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The seven events for this year are:

• ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Slovakia 2018, Aug. 22-25, Bratislava, Slovakia
• ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Austria 2018, Aug. 29- Sept. 1, Linz, Austria
• ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Lithuania 2018, Sept. 5-8, Kaunas, Lithuania
• ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Canada 2018, Sept. 12-15, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Czech Republic 2018, Sept. 26-29, Ostrava, Czech Republic
• ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Slovenia 2018, Oct. 3-6, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Armenia 2018, Oct. 10-13, Yerevan, Armenia

The Junior Grand Prix Final will take place in Vancouver in conjunction with the senior GPF.

The JGP events will be live streamed on the YouTube channel once again this year: https://t.co/U2HAm8bUEe

Skate Canada has published some of the assignments of Canadian skaters for the JGP events in a table which shows all of the upcoming international events: https://skatecanada.ca/event-schedule/# ... f20cf01436

Thanks Elizabeth!

The ISU has the entries and the time & practice schedule (local time) up for the first JGP event in Bratislava - Aug. 22-25, 2018: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111597.htm

The second JGP will be in Linz, AUT Aug. 29 - Sept 1, 2018 - the entries link is here: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111598.htm

The third JGP will be in Kaunas, LIT (no pairs) - Sept. 5-9, 2018 - the entries link is here: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111599.htm

The fourth JGP will be in Richmond, BC, CAN - Sept. 12-15, 2018 - the entries link is here: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111603.htm

The fifth JGP will be in Ostrava, CZE - Sept. 26-29, 2018 - the entries link is here: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111606.htm

The sixth JGP event will be in Ljubljana, Slovenia (no pairs) - the entries link is here: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... /index.htm

As noted in the first post in this thread, Skate Canada has posted the assignments of some CDN athletes for the JGP.

For the first event they are:
Ladies - Aurora Cotop
Men - Stephen Gogolev and Aleksa Rakic
Pair - Patricia Andrew / Paxton Fletcher and Brooke McIntosh / Brandon Toste
Ice Dance - Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette and Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont

For the second event they are:
Ladies - Alison Schumacher
Men - Conrad Orzel and Corey Circelli
Pair - Gabrielle Levesque / Pier-Alexandre Hudon
Ice Dance - Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha and Natalie D’Alessandro / Bruce Waddell

The entries and time and practice schedule for the 2nd event in Linz, AUS have now been added here: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111598.htm

As mentioned in the Minto thread, a third Canadian dance team has been added, as a possible substitute, following performances here in Ottawa over the weekend.

The time and practice schedule and the entries for event #3 in Kaunas, LTU have now been posted here: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111599.htm

There will be no pairs competing at this event.

The entries and time and practice schedule for event #4 in Vancouver are now available: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111603.htm

The ISU has posted an article about the JGP series which is about to begin next week: https://www.isu.org/news/126-junior-gra ... teParam=15

Danielle Earl, photographer, has provided her usual time conversion:


The entries & substitutes: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111597.htm
The Start Order/Results link should appear there soon.

The Time & Practice schedule: http://www.isuresults.com/schedules/jgp ... hedule.pdf

The will be a live stream on the ISU JGP YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ISUJuniorGrandPrix

Here is the Start Orders/Results link:
http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... gpsvk2018/

Skate Canada article on the CDN skaters participating: https://skatecanada.ca/2018/08/canadian ... ix-season/

Thanks!

An excellent start for young Stephen Gogolev on the JGP!



Lee Barkell is with him in Bratislava.

For anyone who missed it, Stephen's SP is now up on the ISU JGP channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdpAx1ep2A

Also available is the SP of the other CDN skater, Aleksa Rakic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsAh5egvMJQ

And here is the SP of the young Russian lady who is leading going into the FS: https://youtu.be/FOzD7vSJkCY

The sole CDN young lady is sitting within the top 10 and in a group whose SP scores are all quite close.

Elizabeth wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:57 am For anyone who missed it, Stephen's SP is now up on the ISU JGP channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdpAx1ep2A

Wow, very impressive!! It's also nice to hear Ted Barton again.

Hi again. The youtube channel for the live stream is saying the Men's FS starts at 5:00 a.m. I'm not sure what time zone that is. I thought it was to be at 8:00 a.m. ET based on the post above, so that's what I'm sticking to. 5:00 is too early anyway, lol. I thought I'd mention it just in case.

The official information for Saturday's events from the ISU for various time zones:

Thank you muchly. I hope to wake up for 8:00.

For someone who is prevented (by his coaches) from practicing his quads very much, to prevent injuries, Stephen certainly was able to deliver three of them in his FS today, one in combination! According to the protocols they were all fully rotated: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... Scores.pdf





Congratulations to this young man on winning a gold medal at his very first Junior Grand Prix!!

Stephen's free skate video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9MDTD2q6WU

The free skate of Alexsa Rakic, the other CDN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlU6FEeZAMs

After the pairs free skate they had the medal ceremonies for the pairs and the men. Using the new style, they went 3-2-1 rather than the 1-2-3 of the past. The three Russian pairs got to hear their anthem before photos, etc. while "We are the champions" played in the arena.

Then they went to the men...

In a very sad "OOOOOPS moment", the audience was asked to stand for the national anthem of the winner and then the silence began, and went on, and on, and on - people shuffled their feet, looked at each other and the silence continued.... Eventually the announcer said "Ladies and gentlemen, these are your winners" (or perhaps "medalists") and they started playing "We are the champions" as everyone assembled for photos!!!

At least the CDN team leader had a flag for him for the "photo op"!!


According to a Eurosport announced via Twitter:

In #Bratislava, Stephen #Gogolev has landed three different quads (4Lz/4T/4S). The thirteen year old canadian is the first skater in history to land three different quads in the junior category and even the youngest to land a quadruple jump in a #ISU competition

That's a great shot!! Thanks for posting it! I love the screenshots too!

Just editing to say that it's only a matter of time before Patrick Chan's record of the youngest Canadian champion will be broken. It might even happen this year. He's better than Nam isn't he? I was going to look up his marks at the latest competition but haven't had a chance yet. What is the age to compete at senior worlds...15? I know we've talked about this before but it's slipped my mind unless 15 is right, haha.

kittykins wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:40 pm That's a great shot!! Thanks for posting it! I love the screenshots too!

Just editing to say that it's only a matter of time before Patrick Chan's record of the youngest Canadian champion will be broken. It might even happen this year. He's better than Nam isn't he? I was going to look up his marks at the latest competition but haven't had a chance yet.

Are you overlooking someone..... I suspect Keegan will be this year's champion

Oh right...sorry, senior moment. I really hope Keegan does become champion and very worthy of the title. Well, Stephen has a few shots at it I'm sure.

Skate Canada's story on Stephen Gogolev's win and the JGP: https://skatecanada.ca/2018/08/canadas- ... rix-debut/

Ted Barton interview with Stephen & Lee Barkell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhph6gKKcwc

Ted Barton interview with Aleksa Rakic & Joanne MacLeod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkl1SHbC6IA

Although I guess we can't really compare a senior event to junior one completely, here are their final point totals in summary...

At GTSA Summer Skate:
Nam: 262.11
Keegan: 242.07

JGP: Stephen 226.63

This will be an interesting Nationals in January. Guess those are "likely" to be the top 3.

Well, off to bed..."early" start tomorrow.