10 - 14 Oct. 2007 - US Figure Skating International Challenge
Ladies, Men, Pairs, Ice Dance(Invitational) TBD, USA
7 - 8 Dec. 2007 - US Figure Skating International Challenge
Ladies, Men, Pairs, Ice Dance(Invitational) TBD, USA
Full Schedule here.
Or does "challenge" mean "audience-voting-for -their-favorite-over-the-Internet?"
Last years' Campell's was actually pretty good. The Japanese ladies' team had Mao Asada, Miki Ando and Mai Asada, and the men were Takahashi, Oda and Nakaniva.
Dubreille and Lauzon and Virtue and Moir represented Canada in dance.
If they can match that lineup I won't be disappointed.
That's been the situation in the past few years. Some European skaters wont come without a big stipend. And for this year, I believe the Asian Ladies will also request a big stipend. Who else is training in Canada or the US?In the past, sometimes a cheesefest received the "international" designation on the ISU site, then later it was changed to a "national" event if the sponsors changed their minds and featured only U.S. skaters.
Yesterday 11:26 PM
Who else is training in Canada or the US?
Haven't a clue which network will show them. Does anyone know for sure that NBC will show them or is that just another speculation?
Besides Skate America and the U.S. Championships, the partnership between NBC and U.S. Figure Skating also includes options to create other one-day invitational events during the season, such as last year's Campbell's Cup.
I'm also betting that these 2 events will end up being just single day events ... they can hardly get folks to come to SA as it is.
I just wish more people loved figure skating like we do.
Why describe ABC/ESPN with the the use of the word 'denigrate'? when they showed 12 skaters LIVE at the Nationals since 2000 since I remember. NBC will show more? Better you give a description on how NBC handled the Scandal of 2002.The reason I'm optimistic about the network switch is that I think ABC/ESPN has already done their part to denigrate the skating product by showing few skaters and lots of commercials, uninformative fluff pieces and delaying event coverage by sometimes as much as two weeks after they occurred. Frankly, I'm hard-pressed to figure out how NBC could do any worse. Then again, you can't please everybody. There WILL be people writing to them to complain about their coverage- it will happen with any network. What I wish to see in a broadcast may be exactly what you don't want to see.