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[baron-pierreIV]

olympian, on 02 November 2011 - 08:16 AM, said:

Here are Grand Prix Schedule for 2012-13 season

October 19-21, 2012 USA

Only Skate Canada has announced their host city. Russia and France Grand Prix events will most likely remain in Moscow and Paris respectively.

Since this just concluded Skate America was in So. California, the Nat'ls in January will be in San Jose; and the 2013 U.S. Nationals will be in Omaha, Nebraska, I guess the 2012 Skate America will be in the eastern time zone. They better get a major metropolitan area (maybe in the DC-Phila-Baltimore area) because I don't think the Skate America on Ontario, CA, did very well box-office-wise. Many of the sessions were quite empty. The economy also has something to do with it; and that Inland Empire area has very high unemployment numbers.

[olympian]

heard attendance at skate america this year was dismal considering its near a big metropolitan area. the last east coast hosting was 2009 in lake placid. maybe a decent sized east coast city or near a big metropolitan will take a shot at SA'12. three out of the last 4 has been held in the west with two of them being in the northwest (everett '08 and portland '10).

[Athensfan]

olympian, on 03 November 2011 - 01:55 AM, said:

heard attendance at skate america this year was dismal considering its near a big metropolitan area. the last east coast hosting was 2009 in lake placid. maybe a decent sized east coast city or near a big metropolitan will take a shot at SA'12. three out of the last 4 has been held in the west with two of them being in the northwest (everett '08 and portland '10).

I could have easily gone and looked into it, but ticket prices were astronomical. That's the sole reason I didn't go.

[Guardian]

Wow. Didn't take long for the ISU to choose Sochi to host the 2012 Grand Prix final. Guess that will be one of many test events for the 2014 Winter Olympics there.

Anyway, for the next Grand Prix event in China, here are some links: 1. Men, 2. Ladies, 3. Pairs, and 4. Ice Dance.

Link to official site for the Shanghai event: Click here.

[olympian]

@guardian: a lot of skating assumed Sochi will be given the 2013 Europeans as a test event but instead Zagreb is hosting it. Tokyo is once again hosting 2013-14 Grand Prix Final. That's going to be the third straight Grand Prix Final leading to the Olympics that they'll be hosting. Kitchener, Ontario hosted the 2001-02 Grand Prix Finals.

oops should have said Japan is hosting the 2013-14 GPF. The host city has yet to be named.

[baron-pierreIV]

Guardian, on 03 November 2011 - 02:45 AM, said:

Wow. Didn't take long for the ISU to choose Sochi to host the 2012 Grand Prix final. Guess that will be one of many test events for the 2014 Winter Olympics there.

Will the Bolshoi Ice Palace be ready by Dec 2012? And the staff they train for that might not hang around for the 2014 WOGs...that's like a 14-month gap. Besides, I think the core of Sochi FS staffers already a crash course with the 2011 Worlds that were belatedly moved to Moscow in April. Again, if Sochi will be retaining the same key people who will run the FS events for 2014.

[Guardian]

olympian, on 03 November 2011 - 04:41 AM, said:

@guardian: a lot of skating assumed Sochi will be given the 2013 Europeans as a test event but instead Zagreb is hosting it. Tokyo is once again hosting 2013-14 Grand Prix Final. That's going to be the third straight Grand Prix Final leading to the Olympics that they'll be hosting. Kitchener, Ontario hosted the 2001-02 Grand Prix Finals.

oops should have said Japan is hosting the 2013-14 GPF. The host city has yet to be named.

Well, I never mentioned anything about the European Figure Skating Championships for any particular year. Anyway, that figure skating venue will be interesting to see on TV next year. It is not like the Russians are going to screw things up, when it comes to having facilities ready for competition. I just hope they don't rush things unnecessarily.

[intoronto1125]

Feels like Vancouver 2010 was yesterday and now Sochi is in the horizon.

[olympian]

Guardian, on 04 November 2011 - 10:35 PM, said:

Well, I never mentioned anything about the European Figure Skating Championships for any particular year. Anyway, that figure skating venue will be interesting to see on TV next year. It is not like the Russians are going to screw things up, when it comes to having facilities ready for competition. I just hope they don't rush things unnecessarily.

you didn't. but the most logical test event for sochi would've been euros 2013 since that is a bigger tournament as oppose to a grand prix finals. torino had euros in 2005 while salt lake city and vancouver had four continents in 2001 and 2009 as their figure skating test events.

[olympian]

Cup of China results

Men
1 Jeremy ABBOTT, USA
2 Nobunari ODA, Japan
3 Nan SONG, China

>> Russia's Gachinski and Japan's Hanyu ranked 1st and 2nd after the short only to stumble and finish fifth and fourth overall.

Ladies
1 Carolina KOSTNER, Italy
2 Mirai NAGASU, USA
3 Adelina SOTNIKOVA, Russia

Pairs
1 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV, Russia
2 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG, China
3 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH, Canada

Ice Dance
1 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV, Russia
2 Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI, USA
3 Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES, France

>> Defending worlds bronze medalists Shibutani siblings is defeated by 15.12 points by the Russian team in their first tournament since their surprise bronze medal finish at Worlds 2011

>>> Off to Sapporro for NHK Trophy.