missed 20 mins inc aAkiko arg!

Sunday the Exhibition Gala will take place at the WFCU Centre. The show begins at 1:00 p.m. and will feature all of the medalists as well as Florent Amodio, Elladj Baldé, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Elene Gedevanishvilli, Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier, Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue and Paige Lawrence & Rudi Swiegers.
http://skatecanada.ca/AboutUs/NewsDe...S/Default.aspx

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Liam FIRUS CAN 60.50
2 Takahito MURA JPN 62.10
3 Ross MINER USA 69.41
4 Artur GACHINSKI RUS 69.74
5 Elladj BALDE CAN 72.46

Warm-Up Group 2
6 Florent AMODIO FRA 74.61
7 Denis TEN KAZ 75.26
8 Nobunari ODA JPN 82.14
9 Patrick CHAN CAN 82.52
10 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 85.87

Results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpcan2012/SEG002.HTM

Streams: NONE! Not sure why... I guess I'm officially jealous of people who have cable, and have a cable provider that has Universal Sports, and pays for a packaged deal to include it, and goes on Universal Sports online to watch it live. (Okay, I'm not jealous anymore.)

Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/AOLManager/videos?view=0

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL CAN 50.00
2 Julia ZLOBINA / Alexei SITNIKOV AZE 50.92
3 Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES FRA 51.67
4 Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER CAN 53.71

Warm-Up Group 2
5 Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE USA 54.84
6 Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO RUS 55.80
7 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 65.08
8 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 65.09

Results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpcan2012/SEG008.HTM

Streams:
1. http://www.yycast.com/euro11111sa
- A little choppy but working at least.

2. http://www.hahasport.com/v-2/18/176/v-397656.html
- Froze during the previous segments, but working superbly at the time of this post. (Edit: Ahk, it froze again. Okay, use this stream at your own peril.)

(Credit: IceMusings!)
3. http://www.time4tv.com/2011/09/british-eurosport.html
- Just about as good as hahasport. Freezes at times as well.

In my view, Akiko was the clear winner and Osmond's score in the FS was way too high. In fact, I would have placed her 4th in the FS and just edging out Liza for the Bronze (Akiko, Kanako, and Liza were all undermarked). The Judging was a disgrace and I think the ISU should carry out an inquiry. Results like this jeopardise the credibility of the sport, and lessons need to be learned to prevent a repetition.

Your thoughts. It disgusts me that undeserving skaters get such a huge bonus from their federation((

Warm-Up Group 1

1 Tiffany VISE / Don BALDWIN USA 7 46.47
2 Lindsay DAVIS / Mark LADWIG USA 6 47.05
3 Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT FRA 5 48.43


Warm-Up Group 2

4 Paige LAWRENCE / Rudi SWIEGERS CAN 4 52.88
5 Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK ITA 3 59.79
6 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD CAN 2 64.49
7 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 1 72.26

(Hmm... not sure how to change the time mistake in the title...)

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Polina SHELEPEN
2 Gracie GOLD
3 Caroline ZHANG
4 Amelie LACOSTE
5 Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA

Warm-Up Group 2
6 Akiko SUZUKI
7 Kanako MURAKAMI
8 Ksenia MAKAROVA
9 Kaetlyn OSMOND
10 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI

Results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpcan2012/SEG004.HTM

(Credit: Mao88)
Videos:

1. Kaetlyn OSMOND (CAN) - 176.45 Free Skate
2. Akiko SUZUKI (JPN) - 175.16 Free Skate
3. Kanako MURAKAMI (JPN) - 168.04 Free Skate
4. Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (RUS) - 168.00 Free Skate
5. Elene GEDEVANISHVILI (GEO) - 160.52 Free Skate
6. Ksenia MAKAROVA (RUS) - 154.11
7. Gracie GOLD (USA) - 151.57 Free Skate
8. Amelie LACOSTE (CAN) - 151.44
9. Caroline ZHANG (USA) - 149.87
10. Polina SHELEPEN (RUS) - 124.29

Tanja Flade is covering Skate Canada for Golden Skate and links to articles can be found here. Enjoy!

Didn't see a thread, so thought I would start one.

I don't have a line stream, but thought I would start a thread, here's hoping someone can watch this and give us updates!

YouTube user AOLManager has already uploaded most of the Ladies SP. Wow, that was fast!

http://www.youtube.com/user/AOLManager

Who else is excited??

Starting Order

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Kaetlyn OSMOND (CAN)
2 Gracie GOLD (USA)
3 Caroline ZHANG (USA)
4 Polina SHELEPEN (RUS)
5 Elizaveta TUKTAMISHEVA (RUS)

Warm-Up Group 2
6 Amelie LACOSTE (CAN)
7 Ksenia MAKAROVA (RUS)
8 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI (GEO)
9 Kanako MURAKAMI (JPN)
10 Akiko SUZUKI (JPN)

http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpcan2012/SEG003.HTM

So I believe that icenetwork is airing the rest of the Grand Prix series one week after they've finished. So what are the most viable options to watch Skate Canada live? A Universal Sports subscription?

starting orders are up


http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpcan2012/

My thoughts after watching the Ladies practice:
Gold looked really solid and focused: she landed both 3F+3T and 3Lz+3T, but she fell in the Tano lutz in her SP run-through
Zhang looked weak: she practiced a lot her spins and fell many times in her 3Lo, but landed a good 3F+2T in her run-through
Shelepen didn't do a lot of jumps, I just saw a 3Ffall and a good 3F+2T+2Lo
Murakami landed good 3Lz and 3F but popped loop and axel, and Salchow/toeloop looked UR
I just saw osmond landing a good 3T+3T! She landed an ok 3F+2T in her run-through but fell in her second 3F attempt
Also Gedevanishvili looked good: she did 3Lz+3T (but it looked UR) in her run-through!
Suzuki's run-through: 3Lz+2T+2Lo, 1A+3T, 3F, 3Lz fall, 3Lo+2T, 3S, 2Lo, quite good
Tuktamusheva and Makarova didn't attend the practice...

Skatebuzz will be streaming Thursday's practices . These have not been geoblocked in the past.


http://www.skatebuzz.com/

Practice times :

http://www.skatecanada.ca/Portals/2/...chedule-en.pdf

Skate Canada has tweeted a link for ticket discounts of up to 63% off
https://twitter.com/SkateCanada/stat...89086189076480

The deal expires tonight (Wednesday) at midnight ET.

http://www.skatecanada.ca/tabid/1813...S/Default.aspx

There are four interviews in the Up Close block in the upper right hand corner of the page. They run one after the other in the same block. You can skip to the next one using the second arrow key under the video. These are the 4 that are up so far.

Elladj Balde
Liam Firus
Gilles & Poirier
Lawrence & Sweigers

If you could ask any competitor at Skate Canada any question, what would it be?

There are press conferences after every event. Sometimes you can find them on IN after the event.

Reporters are always trying to think up good questions, but fans have questions too!

If you could ask any competitor any question, who would the competitor be, what would the question be?

I'd like to ask Piper Gilles about how her Canadian citizenship application is coming>

I'd like to know from both V&M and C&L does anything change for you when you are in a competition and your competitors are skating to the same music as you are (both doing Carmen). How do you find something new in such a frequently used piece of music , to keep your programs distinct from other programs people have done in the past?

Seems that additions (as of Sep 5) are:

Revisions to Pairs:

No changes to Ice Dance entries.

(For reference, the original SCI entry lists can be seen here: http://skatebuzz.com/ViewNewsArticle...4-f65282f8768e)

Am I the only one who's extremely excited to see these two in competition? They're bringing some of the best of their countries along, and it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.

What do you guys think? Predictions on who'll make the podium?