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

This event, a replacement for the Cup of China is this week's GP event. The entries, by discipline, can be found here: http://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00110990.htm You will see that for some competitors it will be a direct follow-up to their performances at Skate Canada International. For example, Sui & Han of China. They said in interviews in Vancouver that the rest of the Chinese team was already in Italy where they would be joining them for this weekend's competition, and then they would return to China.

On that page, there is also a link to the full time and practice schedule.

Skate Canada has posted a press release about Canadian participation which includes only 2 skaters, ice dancers Soucisse & Firus, plus some other team members: https://skatecanada.ca/2021/11/one-cana ... o-ditalia/

PJ Kwong has posted her podium picks for this third GP event: https://pjkwong.com/uncategorized/benve ... -gp-italy/

She was in China as an announcer at the Asian Open, the Olympics "test event", so she has a little personal knowledge of some of those who competed there.

Just before Skate Canada PJ & two friends (Charlene & Mazin), calling themselves "3Turn3" got together for a video chat for the first time in quite a while. They talked to a guest about the "bubble" impacts on the media in Vancouver. It's on her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI287inaXOg


They are planning to get together again on Friday (Nov. 5th) @ 10 am. EDT on PJ's Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube channel.

CBC Sports live stream coverage of GP#3:
Friday, November 5

• 10:00 AM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Women's Short Program
• 12:00 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Ice Dance Rhythm Dance
• 1:45 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Pairs Short Program
• 3:20 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Men's Short Program

Saturday, November 6

• 10:00 AM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Women's Free Program
• 12:10 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Ice Dance Free Dance
• 2:05 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Pairs Free Program
• 3:20 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Men's Free Program

Sunday, November 7

• 9:00 AM - Championship Figure Skating: Italian Grand Prix - Gala

Asher & Dylan's "That Figure Skating Show" preview of event #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuSzHQ1pO3w

The ISU entries by discipline:

Ice Academy of Montreal (I.AM) has 4 teams competing in Torino:

* Papadakis/Cizeron FRA
* Hubbell/Donohue USA
* Wang/Liu CHN
* Chen/Sun CHN

On Friday and Saturday Torino will be 5 hours ahead of EDT as Europe "fell back" to Standard time already. Since our clocks changes at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, the time difference will return to the "usual" 6 hours ahead of Eastern Time

The Entries/Schedule/Start Orders/Results page is now available: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season2122/gpita2021/

The venue, which may be familiar to some as it hosted the Olympic figure skating events:

Start orders for Friday

Now that the event is over, here's the program for the Gala which took place this morning (our time), preceded by the medal ceremonies in all four disciplines.

Europe on Ice has picked out five special moments - these include spoilers so don't go and look if you don't want to know...
https://europeonice.com/2021/11/07/five ... o-ditalia/

There are, of course, spoilers if you don't yet know the results....

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