December 9th
3:45am Junior Short Dance
5:10am Junior Ladies Short Program
6:35am Junior Men Short Program
8:00am Junior Pairs Short Program
December 10th
1:15am Junior Free Dance
2:45am Junior Ladies Free Skate
December 11th
12:45am Junior Men Free Skate
2:20am Junior Pairs Free Skate
Men:
1) Gordei Gorshkov (Russia)
2) Zhan Bush (Russia)
3) Max Aaron (USA)
4) Richard Dornbush (USA)
5) Keegan Messing (USA)
6) Joshua Farris (USA)
7) Han Yan (China)
8) Andrei Rogozine (Canada)
Ladies:
1) Zijun Li (China)
2) Kristiene Gong (USA)
3) Yasmin Siraj (USA)
4) Christina Gao (USA)
5) Polina Shelepen (Russia)
6) Risa Shoji (Japan)
7) Elizaveta Tuktamisheva (Russia)
8) Adelina Sotnikova (Russia)
Pairs:
1) Brittany Jones & Kurtis Gaskell (Canada)
2) Taylor Steele & Robert Schultz (Canada)
3) Ashley Cain & Joshua Reagan (USA)
4) Anna Silaeva & Artur Minchuk (Russia)
5) Natasha Purich & Raymond Schultz (Canada)
6) Narumi Takahashi & Mervin Tran (Japan)
7) Xiaoyu Yu & Yang Jin (China)
8) Ksenia Stolbova & Fedor Klimov (Russia)
Ice Dance:
1) Marina Antipova & Artem Kudashev (Russia)
2) Anastasia Galyeta & Alexei Shumski (Ukraine)
3) Victoria Sinitsina & Ruslan Zhiganshin (Russia)
4) Evgenia Kosigina & Nikolai Moroshkin (Russia)
5) Charlotte Lichtman & Dean Copely (USA)
6) Ekaterina Pushkash & Jonathan Guerreiro (Russia)
7) Alexandra Stepanova & Ivan Bukin (Russia)
8) Ksenia Monko & Kirill Khaliavin (Russia)
Showing posts with label ladies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ladies. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
ISU Grand Prix: Rostelecom Cup Preview
Next weekend, November 19-20 to be exact, the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating makes its 5th of 6 stops in Moscow for what was formerly known as the Cup of Russia. Many skaters have already completed their two assigned Grand Prix events and are anxiously awaiting the results of the last events to see who will qualify for the Grand Prix Final in December.
Patrick Chan, who won Skate Canada despite 4 total falls, is arguably the favorite here. His Phantasia program is wonderful and he usually racks up very high components scores. Jeremy Abbott is also a forced to be reckoned with if he can overcome some of his inconsistencies with the mental side of the sport. I really enjoyed Javier Fernandez' free skate at Skate Canada so I will be looking forward to another solid performance from him again. Tomas Verner and Samuel Contesti also have the potential to make the podium if they can skate clean.
Miki Ando is definitely the most consistent of the ladies field here, and based on the past grand prix events, the lady who can stay on her feet wins the gold. There are a lot of women in this field who, in my opinion, are more talented and much more artistic than Miki, particularly Akiko Suzuki and Ashley Wagner, but they are hit or miss in terms of landing jumps and skating clean. I have never been a fan of Ksenia Makarova but she made a splash with silver at Skate Canada and will have the home crowd behind her here, though that may help her or hurt her. I am a big fan of young American Agnes Zawadzki and while she had a disappointing free skate at Skate Canada, I think she is really going to make a big jump here and reach the Podium.
Pairs is pretty wide open here with only one team considered to be among the world's best, Kavaguti & Smirnov, though they are coming off of a disappointing 2010 Olympic season and this is their only Grand Prix event. I really have no clue what is going to happen here in pairs so my fantasy picks are going to be pretty blind. I do, however, look for Takahashi & Tran to make a fairly strong showing. The American team of Evora & Ladwig has some of the best elements in the world and if they can put together two clean programs, they have a good shot at the podium. Paige Lawrence & Rudi Swiegers were also pretty solid at Skate Canada so let's see if they can repeat that here.
After disappointing falls in both of their programs at Cup of China and a 20 point loss to Pechalat & Bourzat, I expect Faiella & Scali to come back with a vengeance and win the ice dance competition here. One of their falls was due to a costume malfunction that they have hopefully corrected and with more practice time under their belt, I expect their free skate to be electrifying. Bobrova & Soliev of Russia also put up two strong programs to win silver at Cup of China so they'll look to make the podium again on their home turf. The young Canadians Paul & Islam blew me away at Skate Canada and people are already calling them the younger versions of Virtue & Moir. Madison and Keiffer Hubbell of the USA also have the potential to make the podium if they can avoid some of the mistakes they made at Cup of China. I really enjoy their free skate this season and hope to see them skate it clean.
Here is the icenetwork.com live streaming schedule; the events I plan to live-blog are highlighted below:
Friday, Nov. 19
7:00 a.m.: Men's short program
8:50 a.m.: Pairs short program
11:00 a.m.: Ladies short program
12:50 p.m.: Short dance
Saturday, Nov. 20
6:45 a.m.: Men's free skate
9:00 a.m.: Pairs free skate
10:40 a.m.: Ladies free skate
12:40 p.m.: Free dance
Fantasy Update:
Overall Ranking 58 65
Overall Points 7756 7744
As soon as usfsa.org opens up the week 5 fantasy competition, I will post my picks as well as Skategate's
**BackStage Barbie **Skategate **Shared Picks
Men:
5) Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan)
6) Tatsuki Machida (Japan)
7) Artem Borodulin (Russia)
8) Artur Gachinski (Russia)
9) Konstanti Menshov (Russia)
10) Javier Fernandez (Spain)
11) Anton Kovalevski (Ukraine)
12) Jeremy Abbott (USA)
Ladies:
3) Valentina Marchei (Italy)
6) Sofia Biryukova (Russia)
7) Alena Leonova (Russia)
10) Agnes Zawadzki (USA)
Pairs:
3) Takahshi/Tran (Japan)
8) Simpson/Miller (USA)
Ice Dance:
3) Hoffman/Zavozin (Hungary)
6) Gorshkova/Butikov (Russia)
7) Ilinykh/Satsalapov (Russia)
Patrick Chan, who won Skate Canada despite 4 total falls, is arguably the favorite here. His Phantasia program is wonderful and he usually racks up very high components scores. Jeremy Abbott is also a forced to be reckoned with if he can overcome some of his inconsistencies with the mental side of the sport. I really enjoyed Javier Fernandez' free skate at Skate Canada so I will be looking forward to another solid performance from him again. Tomas Verner and Samuel Contesti also have the potential to make the podium if they can skate clean.
Miki Ando is definitely the most consistent of the ladies field here, and based on the past grand prix events, the lady who can stay on her feet wins the gold. There are a lot of women in this field who, in my opinion, are more talented and much more artistic than Miki, particularly Akiko Suzuki and Ashley Wagner, but they are hit or miss in terms of landing jumps and skating clean. I have never been a fan of Ksenia Makarova but she made a splash with silver at Skate Canada and will have the home crowd behind her here, though that may help her or hurt her. I am a big fan of young American Agnes Zawadzki and while she had a disappointing free skate at Skate Canada, I think she is really going to make a big jump here and reach the Podium.
Pairs is pretty wide open here with only one team considered to be among the world's best, Kavaguti & Smirnov, though they are coming off of a disappointing 2010 Olympic season and this is their only Grand Prix event. I really have no clue what is going to happen here in pairs so my fantasy picks are going to be pretty blind. I do, however, look for Takahashi & Tran to make a fairly strong showing. The American team of Evora & Ladwig has some of the best elements in the world and if they can put together two clean programs, they have a good shot at the podium. Paige Lawrence & Rudi Swiegers were also pretty solid at Skate Canada so let's see if they can repeat that here.
After disappointing falls in both of their programs at Cup of China and a 20 point loss to Pechalat & Bourzat, I expect Faiella & Scali to come back with a vengeance and win the ice dance competition here. One of their falls was due to a costume malfunction that they have hopefully corrected and with more practice time under their belt, I expect their free skate to be electrifying. Bobrova & Soliev of Russia also put up two strong programs to win silver at Cup of China so they'll look to make the podium again on their home turf. The young Canadians Paul & Islam blew me away at Skate Canada and people are already calling them the younger versions of Virtue & Moir. Madison and Keiffer Hubbell of the USA also have the potential to make the podium if they can avoid some of the mistakes they made at Cup of China. I really enjoy their free skate this season and hope to see them skate it clean.
Here is the icenetwork.com live streaming schedule; the events I plan to live-blog are highlighted below:
Friday, Nov. 19
7:00 a.m.: Men's short program
8:50 a.m.: Pairs short program
11:00 a.m.: Ladies short program
12:50 p.m.: Short dance
Saturday, Nov. 20
6:45 a.m.: Men's free skate
9:00 a.m.: Pairs free skate
10:40 a.m.: Ladies free skate
12:40 p.m.: Free dance
Fantasy Update:
Overall Ranking 58 65
Overall Points 7756 7744
As soon as usfsa.org opens up the week 5 fantasy competition, I will post my picks as well as Skategate's
**BackStage Barbie **Skategate **Shared Picks
Men:
1) Patrick Chan (Canada)
2) Tomas Verner (Czech Republic)3) Alban Preaubert (France)
4) Samuel Contesti (Italy)5) Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan)
6) Tatsuki Machida (Japan)
7) Artem Borodulin (Russia)
8) Artur Gachinski (Russia)
9) Konstanti Menshov (Russia)
10) Javier Fernandez (Spain)
11) Anton Kovalevski (Ukraine)
12) Jeremy Abbott (USA)
Ladies:
1) Myriane Samson (Canada)
2) Elena Glebova (Estonia)3) Valentina Marchei (Italy)
4) Miki Ando (Japan)
5) Akiko Suzuki (Japan)6) Sofia Biryukova (Russia)
7) Alena Leonova (Russia)
8) Ksenia Makarova (Russia)
9) Ashley Wagner (USA)10) Agnes Zawadzki (USA)
Pairs:
1) Lawrence/Swiegers (Canada)
2) Berton/Hotarek (Italy)3) Takahshi/Tran (Japan)
4) Gerboldt/Enbert (Russia)
5) Kavaguti/Smirnov (Russia)
6) Novik/Kuznetsov (Russia)
7) Evora/Ladwig (USA)6) Novik/Kuznetsov (Russia)
8) Simpson/Miller (USA)
Ice Dance:
1) Paul/Islam (Canada)
2) Mysliveckova/Novak (Czech Repulic)3) Hoffman/Zavozin (Hungary)
4) Faiella/Scali (Italy)
5) Bobrova/Soloviev (Russia)6) Gorshkova/Butikov (Russia)
7) Ilinykh/Satsalapov (Russia)
8) Hubbell/Hubbell (USA)
Thursday, October 28, 2010
2010 ISU Grand Prix Final Predictions
With the 2010-2011 Figure Skating season underway, my friend Skategate (@arlewis1) and I can hardly contain our excitement, so we've decided to make totally uninformed predictions as to who will make the Grand Prix final. If you aren't familiar with the Grand Prix series, each skater is assigned two events and the six skaters or teams in each discipline with the top combined total scores from their events make it to the Grand Prix Final. With only one Grand Prix event completed, the NHK trophy, we really have no business guessing which skaters/teams will make the final, but here we go anyway!! Our picks are largely the same, but since Skategate did hers first and I saw them before I made mine, I had to differ on a few to mix it up a bit. Hers definitely make more sense and some of mine are a bit off the wall, but in figure skating, you never know who will crash and burn and who will rise to the top.
Skategate BackStage Barbie
Men:
Daisuke Takahashi Daisuke Takahashi
Jeremy Abbott Jeremy Abbott
Adam Rippon Adam Rippon
Brian Joubert Brian Joubert
Patrick Chan Nobunari Oda
Tokahiko Kozuka Florent Amodio
Ladies:
Carolina Kostner Carolina Kostner
Rachel Flatt Rachel Flatt
Mirau Nagasu Mirai Nagasu
Agnes Zawadzki Agnes Zawadzki
Miki Ando Miki Ando
Fumie Suguri Mao Asada
Pairs:
Pang/Tong Pang/Tong
Bazarova/Larionov Bazarova/Larionov
Takahashi/Tran Takahashi/Tran
Iliushechkina/Maisuradze Iliushechkina/Maisuradze
Savchnko/Szolkowy Savchenko/Szolkowy
Sui/Han Evora/Ladwig
Ice Dance:
Davis/White Davis/White
Weaver/Poje Weaver/Poje
Faiella/Scali Faiella/Scali
Kerr/Kerr Kerr/Kerr
Pechalat/Bourzat Shibutani/Shibutani
Crone/Poirier Chock/Zuerlein
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)