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Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder won a surprise (yet deserved) gold medal in ice dance last March. Now, they are preparing for their first international competition of the season -- Skate America.
When you're a 16-year-old world junior champion, balancing elite figure skating with advanced placement classes, no time goes to waste.
For Rachael Flatt, a 10-minute drive turns into a chance to tackle a trigonometry exercise; a five-minute trip is spent in the back seat doing some extra stretches.
Training at incredible ICE, the home of the NHL's Florida Panthers, agrees with Kimmie Meissner.
Living alone for the first time, she's making new friends and sampling Coral Gables' beaches nearly every weekend. Under coach Richard Callaghan's guidance, she's starting to regain the confidence shattered by a seventh-place finish at the 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Mirai Nagasu is good at surprises. She won the U.S. junior ladies title in 2007 by upsetting heavy favorite Caroline Zhang and then pulled off an even bigger upset by winning the U.S. senior title in 2008. This week, Mirai, 15, makes her senior international debut at Skate America in Everett, Wash.
The icenetwork.com Season Pass is back and better than ever -- with more than 300 hours of live and on-demand figure skating video from around the globe. The action gets started with the first stop on the ISU Grand Prix Series -- Skate America.