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

Official website: http://moscowec2018.ru/

Entries as announced so far:
Team Great Britain

• ICE DANCE - Penny Coomes & Nick Buckland; reserve: Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson -
• PAIRS - Chris Boyadji & Zoe Jones
• LADIES - Natasha McKay; reserve: Karly Robertson
• MEN - Phil Harris; reserve: Graham Newberry

Team Germany

• PAIRS - Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot; Annika Hocke/Ruben Blommaert
• LADIES - Nicole Schott; Lea Johanna Dastich
• MEN - Paul Fentz; Peter Liebers
• ICE DANCE - Kavita Lorenz/Joti Polizoakis

Team Norway

• LADIES - Norway Anne Line Gjersem; Sondre Oddvoll Bøe

Team Austria

• PAIRS - Miriam Ziegler/Severin Kiefer
• LADIES - Natalie Klotz

Team Denmark

• ICE DANCE - Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Nikolaj Sørensen
• LADIES - Pernille Sørensen

Team Finland

• Ice Dance - Cecilia Törn - Jussiville Partanen
• Ladies - Emmi Peltonen, Viveca Lindfors
• Men - Valtter Virtanen

Team Sweden

• Ice dance - Malin Malmberg/Thomas Nordahl
• Men - Alexander Majorov
• Ladies - Matilda Algotsson, Anita Östlund

Team France

• Men - Besseghier; Aymoz (Reserve: Ponsart)
• Ladies - Méité; Lecavelier (Reserve: Serna)
• Pairs - James/ Ciprès; Esbrat/Novoselov
• Ice dance: Papadakis/Cizeron; Lauriault/Le Gac; Abachkina/Thauron (Reserve: Alessandrini/Souquet)

Team Switzerland

• Ladies: Alexia PAGANINI
• Men: Stéphane WALKER
• Pairs: Ioulia CHTCHETININA / Mikhail AKULOV
• Ice dance: Victoria MANNI / Carlo RÖTHLISBERGER

Team Ukraine

• Ice dance: Alexandra Nazarov / Maxim Nikitin;Daria Popova / Volodymyr Byelikov (reserve Yuliya Zhata / Yan Lukovskiy)
• Ladies: Anna Khnychenkova (reserve Anastasiya Gozhva)
• Men: Yaroslav Paniot (reserve Ivan Pavlov)

Team Russia

• Ladies - Alina Zagitova, Maria Sotskova, Evgenia Medvedeva; Reserve: Stanislava Konstantinova, Polina Tsurskaya
• Men - Mikhail Kolyada, Aleksandr Samarin, Dmitri Aliev; Reserve: Sergei Voronov, Arthur Dmitriev
• Pairs - Tarasova/Morozov, Stolbova/Klimov, Zabiyako/Enbert; Reserve: Astakhova/Rogonov, Boikova/Kozlovsky
• Ice Dance - Bobrova/Soloviev, Stepanova/Bukin, Zahorski/Guerreiro; Reserve: Popova/Mozgov, Evdokimova/Bazin

The ISU now has the entry lists, by discipline, posted: https://skatingarchive.sportresult.com/ ... &task=HTML

Breaking news - it appears that we will be able to watch the European Championships via the ISU Skating Channel since there are no television rights for Canada. [NBC holds rights for the USA.]

The channel is here: https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/sin ... ice-dance/

The full schedule - Moscow time - is here: http://www.isuresults.com/schedules/ec2 ... hedule.pdf
Moscow is 8 hours ahead of Eastern Time in Canada and the USA.

The schedule/entries/results page is here: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... /index.htm


17/01/2018
11:45:00 (03:45 ET) - Men - Short Program
19:00:00 (11:00 ET) - Pairs - Short Program
18/01/2018
12:25:00 (04:25 ET) - Ladies - Short Program
19:05:00 (11:05 ET) - Pairs - Free Skating
19/01/2018
12:10:00 (04:10 ET) - Ice Dance - Short Dance
17:45:00 (09:45 ET) - Men - Free Skating
20/01/2018
13:40:00 (05:40 ET) - Ice Dance - Free Dance
18:30:00 (10:30 ET) - Ladies - Free Skating

The timing sheet for the men's short program - remember Moscow time is 8 hours ahead of ET

Here's the link to the detailed time schedule (Moscow time) for the Pairs SP: http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hedule.pdf

From the ISU website for the competition you can find the participants' biographies, music, planned program content, etc.: http://www.isu.org/events/eventdetail/1 ... mpionships

The ISU channel is providing great live stream video! In addition to the "current vs leader" technical score tracker, which is actually showing base value +GOE scores as each element is completed, they are showing the list of planned elements for the program as the skater introductions are being done!

And in the opening ceremonies we had two generations of the Plushenko family participating - Evgeni and his son.

IceNetwork is posting various stories from Europeans, for example,

• this one provides updates on Medvedeva & Hanyu (sort of): http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2018/01/17/264800560
• this one talks about the reason for the absence of Savchenko & Massot: http://www.icenetwork.com/news/2018/01/ ... -acting-up

Is anyone else watching the ISU live stream? Or the archived stream? The quality has been excellent so far!
https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/sin ... ice-dance/

Both are very interesting and informative articles. I am really curious about the whole Russian dilemma, how it will work out. In my opinion the ban has been watered down quite a bit and should some of the allowed athletes win medals - the Russian Sports Organizations will just laugh in the faces of serious, serious accusations. I for one will always wonder - were they clean or not. And I am sure Russia is not the only country trying to cheat at any spots event. Nevertheless - roll on Olympics!

I agree, Heini - interestingly, it was reported earlier this week that a large group of Russian competitors had withdrawn from an event when the drug testers arrived!

I have personally been unhappy about some of the judging at the Europeans - especially the assignment of +GOE for messy/missed elements. I believe this contributed to the final result in Pairs

The whole thing is Western propaganda. There is no cheating going on from Russia that doesn't go on from any large nation. Very likely less.