Grenoble 2024 news, photos, practice reports, clips, recaps, etc.

[Sylvia]

Ilia Malinin plans his quadruple Axel's return for Grand Prix Final as he settles into world champion spotlight by Nick McCarvel (Dec. 2, 2024): https://olympics.com/en/news/ilia-m...xel-grand-prix-final-world-champion-spotlight

Kévin Aymoz: Hometown Glory by Hiro Yoshida (Dec. 2, 2024) - this link also is posted in Ayymoz's fan thread: https://europeonice.com/2024/12/02/kevin-aymoz-hometown-glory/

Next Generation in Grenoble: Young Skaters gearing up for ISU Junior Grand Prix Final (Dec. 2):

Next Generation in Grenoble: Young Skaters gearing up for ISU Junior Grand Prix Final in Grenoble

The next generation takes the ice! The top six Skaters/Couples in each discipline from ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2024/25 come together in Grenoble (FRA) for the first big highlight of their season, the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final. Young Skaters from eleven countries get...

isu-skating.com

Five Canadian Teams Qualify for the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final (Nov. 26):

Five Canadian Teams Qualify for the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

OTTAWA, ON (November 26, 2024) – The 2024 Grand Prix season [...]

skatecanada.ca

Team USA will have athletes represented in three of the four disciplines [of the JGP Final] with five of seven competing at the event for the first time (Oct. 31):

Seven U.S. Skaters Qualify to Junior Grand Prix Final | U.S. Figure Skating

www.usfigureskating.org

 

[Sylvia]

USFS article by Darci Miller (Dec. 2; same articlre also is posted in USFS' Fan Zone) - Ilia Malinin Managing Pressure, Pushing Boundaries: https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/article/ilia-malinin-managing-pressure-pushing-boundaries

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Oh this is rich……

Music Rotation - Men
Nation
Wednesday Dec. 4
12:45 - 13:25 SP or FS

Kevin AYMOZ
FRA
1
Daniel GRASSL
ITA
2
Yuma KAGIYAMA
JPN
3
Shun SATO
JPN
4
Stefania GLADKI
KAZ
5
Ilia MALININ
USA
6

 

[Sylvia]

I sure hope Stefania Gladki is ready for double duty! Link to the ISU's Practice Groups/Music Rotation document that was updated on Dec. 2 with Deanna/Max's withdrawal (due to his recent illness) and Ghilardi/Ambrosini's addition on page 3: https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...RotationAllupdate099455600_17331571126979.pdf

 

[MacMadame]

FYI: I have to make an unplanned trip to LA tomorrow and won't be back before the Thursday events. I will send a link to the BINGO game to @Karen-W and she can run it if she's okay with that.

 

[Karen-W]

FYI: I have to make an unplanned trip to LA tomorrow and won't be back before the Thursday events. I will send a link to the BINGO game to @Karen-W and she can run it if she's okay with that.

Sure thing!

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

FYI: I have to make an unplanned trip to LA tomorrow and won't be back before the Thursday events. I will send a link to the BINGO game to @Karen-W and she can run it if she's okay with that.

Can I show you around?

 

[Sylvia]

Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ) is now where he should be in the updated Practice Groups/Music Rotation document: https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...4MusicRotationAll009430100_17332132715561.pdf

 

[sk9tingfan]

If not mentioned else where, Deanna Stellato Dudek and Maxime Deschamps have pulled out of the GPF. They will be replaced by Ghilardi and Ambrosini.

ISU Figure Skating ⛸ on Instagram: "World Champion Pairs team Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps have withdrawn from this week's #GPFigure Final due to Max recovering from an illness. We wish him a fast recovery."

2,604 likes, 24 comments - isufigureskating on December 3, 2024: "World Champion Pairs team Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps have withdrawn from this week's #GPFigure Final due to Max recovering from an illness. We wish him a fast recovery.".

www.instagram.com

 

[Sylvia]

If not mentioned else where

Thanks for the ISU's Instagram post link - the news was posted yesterday in at least 6 different threads on FSU.

Jackie Wong's preview of the Junior Grand Prix Final (Dec. 3): https://www.rockerskating.com/news/...nd-prix-final-preview-a-glimpse-of-the-future

Anything GOEs has compiled info on each of the JGPF competitors: https://anythinggoe.com/jgpfinal2024preview/

ETA link to the ISU's 2-minute preview/hype video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXCm7xm7OCU

 

[Sylvia]

(Cross-posting here from both her fan thread in the TC & the U.S. Women's news thread in GSD) Phil Hersh's pre-GPF Final article - Amber Glenn’s path to Grand Prix Final, figure skating stardom a decade-long journey (Dec. 3, 2024):

Amber Glenn's path to Grand Prix Final, figure skating stardom a decade-long journey

Amber Glenn competes in the Grand Prix Final, live this week on Peacock.

www.nbcsports.com

Excerpts:

Next was a victory at the Grand Prix of France, where her short program score was the highest ever earned by a U.S. woman.
Then came victory at the Grand Prix Cup of China, where she improved her personal bests in the total score and free skate despite a sore right ankle and shin from a fall in practice. She got a passel of those points for a triple loop-double Axel-double Axel sequence in the second half of the free skate, an element that has the highest base value of any attempted by a senior woman in international competition this season.

She felt similarly after the Cup of China short program, in which she reeled off the final five elements flawlessly after her first two drew negative GOEs.
“I am happy I was able to recover after a mistake,” Glenn said. “That is big progress for me.”
Glenn describes this season as a building process, trying to gain competitive consistency rather than push her limits. She called her free skate in China “75%.” She is holding something back for the second half of this season and the upcoming Olympic season.
“As many people know, in the past I’ve had struggles keeping it together for an entire free skate program,” she said. “So for me it has been about just being stable rather than putting out 110% because sometimes when I do that, I make very silly mistakes.”
Even as she racked up the stunning short program score in France, Glenn knew she could have done more, toning down some choreography to preserve energy. That is evidence of her feeling a body-mind connection more clearly.
“I feel like this year has been about the mental side,” she said. “I’ve always been capable on the physical side, so it’s been about just trying to do the best I can to hone my mental skills, and it’s been very helpful.”

ETA link to USFS' press release today (Dec. 3):

Top Team USA Senior and Junior Skaters to Vie for Medals at Grand Prix Final | U.S. Figure Skating

www.usfigureskating.org

"If Sanchez wins gold at the Junior Grand Prix Final, he would be the first U.S. junior man to do so since 2017."
Alex Krasnozhon won the gold that year and Camden Pulkinen the silver in Nagoya.

 

[Sylvia]

Here's an article by Phil Taylor in East Auckland's Times Online (Dec. 3) on New Zealand's Yanhao (Dwayne) Li who's competing in his first JGP Final!

Aiming to be world’s No. 1 figure skater

Dwayne Li, at age 16, is already New Zealand’s highest-achieving figure skater in international competitions. He was the first New Zealand ice-skater to compete at the Winter Youth Olympic Games and significantly won a bronze medal at the global event in Gangwon, Korea, earlier this year. Li is...

www.times.co.nz

ETA - Yanhao/Dwayne Li’s coach, Bess Cao, shared this 2+ minute NZL news story on her student last month:

Bess Team on Instagram: "Hello everyone! Thanks to @tvnz.official and @jenny.suo for such an amazing report. I am incredibly honored to be featured on television news once again. A heartfelt thank you goes out to New Zealand and to all those who hav

277 likes, 1 comments - besst_on_ice on November 12, 2024: "Hello everyone! Thanks to @tvnz.official and @jenny.suo for such an amazing report. I am incredibly honored to be featured on television news once again. A heartfelt thank you goes out to New Zealand and to all those who have supported...

www.instagram.com

Li recalls that watching Tom & Jerry’s “Mice Follies” episode may have gotten him 1st interested in skating!

 

[Sylvia]

Jack Gallagher's Team Japan preview (link originally posted in the Japanese news thread in GSD):

[ICE TIME] Japan Looks to Top Record Medal Haul at the Grand Prix Final | SportsLook

After earning seven medals in the Junior and Senior Grand Prix Final competitions in 2023, the 16-skater Japan squad has a good shot at breaking its record.

featured.japan-forward.com

 

[TAHbKA]

Greetings from the rink, te junior dancers are finishing.

The arena is quite warm, that's the good part. The bad parts:
the chairs are a really uncomfrotable plastic; there is no wifi and no electricity for the press;
there are the hokey glasses on sections D E F G and N O P Q. The short sides of the rink don't have the hokey glasses. I don't see an overhead camera, so there is a chance the broadcasting will be decent.

 

[TAHbKA]

I will be uploading some bad photos to instagram

 

[TAHbKA]

Junior men practice - only 3 are here

 

[TAHbKA]

There are no pidgeons, but there is a sparrow

 

[TAHbKA]

NZL, KOR and USA are here. The rest are not yet

 

[TAHbKA]

Vaclavic's music is Lacrimosa on steroids

 

[TAHbKA]

ok, we are all set now!

 

[TAHbKA]

Seo and Sanchez did their LPS, Li did his SP.
Sanchez didn't do the jumps, Li landed an okish 3A

 

[TAHbKA]

Skipped the junior pairs, greetings from the junior ladies. All 6 are here.

 

[TAHbKA]

Wang 3z3t her entrance to the jump is weird - her body is almost parallel to the rink, 2a, she has an incredibly cool spin righ after a 3erm.. lutz, I guess.

 

[TAHbKA]

Gladki stepped out from he rfirst jump, but the rest were quite clean. Obvioulsy hate her (LP) music choice.

 

[TAHbKA]

Nakai is magical. She is everything that is great about the Japanese ladies' skating - the deep knee on the jjmps landing, the soft skating, the big jumps.

 

[TAHbKA]

Shimada's jumps are really fast, liked her almost as much as Nakai.
Gladki is not having a good practice - she keeps falling from almost every jump she is attempting

 

[TAHbKA]

Wada popped quite a few jumps. Wang almost bumped into her during Wada's spin, so she dropped it.

 

[TAHbKA]

Kim is a typical Korean skater - everything is ok and it's just so boring. She has a very long limbs, have an impression she may have grown recently - seems like her body is moving forward and her legs are staying behind from time to time.

 

[TAHbKA]

am uploading very short videos to the story and the highlights (seems like my phone camera utterly sucks for the photos, but is good enough for the videos)

 

[TAHbKA]

Nakai is praciticing a 3A speeding up by 30m (across the short side of the rink). Landed, but kida stepped out