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Cup of China: Grand Prix Preview
Cup of China is the third senior ISU Grand Prix event of the season and it starts this Friday in Beijing. Here's what you can expect: Ice Dancing Why to Watch: Our first chance to see America's Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto compete this season. I have been a bit of a Goldilocks on the major...
TEB Results: Mens Final Standings
Well, Japan's Nobunari Oda really skated away with the title today, winning the free skate by about 15 points with his snappy Chaplin routine. It was my favorite performance of the night. Czech Republic's Tomas Verner, who was leading going into the free skate, really seemed to run out of steam...
TEB Results: Mens Short Program
Aaaand here are your mens standings (or what I could piece together from various sources!) at Trophee Eric Bompard Cachemire. It looks like Czech Republic's Tomas Verner continues his upswing with a lead in the short program, trailed by Japan's Nobunari Oda and USA's ADAM RIPPON! Congrats to...
Finlandia Trophy Results - Return of Dice-K
The Finlandia Trophy started yesterday and continues through Sunday. Here are the results so far (I haven't seen any of the skating yet, and am taking the results from the Finlandia site: Ice Dance Compulsory Dance - no surprise here, Kerr and Kerr in first....
Full Standings for Men
Here are the full final standings for the men. Please note that the American men have won three Olympic berths for next year. FPl. Name Nat. Points SP FS 1 Evan LYSACEK USA 242.23 2 1 2 Patrick CHAN CAN 237.58 3 2 3 Brian JOUBERT FRA 235.97 1 3 4 Tomas VERNER CZE 231.71 4 4 5 Samuel...
Russian Nationals Results
Lifeskate has the results from the recently completed Russian National Figure Skating Championships. Here's the link. Not surprisingly, Khokhlova and Novitski won the ice dancing portion (must have been all better from whatever kept them out of the Grand Prix Final). Kawaguchi and Smirnov bested...
Skate Canada Preview and Predictions
My predictions for Skate America were very unsuccessful and I expect these to be even worse, but why stop now!? To be taken with a grain of salt, I will now preview the second senior Grand Prix event of the season, Skate Canada, also know as the 2008 Homesense Skate Canada International, taking...
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