Chinese skating news & social media updates pt. 5, 2023 onwards

[otisgear]

Peng/Wang have withdrawn from both GPdF and COC. Wang/Zhu will replace them at COC

 

[On My Own]

Well... lol.

 

[On My Own]

Wang did well with the jumps, and she's actually got nice features to her skating that she'll hopefully hone.

 

[On My Own]

Weibo gonna go apeshit over her not only being first but also beating two Japanese skaters and a Korean to be there.

 

[Karen-W]

Weibo gonna go apeshit over her not only being first but also beating two Japanese skaters and a Korean to be there.

Massive pressure in Wuxi for her to qualify for the JGPF.

 

[otisgear]

Chinese juniors going 3 for 3 golds I'm sure no one had that on their bingo

 

[Karen-W]

Chinese juniors going 3 for 3 golds I'm sure no one had that on their bingo

Ehhhhhh... Not in pairs because FlorWang looked a lot stronger at their Glacier Falls NQS in late July than they did in Latvia, so I would have had them beating Zhang/Huang - and their NQS score WOULD have handily beat Zhang/Huang. And I doubt anyone expected Jia to lose her JGP, so yeah...

 

[On My Own]

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Seems Huahua is confirming she's indeed the first Chinese girl ever to win gold on the JGP circuit? I can't recall anyone else anyway.

 

[raruki]

wrong thread

 

[On My Own]

AND NOW TIAN TONGHE WON A BRONZE?!?!?!?!!?!?!

 

[Karen-W]

AND NOW TIAN TONGHE WON A BRONZE?!?!?!?!!?!?!

Tough field in Wuxi - he'll have to skate better to stay on the podium - Yanhao Li, Rio Nakata, Jaekeun Lee & Patrick Blackwell are all assigned there - that's JGP Thailand gold, JGP Thailand silver, JGP Latvia silver, and JGP Czechia silver between those four.

 

[On My Own]

Tough field in Wuxi - he'll have to skate better to stay on the podium - Yanhao Li, Rio Nakata, Jaekeun Lee & Patrick Blackwell are all assigned there - that's JGP Thailand gold, JGP Thailand silver, JGP Latvia silver, and JGP Czechia silver between those four.

ma'am this is a wendy's

 

[otisgear]

Tough field in Wuxi - he'll have to skate better to stay on the podium - Yanhao Li, Rio Nakata, Jaekeun Lee & Patrick Blackwell are all assigned there - that's JGP Thailand gold, JGP Thailand silver, JGP Latvia silver, and JGP Czechia silver between those four.

I don't think anyone expects Tonghe to make jgpf……medal in Thailand was already a huge (pleasant) surprise.

Also boy's not realistically gonna skate much better than he did in Thailand. It's not like he's gonna drop a quad out of nowhere or something. Getting a medal is already a huge win for him.

 

[otisgear]

Zhang/Jia have withdrawn from Shanghai trophy and they will be replaced by Beccari/Guarise

Source

 

[On My Own]

Zhang/Jia have withdrawn from Shanghai trophy and they will be replaced by Beccari/Guarise

Source

lol

 

[Karen-W]

Zhang/Jia have withdrawn from Shanghai trophy and they will be replaced by Beccari/Guarise

Source

Not complaining. Beccari/Guarise are a much better team than Zhang/Jia.

 

[On My Own]

I think it's much more likely that Zhang/Jia just didn't work out, if they canceled the invite for them.

 

[Karen-W]

I think it's much more likely that Zhang/Jia just didn't work out, if they canceled the invite for them.

Oh, I don't have enough insight into Chinese pairs to be able to speculate on their status - just saying that Beccari/Guarise are a known and better quantity than them.

But it sounds like you're saying they may very well be done as a team and could be off the CoC entry list, which would then leave that spot up in the air for a non-Chinese team since there aren't any other senior age-eligible teams.

 

[On My Own]

Zhang/Huang win again and make the JGPF!

 

[On My Own]

Day needs a better choreographer. As it stands, he has nice basics and good jump technique, and is completely boring otherwise. Which I guess is indeed the Yan Han mold, before he staged his 2019 return.

Chen's skating has plain not developed all that much. Scored nearly as much as Day despite the fall, though, so there we are. (ETA: yes both fell, but Day is the much better skater though, so...)

 

[On My Own]

I just can't be bothered about any of An/Zhu/Chen, but interestingly Zhu was very close to both An and Chen in an event that actually matters and therefore is scored accordingly. Well also, Zhu has the stronger basic skating of the three usually, but I can't be arsed to watch if that was the case here.

I continue pretending ID doesn't exist.

Funny how Jin was invited to the gala because the tickets weren't selling otherwise.

 

[On My Own]

I think it's much more likely that Zhang/Jia just didn't work out, if they canceled the invite for them.

@otisgear Any news? I've seen some comments indicating this is indeed the case, but nothing definitive.

Yang/Deng did about as well as expected. Maybe, somehow, they'll make worlds. Let's hope so.

 

[Samurina]

@otisgear Any news? I've seen some comments indicating this is indeed the case, but nothing definitive.

Yang/Deng did about as well as expected. Maybe, somehow, they'll make worlds. Let's hope so.

acc to me they did much better. i was not expecting this quality. i think they just need to do a jumps and skating skills bootcamp over the summer or like from march to august and then i think they could be great contenders for 2030. they have all the acro skills, but their foundations are very weak

 

[otisgear]

i think they just need to do a jumps and skating skills bootcamp over the summer or like from march to august and then i think they could be great contenders for 2030.

There's no way their jumps and skating skills can be improved over a summer. They only started skating in their teens and are a living breathing answer to those "I'm 14, is it too late to make it to the olympics if I start now..." questions. They've been doing the same SBS (2S, 2T-1A-1A) for three seasons now, don't expect to see much improvement in this area. They struggle with SBS 2F and I wouldn't expect them to ever get a 2A.

Re: Zhang/Jia, no deets but I don't expect to see them at COC

 

[On My Own]

Re: Zhang/Jia, no deets but I don't expect to see them at COC

And that basically means Yang/Deng are the only senior team we can be sure is able to compete at worlds (if they get the mins), because everyone else is split/didn't work out/too injured to work out even if somehow mysteriously at CoC/et cetera.

 

[Karen-W]

And that basically means Yang/Deng are the only senior team we can be sure is able to compete at worlds, because everyone else is split/didn't work out/too injured to work out even if somehow mysteriously at CoC/et cetera.

Well, that will leave it to Zhang/Huang to secure an Olympic pairs spot at the Olympic qualifying comp next season then because I don't see Yang/Deng finishing high enough to earn it at Worlds.

 

[otisgear]

And that basically means Yang/Deng are the only senior team we can be sure is able to compete at worlds (if they get the mins), because everyone else is split/didn't work out/too injured to work out even if somehow mysteriously at CoC/et cetera.

Wouldn't have made a difference even if Zhang/Jia were around. Their tech is worse than Yang/Deng from the last we've seen...

 

[Sylvia]

Since Xiangyi "Nini" AN skated much better in winning the Asian Open FS Trophy Senior B last month in Hong Kong (187.45) than in Shanghai this week, here are her videos captured from the HKG federation channel's livestream of the competition:

"Voila " SP (64.61 1st): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHr7jvyPSB0

FS (122.84 2nd): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXACerYUtrk
Music from Curse of the Golden Flower by Shigeru Umebayashi: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00104690.htm

 

[On My Own]

There's no way their jumps and skating skills can be improved over a summer. They only started skating in their teens and are a living breathing answer to those "I'm 14, is it too late to make it to the olympics if I start now..." questions. They've been doing the same SBS (2S, 2T-1A-1A) for three seasons now, don't expect to see much improvement in this area. They struggle with SBS 2F and I wouldn't expect them to ever get a 2A.

They actually have nice presentation and some nice elements, it's just unfortunate they started a bit too late to really stabilize by now.

Anyway, Chen finishes behind Day overall. Fake comp, but still in China, so I'm guessing it counts for something.

Shanghai Trophy's stream quality is amazing, hope to see more of this at CoC and Asian Games.

 

[On My Own]

I have no other place to say it (and I promise to not commentate on the comp here) but it's funny to see the Chinese audience being all "well that happened" after each synchro performance