figure skating final is over, here is a look at some of the major (and possibly surprising?)fortunes of this year's Grand Prix season. Winners Davis and White: Not only did they rack up great scores all season long, but they managed to beat their rivals and training...
Grand Prix Final Thoughts and Results: Ladies Short
In skating order (full results below): Akiko Suzuki, Japan (57.54): Great start for Suzuki!!! Think the crowd was expecting a higher score...it was hard not to get excited about the way she was skating. Ashley Wagner, USA (54.26): A good performance from Wagner, but her triple flip landing...
Drumroll Please....
Your Grand Prix Final competitors (barring injury or another type of withdrawal) will be: Pairs Shen and Zhao (China) Pang and Tong (China) Mukhortova and Trankov (Russia) Savchenko and Szolkowy (Germany) Kavaguti and Smirnov (Russia) Zhang and Zhang (China)* *Tied for points with Ukraine's...
Predictions that are Just as Bad as Mine. Probably...
Here is a Chicago Tribune writeup about figure skating medalist predictions. The panel consisted of Juliet Macur and Jere Longman of the New York Times; Christine Brennan and Kelly Whiteside of USA Today; and the one, the only, Philip Hersh. My precursor to this is that, as anyone who follows...
Rostelecom Cup Final Thoughts
In honor of my beloved New York Yankees making the World Series which starts tonight (sorry if that has alienated 90 percent of my readers!), I decided to do a baseball themed Rostelecom Cup Analysis. Root, Root, Root for the Home Team Russia definitely won the overachiever award for this Grand...
Rostelecom Cup: Final Standings
Sorry for the delay in this; I was moving and didn't have internet! But, yay, I do now and I will hopefully have my analysis of the event by Tuesday. For now, the final standings: Ice Dancing FPl. Name Nat. Points CD OD FD 1 Meryl DAVIS Charlie WHITE USA 201.10 1 1 1 2 Anna CAPPELLINI Luca...
Finlandia Trophy Results
Japan's Daisuke Takahashi had a triumphant return to competition after recovering from knee surgery. He had a healthy victory over the field at this year's Finlandia Trophy. In second was Russia's Sergei Voronov, followed by American Stephen Carriere. FPl. Name Nation Points SP FS 1 Daisuke...
US Wins World Team Trophy
The United States won the first ever ISU World Team Trophy competition that concluded in Tokyo this weekend. The team pitted six nations against each other. The US won with 60 points, while Canada had 54, Japan had 50, France had 37, Russia had 35 and China 34. Mao Asada of Japan won the ladies...
Junior Worlds Results
Although the U.S. women did not take home the Junior World title this year, there was some positive news from the competition which has concluded in Sofia, Bulgaria. Caroline Zhang, who was in 10th place after a disastrous short program, had a major comeback, winning the free skate and coming in...
Yu-Na Kim, Domnina and Shabalin Capture Cup of China Titles
ANNND she won it handily, by more than 20 points. Kim scored a 128.11 in the free skate to get her total to 191.75. Japan's Miki Ando won second place. with a 170.88. Laura Lepisto of FInland was third with a 159.42. And in an ever-so-close ice dancing competition, 2008 European Champions Oksana...
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