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Schools here often have a backpack program. Children receive backpacks full of food on Fridays to take home with them for the weekend. In some cases--if there is need for multiple individuals at home--a child might even sign up for more than one backpack to take home. Anyway, if you know of a...

Shun:). He competed in this event the way you need to. Focused on his job & didn't let the rest of the world interfere.

Happy for Tomoki today. It's been a journey, and it was great to see him deliver.

I just wanted to say that I found Ami Nakai's free to What a Wonderful World so gorgeous. Many extra, small wonderful choreographic touches, and all of them performed to perfection & on the music. Lovely.

Pate & Bye won Lombardia with exactly the same score as the Browns currently have on the alternate list, no? I still think the Browns should have first dibs after winning the head-to-head at Lake Placid; but SA is late, it's not impossible a spot will open in the right place, and there are too...

JGP Riga thoughts: Taking into account that this is obviously a big rebuilding year in juniors... I was quite happy with Mouaden & Bigot's material in Riga. It's been a long time since I've seen them, and it's nice to see they are living up to that potential one could see early on. (They're...

Thank you, both!

Thank you for the heads-up. What link to Jason? In the Summer Sizzler thread or somewhere else? I tried one I found in that thread, but that link was to instagram, which I don't have access to. If anyone finds a publicly accessible version of the picture, maybe put it in that Summer Sizzler...

Do we have a typical group photo from this year's Champ's Camp somewhere? I scrolled through the Summer Sizzler thread, and didn't find it there.

Ah, I'm sorry to hear this. I have hope of seeing them at the Olympics in four more years, but they've obviously worked really hard to earn that berth; plus it is a loss to the sport & its ability to build an audience that one of the most entertaining teams in the field won't be there.

No, I don't know; but since Lombardia is the week before & we just got the list of competitors for it today, within a week seems like a good hypothesis.

The Olympic season. When people are locked and loaded and ready to go. No way that men's list stays that incredible--I assume; but still that's quite a list of people who would like to be ready to compete by Lombardia. Also, something's gotta be up with Guignard & Fabbri. They would be there...

I'm just going to say kudos to all the teams who are getting out there and competing and debuting their programs before the qualifier. Scores can rise quite dramatically after a debut. It's not about the scores for me at this stage. It's about the potential of the material and--for these...

Hopefully yes, and they can do this event. They aren't signed up for the Bolero Cup, and Lombardia is only the week before the qualifier. I guess the Italian teams might all go to Lombardia anyway?

Because they said they were going to do Lake Placid, both Italian teams were signed up for Lake Placid, and then T&L dropped out. Not something you usually do if you are a junior team trying to earn senior minimums, much less if you are a (previously) junior team trying to prove you deserve to...