ISU GP#1 - Skate America 2022 - Norwood, MA - 21-23 Oct.

[Elizabeth]

The first event of the Grand Prix for seniors takes place later this week at the Tenley E. Albright Performance Center of the Skating Club of Boston. The tickets are sold out.


The entries by discipline: https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00113518.htm
There are 2 CDN entries in three of the four disciplines.

The time and practice schedule: http://results.isu.org/schedules/gpusa2 ... hedule.pdf


CBC will be streaming live coverage (from the ISU) but will have no TV coverage:
Fri Oct 21
7:24 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Pairs Short Program
8:49 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Men's Short Program

Sat Oct 22
2:41 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Ice Dance Rhythm Dance
4:18 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Women's Short Program
7:15 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Pairs Free Program
9:00 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Men's Free Program

Sun Oct 23
1:08 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Ice Dance Free Dance
2:59 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Women's Free Program
7:15 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America - Gala
All times are shown here in EDT.
This is from: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/wint ... /broadcast

The only TV coverage available to us in Canada will be from NBC on Saturday afternoon from 3-6 EDT

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada press release about the Canadian team: https://skatecanada.ca/2022/10/ten-prom ... e-america/

Ten Prominent Canadian Skaters Kick Off the Senior Grand Prix Season at Skate America
October 17, 2022/by Skate Canada

OTTAWA, ON (October 17, 2022) – The senior Grand Prix season officially kicks off this weekend with Skate America, where ten Canadian skaters will be vying for a spot on the podium. The event, which takes place in Norwood, USA from October 21-23, 2022, will include two Canadian entries in men, pair and ice dance.

17-year-old Wesley Chiu will be making his Senior Grand Prix debut after winning gold and bronze medals on the junior circuit last season, on top of placing third at the 2022 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships. He will be joined by Olympian Roman Sadovsky, who has had a successful season so far, claiming bronze at the 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, Germany.

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps kicked off their season in spectacular fashion with a first-place finish at the 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy. The duo also had a great showing at last year’s ISU Four Continents Championships®, where they finished just off the podium. Young pair team Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Ethier earned their spot at Skate America with a very solid performance at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic, where they placed fifth.

Veteran ice dancers Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac, who finished fourth at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic a few weeks ago, will be competing in ice dance, as will teammates Carolane Soucisse and Shane Firus. Soucisse and Firus put on a great display at the 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy, where they captured a bronze medal for Canada.

The competition starts on Friday, October 21 with the pair and men’s short programs. On Saturday, all disciplines will compete, starting with the rhythm dance, followed by the women’s short program, and the pair and men’s free programs. The event concludes on Sunday with the free dance and women’s free program.

The next stop on the circuit will be Mississauga, Ontario, for Skate Canada International 2022. Click here for more information or to buy tickets for the event.

[Elizabeth]

The USFS press release on their team competing at Skate America: https://t.co/vQCBA7qMkl

U.S. Skaters to Perform on Home Ice at Skate America

A full slate of U.S. skaters are set to skate on home ice as 18 members of Team USA travel to Norwood, Massachusetts, for Skate America Oct. 21-23 at The Skating Club of Boston.

The first stop on the International Skating Union Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series, Team USA will feature a mix of veterans as well as up-and-comers with seven Olympians and two of the 2022 World Junior champions.

In ice dance, two of the three teams from the Olympic Winter games Beijing 2022 are back to compete at Skate America.

Always in the hunt for a medal on the world stage, Madison Chock and Evan Bates will make their season debut. The 2022 Olympic team event silver medalists and three-time U.S. Champions are seeking their 15th Grand Prix medal. In their 12 years skating together, they have won this event twice – although not since 2015 – and brought home silver last season.

Chock and Bates' teammates in Beijing, Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker, already have a medal this season, earning silver at Finlandia Trophy, in which they set new international personal bests in the free skate and total score.

Rounding out the ice dance teams for the United States are Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spiridonov, who also own some hardware from earlier this season, winning gold at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International and bronze at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic.

Traveling to Norwood as the reigning World champions – becoming the first U.S. pairs team to win the title since 1979 – Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier make their season debut at Skate America. The 2022 Olympic team event silver medalists won this event in their first competition together as a team in 2020 when it was held as a domestic event in 2020 due to COVID-19.

Also representing Team USA in pairs will be two younger teams in Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez and Maria Mokhova and Ivan Mokhov.

Both competing at their first Grand Prix, Plazas and Fernandez, the 2021 U.S. junior bronze medalists, have claimed two medals at international events this season with bronze at both the U.S. International Classic and John Nicks Pairs Challenge. Mokhova and Mokhov began their season with two fourth-place finishes at the same events before taking eighth at Finlandia Trophy.

Headlining for Team USA in the men's event is Ilia Malinin, who became the first athlete to successfully land a quad Axel in competition at the U.S. International Classic, leaping into first place for the gold. With the exception of 2020 Skate America when it was held as a domestic event, this competition will mark the first Grand Prix for the 2022 World Junior champion and U.S. silver medalist.

Malinin's teammate at the 2022 World Junior Championships, Liam Kapeikis, is also competing in his first senior season internationally. After finishing in the top eight at last year's Junior Worlds, Kapeikis started his season with gold at the Philadelphia Summer International.

Dinh Tran will complete Team USA's lineup. The two-time U.S. junior silver medalist finished right behind Kapeikis with silver in Philadelphia in August.

A bright future star for Team USA in the women's event, Isabeau Levito enters Norwood as the 2022 World Junior champion and the 2022 U.S. bronze medalist. Although she'll be competing at just her first Grand Prix, Levito has stood on the podium at every senior competition she's competed, beginning in Nashville in January and continuing at both her international events this season, including at Ondrej Nepela Trophy earlier this month.

Returning to Skate America for the fourth straight season, 2021 U.S. silver medalist Amber Glenn began her season with bronze at the Cranberry Cup before claiming fourth at Lombardia Trophy.

A 2014 Olympic team event bronze medalist and two-time U.S. Champion, Gracie Gold has twice medaled at Skate America in her lengthy career. However, if excluding 2020 Skate America, when Gold takes the ice in Norwood, it will mark her first Grand Prix assignment since 2018 and comes on the heels of a bronze to start her season at the Philadelphia Summer International.

Competition begins Friday with the pairs and men's short programs. Skate America then continues Saturday with the rhythm dance and women's short programs before the first medals will be awarded that evening in the pairs and men's events. On Sunday, the event concludes with the free dance and women's free skate.

[Elizabeth]

The ISU schedule overview

[Elizabeth]

The practices are going on today inside The Skating Club of Boston facility


A couple of views inside from Jackie Wong (RockerSkating)





The links for watching the live stream, by event, are now available on the ISU YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SkatingISU

In Canada we will also have that stream available via the CBC but I believe we will also have it via the ISU directly.

[Elizabeth]

The Entries/Schedule/Results link: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season2223/gpusa2022/


The ISU preview: https://t.co/GcopsPdO5A

Ilia Malinin of the USA certainly gets height on his jumps, even in practice! He was seen jumping the quad axel today.

[Elizabeth]

The live stream broadcast of the Pairs SP has begun on the ISU YouTube channel. On the microphone is Chris Howarth.

Canada's first skaters to compete Laurin & Ethier

[Elizabeth]

The results of the Pairs SP






At the post SP press conference


"The Last Cut" - Ashley Wagner & Jackie Wong on the Pairs SP: https://youtu.be/7Z6dK-feQbI

[Elizabeth]

Men SP results






Proud choreographer Jason Brown congratulating Daniel Grassl on delivering a program they put together in a week or so, starting when they were competing against each other at the Japan Open


At the end of the media conference, former training mate Jason Brown and coach Brian Orser delivered cakes to Junhwan Cha who was celebrating his 21st birthday



Ashley & Jackie on the Men SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCZiWkmT_g

[Elizabeth]

Day 2 of 3 at Skate America


Up first the Rhythm Dance






Ashley & Jackie's quick analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geq59ySBw1o

[Elizabeth]

On to the Women SP







Ashley & Jackie's recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRy_sd_cK1U

[Elizabeth]

The first event of the evening was the Pairs FS:


The overall results:








Fun at the press conference


Ashley & Jackie on the Pairs Free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Q0jCw8zUM

The medals were handed out at the end of the evening.

[Elizabeth]

In the Men FS the crowd got what they wanted - a quad axel from Ilia Malinin (worth a lot of points all by itself) but also lots more







The FS results:


The overall results:









Ashley & Jackie on the Men FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exJ0mjjn9qY

[Elizabeth]

Today we have the Free Dance and the Women FS with the Exhibition Gala this evening, all being streamed by the ISU (and the CBC has the ISU stream too).








It was a podium sweep for I.AM teams - these are Danielle Earl photos from yesterday's RD




Ashley & Simon Shnapir (former US Pairs champion) on the Free Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGtvC_vXPo

[Elizabeth]

The last competitive event was the Women FS - the results:


The overall results








The final "Last Cut" with Ashley Wagner & Simon Shnapir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CePbXhb29w

[Elizabeth]

The Gala (which is on the ISU YouTube channel for later viewing) included:

• McNamara & Spiridonov (7th in Ice Dance)
  Schott (7th in Women)
  Kapeikis (7th in Men)
  Muramoto & Takahashi (6th in ID)
  Sadovsky (5th in Men)
  Mokhova & Mokhov (4th in Pairs)
  Lee (4th in Women)
  Grassl (4th in Men)
  Lauriault & LeGac (3rd in Dance)
  Glenn (3rd in Women)
  Laurin & Ethier (3rd in Pairs)
  Tran (10th in Men)
  The Haydenettes (Synchro)

Intermission

• Carrillo (12th in Men)
  Kurakova (5th in Women)
  Janse van Rensburg & Steffan (9th in Dance)
  Cha (3rd in Men)
  Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps (2nd in Pairs)
  Gold (6th in Women)
  Demougeot & le Mercier (4th in Dance)
  Miura (2nd in Men)
  Levito (2nd in Women)
  Hawayek & Baker (2nd in Dance)
  Malinin (1st in Men)
  Kneirem & Fraser (1st in Pairs)
  Sakamoto (1st in Women)
  Chock & Bates (1st in Dance)