Italian figure skating news & updates

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Per his instagram Memola injured himself competing yesterday after falling on the quad lutz (pelvis felt really weird), he's having an MRI tomorrow after having x-rays yesterday and on top of that while waiting for his x-ray results, someone broke into his car and stole his skates and short program costume and Normatecs

Well I guess one has to hope that at least it’s nothing too serious, but I have felt the whole season that he is overdoing himself.

(Aljonas car was also broken in in Torino some months ago, so I guess it’s good advise to not leave anything in your car there )

Oh my goodness. this is awful.

 

[just tuned in]

Per his instagram Memola injured himself competing yesterday after falling on the quad lutz (pelvis felt really weird), he's having an MRI tomorrow after having x-rays yesterday and on top of that while waiting for his x-ray results, someone broke into his car and stole his skates and short program costume and Normatecs

Well I guess one has to hope that at least it’s nothing too serious, but I have felt the whole season that he is overdoing himself.

(Aljonas car was also broken in in Torino some months ago, so I guess it’s good advise to not leave anything in your car there )

Horrific. What will anyone do with Memola's skates and costume? If I were a high-level skater, I might consider putting tracking devices on my skates.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Because of the size of his feet, he has to Franken-construct his own boots. I hope he’s got a partially broken in pair in reserve. And, of course, that he’s not seriously injured.

 

[Andrea82]

2nd Stage of Elite Championship Series.


Pezzetta WD. Gutmann scored 207.31 and increased her lead in the internal ranking. I believe she is virtually unreachable for the Olympic spot with only Nationals to go (given Pezzetta is not entered at Golden Spin). Nationals score are added to the sum of top 2 scores from rest of the season.


1) Gutmann 411.6 (392.58 substacting step sequences)
2) Joos 373.1 (357.2)
3) Pezzetta 371.31 (355.2)
4) Piredda 348.47 (331.77)

Beccari/Guarise and Ghilardi/Ambrosini WD from Pair competition. Both are set for Golden Spin before Nationals. B/G needs to show up there to continue to have hopes because they are behind now (as their terrible Trialeti Trophy score is factored in).

Rizzo did not improve his ranking in Tallinn. However, as said in earlier comments, Memola has other issues now to deal with.

Ice Dance uses another method to calculate rankings.
Before Nationals, I think the situation for 2nd Euro spot is Manni/Roethlisberger 175 and Paolino/Tuba 173.3

 

[Karen-W]

Ice Dance uses another method to calculate rankings.
Before Nationals, I think the situation for 2nd Euro spot is Manni/Roethlisberger 175 and Paolino/Tuba 173.3

The formula for ice dance is the average of the 3 best competition scores + Italian Championships score. If less than 25 points separate the teams then the FISG can take WS into consideration.

Here's what the standings for Ice Dance look like at the moment:

Skater	Competition 1	Competition 2	Competition 3	Comp Average	Italian Championships	Total	Upcoming Competitions
Guigard, Charlene / Fabbri, Marco	195.98​	198.67​	0.00​	197.33​		197.33​	Golden Spin
Manni, Victoria / Roethlisberger, Carlo	181.39​	172.32​	171.43​	175.05​		175.05​
Paolino, Giulia Isabella / Tuba, Andrea	169.52​	176.50​	174.29​	173.44​		173.44​
Dozzi, Leia / Papetti, Pietro	152.25​	158.11​	161.15​	157.17​		157.17​	Santa Claus
Finelli, Laura / Bucciarelli, Massimiliano	150.97​	149.95​	150.54​	150.49​		150.49​
Argentieri, Carlotta / Riva, Francesco	143.40​	158.87​	148.95​	150.41​		150.41​
Cimlova, Denisa / Frasca, Stefano	137.45​	151.34​	160.86​	149.88​		149.88​	Golden Spin
Tali, Noemi Maria / Lafornara, Noah	163.90​	0.00​	0.00​	54.63​		54.63​	Golden Spin

 

[Vagabond]

Horrific. What will anyone do with Memola's skates and costume?

Authorities are looking for a suspect described as very tall and able to do at least double jumps consistently.