Interesting SP results. Canadian Ten beat out US Kanallakan.
I've heard some good things about Jeremy Ten, who's the '06 Canadian junior silver medalist and 17 years old -- link to his profile on the Skate Canada site:
http://www.skatecanada.ca/en/athlet...ofile.cfm?strregid=1838372&strcategory=single
Kanallakan, who turned 15 in May, has had a somewhat inconsistent summer competition season, but 2nd place (less than 3 points from Ten) is a good result for him here, especially after skating first today.
Germany's Norman Keck is in 3rd after the SP. Thanks to sandra_persch for pointing me to Keck's bio page on his home club's site:
http://www.merc-ks.de/Kunstlauf/sportler/keck.htm
Keck is 18 going on 19 -- link to a list of all the Courchevel competitors' birthdates on the official competition site:
http://www.courchevel.com/patinagejunior/accueil.php?page=patineurs&langue=en
If you recall the Courchevel predictions thread, USA's Ashley Wagner was mentioned as having a strong summer competition at Liberty. She landed 7 triples in the Liberty Jr. FS Final back in mid-July, and was probably the favorite "on paper" coming in (though we all know that ice is slippery... and juniors are especailly unpredictable!). Here's a repost of the USFS article from June 2006 about Wagner:
http://www.usfigureskating.org/Story.asp?id=34687
As was also pointed out earlier, '06 U.S. jr. champ Megan Hyatt has had a rather inconsistent summer competition season, but she reportedly skated pretty well in her Senior FS at DuPage Open earlier this month (4 triples landed?), and has a good shot at a medal here if she can skate similar FS effort after her solid SP showing today.
Looking forward to seeing what happens in the free skates tomorrow!
