Youth Olympics - ladies event

[loren]

Who will likely be on the podium? (though gold and silver will likely goes to Russian girls..)

[let`s talk]

Team Russia:

Men:
F.Efremenkov

Ladies:
A.Sotnikova
E.Tuktamysheva

Pairs:
Dolidze/Ivanov
Fyodorova/Miroshkin

Ice Dance:
Simonova/Dragun
Yanovskaya/Mozgov

[cooper]

i hope yuna enjoys watching figure skating in the audience..

good luck to all competitors!

[Macassar88]

Isn't her 3lz-3Lo her money combo ? and this racks more points , I forgot where but i think there was she mentioned she needs to have this in the opening combo as this will tire her out but Adelina's problem is that its flawed from the start since most of the time Adelina flutzes

I also think Elizaveta needs to step it up, how about adding her 3A at Youth Olympics ?
I don't think there is that much pressure here and it will be just like Junior Grand Prix/Worlds were
they have to contend with Adelina and Elizaveta battling each other .

Yes please! I think that she should start doing it just so she can get practice because, honestly, the worst thing that will happen is that she falls on her *** for a while and loses a bunch of junior competitions that no one really cares about which will lower pressure on her over the long run. But the triple axel will need time before she can get it consistent in competition.

[sky_fly20]

well, like I said I don't think there isn't that much pressure here
so its good for Liza to try new things although yes, there is a high chance Liza will fall on her 3A as it needs more consistency and practice
but I still think she should give it a shot, Adelina has been rebounding from her GP events

Opening of YOG is January 13
some articles about YOG 2O12

about Ladies Figure Skating
http://www.innsbruck2012.com/en/news...ng_competition

Kim Yuna
http://www.olympic.org/content/YOG_/...Olympic-Games/

Facebook Page with photos:

http://de-de.facebook.com/Innsbruck2012

[chuckm]

Here are all the competitors.

MEN
Manuel DRECHSLER AUT
Timothee MANAND BEL
Tino OLENIUS FIN
Timofei NOVAIKIN FRA
Niko ULANOVSKY GER
Carlo Vittorio PALERMO ITA
Shu NAKAMURA JPN
Shoma UNO JPN
Alexander LYAN KAZ
Han YAN CHN
Michael Christian MARTINEZ PHI
June Hyoung LEE KOR
Feodosiy EFREMENKOV RUS
Nicola TODESCHINI SUI
John HALLMAN SWE
Yaroslav PANYUT UKR

Looks as if Han YAN is the heavy favorite.


LADIES
Chantelle KERRY AUS
Nina Larissa WOLFLAST AUT
Liselotte SWERTS BEL
Zijun LI CHN
Sindra KRIISA EST
Evelina VILJANEN FIN
Anais VENTARD FRA
Micol CRISTINI ITA
Risa SHOJI JPN
So Youn PARK KOR
Elizaveta TUKTAMISHEVA RUS
Adelina SOTNIKOVA RUS
Myrtel SALDEEN OLOFSSON SWE
Darin HUSSEIN UKR
Jordan BAUTH USA
Tina STUERZINGER SUI

Looks like it's the Russian ladies vs. Shoji and Li for the medals.

PAIRS
Caitlin BELT / Michael JOHNSON USA
Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN CHN
Lina FEDOROVA / Maxim MIROSHKIN RUS
Anastasia DOLIDZE / Vadim IVANOV RUS
Elizaveta USMANTSEVA / Vladyslav LYSOY UKR

I'd say the Chinese have the edge here.

DANCE
Christine SMITH / Simon EISENBAUER AUT
Evgenia TKACHENKA / Yuri GULITSKI BLR
Jana CEJKOVA / Alexander SINICYN CZE
Victoria-Laura LOHMUS / Andrei DAVODOV EST
Estelle ELIZABETH / Romain LEGAC FRA
Millie PATERSON / Edward CARSTAIRS GBR
Stefano COLAFATO / Jasmine TESSARI ITA
Karina UZUROVA / Ilias ALI KAZ
Anna YANOVSKAIA / Sergei MOZGOV RUS
Mariya SIMONOVA / Dmitry DRAGUN RUS
Alexandra NAZAROVA / Maxim NIKITIN UKR
Rachel PARSONS / Michael PARSONS USA

YANOVSKAIA / MOZGOV (2nd at JGPF) should have no problem grabbing gold. The French, American and second Russian teams will vie for the other medals.

[sky_fly20]

Innsbruck 2012
1st Winter Youth Olympic Games 13-22 January 2012

SCHEDULE
http://www.innsbruck2012.com/en/spor...s/eiskunstlauf

Men
Date Start Time Event
14.01. 16:20 Men's Short Program
16.01. 15:30 Men's Free Skating

Ladies
Date Start Time Event
15.01. 17:20 Women's Short Program
17.01. 20:30 Women's Free Skating

Pairs
Date Start Time Event
14.01. 15:00 Pairs Short Program
16.01. 14:00 Pairs Free Skating

Ice Dance
Date Start Time Event
15.01. 15:00 Ice Dance Short Dance
17.01. 17:30 Ice Dance Free Dance

Mixed NOC Team
Date Start Time Event
21.02. 14:00 Mixed NOC Team Men
21.02. 16:10 Mixed NOC Team Women's
21.02. 18:15 Mixed NOC Team Ice Dance

[bigsisjiejie]

The women's (girls) free skating competition is scheduled to start at 23:30? Seriously? These kids should all be in bed by that time.

[sky_fly20]

^

sorry about that earlier that was wrong schedule post
but I corrected it, Its UPDATED now.

[jatale]

Can someone explain what the "Mixed NOC Teams" competitions are all about or post a pointer to where it is explained? Thanks.

[Chemistry66]

Can someone explain what the "Mixed NOC Teams" competitions are all about or post a pointer to where it is explained? Thanks.

NOC is National Olympic Committee (essentially a country participating in the event). A Mixed NOC team is a team comprised of athletes from multiple countries. Here's the page from the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics on the subject, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-N...Youth_Olympics

[jiggs]

Just got back from the Opening Ceremonies. It was pretty packed and sold out! Ceremonies were nice, nothing special but appropriate for the occasion.

It was a very special moment for the city of Innsbruck though: After 1964 and 1976, Innsbruck is the first city in history to host the Olympic family for a third time. The 1964 and 1976 cauldrons were lit by the Olympic downhill champions Egon Zimmermann and Franz Klammer. The Olympic flag was carried into the stadium by a several former Olympic champions from Austria, including ski jumpers Toni Innauer and Karl Schnabl. Can't remember who lit the third couldron.

Yuna was one of the athletes carrying the Olympic torch. They were climbing up the stairs towards us when she stopped 10m away from me to hand the torch over to someone else. She then stood there without anyone taking notice of her (hey, Austria is a skiing country, no one knows anything about figure skating here ) Everyone was so focused on the torch and the 3rd cauldron to be lit and I thought, well, this is my chance to just walk up to her and say hi! So I did! And I took a photo with her and thanked her in Korean

Here are photos from the opening: http://news.daylife.com/search/photo...fe&q=innsbruck

[seniorita]

Thank you!!!! And you were lucky to find Yuna without 1000 fans around her! :D

[Nadine]

Some more news concerning YOG:

Ice skating Princess Alexandra of Hanover's maternal uncle, Prince Albert of Monaco, is attending the event as well (his grandfather Jack Kelly was a 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist in Rowing back at the turn of the last century):

http://royalcorrespondent.com/2012/0...c-games-video/

https://www.facebook.com/video/video...=3065067545404


Also, it was announced yesterday that Prince Albert is the new Patron of the World Olympians Association:
http://www.sportspromedia.com/movers...utm_medium=rss

This is all good for figure skating because his 12 yr. old niece, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, has been competing for the last 2 yrs. in Europe.

[chuckm]

The RESULTS page is now up on the ISU site:

http://www.isuresults.com/results/yog2012/