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Oooh, she's not using David Wilson as her choreographer this time round?! Peter Oppegard, how interesting (hey, maybe Blades' hypothetical appeal to Team Yu-na for her to skate to Miraculous Mandarin worked XD)! So she's pretty much confirmed for next season? Awesome! I really do hope that Team Yu-na is referring only to a new short though... hopefully, she'll keep her long and skate it against next season. Or at least keep it for her exhibtion (kind of like what Daisuke did with his Tango de Roxanne program :3).
So excited over Kurt Browning and Stephane Lambiel... wow I really envy the Korean fans this summer! Two legendary men's skaters on the same ice! Wowza! And yeah... looking over the off-season commitments, it's pretty obvious why she's contemplating skipping the GP; I mean, she'll be flying to and fro until July, has commercial commitments until August in Korea and won't really be able to 100% commit herself to training for a competitive season until August.
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The article did not specify that Oppegard himself will choreograph Yuna's new program(s), only that she will prepare with him. I thought it was common practice for both coach and choreographer to have some input in preparing new programs?
I think the South African trip is in early July and will be short (the final vote is on July 6), so Yuna has most of July and August to train. The ice show in August also only takes about a week or so, including practices. Still, I highly doubt she'll compete in the Grand Prix since she's pretty much ruled it out.