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Autumn Classic and Ondrej Nepala Trophy

Yuzuru Hanyu and a bunch of Canadians bring attention to the Autumn Classic; Evgenia Medvedeva leads dominating Russian team in Slovakia. As well as the Junior Grand Prix series, this week saw the continuation of the Challenger series with another two events. One, in Canada, saw the season begin for multiple Canadian skaters who didn’t skate in the Summer Series, with plenty of program debuts-but…

Russian and Chinese Skaters Show the World Their Programs

Senior Russian test skates include open skates; China streams the first of their Olympic qualifiers. There were no major competitions this week besides the JGP Riga Cup. Instead the biggest event of the weekend was the Russian test skate, which unlike most test skates, gave fans almost more videos of new programs than they could watch. And there was an internal competition in China, one where the…

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…