- Joined
- Nov 20, 2011
here are the entry lists for boys, girls, pairs and ice dance teams
http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent00011323.htm
http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent00011323.htm
No prediction, but best of luck to Orford/Williams , Aldridge /Eaton , Papadakis/Cizeron..my official ice dance adoptees this year.
No predictions, just thoughts
Junior Men
This definitely feels like a four-into-three type situation with Tanaka (silver medalist last year), Yan, Farris and Brown duking it out for three spots. Of the four, Yan is my favourite, but I really want Farris to have a strong championship after missing out last season due to the unfortunate Nationals skate. I'm curious about Dolensky and Firius. The latter ages out this year, so I hope for a solid top-ten placement. Nguyen's here for the experience (as are most, admittedly) but it'll be interesting to see where he ranks as well.
Junior Ladies
Another four-into-three, with Julia, Adelina, Polina and Gracie going for it. If you asked me to guess, I'd go Julia-Gracie-Adelina, but I wouldn't be surprised if Adelina regrouped and won gold again. Shoji, Lam, Li, and Gao are all spot stealers and could get a medal with sterling skates and some misfortune to others. For Osmond, placing in the 4-6 member nations is an achievement as it allows Canada to send a junior skater to every JGP event - but even with the relative dominance of a few nations, we could see spoilers in Joshi Helgesson and Juulia Turkkila. Should all the mentioned skaters place above her, Canada loses out.
Junior Pairs
Another corronation for Sui/Han, and yes, it's ridiculous. After that, it's a gong show. Danankova/Deputat had a sterling Nationals, Yu/Jin have some high base value elements, Simpson/Blackmer have the JGP bronze (and two surprisingly good programs) and Bobak/Beharry have the silver (ditto).
Junior Dance
Another corronation, this time for Sinitsina/Zhinganshin (after which, lets hope they follow their new-to-senior training mates and ditch Kustarova). A Russian sweep is probable, but lets hope that Stepanova/Bukin make it interesting and come close to gold, because I like them more. Ditto colleen's wish
Monko/Khaliavin finally got smart and left Kustarova for Zhulin. S/Z should do the same if they want to succeed. I cannot stand her. Why does she have so many pairs? There are other coaches in Russia.
It's because Bobrova and Soloviev are the Russian #1's, so more teams want to go to her.^
don't forget Yanovskaia and Mozgov :sheesh:
Yanovskaia looks like a Bobrova clone with her ugly postures,
I dont get how Kustarova gets so many new ice dance teams