Challenger Series #1 - 2022 US Int'l Figure Skating Classic - Lake Placid, USA - 12-16 Sept.

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The entries & alternates, by discipline, for this Challenger Series event have now been posted here: https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00113502.htm

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The local event page (for tickets, etc.): https://lakeplacidlegacysites.com/event ... ic-sep-12/

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Skate Canada press release on the CDN team going to Lake Placid: https://skatecanada.ca/2022/09/10-canad ... g-classic/

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This event will only have a live stream for those in the USA who have access to Peacock. There is no ISU stream, unfortunately.

There are Novice and Junior events taking place alongside the Senior events - the full schedule is here: https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/d ... kate_0.pdf

The schedule for the Challenger Series (Senior) events (in EDT):
September 13:

• Pairs SP - 6:30-7:38 p.m.
• Men SP - 8:00-9:27 p.m.

September 14:

• Rhythm Dance - 1:30-3:28 p.m.
• Women SP - 3:50-6:18
• Pairs FS - 6:45-8:07 p.m.
• Men FS - 8:25-10:31 p.m.

September 15:

• Free Dance - 4:30-6:39 p.m.
• Women FS - 7:00-9:57 p.m.

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The description/background on the Challenger Series (CS) along with a list of this season's events can be found here: https://isu.org/figure-skating/events/challenger-series

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Here is a link to the Entries/Start Orders/Results: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... /index.htm

First up the Pairs SP


Then the Men SP

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When the Ice Dance begins, there will be 7 couples who train at I.AM (Ice Academy of Montreal) participating and representing 6 different countries:

• Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson
  Marie-Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac
  Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto
  Charlotte Lafond-Fournier & Ricky Kam
  Leia Dozzi & Pietro Papetti
  Haley Sales & Nikolas Wamsteeker
  Samantha Ritter & Daniel Brykalov

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The start order for the Rhythm Dance on Wednesday afternoon:



And the start order for the Women SP on later on Wednesday afternoon:

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The results from last evening are below - the protocols can be found on the results page: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... /index.htm





There has apparently been a Russian "capture" of the US live stream - someone has posted a video of Stephen Gogolev's SP on YouTube but it may not be left up long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqNBJHHZy88

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The Rhythm Dance has been completed


The protocols link: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... Skater.pdf

Up next is the Women SP followed by the Pairs FS and the Men FS. A busy day in Lake Placid.

The Women SP results:



Breaking news for those watching on Peacock in the USA - it has now been stated that they will only be able to watch and figure skating streaming on Peacock LIVE. There will be no archived stream available to watch later

[Elizabeth]

This evening started with the Pairs FS - the results


The overall results:

The protocols: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... Skater.pdf

Going on at the moment the Men FS.

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History appears to have been made in the Men FS with the successful landing of a quad axle by Ilia Malinin: https://twitter.com/SeanRabbitt/status/ ... 7978190849

The FS results:

Daniel Grassl had a bad fall, hitting his knee against the boards, as I understand it, and had to withdraw

The overall results:


The protocols link: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... Skater.pdf
The details of Ilia's FS protcol:

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This is Ilia last evening after his history-making skate as photographed & quoted by Claire Cloutier on Twitter.

"It was probably a year ago that I started to understand I was capable of doing it (4A)." He only started practicing it actively/regularly after Worlds. On being part of skating history: "It feels great. I like it a lot."

Some may remember his parents who both competed, sometimes coaching each other, and who are now his coaches, along with Rafael Aratyunyan. His ISU biography shows that Shae Lynn Bourne is one of his choreographers (probably of his free skate): http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00108049.htm

Some "historical" pictures

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The full video of Ilia's FS is up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI0J-a9fPTw

The Quad Axel is the first jump but the last jump is also significant and actually earned higher points! [See the protocol as posted last night above]

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The warm-up is underway for the Free Dance



Old on-ice rivals are now coaching rivals - Scott Moir & Charlie White

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The free dance is complete. All that's left is the Women FS.



Protocols link: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... Skater.pdf

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The event finished with the Women's FS - the results:



The overall results:



The protocols link: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderb ... Skater.pdf