Who is retiring after Olympic year?

[drivingmissdaisy]

Denis Ten announced on his Instagram that he's retired.

Nothing to be sad about. He's had ups and downs, but retiring with an Olympic medal and 2 world medals is a tremendous achievement.

 

[Jana]

Valentina and Ondrej have good momentum right now. Maybe they can stay on another season and capture some Euros medals.

I think that they actually miss a medal from a big competition.

 

[ks777]

Fumie Suguri

 

[Ladskater]

So many great skaters listed here. They've become household names. They will be missed, but a new crop of skaters will come along. The new kids certainly will have a lot of wonderful skaters to inspire them as they grow just as these skaters did.

 

[bobbob]

To be honest, compared to other Olympic years, I expect the "dropoff" or number of retirements to be far less. From 2014-2018, ladies had a number of retirements (Yu-Na, Mao, Adelina, Julia, Gracie), pairs a few (V/T, P/T, Szolkowy) or mixups (MT/M, P/Z, Y/J), dance (D/W, I/K, P/B), mens everyone mostly stook around. I expect all the top ladies (Carolina included) to stick around, men all except Javier, pairs all except Duhamel and Radford (if S/M are going to worlds, it seems likely they will continue at least 1 year--they said they wanted to), and all dance except Virtue/Moir. Of course I define top teams loosely but the point is even after this year things will be very interesting!

 

[purpledream]

Looks like a big part of this generation of team spirited Canadian skaters will be retiring. They went out in a bang and the camaraderie and support shown by them is truly amazing. Eric Radford is indeed an amazing team captain and I think we will miss him and especially Meagan’s competitive fire. Must say that Meagan and Aljona are probably the grittiest competitors. With PChan and Tessa and Scott also hanging up after Pyeongchang, this generation of lovely Canadian folks will really be off. Sad.

me too
D/R have been such a lovely pair, and the whole Canadian team - PChan, V/M, D/R, and the lovely ladies Kaetlyn/Gabrielle, and even Messing, KT/M came to support so im super sad!
Scott and Eric had a moment as past and current team captains - and winning that Gold that they really wanted was just amazing

Alijona is such a lovely skater - so glad she won Gold, and I hope she goes to worlds (let her and Bruno have one more skate); though i feel skipping it and leaving here is also fine. Just that 3 seasons only w Bruno seems so short! But ending it with this olympic gold medal, and (i have to mention their matching costumes with those purple olympic walls?!?!)

the generation of skaters I grew up with retired after sochi, and those left/came back would be retiring after pyeong chang
truly a generation

 

[purpledream]

Nothing to be sad about. He's had ups and downs, but retiring with an Olympic medal and 2 world medals is a tremendous achievement.

It's time for him to go back to his homeland, coach a bunch of goodie skaters and return as a skating coach!!!!
and/or do something else he really wants and wishing him great success in his future endeavours

It has been great watching him! :hap93:

 

[AshWagsFan]

Even ASHLEY might not retire, I don’t see anyone who isn’t retiring here (except mb Carolina and Misha) retiring for good

 

[acapenci]

Michael christian martinez is probably going to retire

 

[Weathergal]

If I understand correctly, this is just a who is retiring after Olympics (and/or end of season?) speculation thread, but if you're looking for a thread that has confirmed retirement info, here's the one CaroLiza_fan started: https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?64989-2017-18-Retirements

And since we're speculating here, I'll say I think Cappellini /Lanotte will retire after Worlds in Milan this year.

 

[Yatagarasu]

Denis Ten announced on his Instagram that he's retired.

I thought he denied that?

 

[Winry]

He did
The inaccurate information come from EuropeOnIce twitter accompt. They translate his instagram post but make a mistake, so they apologies. Denis has annonce no plan for his future! No retirement!!
I think he will retire but I'm glad he didn't !!

 

[Icey]

Fumie Suguri

Are you sure?

 

[draka]

Since the Split & Partner Changes thread for this season is already archived for some reason, I'm going to post this here:

Angelique Abachkina and Louis Thauron have split. She's going to search for a new partner (Source)

I assume this is in part due to them not making it to the Olympics.

 

[slider11]

D/R have stated today is their last competitive skate ever.

I hope this means that we see Luba and Dylan at Worlds!

 

[Weathergal]

Since the Split & Partner Changes thread for this season is already archived for some reason, I'm going to post this here:

Angelique Abachkina and Louis Thauron have split. She's going to search for a new partner (Source)

I assume this is in part due to them not making it to the Olympics.

But they're fresh out of juniors so making it this early wasn't necessarily expected - although maybe that was their expectation? They did come close though. Whatever the reason, I liked this team and am sorry they split.