ISU GP#3 - Grand Prix de France - Angers, France - 4-6 November 2022

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The entries, by discipline, are linked here: https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00113531.htm

The time & practice schedule: http://results.isu.org/schedules/gpfra2 ... hedule.pdf


We should be able to watch the ISU live stream as usual this week after last week's geoblock: https://www.youtube.com/c/SkatingISU

The CBC Sports streaming schedule :
Fri Nov 4
8:00 AM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Grand Prix de France - Women's Short Program
10:00 AM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Grand Prix de France - Ice Dance Rhythm Dance
11:45 AM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Grand Prix de France - Men's Short Program
1:45 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Grand Prix de France - Pairs Short Program

Sat Nov 5
8:00 AM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Grand Prix de France - Women's Free Program
10:10 AM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Grand Prix de France - Ice Dance Free Dance
12:00 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Grand Prix de France - Men's Free Dance
2:10 PM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating on CBC: Grand Prix de France - Pairs Free Program

Sun Nov 6
8:30 AM ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Grand Prix de France - Gala

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The Skate Canada press release about the CDN team: https://skatecanada.ca/2022/10/a-small- ... de-france/

A Small but Mighty Canadian Contingent to Compete at Grand Prix de France
October 31, 2022/by Skate Canada

OTTAWA, ON (November 1, 2022) – With the Senior Grand Prix season in full swing, Canadian athletes now head to Angers, France for the third stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit. A total of seven athletes will be representing the maple leaf in the men’s, pair and ice dance competitions from November 4-6, 2022 at the Grand Prix de France.

First-year senior Wesley Chiu will be competing at his second senior ISU Grand Prix after placing tenth at the 2022 U.S. International Figure Skating Classic and sixth at Skate America earlier this season.

The experienced team of Deanna Stellato Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, whose spectacular program earned them a gold medal at the 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy, will be aiming for their third medal in the pair competition after claiming silver at Skate America a few weeks ago.

In ice dance, Olympians Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen will be competing at their first ISU Grand Prix of this season after winning gold at the Finlandia Trophy in early October. They will be joined by new National Team members Molly Lanaghan and Dmitre Razgulajevs, who finished just off the podium at the 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy.

Competition starts on Friday, November 4 with every discipline performing their short program/rhythm dance. All medals will be awarded on Saturday, November 5, as every discipline will perform their free program/free dance. The event concludes on Sunday with the exhibition gala.

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The ISU overview of the schedule (in local time)



France has already moved to Standard Time so they are currently 5 hours ahead of EDT. We switch to ET overnight on Saturday restoring the usual 6 hour time difference.

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The event by event links for the ISU YouTube stream are now available here: https://www.youtube.com/user/SkatingISU

The Schedule/Entries/Start Orders/Results link: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season2223/gpfra2022/

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The ISU has posted a preview of the competition: https://t.co/PrC6qp1Rfd

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Day 1 - the short programs

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The view inside the rink during practice

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Results after the first event of the day:








After the Rhythm Dance:

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After the 3rd of today's 4 events:

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As Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps are competing in the Pairs event, you might enjoy a couple of articles:

• https://figureskatersonline.com/news/20 ... ir-rhythm/
• https://olympics.com/en/news/figure-ska ... iatus-2022

And the results after the Pairs SP:

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Overview of Day 2 of competition (times 5 hours ahead of EDT)


I am watching the Women FS on the ISU YouTube feed and there are sound problems - we don't hear any arena announcements, crowd noise, etc. but do hear the music during the actual programs. There is no commentary from Mark Hanretty either
Apparently the ISU stream that was being used by CBC Sports did have sound. Strange technological issues!!
Fortunately the ISU YouTube feed got back to normal during the last skater in the first warm-up group.

Today was Loena's 23rd birthday and Mae-Bernice brought her a cake in the Kiss 'n Cry and led the audience in singing Happy Birthday to her


After the Women FS the overall results and FS detailed results

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Free Dance results


Overall Dance results

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Free skate results for the Men


Overall results


Some history was made in the Men's event - Adam Siam Him Fa becomes the first French man since Brian Joubert in 2006 to win the French GP Figure title.

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The 4th and final event of the day was the Pairs FS.

The overall results and those of the FS:


Congratulations to Deanna - at age 39!!
Her international wins per Jackie Wong (RockerSkating):

1999 JGP Norway - singles
1999 JGP Final - singles
2022 Nebelhorn Trophy - pairs
…
23 years - TWENTY THREE YEARS

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Medal ceremonies were done at the end of the day for all disciplines - here are some photos

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If you were watching the Pairs FS you might have heard Mark Hanretty speculating that Deanna was the oldest winner of a GP medal. He went on to say that "Skating Scores" might be able to validate this.

There was a subsequent exchange on Twitter where the person who is behind Skating Scores indicated that they couldn't do so at that time as they had not put ages/dates of birth in their extensive database. Within a few hours, however, the necessary updates had been done and a query produced confirmation of Mark's speculation. [The information only goes back to the Fall of 2003 when the "new" IJS was introduced.]



Here are tables regarding the ages of Men and Women winning GP events in the post 6.0 era as well:





Note that all of the oldest winners were in Pairs and Ice Dance - regarding the preponderance of pairs, Meagan Duhamel remarked on Twitter

We just do better in this discipline with age

Check out the website of Skating Scores where you find links to very interesting statistics and where you can do your own queries: https://skatingscores.com/

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Both of our dance teams and our gold medal pair participated in the Exhibition Gala today


To watch the streamed coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKcfGjo ... Tn9cON-9A3