Fred's, (Used to be Barb's), Board

This event will take place in Minsk, BLR. The entries, by discipline, are now posted here: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111645.htm

Javier Fernandez is planning to skate his last amateur competition at Europeans, hoping to win one more championship.

There is no scheduled coverage on CBC but we may get some limited coverage via NBC.

There is more information about the schedule, etc. now available at the link above as well as here: https://www.isu.org/events/eventdetail/ ... mpionships

The Entries/Start Orders/Results link is now up: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... /index.htm

Competition begins tomorrow.

NBC is now planning some non-live coverage of Europeans that will be available in Canada:
Sunday, January 27th - European Championships: Ladies & Men's Free - 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. ET

The ladies short program is underway with 36 competitors entered. The top 24 will go forward to the free skate.

The results link: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... SEG003.HTM

RockerSkater play-by-play/results for the ladies SP: https://www.rockerskating.com/news/2019 ... rt-program [The play-by-play is in the tweets on the right of the page while the competition is going on.]

Today's competition was completed with the pairs SP. The results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... T003RS.HTM

After the short program in each discipline small medals are awarded to the top 3; there is a draw for skating position in the free skate; and then there is a press conference for the medalists. Here is the one for the pairs:


There was quite an amazing crowd in attendance on this first day of competition!!

Results of the SP for the men: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... T001RS.HTM

The top 24 (of the 37 who started) qualify for the FS.

Protocols: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... Scores.pdf

Comment from Bev Smith (via Twitter) on Javi's quad sal being called UR:

Watching the event live, judges gave Javi Fernandez GOE of 3.40 for his quad Salchow. His UR mark was 7.28, Full marks would have been 13.10. SP mark would have been 97.66, about what Orser expected in K/C. Now he is a quad Salchow away from first, instead of 2.84 pts.

(She was watching the live stream.)

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Pairs news (via Jackie Wong on Twitter):

Ziegler/Kiefer have been mourning the death of their coach, Jean François Ballester. That was why they were so emotional after the SP. They decided to withdraw from the FS to have more time to heal before Worlds, felt it was too soon for them to compete.

Start order for the pairs FS: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... SEG006.HTM

New world record set for FS score and total score in the pairs event.

• Gold - Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres FRA - 225.66
• Silver - Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov RUS - 218.82
• Bronze - Aleksandra Boikova/Dmitrii Kozlovskii RUS - 205.28

Morgan Cipres & Vanessa James are only the 2nd French duo to win the Figure Skating Pairs event at the European Championships, after Pierre Brunet & Andrée Joly-Brunet in 1932.

Today's events were the rhythm dance and the ladies free skate. Once again the arena was packed.

Results of the rhythm dance (the top 20 go forward to the free dance): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... T004RS.HTM
Rhythm dance protocols: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... Scores.pdf

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Ladies results (overall): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... T002RS.HTM


The free skate of the gold medalist: https://youtu.be/mc1vvOxSHH8
Free skate protocols: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... Scores.pdf

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The competition finishes tomorrow with the men's free skate and the free dance.

An exciting and historic finish to the men's FS early this morning

Now it's the final group in the free dance...