2025 World Championships Practice Reports

[el henry]

I don’t know where Ilia & Jason are (not at practice-perhaps they are off making inane videos) but Andrew is here, and skating magnificently, so who cares?

PS. Tenley Albright and Susanna Rakkamo at the boards watching Andrew

I like inane videos; they speak to me

Jason has almost never ever shown up for the first practice anywhere, particularly a comp relatively close to his training center.

I don't know Ilia's routines.

 

[labgoat]

Jean-Luc Baker and Jackie Wong to commentate Pairs Practice in the Main Rink. Jean-Luc loves the nearly 360 windows to the outside in the practice rink.

 

[labgoat]

Pairs SP or FS
Group 1 15:15-15:45
Ekaterina GEYNISH /Dmitrii CHIGIREV UZB
Anastasia GOLUBEVA /Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE AUS
Oxana VOUILLAMOZ /Tom BOUVART SUI
Sofiia HOLICHENKO /Artem DARENSKYI UKR

 

[labgoat]

Second practice of the day for the pairs
Ekaterina GEYNISH /Dmitrii CHIGIREV UZB
Coached by Nina Mozer. Solid twist. lots of marking going on here.
Most pairs practices are in the main rink, this one is the only one in the practice rink.

 

[labgoat]

Anastasia GOLUBEVA /Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE AUS
Jean-Luc comments on Hector's strong presence in their pair. Very solid SBS jumps and have clarity and calmness. Their event starts tomorrow so JLB says expect more walk-throughs.

 

[auser]

HaHa...Jean-Luc saying he preferred NHL size rinks to Olympic sized rinks as they were a smaller sized team and it was less space to fill out.

 

[labgoat]

Oxana VOUILLAMOZ /Tom BOUVART SUI skate their FS
Tom has the mini man-bun and Oxana is quite short to his height. They have a massive 3sal throw and another huge 3Loop

 

[labgoat]

Sofiia HOLICHENKO /Artem DARENSKYI UKR skate their FS to the strong voice of Florence & the Machine which matches their strong skating. They are conserving energy in this run through just checking their main elements that do not look junior at all in this company.

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

I finally managed to get access to the streams! Opera's VPN feature is my new best friend

 

[labgoat]

The skaters names were listed a bit wrong on the screen- but Jean Luc was calling the correct names. I am not sure my commentary is correct - I am getting confused after hours of skating.
Sorry to anyone I got wrong.

 

[labgoat]

Jackie Wong finally arrives

 

[labgoat]

Pairs SP or FS
Group 2 15:45-16:15
Sara CONTI /Niccolo MACII ITA
Milania VAANANEN /Filippo CLERICI FIN
Anastasia VAIPAN-LAW /Luke DIGBY GBR
Rebecca GHILARDI /Filippo AMBROSINI ITA

 

[Karoltyna]

I finally managed to get access to the streams! Opera's VPN feature is my new best friend

wait for me, I'm downloading...

 

[labgoat]

Sara CONTI /Niccolo MACII ITA do FS skip the twist and attempt the 3S- she touches down

 

[labgoat]

Milania VAANANEN /Filippo CLERICI FIN are the only other pair team for this practice. They show off the FO death spiral. They struggle a bit on throws.

 

[labgoat]

Anastasia VAIPAN-LAW /Luke DIGBY GBR are not here
Rebecca GHILARDI /Filippo AMBROSINI ITA are not here

 

[Karoltyna]

wait for me, I'm downloading...

it worked, I'm feeling so 2010 and

 

[labgoat]

I am watching the Italians watch their throws as recorded by their coach and see if what they thought looked like what it was.

 

[labgoat]

A bigger pattern was the key says Jackie and JLB says it is the clarity and energy leading into it.

 

[labgoat]

Sorry folks I am getting tired and running out of words...