Grand Prix Final Preview & Catch Up

[skatingguy]

An opportunity for anyone who missed or wants to catch up before the Grand Prix Final in a couple weeks.

 

[skatingguy]

Junior Men

1. Francois Pitot Short Program Free Skate
2. Rio Nakata Short Program Free Skate
3. Hyungyeom Kim Short Program Free Skate
4. Juheon Lim Short Program Free Skate
5. Adam Hagara Short Program Free Skate
5. Daniel Martynov Short Program Free Skate

 

[skatingguy]

Junior Women

1. Ami Nakai Short Program Free Skate
2. Mao Shimada Short Program Free Skate
3. Rena Uezono Short Program Free Skate
4. Yuseong Kim Short Program Free Skate
5. Minsol Kwon Short Program Free Skate
6. Jia Shin Short Program Free Skate

 

[skatingguy]

Junior Pairs

1. Martina Ariano Kent/Charly Laliberte Laurent Short Program Free Skate
2. Jazmine Desrochers/Kieran Thrasher Short Program Free Skate
3. Ava Kemp/Yohnatan Elizarov Short Program Free Skate
4. Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava Short Program Free Skate
5. Violetta Sierova/Ivan Khobta Short Program Free Skate
6. Olivia Flores/Luke Wang Short Program Free Skate

 

[skatingguy]

Junior Ice Dance

1. Celine Fradji/Jean-Hans Fourneaux Rhythm Dance Free Dance
2. Daya Grimm/Michail Savitskiy Rhythm Dance Free Dance
3. Elizabeth Tkachenko/Alexei Kiliakov Rhythm Dance Free Dance
4. Mariia Pinchuk/Mykyta Pgorielov Rhythm Dance Free Dance
5. Leah Neset/Artem Markelov Rhythm Dance Free Dance
6. Yahil Pedersen/Jeffrey Chen Rhythm Dance Free Dance

 

[PRlady]

The US continues to look weaker in every discipline but dance, the only realistic medal chance.

 

[skatingguy]

The US continues to look weaker in every discipline but dance, the only realistic medal chance.

The only country to qualify in 3 disciplines.

 

[Karen-W]

The US continues to look weaker in every discipline but dance, the only realistic medal chance.

Huh? Ilia is the only man to have scored over 300 in both of his GPs this season. I'd say his medal chances are at least as good as Chock/Bates. And Isabeau is one of 3 women to score over 200 on the GP. I think her medal chances are slightly lower than Ilia and ChoBat, but still quite realistic.

 

[PRlady]

Huh? Ilia is the only man to have scored over 300 in both of his GPs this season. I'd say his medal chances are at least as good as Chock/Bates. And Isabeau is one of 3 women to score over 200 on the GP. I think her medal chances are slightly lower than Ilia and ChoBat, but still quite realistic.

Sorry I meant at the Junior level!

 

[Spikefan]

I’m fairly certain that comment was regarding the junior line-up, since that is all that is listed here right now.

 

[Karen-W]

Sorry I meant at the Junior level!

Ahhh. Well, sure. Though men are men, especially at the Junior level, so Martynov's medal chances are no worse than any of the other guys in the field, lol. But Flores/Wang are a longshot for bronze, I'd guess.

 

[Tak]

Although Japanese Junior girls are made of steel (no disrespect), Japanese Junior boys are much more hit or miss, it seems. I cannot complain since Japan do have really strong Senior Mens field with Shoma, Yuma, Kao and Shun, after years of success by Daisuke and Yuzuru.
The weakness in Pairs and Dance is glaring in comparison with singles.
In Ice Dance at least, the team of Sumire Yoshida/ Ibuki Ogawara who won Japan Novice Ice Dance three years straight, will finally be age eligible to compete internationally as Juniors, next season. This partnership started when she was four and he was six, when Cathy Reed visited Kurashiki, Okayama (Hometown of Daisuke Takahashi) to introduce ice dancing, there. Evidently, it was quite a random pairing then and it is remarkable that the partnership endured for 9 long years. Their dances have that smoothness only seen with long time partnerships.
Since both Sumire and Ibuki also compete as singles skaters too, we might see them doing dance and singles. IIRC, Kristi Yamaguchi used to do both Pairs and Singles. I wonder if there were others who did Singles and Ice Dance. Kurt maybe?
Edited to add: Sumire Yoshida actually came in 6th at National Novice Women A (11-12 year olds), with jump repertoire including 3F and 3Lz (<,!). Dance fans are praying she will not be injured, and will not turn into another Mao Shimada.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Kristi Yamaguchi used to do both Pairs and Singles. I wonder if there were others who did Singles and Ice Dance. Kurt maybe?

Canadians Corey Circelli, Paul Poirier, and Asher Hill competed in Jr. Men and Jr. Dance in the same seasons.

Poirier was a wonderful singles skater.

 

[Carolla5501]

Sorry I meant at the Junior level!

Which actually tends to mean very little at Seniors..... there are lots of The NEXT GREAT thing in Juniors who just don't survive the transition. Junior results don't mean automatic success of failure at the next level except POSSIBLY in Dance where politics is 90% of the score LOL

 

[Impromptu]

Since both Sumire and Ibuki also compete as singles skaters too, we might see them doing dance and singles. IIRC, Kristi Yamaguchi used to do both Pairs and Singles. I wonder if there were others who did Singles and Ice Dance. Kurt maybe?

Davis and White both competed in singles and dance. Seeing Charlie do a twizzle sequence directly into a double* axel is one of my fondest memories of sectionals that year.

(*might have been a single axel)

 

[skatingguy]

Senior Men

1. Adam Siao Him Fa Short Program Free Skate
2. Ilia Malinin Short Program Free Skate
3. Kao Miura Short Program Free Skate
4. Yuma Kagiyama Short Program Free Skate
5. Shoma Uno Short Program Free Skate
6. Kevin Aymoz Short Program Free Skate

 

[skatingguy]

Senior Women

1. Kaori Sakamoto Short Program Free Skate
2. Isabeau Levito Short Program Free Skate
3. Loena Hendrickx Short Program Free Skate
4. Hana Yoshida Short Program Free Skate
5. Nina Pinzarrone Short Program Free Skate
6. Rion Sumiyoshi Short Program Free Skate

 

[skatingguy]

Senior Pairs

1. Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps Short Program Free Skate
2. Minerva Fabienne Hase/Nikita Volodin Short Program Free Skate
3. Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud Short Program Free Skate
4. Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii Short Program Free Skate
5. Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel Short Program Free Skate
6. Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini Short Program Free Skate

 

[skatingguy]

Senior Ice Dance

1. Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier Rhythm Dance Free Dance
2. Madison Chock/Evan Bates Rhythm Dance Free Dance
3. Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri Rhythm Dance Free Dance
4. Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson Rhythm Dance Free Dance
5. Laurence Fournier Beaudry/Nikolaj Soerensen Rhythm Dance Free Dance
6. Majorie Lajoie/Zahcary Lagha Short Program Free Dance

 

[skatingguy]

Sorry to anyone without a VPN but the Senior Grand Prix events are going to be blocked in some countries though I have also picked out some Challenger Series skates where appropriate for the skater/couple.

 

[skatingguy]

Junior Men
5. Daniel Martynov Short Program Free Skate

I've got the wrong link for the Free Skate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USpMyb2uiso

 

[Hedwig]

I've got the wrong link for the Free Skate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USpMyb2uiso

Thanks for your hard work here and in pbp threads!

 

[skatingguy]

Senior Pairs

1. Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps Short Program Free Skate
2. Minerva Fabienne Hase/Nikita Volodin Short Program Free Skate
3. Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud Short Program Free Skate
4. Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii Short Program Free Skate
5. Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel Short Program Free Skate
5. Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini Short Program Free Skate

6. Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko Short Program Free Skate

 

[maureenfarone]

Peacock now has the tiles up for the GP Final.

 

[Karen-W]

Peacock now has the tiles up for the GP Final.

Don't forget, NBC/Peacock only have rights for domestic junior events at Sectionals and Nationals, so all of the JGPF events are watchable on the ISU's JGP YT channel.

 

[maureenfarone]

Don't forget, NBC/Peacock only have rights for domestic junior events at Sectionals and Nationals, so all of the JGPF events are watchable on the ISU's JGP YT channel.

Thanks, I'm saving the JGPF for a later day this month. I have the JGP youtube channel bookmarked.

 

[Aceon6]

Peacock now has the tiles up for the GP Final.

But you have to hunt for them.

 

[maureenfarone]

But you have to hunt for them.

Yes, you do have to hunt for them. I almost gave up on finding the Gala, but it is just way down the line.

 

[Karen-W]

But you have to hunt for them.

Yes, you do have to hunt for them. I almost gave up on finding the Gala, but it is just way down the line.

So weird - everything came up just fine for me using the search function when I typed in "figure skating."

 

[maureenfarone]

So weird - everything came up just fine for me using the search function when I typed in "figure skating."

I was searching on my roku so I went to sports and scrolled down the list. For the other events this season "Figure Skating" would show up as a sport just like "Golf". This time I had to click on "Live and Upcoming" and then go to View All and scroll through a number of lines of tiles til I found the Pairs SP mixed in with Premium League matches and then pick through all the other matches and events for the other FS comps. The Men's FS is the last comp but I had to go down 5 more lines before I found the Gala - I almost thought it wasn't going to be offered.

About 30 minutes before looking for skating on the roku I did check the Peacock website and searching on figure skating only brought up the 3 old shows from a few years ago. This morning when I use same link as yesterday https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/sports/sports-figure-skating all of the GPF events show up.
I am glad everything is listed and I hope we don't miss out on the Gala like we did with NHK. I did take a virtual trip and enjoyed the NHK Gala from Europe!