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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.

The live results page for the British Championships has been populated, and Kristen Spours is still on the start list. A few withdrawals: Saskia Zainchkovskaya (senior women's bronze medallist last year), Leilah Patten (junior ladies champion - and it looks like she's deleted her insta so no...

CTES watch update - One Challenger (Tallinn Trophy) and two B events (Santa Claus Cup, Bosphorus Cup) this weekend are the last dance competitions ahead of the Euros entry deadline. Ivanitskiy/Sperry (need +1.78) will be in Istanbul aiming for the third Finnish spot as well as...

Thank you @indyw :) Sounds like the filming at Wembley was probably for the Christmas Eve doc, but hopefully the Notts footage will also make it to broadcast/streaming - I'd love to see the show again.