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The arena area (Sheffield Centertainment) and Leopold Square are mainly chain restaurants - I have sat next to skaters in Wagamama at both locations :lol: I'm from darn sarf so not best placed to advise but there are approx a million Greggs in Sheff (only slight exaggeration :p) so you will not...

We'll make a plan once the practice groups are out but will almost certainly be at whichever section the British dance teams are in, unless they're still at home rinks. And make time to eat well on Tuesday, because who knows what the rest of the week will be like!

A bit annoying for me that on Tuesday both pairs and dance practices are running concurrently on the main and practice rinks. Though I guess not all of the ice dancers will have arrived in time for the Tuesday practices.

Why aren't Khavronina/Naryzhnyy competing this year? Quit, split or injured?

Looks like Lara Luft / Ilias Fourati have left Haus of Diamonds and moved to Kristen Fraser and Igor Lukanin. (Source: ISU bio, Krigor Studio insta) A bit of a surprise to me as Fourati has been with Gregory and Petukhov for years with various different partners but now that they seem to be...

Team GB announcement and athlete profiles (featuring factual inaccuracies, grammatical errors and misspelling Lilah Fear's name :lol:) Interviews to support the announcement: Luke Digby - Daily Record and Yorkshire Post. Props to the Record journo for comparing Vaipan-Law/Digby to Phyllis...

BIS have opened ice dance competitions in the UK to same-sex couples, with effect from the start of the 2026/27 qualifying season in March.

BIS have published an update on Championship requirements for the 2026/27 season. Rather burying the lede beneath news that they're dropping the minimum score requirement for singles qualifiers and are reviewing the number of entries at the British. :) But apparently not for pairs.

Mrazeks need a coaching change (though to where I'm not sure). Taschlers need time to adjust to their coaching change.

I'm confident that Fear/Gibson will skate the team event RD. Team GB will absolutely want them (and the union flag dress) out there front and centre in all the Day 0 broadcasts. They're among the more marketable of the (small cohort of) British medal contenders and have been doing plenty of...

Dana Sabatini-Speciale confirmed that she and Danny Kaye have split: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRw8IIgCCIe/

FWIW, I thought Bekker/Hernandez skated pretty well at the British Championships, particularly in the RD. Obv it's hard to compare watching live to a stream, but maybe their best performance of the season? I liked the programme more in person too, and Phebe's knock-off Versace dress.

Update post British Championships. Glad I'm not the person having to make the call on the junior men! Senior Women Euros - 2 spots Olympics - 1 spot Kristen Spours: 500.30 = 150.69 (Lombardia Trophy 2024) + 186.02 (Denkova-Staviski Cup 2024) + 163.59 (British Championships 2025) Nina...

Initial deadline for named entries for the Olympics is 12 Jan? So seems like Golden Spin would have been the last chance for a new team to sweep in and pick up the minimums to go to Milano.

Down from three to one ice dance competitions in Turkiye this season - these teams will be hoping Rettstatt doesn't call in on his way back to NY.