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.