Japan Open Competitors Announced

[Arriba627]

Shoma and Nobunari Oda have been added for the Team Japan men.

http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/japanopen2018/smp/skater.html

 

[deneb]

Carolina Kostner has been added to Team Europe.

 

[mikeko666]

Shoma and Nobunari Oda have been added for the Team Japan men.

http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/japanopen2018/smp/skater.html

Nobu said that it was going to be his last JO last year, and Dai, Akiko, Miki, Kenji, and other fellow skaters watched the competition from the stand, cheering for him. (I could see them from my seat.) Now, he's back again.

 

[katmari]

Jason Brown, Maia & Alex Shibutani and Kana Muramoto/Chris Reed have been added as guest performers to the Carnival on Ice (providing Google translated the tweet properly):


https://twitter.com/tvtokyo_figure/status/1022768834216779776

Guests of Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani in the Japan Open, the carnival on Ice, Jason Brown, village Motoya & Chris Reed has decided to perform! http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/japanopen2018/

 

[npavel]

Motoya & Chris Reed not there any more. Will there be some streaming we can follow?

 

[katmari]

In the latest update to the website, Kana Muramoto/Chris Reed were removed from the Carnival on Ice Gala cast while Maria Sotskova, Akiko Suzuki and Kanako Murakami were added:

http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/coi2018/skater.html

 

[lavenderblossom]

Kostner has pulled out of Japan Open, she will be replaced by Sotskova https://rsport.ria.ru/figure_skating/20180927/1142769474.html

 

[demarinis5]

Kostner has pulled out of Japan Open, she will be replaced by Sotskova https://rsport.ria.ru/figure_skating/20180927/1142769474.html

Oh no!