2022-23 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships

[moonvine]

Whee! I love how much Valtter Virtanen, who is a physician, is also totally into figure skating! He clearly loves, loves to skate. Much good luck to Valtter and his new partner, Tilda Alteryd. It's a good thing to see singles skaters becoming ice dancers, or pairs skaters, and to see young ice dancers deciding to switch to pairs. There are so many new partnerships as the second season of the new quad heats up with unexpected explorations and experimentation.

And I love him to skate!

 

[Jumping_Bean]

New pairs team: Alisa Efimova/Misha Mitrofanov (USA)
https://matchtv.ru/figure-skating/m...uristka_Alisa_Jefimova_budet_vystupat_za_SShA

Alisa has received her release but will have to sit out from international competitions for a season.

 

[Seven Sisters]

New pairs team: Alisa Efimova/Misha Mitrofanov (USA)
https://matchtv.ru/figure-skating/m...uristka_Alisa_Jefimova_budet_vystupat_za_SShA

Alisa has received her release but will have to sit out from international competitions for a season.

I’m delighted! Alisa is so lovely and elegant, and Misha has been away from the skating scene for far too long. Both great competitors, too, Expecting great things from this pairing!

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

^^ This new partnership is mentioned in country change thread too. I posted there how interesting this partnership will be to watch. Misha and Efimova have elegance and excellent skills. Since the partnership has been announced, and Misha's other tryouts never came to fruition, it feels as if this was the one to wait for. Obviously, they both have more equivalent skills and experience than was possible for Misha with singles skaters who were new to pairs.

One thing to watch will be Efimova's inconsistency on jumps and sometimes throws, altho' she can land gorgeous throws. Maybe Misha's coaches at the Boston rink (Alexei Letov & his wife, Olga Ganicheva, who choreographs) can help Efimova with her tech issues, or comp nerves, whatever the inconsistencies stem from. Everything else should be smooth and lovely, once they adjust to each other.

Misha was very good with Audrey Lu. I also notice in Misha's Wiki bio that he used to skate with Emily Chan, which I did not know. They must have been quite young at the time.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

As per Anything GOE, Sofya Tyutyunina/Andrei Bagin (Russian ice dancers) have split

 

[elektra blue]

russia dance keeps crumbling

 

[4everchan]

As seen on CQÉ's entry list

It appears that Jacob Richmond would have paired back with Jessica Li. I liked their team (Ice Dance Canada). But I wonder where Emmy Bronsard is now...

Also... just 9 weeks ago on instagram, Jacob and Emmy were seen dancing. So yeah.. i am confused.

 

[4everchan]

Let's celebrate Quebec's national day with these news

Everest is back !!!!

3​	Fournier	Jamie	Junior Danse
Everest	Zhu

 

[el henry]

Let's celebrate Quebec's national day with these news

Everest is back !!!!

3​	Fournier	Jamie	Junior Danse
Everest	Zhu

Bonne fête de la St-Jean-Baptiste!

(And I didn't know there was a flag in the database. Cool

 

[4everchan]

Bonne fête de la St-Jean-Baptiste!

(And I didn't know there was a flag in the database. Cool

there is no flag look carefully at my flag

 

[el henry]

there is no flag look carefully at my flag

Thanks That will show me that I need to take my glasses off and look before assuming.

 

[Diana Delafield]

Bonne fête de la St-Jean-Baptiste!

(And I didn't know there was a flag in the database. Cool

One of the perks of working on Parliament Hill as I did for the two long-ago years we lived in Ottawa, was that we got holidays a month apart for both Victoria Day and St-Jean-Baptiste. Never encountered that anywhere else even though I almost always worked for one or other federal government department.

OT again. Otto Jelinek signed my paycheques while he was Minister of Supply and Services, does that make my work history skating-related?

 

[Weathergal]

As per Anything GOE, Sofya Tyutyunina/Andrei Bagin (Russian ice dancers) have split

I really liked her with Shustitskiy. Not sure if they broke up so she could go with Bagin or if it was because he wanted to pair with Kravchenko or some other reason. Was not a fan of the Bagin partnership; always thought he was mismatched with Morozov as well. Oh well hoping Tyutyunina will find a good partner.

 

[4everchan]

As seen on CQÉ's entry list

It appears that Jacob Richmond would have paired back with Jessica Li. I liked their team (Ice Dance Canada). But I wonder where Emmy Bronsard is now...

Also... just 9 weeks ago on instagram, Jacob and Emmy were seen dancing. So yeah.. i am confused.

This appears to have been a mistake Emmy and Jacob are now listed together for CQE in the latest update

https://patinage.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Liste-participants-CQE2023-27062023.pdf

i am not sure we can trust these lists anymore because
1) Everest is no longer listed with Jamie Fournier....
2) Kieran Trasher would no longer be skating with Chloe Penetta (which actually wouldn't surprise me...)

In any case, to the OP, I guess there is a lot of movement in pairs and dance right now with the summer competitions just getting announced in Canada... but it's difficult to know if they keep editing lists back and forth... so I will keep reporting what I see, but things may change.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

i am not sure we can trust these lists anymore because
1) Everest is no longer listed with Jamie Fournier....
2) Kieran Trasher would no longer be skating with Chloe Penetta (which actually wouldn't surprise me...)

I wouldn't be surprised if Panetta/Thrasher split, she's aging out of juniors, but he has two more seasons of eligibility left.

With the competition in seniors, they'd struggle to make it out of the country, while there's a relative vacuum in juniors, with lots of splits and skaters aging out.

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

Chelsea Liu & Balasz Nagy are added to U.S. figure skating ISP list, so Nagy has decided to come back to rep the U.S., as he did in juniors with Kate Finster. I wonder where they will be training? Possibly Irvine or Colorado Springs?

I look forward to hearing more about the Gabbie Izzo/ Thierry Ferland partnership. They were announced as a new partnership at WASA pairs in Colorado Springs. The announcement was later removed. I never saw any formal announcement from the skaters or Skate Canada that Thierry split with Lori-Ann Matte (who has been dealing with an injury). Which country Gabbie/ Thierry rep will be interesting. I had automatically assumed the U.S., due to their training location.

 

[4everchan]

I wouldn't be surprised if Panetta/Thrasher split, she's aging out of juniors, but he has two more seasons of eligibility left.

With the competition in seniors, they'd struggle to make it out of the country, while there's a relative vacuum in juniors, with lots of splits and skaters aging out.

Yup... on top of that, she is not the most consistent though she did look much better with Trasher than in her previous partnerships.

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

Panetta/Thrasher made a nice pair, but they struggled technically last season. I think Kieran had showed a lot of improvement as a former hockey player new to pairs skating. But Chloe was not consistent in making steady progress. Despite her strong foundational abilities, her confidence seemed to waver in competitive situations. The aging out of juniors factor for Chloe appears to be the main issue for them, if indeed they have split.

ETA:
Oh, I see on the CQE updated list that Kieran Thrasher is apparently now paired with Jazmine Desrochers. If Chloe wants to continue, I hope she can find a partner.

I wasn't familiar with Jazmine Desrochers. I looked at a daily motion video of Jazmine with her former partner, Aidan Wright. They had very basic skills, so they placed last in SC juniors at Nationals. Jazmine has lovely movement qualities and she's also very pretty, with long dark hair. She did not appear to be a very good jumper. But I think Kieran is much taller and stronger than Aidan. So, Jazmine may be able to improve on her jumping and other pairs elements with Kieran.

 

[4everchan]

Matte-Ferland... still.. we don't know. Just a month ago, they received a scholarship. That doesn't mean they cannot split but it certainly was not revealed if there were talks of Lori-Anne retiring due to injury or the team splitting. Of course, these articles are not meant to go into depths... just sharing for fun

Deux étudiants-athlètes de Lévis boursiers

Les patineurs artistiques lévisiens, Lori-Ann Matte et Thierry Ferland, se sont vu remettre, le 11 mai, des bourses de 4 000 $ chacun. Ce sont 82 000 $ en bourses qui ont été remis à 23 étudiants-athlètes du Québec dans le cadre du Programme de bourses Beneva de la Fondation Aléo et Beneva.

www.journaldelevis.com

 

[Jumping_Bean]

I don't think it was ever fully written out here in full certainty, but Chelsea Liu/Balazs Nagy will be representing the USA. They've been added to the international selection pool:

https://www.usfigureskating.org/skate/qualify-for-team-usa