Grand Prix 2010-2011

[HisWeirness]

Thanks sigrid. I just saw that too.

Artem Borodulin (RUS) has been crossed out of NHK Trophy. No replacement yet. The replacement cannot be a skater from Japan because Japan already has 3 entries in Men at NHK Trophy. Borodulin still has a spot at Rostelecom Cup.
http://isu.sportcentric.net/db//files/serve.php?id=2139
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Possible replacements for Virtue/Moir

Skate Canada
Skate Canada will probably replace V/M with a "host picked" Canadian team. The alternates list is getting short.

TEB
There are already 3 French teams entered. The French Fed will probably pick a team off of the alternates list.

Alternates List with 1 assignment
(1) 36 153.50 Rachel TIBBETTS / Collin BRUBAKER USA - CAN
(1) 52 145.91 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR - NHK
(1) 73 131.44 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN - CHN

Teams on the Alternates List looking for an initial assignment
31 155.93 Caitlin MALLORY / Kristjan RAND EST - taking a year off
37 153.22 Anastasia PLATONOVA / Alexander GRACHEV RUS - retired?
59 141.61 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN GER - possibly taking Fall GP season off (http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2840054&postcount=89)?
67 135.40 Irina BABCHENKO / Vitali NIKIFOROV UKR
68 133.81 Kamila HAJKOVA / David VINCOUR CZE - taking a year off (http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2818330&postcount=92)
70 132.32 Allison REED / Otar JAPARIDZE GEO
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Possible replacements for Borodulin at NHK
The replacement cannot be a skater from Japan because Japan already has 3 entries in Men at NHK Trophy.

Men looking for a second GP assignment (listed in order of SB rank)
(1) Shawn Sawyer CAN 30 SB
(1) Jinlin Guan CHN - 36 SB
(1) Stephen Carriere USA - 37 SB
(1) Grant Hochstein USA - 38 SB (assigned to SC the next week)
(1) Armin Mahbanoozadeh USA - SB 42
(1) Kristoffer Berntsson SWE - SB 43 (assigned to SC the next week)
(1) Paolo Bacchini ITA - 45 SB (assigned to SC the next week)
(1) Viktor Pfeifer AUT - 49 SB
(1) Peter Liebers GER - 54 SB
(1) Zoltan Kelemen ROU - 73 SB

Men looking for an initial assignment
Chao Yang CHN - 40 SB
Joey Russell CAN - 59 SB
Austin Kanallakan USA - 61 SB
Javier Raya ESP - 65 SB
Ivan Tretiakov RUS - 66 SB
Alexander Nikolaev RUS - 67 SB
Gregor Urbas SLO - 68 SB (retired?)
Ming Xu CHN - 69 SB
Morgan Cipres FRA - 70 SB skating pairs with Vanessa James
*Jiaxing Liu CHN - 72 SB
Ronald Lam - CAN - 75 SB

[caseyedwards]

I was looking forward to Borodulin.

[carriecmu0503]

Maybe Scott and Emily could train together right now, since both of their partners just had surgery. ;)

[Karen-W]

TEB
There are already 3 French teams entered. The French Fed will probably pick a team off of the alternates list.

Alternates List with 1 assignment
(1) 36 153.50 Rachel TIBBETTS / Collin BRUBAKER USA - CAN
(1) 52 145.91 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR - NHK
(1) 73 131.44 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN - CHN

Teams on the Alternates List looking for an initial assignment
31 155.93 Caitlin MALLORY / Kristjan RAND EST - taking a year off
37 153.22 Anastasia PLATONOVA / Alexander GRACHEV RUS - retired?
59 141.61 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN GER - possibly taking Fall GP season off (http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2840054&postcount=89)?
67 135.40 Irina BABCHENKO / Vitali NIKIFOROV UKR
68 133.81 Kamila HAJKOVA / David VINCOUR CZE - taking a year off (http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2818330&postcount=92)
70 132.32 Allison REED / Otar JAPARIDZE GEO


Well, if the French are as cheap in selecting a replacement for V/M as they were for the Zhangs, then I expect that Coomes/Buckland or Babchenko/Nikiforov will be the choice for TEB.

[SamuraiK]

Damn, I know its post-olympic season and a tons of people retired and lots of others are going throuh injuries after such an stressful season but this is becoming the most watered down Grand Prix field ever.. oh well as always a great chance for the up and comers:P

Why not the Hermanns for TEB , they decided to keep competing a few months ago, are they still trained by Zazoui?

[Sparks]

I was looking forward to Borodulin.

What happened to him?

[victoriaheidi]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Tibbets/Brubaker! :)
But I am bummed about V/M.

The "A" pool is getting smaller...

[dinakt]

What happened to him?

So far the only info on FSO is " there is something with his leg"

[Sinclare]

Maybe I might be mixing him up with someone else but didn't he have knee surgery a few years ago before Junior Worlds? :confused:

[HisWeirness]

Borodulin had a metal pin removed from his ankle back in the Spring of 2009.

More about his 2007 ankle injury here:
http://www.goldenskate.com/articles/2008/083108.shtml

[allezfred]

Well, if the French are as cheap in selecting a replacement for V/M as they were for the Zhangs, then I expect that Coomes/Buckland or Babchenko/Nikiforov will be the choice for TEB.

It's unlikely to be Coomes/Buckland as British Nationals is on at the same time as TEB.

[SLIVER]

Shawn Sawyer got the NHK spot.

[HisWeirness]

Yay for Shawn, and thanks to JSF/NHK organizers for picking him off of the top of the 1-GP Alternates List!

Updated Mens GP table: http://isu.sportcentric.net/db//files/serve.php?id=2145

Shawn now has 2 GP events, NHK Trophy and Skate America.

[xy3026rosa]

PT's new costume of their FS(dream of love).I think light color is more suitable for their FS.
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_69a8eae90100m3ru.html

[MikiAndoFan#1]

Shawn Sawyer got the NHK spot.

:cheer:


PT's new costume of their FS(dream of love).I think light color is more suitable for their FS.
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_69a8eae90100m3ru.html

Qing's dress is gorgeous!