Practice news & notes, photos, etc. - Milan 2026

[skateycat]

Amber and Alysa on the ice now.

 

[skateycat]

Niina Petrokina Jia Shin and Livia Kaiser practicing now.

I wonder about the ice quality on that temporary rink. On other temporary rinks I have seen, condensation forms on the overhead beams and makes bumps on the ice.

 

[Sylvia]

Peacock's Training stream for Sunday, Feb. 15 began at 10:20 am ET and is scheduled to run for 3h 40m. Women's Group 3 (Samodelkina did a FS run through without jumps, Kurakova, Hendrickx FS, Pinzaronne FS, Gutmann FS) is on the ice.

Pairs Short Warm-Up is scheduled for 1 hour starting at 11:20 am ET.
Jackie's live notes from the main arena: https://live.rockerskating.com/practice

 

[Sylvia]

Isabeau & Amber are on the ice!

ETA: Alysa is not on this practice. Isabeau ran through her full SP (3F+3T, 2A, 3Lo).

 

[just tuned in]

Isabeau & Amber are on the ice!

ETA: Alysa is not on this practice. Isabeau ran through her full SP (3F+3T, 2A, 3Lo).

Isabeau - so elegant and composed. I love her.

 

[Sylvia]

Amber landed a good 3A to open her FS run through (ETA: 3F+3T, 3Lz opened up early/step, skipped Lo+A+A, 3F into spin, 3Lo). Landed 3Lz+2T, 3S & another 3S fine afterwards. Also 3Lo+2A+2A twice, 3Lo to big falling leaf jump, 3S.

Pairs SP run throughs in the main arena: HUN, G/A ITA, Ellie/Danny (3Tw, landed sbs 3S... footwork, lift, BIDS), Deanna/Max (skipped twist, ad interruption, throw 3Lo landed a bit forward on toe, sbs spins good unison, choreo steps with backflip taken out).

 

[Karen-W]

Amber landed a good 3A to open her FS run through (will edit in more later if I can).

Pairs SP run throughs in the main arena: HUN, G/A ITA, Ellie/Danny (3Tw, landed sbs 3S... footwork, lift, BIDS), Deanna/Max (skipped twist, ad interruption, throw 3Lo landed a bit forward on toe, sbs spins good unison, choreo steps with backflip taken out).

It's rather shocking that the pairs warm-up training isn't focused solely on KamO since focusing solely on the US skaters/teams in any warm-up group has been NBC's MO this first week of the Olympics, lol. Maybe someone finally got in the ear of their producers and told them to focus on all the skaters/teams.

 

[Sylvia]

Jackie Wong made an appearance on Peacock's Gold Zone at 12:30pm ET to preview the Pairs! (can rewind the Day 9 livestream) - that's why he couldn't type notes during the final group in the Pairs warmup. His archived practice notes: https://www.rockerskating.com/news/2026/2/1/2026-winter-olympics-practice-notes

ETA - in the practice rink (same time as the final group of Pairs warm-up): Women group 5 (music order is Kaiser, Repond, Schizas, Petrokina, Lee, Shin).

 

[Sylvia]

Rewound the training stream to Group 2 (19:20-20:00 last group of day) - Kaori was the first to do a run through of her SP - interruption for ads, came back to her 2A, 3F+3T.
Heard Mone Chiba’s SP music played but camera didn’t not show her (cut to warmup area). She had warmed up 3F & 1F+3T beforehand.
Ami Nakai’s FS run through: 3A opened up/underrot. & step out, 3Lo+2T, 3Lz+2T, 3S, stopped briefly, choreo. sequence, 3Lz+2A+2A [music stopped briefly, Ami looked confused then smiled as her music resumed] 3F, 3Lo, steps, final 2 spins.
ETA: There was a funny moment afterwards as Kaori came up to her and they exchanged a good laugh together (ETA link to my clip): https://x.com/SylviaUnseen/status/2023431987030012138
ETA2: I assume Kaori was the one who encouraged Ami to skate the end of her FS again due to the music playing errors, so the final minute or so of Ami’s music was played again for her - she resumed with her 3Lo, did her entire footwork seq., and final 2 spins.

Final 10 mins. was all AmiCam: 3Lz+3T, 1A landed on both feet, 3A nice, and then another 3A (she studied video by the boards), 1Lz, 3Lz+3T.

 

[Sylvia]

Peacock added a training tile for Monday, Feb. 16 that began streaming at 8 am ET (starting with SP group 1 with Petrosian) and it's scheduled to last for 4 hrs. 50 mins.

Jackie Wong's live practice notes: https://live.rockerskating.com/practice
Archived notes: https://www.rockerskating.com/news/2026/2/1/2026-winter-olympics-practice-notes
His notes for Petrosian: "3F, 3Lz, 3Lz3T, 3S, 4T(ur,hangs on), 4T(ur,fall), runthru (2T, 4T, 2S, 3Lo, 3Lz2A2A, 3Lz3T, 3F2Lo), 4T(q), 4T(q,fall), 2T, 4T(ur,fall), 4T(q)3T, 3S"

Updated colored schedule for this week: https://results.isu.org/schedules/OWG2026_ColouredTimeSchedule.pdf

ETA that I was able to rewind the stream earlier to watch SP group 1 but now it only goes as far back as Sauter's RT in SP group 2: https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/owg2026/SEG003.htm

Watched Ami Nakai's clean SP RT: 3A, 3Lz+3T, 3Lo.

 

[Sylvia]

Camera is showing all 3 U.S. women warming up now.

ETA: Music was played in this order: Kaori FS, Amber SP (3A & 3F+3T were both good), Mone Chiba FS, Alysa FS, Isabeau FS, Gubanova FS (not shown).

 

[Karen-W]

Pairs warmup for the last 2 groups was joined in progress.

 

[viennese]

Women's SP group 4 is practicing now.
Someone is by the boards, not sure who. The camera is following Nakai. I also see Hendrickx and Gutmann

 

[Sylvia]

SP Group 4: Nakai, Schizas, Hendrickx, Pinarrone, Petrokina, Gutmann (being shown on Peacock now)

SP group 5 music order: Liu, Levito, Gubanova, Sakamoto, Glenn, Chiba

Jackie's live practice jump notes: https://live.rockerskating.com/practice
Archived here: https://www.rockerskating.com/news/2026/2/1/2026-winter-olympics-practice-notes

 

[ilovesalchows]

Alysa in practice gear with runs in her tights while everyone else is tiffed.

ETA: after looking through Jackie's notes, Petrosian not warming up 3A?

 

[Sylvia]

ETA: after looking through Jackie's notes, Petrosian not warming up 3A?

No, she's planning to do two 4T in her FS.

 

[Sylvia]

Just noticed Peacock is showing Ilia practicing for the Gala on the Women's SP Warm-Up livestream.

ETA: He's having trouble with a variation on Kevin Aymoz's trademark move.

 

[terisa]

Maxim Naumov is there too... I wonder if they're doing some sort of memorial..

 

[OrioleBeagle]

Maxim Naumov is there too... I wonder if they're doing some sort of memorial..

All three Americans are on the ice. I saw Andrew at the beginning.

 

[Spikefan]

Litvintsev appeared to also be on the ice. Not sure how it works but it appears they let anyone still train if they are around, not just those in the Gala. Although I would like to see The Joker in the Gala since we didn’t get to see it.

 

[terisa]

Litvintsev appeared to also be on the ice. Not sure how it works but it appears they let anyone still train if they are around, not just those in the Gala. Although I would like to see The Joker in the Gala since we didn’t get to see it.

I figured they schedule ice time for all of them for as long as they're in the O village. But seeing Max is still there just made me wonder...

 

[Karen-W]

I figured they schedule ice time for all of them for as long as they're in the O village. But seeing Max is still there just made me wonder...

The colored time schedule says it's additional practice time available to all skaters in every discipline through Friday. There are specific times set aside for the Gala skaters to practice on Thursday & Friday.

 

[skatingguy]

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[Sylvia]

Peacock is showing Women's FS training in the main arena - AmberCam is on (camera is back to focusing on USA skaters only, grrr).

ETA:

Jackie Wong's live practice notes start with FS group 2: https://live.rockerskating.com/practice
Archived notes: https://www.rockerskating.com/news/2026/2/1/2026-winter-olympics-practice-notes

 

[alj5]

Peacock is showing Women's FS training in the main arena - AmberCam is on (camera is back to focusing on USA skaters only, grrr).

It feels weird to watch. Like at least make a half-assed effort to look at anyone else for a few seconds.

 

[Sylvia]

Sumitada Moriguchi just landed 3S+1Eu+3S+3T in the practice rink! Peacock is continuing to livestream during the Women's FS (alternating between the warmup area & practice rink).

 

[Sylvia]

Kam/O'Shea and Vaipan-Law/Digby are practicing now.

ETA: For Worlds, I assume.

ETA2: Now Ellie and Anastasia are enjoying taking fun photos on the ice.

 

[terisa]

Most obvious bet in the world - Benoit Richaud is choreographing group number(s) for the gala. (I think he choreographed most of the competition, so why not?)