2025 Grand Prix Assignments

[Karen-W]

Whelp, the Pairs GP assignments are going to be updated again...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956306663461331368

Ghilardi/Ambrosini are next in line for the vacated CoC spot, and Beccari/Guarise will get the vacated NHK spot. Hocke/Kunkel may very well wind up with a 2nd assignment at CoC since Wang/Zhu are injured still.

ETA - looks like the post was deleted but it said that Sui/Han have announced on Weibo that they are withdrawing from all events this season as Han Cong is not recovered enough to compete.

 

[On My Own]

Whelp, the Pairs GP assignments are going to be updated again...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956306663461331368

Ghilardi/Ambrosini are next in line for the vacated CoC spot, and Beccari/Guarise will get the vacated NHK spot. Hocke/Kunkel may very well wind up with a 2nd assignment at CoC since Wang/Zhu are injured still.

ETA - looks like the post was deleted but it said that Sui/Han have announced on Weibo that they are withdrawing from all events this season as Han Cong is not recovered enough to compete.

I'm not seeing it? Would be something, though, if CFSA went through all that, and then this was the result.

 

[Karen-W]

I'm not seeing it? Would be something, though, if CFSA went through all that, and then this was the result.

The OP on X was deleted. I'm not sure if anything is on Weibo since I don't have an account there.

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if this was the result. I always felt that Sui/Han were going to be the backup plan if ZhaHua didn't come back with strong performances at the Interclub comps this summer. As it is, I think ZhaHua are in a strong position to earn one of the pairs spots at the OQE.

 

[On My Own]

The OP on X was deleted. I'm not sure if anything is on Weibo since I don't have an account there.

On xiaohongshu someone posted a screenshot of a Russian website claiming this. So doesn't seem a domestic source, and am not sure how Russia would know.

The rumour/gossip has indeed been that Cong was brought back against his will, and Sui/Li was forcibly split, Han hasn't recovered. But there's nothing official. Let's wait.

 

[ginsengtea]

There’s no hubbub on Weibo at all. I took a look and there is a weibo post that Han Cong made on 8/15/23 (exactly two years ago today) saying that he couldn’t continue competing due to insufficient injury recovery, so maybe OP got the date confused and thought it was a new post.

 

[kwanfan1818]

On Part 3 of Pairs Lore on The Runthrough, there was a lot of enthusiasm for their comeback, with one of Hughes, Rippon, and KMT choosing them to win in Milano, plus the hope that time-off has allowed both Sui and Han to recover from their many nagging injuries.

I hope if they do come back, and someone misinterpreted a two-year-old post, that he’s actually healed.

 

[On My Own]

There was a Russian source, as @coralline also said. It wasn't misinterpretation of a post solely - that seems to have something to do with what was posted on twitter.

 

[Karen-W]

Grids have been updated to show the CFSA host picks for CoC -

Men - Zhiming Peng
Women - Xiangyi An, Ruiyang Zhang
Pairs - Zhang/Huang; still 1 host TBD spot (likely will be tossed back into the pool sometime next month)
Dance - Wang/Liu

 

[angi]

Updating the GP Alternates lists based upon the withdrawals in pairs & dance, summertime retirement/split announcements and the Cranberry Cup scores for singles:

Men
A Selevko (SCI)
Hagara (NHK)
Samoilov (SCI)
Circelli (SkAm)
Gogolev (SCI)
Sanchez (CoC) *
Nordeback (Finlandia)
Vinokur
Choi
Pulkinen (CoC) *
Hiwatashi *
Kim
Nakamura *
Rakic (SCI)
J Lee
Levandi
Shmuratko
Guarino Sabate
Daniliants
Appleby
Naumov (GPdF) *
Yoshioka *
Gorodnitsky
Lim
Kulish
Martynov *
Kuperman
Starostin
K Witkowski
Klein *
Kakiuchi *
Marsak
Kapeikis *
Carrillo
Chiu
Yu-Hsiang Li

With Keegan Messign announcing his return to competition next season, where does that put his chances of getting a GP assignment?

 

[Habs]

With Keegan Messign announcing his return to competition next season, where does that put his chances of getting a GP assignment?

I came here to ask the same. And there's no Skate Canada host pick left.

 

[Karen-W]

With Keegan Messign announcing his return to competition next season, where does that put his chances of getting a GP assignment?

I came here to ask the same. And there's no Skate Canada host pick left.

I suppose, theoretically, he could be added to the Alternates list, but I'm not sure if there's a deadline for inclusion on that. I guess we'll find out if he winds up being assigned.

 

[genevieve]

With Keegan Messign announcing his return to competition next season, where does that put his chances of getting a GP assignment?

For reals? I am really starting to think a campaign to bring Kwan back isn't that far-fetched.

 

[peibeck]

For reals? I am really starting to think a campaign to bring Kwan back isn't that far-fetched.

She's prepping her toddler for 2038.

 

[Vagabond]

I would much rather see forty-something Kwan come back and skate around without much in the way of jumps than see Messing ever compete again. And my opinion has nothing to do with their skating. Harumph!

 

[Coco]

I bet Kwan could still do doubles

 

[tony]

The third CHN pairs home spot has been given up, and Ghilardi & Ambrosini pick up their second event.

 

[Karen-W]

The third CHN pairs home spot has been given up, and Ghilardi & Ambrosini pick up their second event.

Well, CoC is going to be a fun little face-off between the 3 Italian teams. No, it's not their Olympic decider, the FISG still has their complicated formula, but it's definitely going to be a high-pressure competition for all of them, especially BecGuar and GhiAmbro.

Also, BoMim are not participating in Canada's High Performance Camp this weekend due to injury. Keep an eye on whether or not they compete anywhere in late September/early October, otherwise that's a spot that could wind up being relinquished.

Updated Alternates List:

Pairs
Beccari/Guarise (CoC)
Hocke/Kunkel (SkAm)
Chtchetinina/Wozniak (Finlandia)
Vaipan-Law/Digby (SCI)
Danilova/Tsiba (NHK)
Chan/Howe (NHK) *
Nagaoka/Moriguchi (Finlandia) *
McBeath/Parkman (CoC) *
Bombardier/Mimar (CoC)
Shin/Nagy (GPdF) *
Vouillamoz/Bouvart (SCI)
Holichenko/Darenskyi
Roscher/Schuster
Schaller/Mayr
Gamez/Korovin
Flores/Wang (SkAm)
Faula/Belle (GPdF)
Crafoord/Crafoord
Izzo/Maierhofer
Caldara/Maglio
Ryom/Han
Wang/Zhu *
Fitzpatrick/Bearinger *

 

[LoisAGOEs]

Zhang/Huang are off the alternates list now after getting the CoC host pick

 

[Karen-W]

Zhang/Huang are off the alternates list now after getting the CoC host pick

thanks. I knew that, lol - fixed!