2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships - 21-29 January

[Elizabeth]

The event will take place in San Jose, CA. The event website: https://www.usfigureskating.org/event/2 ... mpionships


The link to download the detailed practice & competition schedule: https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/d ... hedule.pdf
There will be Junior and Championship (Senior) competitions with the latter beginning on Thursday, 27 January.

The athletes competing, after their qualifying season: https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/news ... ineup.aspx

You will see in the list that there has been a withdrawal as of 17 January (today) from the Senior Ice Dance - Kaitlyn Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker train at I.AM:


The results will be posted here: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... /index.asp

[Elizabeth]

We should have access to some TV coverage via NBC (times are Eastern):

Jan. 27 - 2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Women's Free - 8-11 p.m. - NBC
Jan. 28 - 2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Free Dance - 2:30-4:30 p.m. - NBC
Jan. 29 - 2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Men's Free - 3-6 p.m. - NBC
Feb. 5 - 2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Exhibition - 4-6 p.m. - NBC*

* check local listings

[Elizabeth]

A dance couple, Depietri & Carey, has been added following the withdrawal of Hawayek & Baker:

[Elizabeth]

There is news from Jackie Wong via Twitter, there will be a "world feed" available to those outside the USA (except in Japan) on Olympics.com.

Check here next week for the live stream (Jan. 23-29): https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/



Although those of us outside the USA don't have access to Peacock, this graphic might give you an idea of the times for the live stream from San Jose:

[Elizabeth]

The most recent detailed schedule (local time in San Jose)

[Elizabeth]

Jackie Wong's 5 storylines going into the US championships https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/news ... ships.aspx

This article promises international live streaming information but none appears yet: https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/20 ... alifornia/

[Elizabeth]

The start order for the Sr RD


And for the Pairs SP

[Elizabeth]

USFS report on the first day of competition (Juniors): https://t.co/9zNbtBbMLq

[Elizabeth]

Start order for the Women SP

[Elizabeth]

The final results of the all of the Junior championships before the Senior/Championship events begin later today:

[Elizabeth]

Up first in the Seniors in San Jose will be the Pairs SP


The Start Order/Results link: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... EG009.html

There may be a live stream here for some of the US Championships but don't hold your breath: https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/

The results:




The promised live stream didn't appear - all that I found was an illegal Russian re-stream of the US Peacock feed - for a variety of reasons I chose not to support it. It has now been clarified that there was actually no agreement between USFS/NBC/Olympic.com to provide the feed they were promoting

The RD was up next and here are the results:

[Elizabeth]

The results of the Women SP last night in San Jose (while I was sleeping)

[Elizabeth]

The Men have skated their SP - it was the return to competition for Jason Brown who has been touring and not in any competitions up to this point in the season. It appears that "he's still got it"

[Elizabeth]

Part of the Women FS will be on NBC TV this evening. It begins @ 8 P.M. ET and will have a bit of a recap on the SPs before joining the actual live competition.

Here's the link to the start orders/results board: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... EG014.html

The results after the free skate








Announcement of 4CC & Worlds team assignments:

[Elizabeth]

Coming up today at the US Championships





There is some NBC TV coverage again today - this is the remaining schedule (Eastern time):
Jan. 28 - 2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Free Dance - 2:30-4:30 p.m. - NBC
Jan. 29 - 2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Men's Free - 3-6 p.m. - NBC
Feb. 5 - 2023 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Exhibition - 4-6 p.m. - NBC*
* check local listings

The Men FS will be on Sunday, followed by the Exhibition Gala.

[kittykins]

I'm just going to try to locate the SP for the Men. I look forward to seeing the FS tomorrow afternoon.

[Elizabeth]

The results after the free dance



It gets crowded on that podium when there are four medals given out! [USFS gives out Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Pewter medals.]




The ISU championship assignments for the Ice Dancers, including alternates

[Elizabeth]

I'm just going to try to locate the SP for the Men. I look forward to seeing the FS tomorrow afternoon.

There was no official stream available except via Peacock. There was a Russian "bootleg" stream that was re-streaming the Peacock live stream.

[Elizabeth]

The Pairs FS event has just finished - by the sounds of it, it was not very well skated. There was no international stream for those of us in Canada to watch this or any of the rest of this competition, unfortunately.

The results:


The US Championships will finish with the Men FS on Sunday (some coverage on NBC TV which may include at least the FS of the Pairs gold medalists).







After the press conference


The USFSA has announced their teams (and alternates) for the upcoming ISU championship events:

PAIRS

2023 World Championships
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier
Emily Chan and Spencer Howe
Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea

Alternate 1- Anastasiia Smirnova and Danil Siianytsia
Alternate 2 - Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez
Alternate 3 - Katie McBeath and Nathan Bartholomay


2023 World Junior Championships
Sonia Baram and Daniel Tioumentsev
Naomi Williams and Lachlan Lewer*

Alternate 1 - Lilianna Murray/Jordan Gillette*


2023 Four Continents Championships
Emily Chan and Spencer Howe
Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea
Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez

Alternate 1 - Katie McBeath and Nathan Bartholomay
Alternate 2 - Maria Mokhova and Ivan Mokhov

*Pending minimum technical score

[Elizabeth]

Today, if you were watching NBC TV, you got to see the final 2 of the 3 groups of the Men FS. I hope you were either watching or recorded it - they replayed Jason Brown's SP and then he delivered a wonderful FS! I'm so glad he decided to return to competition!! Oh yes, by the way, the self-styled quadg0d faltered a bit in his FS, being beaten in that part of the competition by another returning skater, but still winning overall.

The final results:


There was some interesting disagreement between the judges regarding placement


Happy coach & skater


The Men's podium (including the pewter medal for M. Naumov)


At the press conference


The USFS team selections for the upcoming ISU championship events

[Elizabeth]

An update on the US Worlds team:

[Elizabeth]

More details from Kaitlin on what has been going on over some time and what led to their decision. And a post from Jean-Luc. Both are from Instagram.