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Skating Off-Season News Roundup: Quebec Summer Championships and Profile Program Updates

Quebec Summer Championships biggest event of the week; news comes out of the Russian test skates. We are now two weeks out from the opening of the Junior Grand Prix. Another week meant another JGP roster, now for the third event in Latvia. Although they become less reliable now, since the bigger countries will often make changes to their entries at later events. Russia’s started changing entries…

Skating Off-Season News Roundup: Korean Qualifiers and North American Competitions

Korean Nebelhorn/Olympic qualifier features a shock result in the men; Glacier Falls, Lake Placid, and Minto hold their annual events. It is now a month before the season more or less begins with the first Junior Grand Prix event in Brisbane. The entries are even up for this opening three-discipline JGP event. The fields here are all slightly smaller than usual; not all European federations are…

Everything Else That Happened in Skating in the Last Two Weeks

Grand Prix assignments were accompanied by some other ISU announcements, and a lot of music announcements. It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the International Skating Union. The biggest news of the skating world was the Grand Prix assignments yesterday. But they’d already released the full schedule of international events for the season, from the international ice dance competition that takes…

Japan Wins Second Title at the World Team Trophy

Japan edges Russia out to claim the title; United States wins bronze. The World Team Trophy, started in 2009, when the International Skating Union was first trying to establish team events as enough of a thing to get one into the Olympics, has mostly happened every other year in Tokyo, though the 2011 edition got delayed to 2012 thanks to the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan that…