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2026 JGP Xi'an: General Info and Pregame Chat

For skate picks, is anyone else missing the Chinese women entries to pick or is it just me
Only one is listed instead of three and she is not on the competitors list (Chen Xi Jin- unless she replaced Shiqi GAO)
 
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I wonder if they only have one entry and decided to replace Shiqi GAO with Chen Xi JIN. I can't figure out anything on the ISU website. We need to complain loudly about that site during JGP where Ted & Mark will see it.
I just checked and I still see 3 chinese entries on the isu website: Chen Xi JIN, Shuxian JIN and Yuxuan LIU
 
It's reassuring to know there's an ice dance team who are chums both on and off the ice, lol. 🙂
in Québec, mon chum means "my boyfriend". which is clearly not the case here as they are most likely siblings.
Also, CHUM is Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.... when I had a broken limb, I did my physio there... and I was visiting my CHUM 2-3 times a week. :)
 
Favorite name of the entries -
Chanelle CHUM / Osckar CHUM AUS

I can't wait to post I am rooting hard for the Chums

It's reassuring to know there's an ice dance team who are chums both on and off the ice, lol. 🙂

in Québec, mon chum means "my boyfriend". which is clearly not the case here as they are most likely siblings.
Also, CHUM is Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.... when I had a broken limb, I did my physio there... and I was visiting my CHUM 2-3 times a week. :)

Whenever I hear the word "chum", I always think of a spoof of "Friends" that was shown as part of ITV's Saturday morning children's block, "SM:TV Live". It starred presenters Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly, Cat Deeley, and whoever that week's celebrity guest's on the block were.

Here is the very first episode, from 1999, where the guests were S Club 7:

"Chums" - Episode 1

And here is the penultimate episode of the original run, from Ant & Dec's final edition of "SM:TV Live" in 2001, where Mariah Carey was amongst the guest stars:

"Chums" - "The One With The Wedding"

It ended a few weeks later when it was realised that the segment didn't work any more without Ant & Dec.

However, it was revived in 2003 for one last episode, with the original cast, on the final edition of "SM:TV Live":

"Chums" - "The One With The Ending"

And then in 2021, it was revived again on Ant & Dec's current show, "Saturday Night Takeaway" (which I always considered as a grown-up version of "SM:TV Live" anyway), to mark 20 years since they left "SM:TV Live". But, it is not on YouTube.

If you want to binge, here is a whole playlist with 81 episodes (I have no idea what the final video in the playlist is doing there!):

"Chums" Playlist

And here is the "Chums" section of a documentary about "SM:TV Live" shown on Boxing Day 2020:

"The Story of SM:TV Live" ("Chums" section)

I could never get into "Friends". But I loved "Chums".

CaroLiza_fan
 
Ok so that means Shiqi GAO was replaced with Chen Xi JIN. Our game needs to be fixed to add the other girls

@gsk8 can we get entries fixed for JGP China Predictions please?
@labgoat I'm sorry I don't know what happened because I thought they were there at one point. It looks like only CHEN Xi Jin was listed. @gsk8 I've now added Shuxian JIN and Yuxuan LIU, and I've checked and they appear in the pulldown. Again I apologize for the inconvenience - thanks for letting us know!
 
Question: isn't the number of quotas for Junior Pairs in the JGP unlimited for the host nation? Or has that been changed?
You would think that in China they would make use of this.....

EDIT: I see now that 3 quota is allocated as per the announcment. Still, there are only 2 pairs listed
 
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Question: isn't the number of quotas for Junior Pairs in the JGP unlimited for the host nation? Or has that been changed?
You would think that in China they would make use of this.....

EDIT: I see now that 3 quota is allocated as per the announcment. Still, there are only 2 pairs listed
Yes, it's unlimited. But there are not as many junior pairs in China as one could think. I think it's also strategically not the best option to put them all (especially the top ones) to fight against each other at domestic GP, it's better to spread them, especially since China has 3 spots at every event.
Zhang/Feng were on the initial list but they WD recently.
 
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@labgoat I'm sorry I don't know what happened because I thought they were there at one point. It looks like only CHEN Xi Jin was listed. @gsk8 I've now added Shuxian JIN and Yuxuan LIU, and I've checked and they appear in the pulldown. Again I apologize for the inconvenience - thanks for letting us know!
It's all good. We are humans and it is fixed in time for all to play.
Sometimes the internet likes to play with us too!
 
Does anyone know if Karin Miyazaki is healthy? She WD from her free skate recently...
(WD before FS of Kinoshita Summer Cup Aug 11 per post in thread, no other info given)
Trying to decide where to place her and Kaoruko:scratch2:
 
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