spectator12 Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I think this year Wagner and Gold could actually be threats at worlds. With Nagasu also maybe one to watch if she qualifies. But is Gold's foot injury better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted January 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 in less than 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted January 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 US and Canadian Nationals ongoing. Senior events at Canadians has yet to start. Ashley Wagner currently holds a 5 point lead after the short. Looks like a battle for 2nd and 3rd for the US ladies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 US and Canadian Nationals ongoing. Senior events at Canadians has yet to start. Ashley Wagner currently holds a 5 point lead after the short. Looks like a battle for 2nd and 3rd for the US ladies. One thing about Ashley Wagner is her choice of music. Unless she changes to more traditional (and prettier) skating music, she'll never get gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted January 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 Ashley's music are pretty mainstream. She skate to Samson and Delilah for 2 years, this music were already used prveiously notably by Kristi Yamaguchi and Joannie Rochette. She's skating to Spartacus and Moulin Rouge this year. Spartacus is pretty mainstream figure skating. Moulin Rouge is a good selection in my opinion. At the end of the day, it comes down to musical edits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinXTC Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 The music alone is just one element. If she can't bring the high-marking technical elements into a program and skate cleanly, then she won't win whether she's skating to Carmen or the soundtrack to the South Park movie. Kim Yu-Na managed to win a gold medal at Vancouver with a James Bond medley for the short program. I didn't think it was all that pretty music, but she skated magnificently to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 Generally, I find her music crappy and if I was a judge, I would be disinclined to be generous in the artistic marks for music which does not send me -- that's all I'm saying. Of course, she's free to pick whatever music she wants to skate by...but she is being judged. And so, like any judging sport...if I don't like the color of your shorts, so shoot me for having a different opnion from the other judges. That's why there is a panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 OMG! Ashley Wagner nailed it. (However, I still didn't like her music.) And the programs now are NOTHING but jumping fests. Whatever artistry in there gets drowned by those stupid jumps!! Thanks to the cheating Russians for ruining the sport. That sneaky Soviet mindset will still be the death of us all. They should make a study now -- with this new scoring system -- of the increased stress fractures to skaters' feet. That is going to be an unforeseen effect of the new scoring system. The men's competition was also terrific. I think we have great Single Men's Prospects for 2018. Brown, Rippon and my favorite, Joshua Farris, I hope, will all peak by PC!! Farris and Brown seem to have this on-going healthy rivalry since they were kids...and I hope that translates into putting the kibosh on the Japanese guys for 2018! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted February 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 Results Men 1. Javier Fernandez, Spain 2. Maxim Kovtun, Russia 3. Sergei Voronov, Russia Ladies 1. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russia 2. Elena Radionova, Russia 3. Anna Pogorilaya, Russia Pairs 1. Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov, Russia 2. Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov, Russia 3. Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov, Russia Ice Dance 1. Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron, France 2. Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte, Italy 3. Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin, Russia Next Stop: Seoul for Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted February 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 Up Next... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 It's the years of the "S" cities for the 2014-15 Figure Skating season -- Grand Prix finals and 2014 Worlds - Saitama, Japan 2014 WOGs - Sochi 2015 4 CC - Seoul 2015 Euros - Stockholm 2015 Worlds - Shanghai Wow!! How often does this happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted February 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 It's the years of the "S" cities for the 2014-15 Figure Skating season -- Grand Prix finals and 2014 Worlds - Saitama, Japan 2014 WOGs - Sochi 2015 4 CC - Seoul 2015 Euros - Stockholm 2015 Worlds - Shanghai Wow!! How often does this happen? 2013-14 Grand Prix Finals was in Fukuoka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 2013-14 Grand Prix Finals was in Fukuoka. That Japanese poster in Goldenskates said the GP Finals was in Saitama. OK, I sit corrected. Oops, can't fix it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted February 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 That Japanese poster in Goldenskates said the GP Finals was in Saitama. OK, I sit corrected. Oops, can't fix it anymore. You can add Sofia to the list. They hosted 2014 World Juniors. 2015 World Juniors will be in Tallinn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted February 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Results Men 1. Denis Ten, Kazakhstan 2. Joshua Farris, USA 3. Han Yan, China Ladies 1. Polina Edmunds, USA 2. Satoko MIyahara, Japan 3. Rika Hongo, Japan Pairs 1. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford, Canada 2. Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang, China 3. Qing Pang/Jian Tong, China Ice Dance 1. Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje, Canada 2. Madison Chock/Evan Bates, USA 3. Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani, USA Next Stop: Tallinn for Junior Worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Results Men 1. Denis Ten, Kazakhstan 2. Joshua Farris, USA 3. Han Yan, China Ladies 1. Polina Edmunds, USA 2. Satoko MIyahara, Japan 3. Rika Hongo, Japan Pairs 1. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford, Canada 2. Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang, China 3. Qing Pang/Jian Tong, China Ice Dance 1. Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje, Canada 2. Madison Chock/Evan Bates, USA 3. Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani, USA Next Stop: Tallinn for Junior Worlds. Whoa! Farris and Edmunds medalling!! I like Farris; he has a very classic style. Polina beat theJapanese ladies, wow!! Chock and Bates have to stop Weaver and Poje somehow!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted February 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 It was a come from behind win for Weaver/Poje. They were third after the short. Chock/Bates led after the short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted March 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 2 - 8 Mar 2015 TallinnEstonia Tondiraba Ice Arena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted March 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 Results Junior Men 1. Shoma Uno, Japan 2. Boyang Jin, China 3. Sota Yamamoto, Japan Junior Ladies 1. Evgenia Medvedeva, Russia 2. Serafima Sakhanovich, Russia 3. Wakaba Higuchi, Japan Pairs 1. Xiaoyu Yu/Yang Jin, China 2. Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau, Canada 3. Lina Fedorova/Maxim Miroshkin, Russia Ice Dance 1. Anna Yanovskaya/Sergey Mozgov, Russia 2. Lorraine McNamara/Quinn Carpenter, USA 3. Alexandra Nazarova/Maxim Nikitin, Ukraine Next Stop: The big one Shanghai for Worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted March 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Starts tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted March 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Results Mens 1. Javier Fernandez, Spain 2. Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan 3. Denis Ten, Kazakhstan Ladies 1. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russia 2. Satoko Miyahara, Japan 3. Elena Radionova, Russia Pairs 1. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford, Canada 2. Wenjin Sui/Cong Han, China 3. Qing Pang/Jian Tong, China Ice Dance 1. Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron, France 2. Madison Chock/Evan Bates, USA 3. Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje, Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinXTC Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Hooray for Javier!!! First Spanish figure skater to ever win a gold medal in the figure skating World championships in any discipline! Although none of them medaled, the Americans coming in 4th, 5th, and 6th makes me hopeful that the US is on its way to improving their training programs to be serious threats to the rest of the world. The same needs to happen on the men's side. Jason Brown coming in 4th without a quad means nothing, a quad is needed in the program even if you fall on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted March 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 ISU announced during Worlds that Barcelona is once again hosting the Grand Prix Finals. I think this could be a precursor to a Barcelona hosting of Europeans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Awards ceremony for the Team Competition event just concluded this weekend in Tokyo, Japan. Gold - USA Silver - Russia Bronze - Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinXTC Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Awards ceremony for the Team Competition event just concluded this weekend in Tokyo, Japan. Gold - USA Silver - Russia Bronze - Japan lol @ Russia losing by one point. I'm a bit surprised this event takes place separately from the regular World Championship event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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