Inaugural Aurora Games, celebrating female athletes, includes a figure skating team event - 24 Aug. 2019

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Inaugural Aurora Games, celebrating female athletes, includes a figure skating team event - 24 Aug. 2019

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The CBC is live streaming this event between Team Americas & Team World - commentary by Carolyn Manno & Brian Boitano with Nancy Kerrigan doing interviews: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/aurora-games- ... -1.5249804

Judges are Elizabeth Manley, Image

Surya Bonaly Image

& Isabelle Brasseur Image

They are scoring out of 10.

First group for short program: 2 from Team Americas are Ashley Wagner USA Image
&
Isadora Williams BRA Image

and only 1 from Team World (due to a late withdrawal)

Stanislava Konstantinova RUS Image

The second group is now warming up. Each skater will do two programs during this event, a short and a long.
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Second group includes Isabelle Olsson SWE Image

& Mae-Bernice Meite FRA for Team World Image

and Mirai Nagasu USA Image

& Andrea Montesinos Cantu MEX for Team Americas. Image

After the short programs Team Americas is in the lead.
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Oh dear, where did they find Surya Bonaly? WIl try and watch later.
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happyheini wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:40 pm Oh dear, where did they find Surya Bonaly? WIl try and watch later.
I believe she lives in Las Vegas these days :)

The whole event was sort of reminiscent of those "cheesefests" that used to be on TV years ago but it was interesting to see some of the skaters, especially a couple of them who will be competing in the coming 2nd JGP event in Lake Placid.

The Aurora Games involved events in multiple sports putting "the Americas" against the World to promote female athletes. This was just one of the events.
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