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Women, Short Program (warm up groups 1 to 4)
Nargiz Suleymanova
(on being the first skater to open the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2025) I feel really honored to open the World Championship. At my first Junior Worlds, I also skated first, so I’m really excited. (On her performance and seasons best) I am pretty happy with it. There were some small mistakes and I know I can do the jumps better. But this is my first season after my break and to go to the World Championships is really great. (On her goals) To enjoy skating. I started skating again because I missed it. I didn’t compete for three years. (on switching from Germany to Azerbaijan) I thought I needed a fresh start and all my family is from Azerbaijan.
Sofia Samodelkina
Winter University Games bronze medalist
I was surprisingly calm going into it. I have very strong support from my coaches Rafael Arutunian and Elmira Turganova, so I was not worried. In general, I have been training so much on this program that each time I approach the competition more and more confidently. There is some nervousness, but it's minimal, just because it's a competition of this scale. (on the reaction of the
audience) I was very surprised when after the combination the audience screamed so much, I didn't expect that. I did the combination and I thought at one point that I stopped hearing the music. But it's very cool, I'm very happy that I'm here now and that I did my short program so well. (on earning the first spot for the Olympic Games) Yes, of course I am happy about it, but I would like to bring two Olympic spots to my country. (on her goals for the Worlds) My goal is to have clean skates and consistent performances. The most important thing is to perform my program cleanly, as we are working on it. (on whether she is satisfied the skate) I would like to hear what the coaches have to say and after that I will decide whether I am satisfied or not.
Olga Mikutina
2025 National Champion
(Thoughts on qualifying for the free) Great! I was actually pretty nervous today, and I’m grateful that I managed to do the first two jumps, even with the third jump it was still pretty nice to skate here after all I experienced in January. I had a tough time, so I’m really happy to be back. (Did you know you qualified for the Olympic spot) No, I thought it’s after the free skate! That’s huge. I’m very proud. (on her health issues) I had an illness, not an injury. I don’t want to say too much, but there was some time where I was ill and in the hospital. After a month I was back on the ice, so I had 6 weeks to prepare for Worlds. I think I did a good job with my team. (on what contributed to your confidence today) Confidence is just a mentality, you push yourself and show it to the outside. To be honest, I was very nervous inside, but I tried to fake it. Like they say, fake it till you make it.
Livia Kaiser
2025 National silver medalist
(on coming back from injury) Of course I prepared for this day, this is the biggest competition in the season. It was challenging to compete here, but I was happy that I was able to come out and compete here. We decided to come here and it made me really happy. (on her injury) It was an accident on ice, I was doing my free program, then another skater hit me and her blade cut my calf in 8cm, also the muscle got injured. And I had to get surgery, and I couldn't walk or stand on my left leg for 3 weeks. But after surgery, everything went well. I had to rebuilt strength on my muscle. I still feel the pain and muscle is tight. Because the screw is inside.
Julia Sauter
2025 European Championships 7th
I am happy with today's performance, not the best, but I got it done. I was really prepared for this event but since Friday, I was under the weather and practice wasn't great. Coming into this event, I told myself to be present, be here. I did do that. I got so much support from everyone here. It helped me a lot.
Alysa Liu
2022 World bronze medalist
This program was so emotional in itself so I feel like I was going to cry anyways, but it made it so much more meaningful for it to be Worlds again, because it was my last competition before I left. It’s really surreal being back here. (on the cartwheel coming out for the warm up) I mean, I love cartwheels, and there was so much space there, you know what I’m saying? I saw the opportunity, so I took it. I don’t know if it relaxed me, but it made me more excited. (on the tribute tonight from Skating Club of Boston) I’m just really glad that a lot of us could be here to skate, because it kind of feels like we’re skating for them. They really loved skating, dedicated so much of their lives, and it’s nice to be able to be here and do it. (on the crowd response) I loved the crowd.
Lara Naki Gutmann
2024 GP Finlandia Trophy bronze medalist
I felt maybe some tension, but it’s normal, I guess. I really tried to give it my best with confidence in the beginning, but unfortunately, the first jump didn’t work out the way I wanted (she fell). In the last season and the last days of training (leading up), this never happened, so this was unexpected. But I just got up and did my usual program. I think the other elements were fine, and I tried to come back with the performance and step sequence. I’m really sorry — despite the score not being that bad, it could have been much better. So in the free, I will do better. I’m happy I was able to advance. (on her Short Program to “Squid Game”) I had been looking a lot for music last season, and my coach found this Squid Game soundtrack. I had also seen the TV show — the TV show is really interesting. It is deep, reflecting (intricacies) society. I thought it was unique, and I could do something original.
Lorine Schild
2024 National Champion
(on her performance) I am very happy with my skating and I am very happy with my combination – it’s the best one of this season. A was a bit off on the loop, usually I can do it more cleanly, but it’s ok, it’s done. I think I maybe lost some levels on the spin because the score is high but it could be higher. We will check this later. (on getting an Olympic spot for France and whether she was nervous because of that) Yes, of course, I was nervous about it, but we worked a lot on it, so now I know that I just have to do my job and if it's done, I will get it. So I am more concentrated on doing my job and doing what I've trained before and obviously on the result after. (on her late injury and whether it affected her preparations for the Worlds) Now it's completely healed. So it's very good, I don't feel pain anymore, so I could prepare very well. (on her goals for the championships) I would like to make the top 15, but I'm more concentrated on doing what I have to do and we will see the result after.
Wakaba Higuchi
2024 GP Skate America Champion, 2018 World silver medalist
My performance today was the best for this season so far I felt. I haven't checked the detailed scores and levels yet, but my jumps were really good I thought. (on her season’s best score) I was nervous a bit, but I felt so good today. I think this was my best skating at worlds. I was skating 6th in the group, so I was able to switch my mood after the 6 minutes warm up. I think this was my best short program performance including run-throughs in practice recently. (on heading into the Free Skating) I would like to prepare for the Free Skating by taking care of my physical condition and mental condition. I would like to carry mistake-free performance in the free. This is my last competition (in this season). I want to skate with feeling myself, and deliver it without thinking about too many things.
Women, Short Program (warm up groups 1 to 4)
Nargiz Suleymanova
(on being the first skater to open the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2025) I feel really honored to open the World Championship. At my first Junior Worlds, I also skated first, so I’m really excited. (On her performance and seasons best) I am pretty happy with it. There were some small mistakes and I know I can do the jumps better. But this is my first season after my break and to go to the World Championships is really great. (On her goals) To enjoy skating. I started skating again because I missed it. I didn’t compete for three years. (on switching from Germany to Azerbaijan) I thought I needed a fresh start and all my family is from Azerbaijan.
Sofia Samodelkina
Winter University Games bronze medalist
I was surprisingly calm going into it. I have very strong support from my coaches Rafael Arutunian and Elmira Turganova, so I was not worried. In general, I have been training so much on this program that each time I approach the competition more and more confidently. There is some nervousness, but it's minimal, just because it's a competition of this scale. (on the reaction of the
audience) I was very surprised when after the combination the audience screamed so much, I didn't expect that. I did the combination and I thought at one point that I stopped hearing the music. But it's very cool, I'm very happy that I'm here now and that I did my short program so well. (on earning the first spot for the Olympic Games) Yes, of course I am happy about it, but I would like to bring two Olympic spots to my country. (on her goals for the Worlds) My goal is to have clean skates and consistent performances. The most important thing is to perform my program cleanly, as we are working on it. (on whether she is satisfied the skate) I would like to hear what the coaches have to say and after that I will decide whether I am satisfied or not.
Olga Mikutina
2025 National Champion
(Thoughts on qualifying for the free) Great! I was actually pretty nervous today, and I’m grateful that I managed to do the first two jumps, even with the third jump it was still pretty nice to skate here after all I experienced in January. I had a tough time, so I’m really happy to be back. (Did you know you qualified for the Olympic spot) No, I thought it’s after the free skate! That’s huge. I’m very proud. (on her health issues) I had an illness, not an injury. I don’t want to say too much, but there was some time where I was ill and in the hospital. After a month I was back on the ice, so I had 6 weeks to prepare for Worlds. I think I did a good job with my team. (on what contributed to your confidence today) Confidence is just a mentality, you push yourself and show it to the outside. To be honest, I was very nervous inside, but I tried to fake it. Like they say, fake it till you make it.
Livia Kaiser
2025 National silver medalist
(on coming back from injury) Of course I prepared for this day, this is the biggest competition in the season. It was challenging to compete here, but I was happy that I was able to come out and compete here. We decided to come here and it made me really happy. (on her injury) It was an accident on ice, I was doing my free program, then another skater hit me and her blade cut my calf in 8cm, also the muscle got injured. And I had to get surgery, and I couldn't walk or stand on my left leg for 3 weeks. But after surgery, everything went well. I had to rebuilt strength on my muscle. I still feel the pain and muscle is tight. Because the screw is inside.
Julia Sauter
2025 European Championships 7th
I am happy with today's performance, not the best, but I got it done. I was really prepared for this event but since Friday, I was under the weather and practice wasn't great. Coming into this event, I told myself to be present, be here. I did do that. I got so much support from everyone here. It helped me a lot.
Alysa Liu
2022 World bronze medalist
This program was so emotional in itself so I feel like I was going to cry anyways, but it made it so much more meaningful for it to be Worlds again, because it was my last competition before I left. It’s really surreal being back here. (on the cartwheel coming out for the warm up) I mean, I love cartwheels, and there was so much space there, you know what I’m saying? I saw the opportunity, so I took it. I don’t know if it relaxed me, but it made me more excited. (on the tribute tonight from Skating Club of Boston) I’m just really glad that a lot of us could be here to skate, because it kind of feels like we’re skating for them. They really loved skating, dedicated so much of their lives, and it’s nice to be able to be here and do it. (on the crowd response) I loved the crowd.
Lara Naki Gutmann
2024 GP Finlandia Trophy bronze medalist
I felt maybe some tension, but it’s normal, I guess. I really tried to give it my best with confidence in the beginning, but unfortunately, the first jump didn’t work out the way I wanted (she fell). In the last season and the last days of training (leading up), this never happened, so this was unexpected. But I just got up and did my usual program. I think the other elements were fine, and I tried to come back with the performance and step sequence. I’m really sorry — despite the score not being that bad, it could have been much better. So in the free, I will do better. I’m happy I was able to advance. (on her Short Program to “Squid Game”) I had been looking a lot for music last season, and my coach found this Squid Game soundtrack. I had also seen the TV show — the TV show is really interesting. It is deep, reflecting (intricacies) society. I thought it was unique, and I could do something original.
Lorine Schild
2024 National Champion
(on her performance) I am very happy with my skating and I am very happy with my combination – it’s the best one of this season. A was a bit off on the loop, usually I can do it more cleanly, but it’s ok, it’s done. I think I maybe lost some levels on the spin because the score is high but it could be higher. We will check this later. (on getting an Olympic spot for France and whether she was nervous because of that) Yes, of course, I was nervous about it, but we worked a lot on it, so now I know that I just have to do my job and if it's done, I will get it. So I am more concentrated on doing my job and doing what I've trained before and obviously on the result after. (on her late injury and whether it affected her preparations for the Worlds) Now it's completely healed. So it's very good, I don't feel pain anymore, so I could prepare very well. (on her goals for the championships) I would like to make the top 15, but I'm more concentrated on doing what I have to do and we will see the result after.
Wakaba Higuchi
2024 GP Skate America Champion, 2018 World silver medalist
My performance today was the best for this season so far I felt. I haven't checked the detailed scores and levels yet, but my jumps were really good I thought. (on her season’s best score) I was nervous a bit, but I felt so good today. I think this was my best skating at worlds. I was skating 6th in the group, so I was able to switch my mood after the 6 minutes warm up. I think this was my best short program performance including run-throughs in practice recently. (on heading into the Free Skating) I would like to prepare for the Free Skating by taking care of my physical condition and mental condition. I would like to carry mistake-free performance in the free. This is my last competition (in this season). I want to skate with feeling myself, and deliver it without thinking about too many things.
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Women, Short Program (warm up group 5)
Haein Lee
2023 World silver medalist & Four Continents Champion
I’m relieved that I was able to skate today without any major mistakes. Since Olympic qualification is on the line, I think all the skaters felt some pressure. But everyone is doing their best, and I wanted to do my best too and show a good performance. Earlier this season, I struggled with nerves during my programs, and that was disappointing. But for this competition, even though I was nervous, I really tried to enjoy it and stay happy on the ice. (on what she wanted to show today) In my step sequence, the tempo had been getting too fast and felt lacking at times, so I adjusted it to be a bit more relaxed, and I think that part came out well — I’m satisfied. The audience clapped a lot every time I jumped, and that really gave me strength.
Madeline Schizas
2025 National Champion
I was so happy to put out a skate I was proud of today. It’s been a real up and down season, I’ve had such a hard time with some of the tech elements, and they all came together today, so I’m really happy. It says a lot about my training, about how I skate in practice, so much work on the leveled elements, which are the spins and the step sequences. We’ve had specialist coaches, we’ve had every kind of help available, and I really took all of that and was able to show it today.
Ekaterina Kurakova
2025 National Champion
Oh well, I did make some mistakes, but I was expecting a clean skate today. I’m still happy with performance today, because 4 years ago I did worst. It was a big group of ladies in locker room, and everybody skated really clean and really great (4 years ago.) I was really happy for them, but… remembering that, the pressure for me today was tough. The last time I did a triple Lutz, I didn’t qualify (to Free Skating). So I was happy that I landed the Lutz, “ok, I’m still standing. I can do it.” It was tough, but I gave everything out there what I could do today. Of course I could have done better, but I'm really happy today.
Kimmy Repond
2024 World Championships 5th
I felt great during the performance and after. It was an incredible audience, and it was fun to skate. I was very happy to perform a clean program for the last time (season). (on consistent performance this season and close to medaling at Europeans) I was hoping to get closer to the 70s and I’m not sure why the score was lower, but one of my goals is to reach 200 points (total). (on Olympic spots and pressure) I felt more motivation and excitement today. I wanted to enjoy it and didn’t think about those things on the ice. (on heading into the Free Skating) I do have confidence. I changed my free program a few days ago and rearranged the sequence of jumps, and I feel much better. (on about the venue and crowd) To be honest, I didn’t see my picture on the boards because I was focused on the crowd — but my sister said it looked great! It was so much fun and easier to perform with a big crowd. I tried not to get too excited (to minimize mistakes).
Mone Chiba
2024 Four Continents Champion
I am very happy with the fact that I was able to skate as I practice every day. Instead of checking off the list of elements, I was truly able to enjoy this “Last Dance”. I did not want to repeat last year’s problem being too nervous. I decided to enjoy the moment as a result I was able to do what I am capable of doing. (on her smile) It was a true smile enjoying this opportunity to skate my last short program of the season. (on the crowd) Last year, the cheering crowd was rather intimidating, but this year, during the preparation period I visualized the energy of crowd and today I could use it positively.
Niina Petrokina
2025 European Champion
I was really nervous, but I put my feelings away, I was just doing my work and my goal was to do all elements for the 4th level. The only mistake was in the combination. I did a double toe instead of a triple toe. Everything was OK and I think I got a good spot. (on being extra nervous or rather motivated coming after the victory at Europeans) Of course motivated. I'm always really motivated, but sometimes I just have not so much energy for doing my best, but I will try to relax a little bit tomorrow and to show my maximum again in the free program. (on adjustments in the free skate after the Europeans) I didn't change anything about the elements but we just worked more on details, on spin rotations like doing them faster and for the emotional part too. So yeah, I try to enjoy this competition because it's the last one in the season and I just want to have a good smile and positive motivation.
Women, Short Program (warm up group 5)
Haein Lee
2023 World silver medalist & Four Continents Champion
I’m relieved that I was able to skate today without any major mistakes. Since Olympic qualification is on the line, I think all the skaters felt some pressure. But everyone is doing their best, and I wanted to do my best too and show a good performance. Earlier this season, I struggled with nerves during my programs, and that was disappointing. But for this competition, even though I was nervous, I really tried to enjoy it and stay happy on the ice. (on what she wanted to show today) In my step sequence, the tempo had been getting too fast and felt lacking at times, so I adjusted it to be a bit more relaxed, and I think that part came out well — I’m satisfied. The audience clapped a lot every time I jumped, and that really gave me strength.
Madeline Schizas
2025 National Champion
I was so happy to put out a skate I was proud of today. It’s been a real up and down season, I’ve had such a hard time with some of the tech elements, and they all came together today, so I’m really happy. It says a lot about my training, about how I skate in practice, so much work on the leveled elements, which are the spins and the step sequences. We’ve had specialist coaches, we’ve had every kind of help available, and I really took all of that and was able to show it today.
Ekaterina Kurakova
2025 National Champion
Oh well, I did make some mistakes, but I was expecting a clean skate today. I’m still happy with performance today, because 4 years ago I did worst. It was a big group of ladies in locker room, and everybody skated really clean and really great (4 years ago.) I was really happy for them, but… remembering that, the pressure for me today was tough. The last time I did a triple Lutz, I didn’t qualify (to Free Skating). So I was happy that I landed the Lutz, “ok, I’m still standing. I can do it.” It was tough, but I gave everything out there what I could do today. Of course I could have done better, but I'm really happy today.
Kimmy Repond
2024 World Championships 5th
I felt great during the performance and after. It was an incredible audience, and it was fun to skate. I was very happy to perform a clean program for the last time (season). (on consistent performance this season and close to medaling at Europeans) I was hoping to get closer to the 70s and I’m not sure why the score was lower, but one of my goals is to reach 200 points (total). (on Olympic spots and pressure) I felt more motivation and excitement today. I wanted to enjoy it and didn’t think about those things on the ice. (on heading into the Free Skating) I do have confidence. I changed my free program a few days ago and rearranged the sequence of jumps, and I feel much better. (on about the venue and crowd) To be honest, I didn’t see my picture on the boards because I was focused on the crowd — but my sister said it looked great! It was so much fun and easier to perform with a big crowd. I tried not to get too excited (to minimize mistakes).
Mone Chiba
2024 Four Continents Champion
I am very happy with the fact that I was able to skate as I practice every day. Instead of checking off the list of elements, I was truly able to enjoy this “Last Dance”. I did not want to repeat last year’s problem being too nervous. I decided to enjoy the moment as a result I was able to do what I am capable of doing. (on her smile) It was a true smile enjoying this opportunity to skate my last short program of the season. (on the crowd) Last year, the cheering crowd was rather intimidating, but this year, during the preparation period I visualized the energy of crowd and today I could use it positively.
Niina Petrokina
2025 European Champion
I was really nervous, but I put my feelings away, I was just doing my work and my goal was to do all elements for the 4th level. The only mistake was in the combination. I did a double toe instead of a triple toe. Everything was OK and I think I got a good spot. (on being extra nervous or rather motivated coming after the victory at Europeans) Of course motivated. I'm always really motivated, but sometimes I just have not so much energy for doing my best, but I will try to relax a little bit tomorrow and to show my maximum again in the free program. (on adjustments in the free skate after the Europeans) I didn't change anything about the elements but we just worked more on details, on spin rotations like doing them faster and for the emotional part too. So yeah, I try to enjoy this competition because it's the last one in the season and I just want to have a good smile and positive motivation.
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Women, Short Program (warm up group 6)
Nina Pinzarrone
2025 & 2024 European bronze medalist
I’m quite happy with today’s short program. I was nervous about double Axel, it could have been better, could have been worse. I could have been fall over if I didn’t have good control on it. So I’m happy that I stayed on my feet after the double Axel. I really enjoyed my performance here, in front of the American crowd. (on her injury) I had this injury on my foot before the Europeans. It’s not a bad injury, but mentally this hit me a bit. (on pressure for being the only skater from Belgium) I know I’m the only one (representing in woman skating), and whole country of Belgium is looking at me, waiting for me to get Olympic spots, but I try to not think about it. Because I know what kind of pressure it can give…so I said to myself “Do your best, then spots will come. If there are 2 spots, then it's good.” Of course I’m hoping for as many as spots I could get, also for Loena (Hendrickx) I’m hoping to get more spots, unfortunately she is injured and she couldn’t compete here.
Anastasiia Gubanova
2025 European silver medalist & 2024 European Champion
(on her performance) I don’t know what happened. I hope that it will be the worst thing that ever happened in my life. Amber Glenn (USA) 2024 GP Final Champion, 2024 & 2025 National Champion I’m obviously very disappointed right now. It’s always hard to come back after a fall. My coach, Damon Allen, told me after the skate that he was proud of me for pulling through with the rest of the performance, but of course, I’m still disappointed. (on the pride flag) I’m happy to be a representative of a community and to be a voice to a community that doesn’t have much of a voice in the world right now.
Isabeau Levito
2024 World silver medalist
I’m so happy and relieved right now. Seriously, after that injury, after Skate America, I really thought my season was over. To be honest, the injury kind of traumatized me a little bit. But I’m so grateful for everyone who helped me, and for my federation for believing in me and supporting me to make it here. That moment when I finished my program was incredibly emotional. I just felt so much relief and happiness. I’m really glad I got to perform this program one more time this season because I love it so much. I haven’t decided yet, but I definitely wouldn’t mind keeping this program for another season, I just love it so much.
Kaori Sakamoto
2024 & 2023 World Champion
It was a fight against pressure and myself. There were some moments where I was losing but I was determined to fight till the end. Coming into today my condition was pretty good. Short program has been my sore spots for years. Somehow I am not very comfortable with the short. Again I am in the position to come over, but I feel more comfortable with my free program. I am a person who can easily forget days unpleasant things, so I will start fresh again tomorrow. My strong desires; wanting to win and wanting to skate my best are the source of pressure and stress, but I will overcome that for the free program.
Chaeyeon Kim
2025 Four Continents Champion & 2024 World bronze medalist
I usually try hard not to make many mistakes, and that’s why I trained even more for this competition. But I was very nervous in this competition, and because of that, what I had practiced didn’t come through, so it was a bit upsetting. Until coming here, I had a lot of good results, so I think that gave me growing confidence. But maybe that confidence turned into a bit of pressure at this competition, so I’m a little disappointed. (on heading into the Free Skating) I hope I can stay relaxed and just focus on myself. I’ll use tomorrow’s practice to work on the parts where I made mistakes today.
Women, Short Program (warm up group 6)
Nina Pinzarrone
2025 & 2024 European bronze medalist
I’m quite happy with today’s short program. I was nervous about double Axel, it could have been better, could have been worse. I could have been fall over if I didn’t have good control on it. So I’m happy that I stayed on my feet after the double Axel. I really enjoyed my performance here, in front of the American crowd. (on her injury) I had this injury on my foot before the Europeans. It’s not a bad injury, but mentally this hit me a bit. (on pressure for being the only skater from Belgium) I know I’m the only one (representing in woman skating), and whole country of Belgium is looking at me, waiting for me to get Olympic spots, but I try to not think about it. Because I know what kind of pressure it can give…so I said to myself “Do your best, then spots will come. If there are 2 spots, then it's good.” Of course I’m hoping for as many as spots I could get, also for Loena (Hendrickx) I’m hoping to get more spots, unfortunately she is injured and she couldn’t compete here.
Anastasiia Gubanova
2025 European silver medalist & 2024 European Champion
(on her performance) I don’t know what happened. I hope that it will be the worst thing that ever happened in my life. Amber Glenn (USA) 2024 GP Final Champion, 2024 & 2025 National Champion I’m obviously very disappointed right now. It’s always hard to come back after a fall. My coach, Damon Allen, told me after the skate that he was proud of me for pulling through with the rest of the performance, but of course, I’m still disappointed. (on the pride flag) I’m happy to be a representative of a community and to be a voice to a community that doesn’t have much of a voice in the world right now.
Isabeau Levito
2024 World silver medalist
I’m so happy and relieved right now. Seriously, after that injury, after Skate America, I really thought my season was over. To be honest, the injury kind of traumatized me a little bit. But I’m so grateful for everyone who helped me, and for my federation for believing in me and supporting me to make it here. That moment when I finished my program was incredibly emotional. I just felt so much relief and happiness. I’m really glad I got to perform this program one more time this season because I love it so much. I haven’t decided yet, but I definitely wouldn’t mind keeping this program for another season, I just love it so much.
Kaori Sakamoto
2024 & 2023 World Champion
It was a fight against pressure and myself. There were some moments where I was losing but I was determined to fight till the end. Coming into today my condition was pretty good. Short program has been my sore spots for years. Somehow I am not very comfortable with the short. Again I am in the position to come over, but I feel more comfortable with my free program. I am a person who can easily forget days unpleasant things, so I will start fresh again tomorrow. My strong desires; wanting to win and wanting to skate my best are the source of pressure and stress, but I will overcome that for the free program.
Chaeyeon Kim
2025 Four Continents Champion & 2024 World bronze medalist
I usually try hard not to make many mistakes, and that’s why I trained even more for this competition. But I was very nervous in this competition, and because of that, what I had practiced didn’t come through, so it was a bit upsetting. Until coming here, I had a lot of good results, so I think that gave me growing confidence. But maybe that confidence turned into a bit of pressure at this competition, so I’m a little disappointed. (on heading into the Free Skating) I hope I can stay relaxed and just focus on myself. I’ll use tomorrow’s practice to work on the parts where I made mistakes today.
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Pairs, Short Program (warm up groups 1 to 4)
Gabriella Izzo/Luc Maierhofer
2025 National silver medalists
Izzo: For me it’s really special, Boston’s my home. I was sitting in the locker room as I was hearing the remembrance, it was people I knew, it was really touching. I looked out and I saw Maxim Naumov, who smiled at me right before I went. He’s my roommate and it’s just a lot of emotions for me above everything, and it’s just very special for me. (on training environment) Right now we split time between Salzburg in Austria and Boston. We spent most of the summer in Austria, then in January, I started my last semester at school, so we came back to Boston before this event. I graduate soon! I study pre-law at Harvard. (on citizenship) It’s a work in progress. Obviously, the stronger results we show the stronger our case is, so we just keep working for it, and wherever it takes us, it takes us. (on skating for Austria) Because he (Maierhofer) is from Austria? Also (former Austrian Champion) Viktor Pfeifer, I had traveled with him previously on competitions, so he had known my name and then also Drew Meekins, who I had spent a little bit of time with in Colorado. When Luc was looking for a partner, my name came up. (on what made you come back from retirement) Actually, Luc played a very large part in it, because when I first went out for the tryout I wasn’t sure really what I wanted to do, it was obviously a big decision, and there are a lot of emotions that come with skating, and it can be hard to continue sometimes when you find yourself losing motivation. But then, from just the very first week I started skating with him, I was like, oh, this is something I want to do again. I felt that passion again. I don’t know if he knows that, but he played a very large role in it.
Ekaterina Geynish/Dmitrii Chigirev
2025 Asian Winter Games Champions
Chigirev: (on their debut at Worlds) The debut, as it seemed to us, was more or less successful. There were, of course, some minor mistakes, but not everything is supposed to happen in the debut season. I would like to thank the audience for such a great support, a gigantic energy, even at the end of the program we got goosebumps, it was so nice. (nomination for the award for best newcomers) Basically, it's nothing, just a nice thing that somehow concerns us, because it's the debut season after all, even such an award for the debut season - it's still nice to be noticed. (on their preparations for the Worlds after the 4 Continents Championships) We had a two-week training camp in Colorado. We had big plans for high altitude training and, as we think, it gave an absolute result. In this respect, it is a kind of a legal doping.
Geynish: (on their debut at Worlds) I'll say for myself that I'm thrilled. A few years ago I could not even imagine that I would perform in such an arena with so many spectators. It's very cool. (nomination for the award for best newcomers) I think we didn't expect that to happen anyway.
Sofia Holichenko/Artem Darenskiy
2025 World Junior silver medalists
Holichenko: Today it was hard, maybe because we had two competitions back to back (Junior Worlds and Worlds). It is also the end of the season.
Darenskiy: I had expected a little bit higher score, maybe a seasons best. We did only one run through of the Short Program and Free Skating in practice. After Junior Worlds, my leg got worse (he suffers from varicose veins). But we wanted to come here and fight for an Olympic spot for Ukraine. (on the war in Ukraine) It is not easy to keep our focus. There was another air attack (on Kharkiv) and the city center is burning.
Alisa Efimova/Misha Mitrofanov
2025 National Champions
Efimova: It felt fantastic from the moment we stepped on the ice today. This is a very special program for us. All the members of our club, I could hear their voices, I was thinking about them before the skate. I was thinking about everyone (from the Skating Club of Boston). It was very emotional. I am very thankful to be in front of the Boston crowd.
Mitrofanov: We were able to stay on our feet but we lost some levels technically. We really tried to emote the program as much as possible. The Skating Club of Boston came together, we all came together and without them we wouldn't be here today. Now we recover for tomorrow.
Kelly Ann Laurin/Loucas Ethier
2025 National bronze medalists
Laurin: It was an amazing skate for us. I'm very proud of us because it's so much more pressure, today and to be perfect like that. It's really fun to know that everything we're doing in practice is working here - and the stress we have here is less because we trained well.
Ethier: A few days ago I got really, really sick and it really set me back. But I think the way we trained before (this competition) really allowed us to have our best performance of the year. We trusted our training. We train about once a week with Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps and we do that because it really motivates us since they're world champions. But I think it motivates them too, pushing the younger generation up. And they've always been good role models for us since we started our senior career to guide us and be our mentors since the beginning of our career. We're really grateful for them.
Ioulia Chtchetinina/Michal Wozniak
2025 National Champions
Chtchetinina: I am very, very disappointed because we’ve been practicing really well in front of this event, but it comes down to what you do on the night. I didn’t do my job today, I did two big mistakes, so I want to apologize in front of my partner, in front of my coaches, because they did an amazing job and I couldn’t handle my nerves today.
Wozniak: Just like Ioulia said, we had a really good preparation, we didn’t skate that kind of a program for a long time now. There is disappointment because we got a score that was below what we expected, what we are capable of. I feel disappointed, competition is disappointment, but I’m still proud of all the work we’ve done, for how we worked. I don’t have any kind of regrets whatsoever. There are people who don’t have this opportunity, and I always try not to lose this perspective, just to still be grateful. Even though are sometimes hard weeks, full weeks, months, and especially in these moments, you can’t lose this perspective. Because that was just one bad skate next to all the good ones we had, to put it into perspective.
Anastasia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
2023 & 2022 World Junior silver medalists
Golubeva: Today I didn't feel much stress and I enjoyed skating here.
Giotopoulos Moore: (on how they felt) Surprisingly she is normally other way around, but today when she went out there and started skating, it (the pressure) ran away. I was really happy with our skating today. But I was really confused when I went out there, because people were laughing, I was like “Did I miss something, or something undone (on costume)? And I realized what was showing on big screen. (on heading into the Free Skating) I think we’ll just go to like other competitions, just go out and do the best job we can do. (on injuries) I was having some lower back issues
Anastasia Vaipan-Law/Luke Digby
2025 National Champions
Digby: Yeah, we really enjoyed it out there. The crowd was super supportive. We just really enjoyed the whole performance. I felt pretty calm, and especially since we’ve had a great season so far, so I was just looking forward to just continuing to showdown. As a team, we’ve constantly been pushing since the offseason after last season. We’ve tried to push the levels, push the GOE, and just our general connection on the ice with the components. We’ve just been trying to improve everything. (on lost luggage) We arrived Saturday afternoon and mine arrived, coach’s arrived, but not Ana’s. We got it Monday, and then we trained Monday evening. From that point, it was business as usual. We waited at the airport, got the skates, and then went straight to practice! But we’re used to dealing with these situations, so it didn’t affect us in any way.
Vaipan-Law: (on today’s skate) We thoroughly enjoyed it, yes. I mean, the crowd is amazing, and obviously we skated well. We thought we were pretty pleased with what we did. (on lost luggage) It was just a mix-up with baggage tags and flights, things like this. It just was a bit complicated, but we got it back! (on nerves) Well, speaking for myself, I feel like I was quite surprised at how I felt. I felt pretty good. I don’t feel the pressure of what this competition is. I’ve managed to take it apart that way a little bit for me personally.
Daria Danilova/Michel Tsiba
2025 National Champions
Tsiba: (on coming too close to the boards and she fell) We have skated in smaller rinks before. But when this thing happens, I was like “Just go go go! It doesn't matter if there is no space.” We worked hard, and trained hard. Anyway we were proud of us. I really don’t know what happend, unfortunately it happened at worlds. The rest of the elements was great, almost (our) maximum, but then I don’t know what happened (when she fell). But we tried to save, fight for the next element. It was an unexpected fall. I think we were both like ‘What’s the hell happening.’
Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud
2025 Four Continents bronze medalists
Pereira: We were super prepared for this event, super prepared in practice, and there was no doubt in my mind that we could skate a clean program today (but that didn't happen). I honestly feel like this is the most confident we've been for a competition. It's really disappointing to not put out the skate that we were hoping for. But we have so much good training backing us I don't think it will be a problem to step foot in the rink tomorrow and feel that same amount of confidence. We've come back from skates that we're not so proud of before and we have grit and determination to move on for tomorrow.
Michaud: I think there was a lot of great things in that skate. The opening was fantastic, the twist, side by side toes but when things go up in the air things can happen. Like Lia said, we've had some really great training so we're going to take that into tomorrow and take that confidence. We're also training for next year (the Olympics).
Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel
2023 European bronze medalists
Kunkel: I don’t know what to say. Our preparation was very good, our practices were clean. We were clean in the six minutes warm up. I don't know what we should have done differently.
Hocke: We trained for every situation, we did six minutes, go off the ice, costume, everything and I just, I can't even cry at the moment because I don't know what happened. It's hard to say, it's not that I'm ashamed of what I have shown but it's just even like the worst practice ever. Actually we were in a great mood, we were just excited to go out, of course a little bit nervous but not overly nervous and we knew we could do it because we, as Robert said, we had a great six minutes, we had a great practice this morning, we were ready. (on still making the Free Skating) It's nothing that I ever thought I have to worry about to be
honest, it might sound a bit arrogant but it was not even on my mind that I would not be able to make it to the free. We have another chance so we have to grab it.
Pairs, Short Program (warm up groups 1 to 4)
Gabriella Izzo/Luc Maierhofer
2025 National silver medalists
Izzo: For me it’s really special, Boston’s my home. I was sitting in the locker room as I was hearing the remembrance, it was people I knew, it was really touching. I looked out and I saw Maxim Naumov, who smiled at me right before I went. He’s my roommate and it’s just a lot of emotions for me above everything, and it’s just very special for me. (on training environment) Right now we split time between Salzburg in Austria and Boston. We spent most of the summer in Austria, then in January, I started my last semester at school, so we came back to Boston before this event. I graduate soon! I study pre-law at Harvard. (on citizenship) It’s a work in progress. Obviously, the stronger results we show the stronger our case is, so we just keep working for it, and wherever it takes us, it takes us. (on skating for Austria) Because he (Maierhofer) is from Austria? Also (former Austrian Champion) Viktor Pfeifer, I had traveled with him previously on competitions, so he had known my name and then also Drew Meekins, who I had spent a little bit of time with in Colorado. When Luc was looking for a partner, my name came up. (on what made you come back from retirement) Actually, Luc played a very large part in it, because when I first went out for the tryout I wasn’t sure really what I wanted to do, it was obviously a big decision, and there are a lot of emotions that come with skating, and it can be hard to continue sometimes when you find yourself losing motivation. But then, from just the very first week I started skating with him, I was like, oh, this is something I want to do again. I felt that passion again. I don’t know if he knows that, but he played a very large role in it.
Ekaterina Geynish/Dmitrii Chigirev
2025 Asian Winter Games Champions
Chigirev: (on their debut at Worlds) The debut, as it seemed to us, was more or less successful. There were, of course, some minor mistakes, but not everything is supposed to happen in the debut season. I would like to thank the audience for such a great support, a gigantic energy, even at the end of the program we got goosebumps, it was so nice. (nomination for the award for best newcomers) Basically, it's nothing, just a nice thing that somehow concerns us, because it's the debut season after all, even such an award for the debut season - it's still nice to be noticed. (on their preparations for the Worlds after the 4 Continents Championships) We had a two-week training camp in Colorado. We had big plans for high altitude training and, as we think, it gave an absolute result. In this respect, it is a kind of a legal doping.
Geynish: (on their debut at Worlds) I'll say for myself that I'm thrilled. A few years ago I could not even imagine that I would perform in such an arena with so many spectators. It's very cool. (nomination for the award for best newcomers) I think we didn't expect that to happen anyway.
Sofia Holichenko/Artem Darenskiy
2025 World Junior silver medalists
Holichenko: Today it was hard, maybe because we had two competitions back to back (Junior Worlds and Worlds). It is also the end of the season.
Darenskiy: I had expected a little bit higher score, maybe a seasons best. We did only one run through of the Short Program and Free Skating in practice. After Junior Worlds, my leg got worse (he suffers from varicose veins). But we wanted to come here and fight for an Olympic spot for Ukraine. (on the war in Ukraine) It is not easy to keep our focus. There was another air attack (on Kharkiv) and the city center is burning.
Alisa Efimova/Misha Mitrofanov
2025 National Champions
Efimova: It felt fantastic from the moment we stepped on the ice today. This is a very special program for us. All the members of our club, I could hear their voices, I was thinking about them before the skate. I was thinking about everyone (from the Skating Club of Boston). It was very emotional. I am very thankful to be in front of the Boston crowd.
Mitrofanov: We were able to stay on our feet but we lost some levels technically. We really tried to emote the program as much as possible. The Skating Club of Boston came together, we all came together and without them we wouldn't be here today. Now we recover for tomorrow.
Kelly Ann Laurin/Loucas Ethier
2025 National bronze medalists
Laurin: It was an amazing skate for us. I'm very proud of us because it's so much more pressure, today and to be perfect like that. It's really fun to know that everything we're doing in practice is working here - and the stress we have here is less because we trained well.
Ethier: A few days ago I got really, really sick and it really set me back. But I think the way we trained before (this competition) really allowed us to have our best performance of the year. We trusted our training. We train about once a week with Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps and we do that because it really motivates us since they're world champions. But I think it motivates them too, pushing the younger generation up. And they've always been good role models for us since we started our senior career to guide us and be our mentors since the beginning of our career. We're really grateful for them.
Ioulia Chtchetinina/Michal Wozniak
2025 National Champions
Chtchetinina: I am very, very disappointed because we’ve been practicing really well in front of this event, but it comes down to what you do on the night. I didn’t do my job today, I did two big mistakes, so I want to apologize in front of my partner, in front of my coaches, because they did an amazing job and I couldn’t handle my nerves today.
Wozniak: Just like Ioulia said, we had a really good preparation, we didn’t skate that kind of a program for a long time now. There is disappointment because we got a score that was below what we expected, what we are capable of. I feel disappointed, competition is disappointment, but I’m still proud of all the work we’ve done, for how we worked. I don’t have any kind of regrets whatsoever. There are people who don’t have this opportunity, and I always try not to lose this perspective, just to still be grateful. Even though are sometimes hard weeks, full weeks, months, and especially in these moments, you can’t lose this perspective. Because that was just one bad skate next to all the good ones we had, to put it into perspective.
Anastasia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
2023 & 2022 World Junior silver medalists
Golubeva: Today I didn't feel much stress and I enjoyed skating here.
Giotopoulos Moore: (on how they felt) Surprisingly she is normally other way around, but today when she went out there and started skating, it (the pressure) ran away. I was really happy with our skating today. But I was really confused when I went out there, because people were laughing, I was like “Did I miss something, or something undone (on costume)? And I realized what was showing on big screen. (on heading into the Free Skating) I think we’ll just go to like other competitions, just go out and do the best job we can do. (on injuries) I was having some lower back issues
Anastasia Vaipan-Law/Luke Digby
2025 National Champions
Digby: Yeah, we really enjoyed it out there. The crowd was super supportive. We just really enjoyed the whole performance. I felt pretty calm, and especially since we’ve had a great season so far, so I was just looking forward to just continuing to showdown. As a team, we’ve constantly been pushing since the offseason after last season. We’ve tried to push the levels, push the GOE, and just our general connection on the ice with the components. We’ve just been trying to improve everything. (on lost luggage) We arrived Saturday afternoon and mine arrived, coach’s arrived, but not Ana’s. We got it Monday, and then we trained Monday evening. From that point, it was business as usual. We waited at the airport, got the skates, and then went straight to practice! But we’re used to dealing with these situations, so it didn’t affect us in any way.
Vaipan-Law: (on today’s skate) We thoroughly enjoyed it, yes. I mean, the crowd is amazing, and obviously we skated well. We thought we were pretty pleased with what we did. (on lost luggage) It was just a mix-up with baggage tags and flights, things like this. It just was a bit complicated, but we got it back! (on nerves) Well, speaking for myself, I feel like I was quite surprised at how I felt. I felt pretty good. I don’t feel the pressure of what this competition is. I’ve managed to take it apart that way a little bit for me personally.
Daria Danilova/Michel Tsiba
2025 National Champions
Tsiba: (on coming too close to the boards and she fell) We have skated in smaller rinks before. But when this thing happens, I was like “Just go go go! It doesn't matter if there is no space.” We worked hard, and trained hard. Anyway we were proud of us. I really don’t know what happend, unfortunately it happened at worlds. The rest of the elements was great, almost (our) maximum, but then I don’t know what happened (when she fell). But we tried to save, fight for the next element. It was an unexpected fall. I think we were both like ‘What’s the hell happening.’
Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud
2025 Four Continents bronze medalists
Pereira: We were super prepared for this event, super prepared in practice, and there was no doubt in my mind that we could skate a clean program today (but that didn't happen). I honestly feel like this is the most confident we've been for a competition. It's really disappointing to not put out the skate that we were hoping for. But we have so much good training backing us I don't think it will be a problem to step foot in the rink tomorrow and feel that same amount of confidence. We've come back from skates that we're not so proud of before and we have grit and determination to move on for tomorrow.
Michaud: I think there was a lot of great things in that skate. The opening was fantastic, the twist, side by side toes but when things go up in the air things can happen. Like Lia said, we've had some really great training so we're going to take that into tomorrow and take that confidence. We're also training for next year (the Olympics).
Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel
2023 European bronze medalists
Kunkel: I don’t know what to say. Our preparation was very good, our practices were clean. We were clean in the six minutes warm up. I don't know what we should have done differently.
Hocke: We trained for every situation, we did six minutes, go off the ice, costume, everything and I just, I can't even cry at the moment because I don't know what happened. It's hard to say, it's not that I'm ashamed of what I have shown but it's just even like the worst practice ever. Actually we were in a great mood, we were just excited to go out, of course a little bit nervous but not overly nervous and we knew we could do it because we, as Robert said, we had a great six minutes, we had a great practice this morning, we were ready. (on still making the Free Skating) It's nothing that I ever thought I have to worry about to be
honest, it might sound a bit arrogant but it was not even on my mind that I would not be able to make it to the free. We have another chance so we have to grab it.
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Pairs, Short Program (warm up group 5)
Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava
2025 European bronze & 2024 European silver medalists
Berulava: We feel good, it was a good performance, we are really happy. (on their death spiral and any adjustments after the Europeans) Yes, it makes me nervous, it’s very hard for me. We had no adjustments for the death spiral. We are training every day. (on their goals and expectations coming into this competition and after winning the junior worlds) We have high expectations. We are going to try to do our best, we are very motivated. (on their decision to change the short program back to the previous one) We are happy that we changed the program, because this program is our own, our favorite, we love it very
much. The coaching staff said it would be better to change, so we changed it.
Metelkina: (on their decision to change the short program back to the previous one) This program has always been cleaner and, probably, more comfortable in some moments. We had already skated it all last season and we're more relaxed in it. (on their preparation for Worlds after the Junior Worlds) We were in Perm. Due to the fact that the competitions have started quite close to each other, we didn't prepare specially, we just keep the shape we have worked on. So we prepare in the same way. In fact, it's even easier this way, because there are no long breaks between competitions and you don't have to get back into shape after a rest.
Ellie Kam/Danny O’Shea
2024 Four Continents bronze medalists
O'Shea: We are very happy with our performance, we put elements together. Ellie said the practice was better, right? We want to feel confident for each single element. Today we are very happy. A lot of emotions and a lot of excitement are here being in front of home crowd, with the combination of the season’s end we are happy to get that short program done. We’re excited for tomorrow’s Free Skating.
Kam: Honestly our performance wasn’t the best with some mistakes, but I feel really good about. I think it was good skating in front of home crowd, as we have been practicing.
Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko
2024 World Championships 4th
Pavlova: We feel amazing. It was one of the best programs of the season. It was fun, we enjoyed it, and it's the last time we'll skate this program. We wanted to enjoy the program and not focus on the elements. We're very satisfied with our program today. We don't think about the placement right now…this year was very hard. We came here to do our best and we wanted to enjoy it. It's a very tough competition. And we're in America so I'm very excited. The audience was amazing today. They cheered us from the beginning.
Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini
2023 European silver & 2024 European bronze medalists
Ghilardi: Of course, we know we can do much better than this, so there is a bit of sadness for some point, but at least there was the World Championships we missed for so long from 2021, so we really tried to enjoy every second, the beautiful audience in this beautiful arena. Everything was really, really nice. We were happy to fight till the end of our program, because even if there is a mistake you can let go of everything, like okay, it’s fine, but don’t give up, and go out to the end with energy and giving it your all. (on preparation for Worlds) It was a very hard preparation because we really pushed a lot in the last month to be as ready as we can, and we hope that tomorrow we can show our best, do what we can do, and the last Dracula will be tomorrow, so we will try to enjoy every moment of that program from the beginning to the end. (on their Free Skating) We want the best that we can, a beautiful program. We really practice a lot on the free program, the short program too. So just do what we’ve done in the last month. Just copy and paste.
Pairs, Short Program (warm up group 5)
Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava
2025 European bronze & 2024 European silver medalists
Berulava: We feel good, it was a good performance, we are really happy. (on their death spiral and any adjustments after the Europeans) Yes, it makes me nervous, it’s very hard for me. We had no adjustments for the death spiral. We are training every day. (on their goals and expectations coming into this competition and after winning the junior worlds) We have high expectations. We are going to try to do our best, we are very motivated. (on their decision to change the short program back to the previous one) We are happy that we changed the program, because this program is our own, our favorite, we love it very
much. The coaching staff said it would be better to change, so we changed it.
Metelkina: (on their decision to change the short program back to the previous one) This program has always been cleaner and, probably, more comfortable in some moments. We had already skated it all last season and we're more relaxed in it. (on their preparation for Worlds after the Junior Worlds) We were in Perm. Due to the fact that the competitions have started quite close to each other, we didn't prepare specially, we just keep the shape we have worked on. So we prepare in the same way. In fact, it's even easier this way, because there are no long breaks between competitions and you don't have to get back into shape after a rest.
Ellie Kam/Danny O’Shea
2024 Four Continents bronze medalists
O'Shea: We are very happy with our performance, we put elements together. Ellie said the practice was better, right? We want to feel confident for each single element. Today we are very happy. A lot of emotions and a lot of excitement are here being in front of home crowd, with the combination of the season’s end we are happy to get that short program done. We’re excited for tomorrow’s Free Skating.
Kam: Honestly our performance wasn’t the best with some mistakes, but I feel really good about. I think it was good skating in front of home crowd, as we have been practicing.
Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko
2024 World Championships 4th
Pavlova: We feel amazing. It was one of the best programs of the season. It was fun, we enjoyed it, and it's the last time we'll skate this program. We wanted to enjoy the program and not focus on the elements. We're very satisfied with our program today. We don't think about the placement right now…this year was very hard. We came here to do our best and we wanted to enjoy it. It's a very tough competition. And we're in America so I'm very excited. The audience was amazing today. They cheered us from the beginning.
Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini
2023 European silver & 2024 European bronze medalists
Ghilardi: Of course, we know we can do much better than this, so there is a bit of sadness for some point, but at least there was the World Championships we missed for so long from 2021, so we really tried to enjoy every second, the beautiful audience in this beautiful arena. Everything was really, really nice. We were happy to fight till the end of our program, because even if there is a mistake you can let go of everything, like okay, it’s fine, but don’t give up, and go out to the end with energy and giving it your all. (on preparation for Worlds) It was a very hard preparation because we really pushed a lot in the last month to be as ready as we can, and we hope that tomorrow we can show our best, do what we can do, and the last Dracula will be tomorrow, so we will try to enjoy every moment of that program from the beginning to the end. (on their Free Skating) We want the best that we can, a beautiful program. We really practice a lot on the free program, the short program too. So just do what we’ve done in the last month. Just copy and paste.
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Pairs, Short Program (warm up group 6)
Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara
2023 World & 2025 & 2023 Four Continents Champions
Miura: We have been continuously building on this program all season, and I feel we were the most confident today we’ve been so far. We were able to avoid any major mistakes, and got close to a season’s best so we were really happy about that. We enjoyed ourselves, but stayed calm as well. We always made sure to enjoy ourselves during practice too.
Kihara: Although we missed a few levels, we were able to put out what we’ve been working on all season. The audience was really warm and supportive, and we were enjoying ourselves right from the moment we began the six minutes warmup.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps
2024 World Champions
Stellato-Dudek: We had some uncharacteristic mistakes but I thought we fought and still had a good time. Hopefully we can do better tomorrow. It's hard to adjust to mistakes like we had tonight because we haven't had those kind of mistakes in practice. It's hard to adjust when you've not been in that situation before…like on the side by side spins - we where really close to one another and max tried to move farther away - so making adjustments when you haven't done that before is difficult.
Deschamps: We have been practicing good and when we go out there and don't do what we practiced, and don't deliver what we practiced, it's disappointing. Tomorrow we're just going to go out there and do our best and whatever happens, happens. That's what we did at Four continents and that's what we'll do here.
Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin
2025 European Champions & 2024 World bronze medalists
Hase: It was a bit shaky today, we tried to stay focused through the whole program and we're still happy that we could put down a good performance, not a perfect performance, but a good performance. (on feeling pressure being Grand Prix Final champions and European champions) I mean, for sure, we have more expectations going into that competition than last season and we still try not to focus so much on what was in the past and focus on the here and now. We think that we're in a good position for tomorrow. That's what's important and that’s what counts. So let’s hope tomorrow it’s going to be a good program. (on
preparations for the Worlds) We had a 10 day practice camp before Worlds with our team Savin. So we went to the USA already to also adapt to the time zone so that we don't have jet lag and adapt also to the rink size. (on whether they think on their placement) No, we always say, first performance, then score and then placement. If you think too much about placements, it adds even more pressure. So we're here to skate a good program and then see where it brings us..
Volodin: (on their performance) It was a safe skating today. It was solid, but sometimes it's just like that. (on expectations for the free program) We're going to show our performance, a good performance, and what we can do. If we do our job well, it will be good for us.
Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii
2025 European silver & 2023 World bronze medalists
Conti: The tension was so high, the level of the other couples is so high we cannot do any mistakes and we’re happy to skate like this. (on the Free Skating) The free program is a little bit calm, we can breathe, we have more time between the elements and we want to skate to enjoy the moment because the audience is so good, it's beautiful and I want to enjoy our free skating.
Macii: The gap between the couples is very small especially in the short program so a small mistake can change all the results. She (Conti) was more focused tonight and I was really tense. But when I am tense, she likes it. She feels more powerful. We enjoyed skating, it was incredible when we saw a lot of people standing up. So really, really happy that people enjoyed our program and we gave emotions. (on goals and possibly medaling again after 2023) This Worlds is a revenge of what was last year. It was not so bad it was a disappointing, it was the end of a very disappointing season. So this has to be a revenge, all the season was already a revenge, and tonight was the first step, tomorrow we have to do the final step. We want to skate good, we want to enjoy what we do, we want to try to be as clean as possible as we practice, and if it's going to be like that, we will be happy. Then if there is a medal, then it’s even better.
Pairs, Short Program (warm up group 6)
Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara
2023 World & 2025 & 2023 Four Continents Champions
Miura: We have been continuously building on this program all season, and I feel we were the most confident today we’ve been so far. We were able to avoid any major mistakes, and got close to a season’s best so we were really happy about that. We enjoyed ourselves, but stayed calm as well. We always made sure to enjoy ourselves during practice too.
Kihara: Although we missed a few levels, we were able to put out what we’ve been working on all season. The audience was really warm and supportive, and we were enjoying ourselves right from the moment we began the six minutes warmup.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps
2024 World Champions
Stellato-Dudek: We had some uncharacteristic mistakes but I thought we fought and still had a good time. Hopefully we can do better tomorrow. It's hard to adjust to mistakes like we had tonight because we haven't had those kind of mistakes in practice. It's hard to adjust when you've not been in that situation before…like on the side by side spins - we where really close to one another and max tried to move farther away - so making adjustments when you haven't done that before is difficult.
Deschamps: We have been practicing good and when we go out there and don't do what we practiced, and don't deliver what we practiced, it's disappointing. Tomorrow we're just going to go out there and do our best and whatever happens, happens. That's what we did at Four continents and that's what we'll do here.
Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin
2025 European Champions & 2024 World bronze medalists
Hase: It was a bit shaky today, we tried to stay focused through the whole program and we're still happy that we could put down a good performance, not a perfect performance, but a good performance. (on feeling pressure being Grand Prix Final champions and European champions) I mean, for sure, we have more expectations going into that competition than last season and we still try not to focus so much on what was in the past and focus on the here and now. We think that we're in a good position for tomorrow. That's what's important and that’s what counts. So let’s hope tomorrow it’s going to be a good program. (on
preparations for the Worlds) We had a 10 day practice camp before Worlds with our team Savin. So we went to the USA already to also adapt to the time zone so that we don't have jet lag and adapt also to the rink size. (on whether they think on their placement) No, we always say, first performance, then score and then placement. If you think too much about placements, it adds even more pressure. So we're here to skate a good program and then see where it brings us..
Volodin: (on their performance) It was a safe skating today. It was solid, but sometimes it's just like that. (on expectations for the free program) We're going to show our performance, a good performance, and what we can do. If we do our job well, it will be good for us.
Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii
2025 European silver & 2023 World bronze medalists
Conti: The tension was so high, the level of the other couples is so high we cannot do any mistakes and we’re happy to skate like this. (on the Free Skating) The free program is a little bit calm, we can breathe, we have more time between the elements and we want to skate to enjoy the moment because the audience is so good, it's beautiful and I want to enjoy our free skating.
Macii: The gap between the couples is very small especially in the short program so a small mistake can change all the results. She (Conti) was more focused tonight and I was really tense. But when I am tense, she likes it. She feels more powerful. We enjoyed skating, it was incredible when we saw a lot of people standing up. So really, really happy that people enjoyed our program and we gave emotions. (on goals and possibly medaling again after 2023) This Worlds is a revenge of what was last year. It was not so bad it was a disappointing, it was the end of a very disappointing season. So this has to be a revenge, all the season was already a revenge, and tonight was the first step, tomorrow we have to do the final step. We want to skate good, we want to enjoy what we do, we want to try to be as clean as possible as we practice, and if it's going to be like that, we will be happy. Then if there is a medal, then it’s even better.
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QUICK QUOTES
Men, Short Program (warm up groups 3, 4 & 5)
Donovan Carrillo
2025 Challenge Cup silver medalist
The program didn't go as planned today and we'll move on to see whatever's next. I'm so happy that my family - mom, dad and sister are here and got to enjoy it. I moved to Toronto two years ago. It's been fun and a lot of learning and I get to improve my English which I really appreciate because before it was hard to do these interviews. It was difficult to make the move from my hometown to Toronto, but I know it was needed and I needed to expose myself to a big change in my life. The thing I'm learning in Toronto is jumps - like the quads before I used to feel like I need to do something extra - like human powered to make it happen, but now I feel like it's just another jump to do. (My training) now has all the pieces that come together to make all aspects of my skating safer and better.
Nikita Starostin
2025 National Champion
I was not really nervous, it felt kind of like in practice, but of course there was all the people, the judges. Of course it feels different than practice. I was mainly going for the elements, and then I did a big mistake, which cost me my Final. (on changing his Short Program after the European Championships) The change was because I couldn't deliver the previous short program. I would not show the qualities. I rewatched the program, and I decided to change the music. I like this music a lot because giving us a lot of power, a lot of emotions. The meaning of the music is also about not giving up. Even when you're scared, you still go for it.
Andreas Nordeback
2025 National Champion
It was amazing. I know I can do much better. I can do the Axel much better. Overall I’m happy because it’s Worlds, so much pressure. It’s not always perfect. I wasn’t that nervous. Didn’t care about placement. I was like competing against myself. This is my third Worlds so it gets easier. I remember the first time (2023 in Japan). I was in shock with so many people. Looking up, up, and up, there was no end to the stands. On the Free Skating) I feel more confident in the free skate. I think for short because of fewer elements, a lot more pressure on each element.
Roman Sadovsky
2025 National Champion
I just really tried to stay in the zone and focus on myself. (on competing for Olympic spots) I tried to keep this in the back of my mind while trusting myself. I was very happy with the opening — I wish I could’ve pulled off that triple toe, but the Lutz was a little bigger than I would’ve liked. Overall, it was a great experience with lots of great energy and so many Canadians cheering. I’ll focus on recovering for the long program. (on his quote on the board) It was for his fans on his YouTube channel — a cheeky way for those who know to subscribe. A few thousand people (actually 25k). I could be a comedian!
Tatsuya Tsuboi
2024 GP NHK Trophy bronze medalist
Considering how my practices have been going, I’m not too surprised. I haven’t been able to land my salchows in practice, and I let that nervousness get the better of me today. Although I did feel a bit shaken after popping the salchow, the remaining triple axel and combination were all jumps I was fully confident about, so I was able to get back on track and put out what I always do in practice. (On first Worlds) I personally think I did all I could to prepare for this competition, but once I landed here I couldn’t quite bring myself to top form. I think it shows that I’m not quite able to put out my best at major competitions yet.
Mihhail Selevko
2025 National Champion
It was honestly very unexpected, the fall on the quad-toe and I’m not quite sure what happened…but it was a wake up call. I knew I had to skate everything else clean. I'm disappointed, but happy I qualified for the free program. The inspiration for this program is from a game I played and I liked the spooky nature of the game, and hadn't seen anything like that in figure skating before. I wanted to skate this program at World Championships. I came to Boston a week before the competition to adjust to jet lag and prepare for this competition.
Hyungyeom Kim
2024 Youth Olympic Games Champion
During practice, I was making some mistakes, so I lowered the difficulty of the program a bit. Looking back, I think I was a bit underprepared. It’s unfortunate, but I’m placing value on the fact that I completed the short program. Up until last season, I felt confident in my triples and especially my Axel. But this season, that confidence has been a bit shaky. Still, I’m planning to keep working hard moving forward. (on his university life) Pretty good — balancing school and skating has been fine so far.
Andrew Torgashev
2025 National silver medalist
This is awesome, I am so blessed to have had the opportunity to compete at Worlds in Japan and here in Boston, in my home country, in front of a home crowd. There’s so much support for figure skating from this country, from Boston. I love it. I’ve been training so hard, so I was happy to be able to give a good performance. (pressure or motivation of being a Nationals medalist, big crowd) Lots of both. Very exciting, and some nerves of course. In Japan, it was an amazing crowd with lots of people, and this is the first time I saw a crowd of this size in the US. I love it, and I hope it’s not the last time I get to compete in front of a crowd like this. (preparation for Worlds) Lots of runthroughs. I didn’t do Four Continents, I let my body recover after Nationals. Sometimes overtraining leads to injury, so I wanted to recover properly. I’ve been doing many runthroughs every single day, two shorts and two longs every single day, if not more. I feel prepared, and just want to be very confident and skate well. (on his short program) I love this short. It was an idea when I was having a hard time in my life with skating and life, and to use all of those emotions into this program, it was very healing. It gives me lots of motivation to train every day. Shae-Lynn (Bourne), my
choreographer, is amazing, she has such a great vision and made this program so amazing. I try to respect her work and work on it as much as possible. I know other guys are using the same music, but I just want to do my best with this program. I look forward to the free skate. I think the free is more about the elements for this season, that’s where I’m at in my career. I’ve been trying to add choreography all season while still performing quality elements. It’s a great piece. My coach Raf (Rafael Arutunian), Vera (Arutunian), Nadia (Kanaeva), they all worked together to create it. Nadi is the head choreographer but they all have a piece, and it’s very strong, and I know this music has lots of history with Yuna Kim and Evan Lysacek, so I want to respect the music and do the best I can.
Vladimir Samoilov
2025 National Champion
I really wanted to skate clean program. I am going to show really good free program. (on his Short Program) I love this short program but I need to change it since this is already second year. Not sure what or who I use for choreography. I may do something really fun. (on missing the quad Salchow) I don’t know. I probably got into it too early. After a pop I was sort of lost, but today I was able to keep it together. I really wanted to make sure to nail the Axel “my favorite jump”. (What is the chance of getting Polish citizenship?) Very good, I’m confident that it will happen.
Jason Brown
2024 World Championships 5th
I was so disappointed on my last jumping element - I did a double instead of a triple (toe in the combination). It eats at me. But I'm proud that I fought the whole way through. That being said I was so overwhelmed with emotion to have this moment in Boston. It was so great to get out and compete again. I’m really proud of the progress that I've made this year after withdrawing from the US Championships. Each step is another opportunity to grow, to learn and another step forward to that goal to compete in the Olympics.
Vladimir Litvintsev
2024 Bosphorus Cup Champion
(on his result and performance) I'm very satisfied. I was very nervous, but I got through it. I have cotton legs now. My right foot went numb before the skate. Can you imagine? I have to go out to skate, and my right foot is numb. But I did it, I did great. It's just nerves. (qualifying for the Olympics) I'm very happy. I didn't know that qualifying for the free skate was enough for that. (on his preparations for Worlds) Everything was good, I was well prepared. Not every day, of course, but it was good. (on the organization, new way of presenting skaters) I really like the organization, it is different from other competitions. I like that they are so meticulous about everything. I am very grateful to the organizers for this opportunity. (on his new image, new looks) Honestly, I just wanted to, I mean I'm not trying to look like someone, I don't want to seem older, I just wanted to try something new.
Adam Hagara
2025 & 2024 World Junior bronze medalist
(on coming off Junior Worlds) Well, I had time to prepare and I was really ready for this competition and I think everything went as I wanted it to. The main thing for me here was to qualify for the Olympics and I got it into the free skates so I'm really happy about that. (on possibly competing his trademark Short Program “Another Love” for the last time) I'm really happy that it went this way, the short, because this is the last time competing it and I'm really happy that it went like it did. (on plans for the Free Skating) I might try a quad (toeloop). Right now I think I have nothing to lose, basically, so maybe I'll go for it and see how it
goes. Even if I fall, I already did my job, I think, and I'm going to do my best. I decided when I left from home, because at home it was okay. Now the practice was a little bit messy, but I think it can be okay. I still have a day (of practice). (on the new way of presenting the skaters) I like it because everyone is different and everyone wants to tell their own story. I like how it's diverse and it's not just a competition. It's maybe an achievement for people to compete here and it makes it even more special than it already is.
Men, Short Program (warm up groups 3, 4 & 5)
Donovan Carrillo
2025 Challenge Cup silver medalist
The program didn't go as planned today and we'll move on to see whatever's next. I'm so happy that my family - mom, dad and sister are here and got to enjoy it. I moved to Toronto two years ago. It's been fun and a lot of learning and I get to improve my English which I really appreciate because before it was hard to do these interviews. It was difficult to make the move from my hometown to Toronto, but I know it was needed and I needed to expose myself to a big change in my life. The thing I'm learning in Toronto is jumps - like the quads before I used to feel like I need to do something extra - like human powered to make it happen, but now I feel like it's just another jump to do. (My training) now has all the pieces that come together to make all aspects of my skating safer and better.
Nikita Starostin
2025 National Champion
I was not really nervous, it felt kind of like in practice, but of course there was all the people, the judges. Of course it feels different than practice. I was mainly going for the elements, and then I did a big mistake, which cost me my Final. (on changing his Short Program after the European Championships) The change was because I couldn't deliver the previous short program. I would not show the qualities. I rewatched the program, and I decided to change the music. I like this music a lot because giving us a lot of power, a lot of emotions. The meaning of the music is also about not giving up. Even when you're scared, you still go for it.
Andreas Nordeback
2025 National Champion
It was amazing. I know I can do much better. I can do the Axel much better. Overall I’m happy because it’s Worlds, so much pressure. It’s not always perfect. I wasn’t that nervous. Didn’t care about placement. I was like competing against myself. This is my third Worlds so it gets easier. I remember the first time (2023 in Japan). I was in shock with so many people. Looking up, up, and up, there was no end to the stands. On the Free Skating) I feel more confident in the free skate. I think for short because of fewer elements, a lot more pressure on each element.
Roman Sadovsky
2025 National Champion
I just really tried to stay in the zone and focus on myself. (on competing for Olympic spots) I tried to keep this in the back of my mind while trusting myself. I was very happy with the opening — I wish I could’ve pulled off that triple toe, but the Lutz was a little bigger than I would’ve liked. Overall, it was a great experience with lots of great energy and so many Canadians cheering. I’ll focus on recovering for the long program. (on his quote on the board) It was for his fans on his YouTube channel — a cheeky way for those who know to subscribe. A few thousand people (actually 25k). I could be a comedian!
Tatsuya Tsuboi
2024 GP NHK Trophy bronze medalist
Considering how my practices have been going, I’m not too surprised. I haven’t been able to land my salchows in practice, and I let that nervousness get the better of me today. Although I did feel a bit shaken after popping the salchow, the remaining triple axel and combination were all jumps I was fully confident about, so I was able to get back on track and put out what I always do in practice. (On first Worlds) I personally think I did all I could to prepare for this competition, but once I landed here I couldn’t quite bring myself to top form. I think it shows that I’m not quite able to put out my best at major competitions yet.
Mihhail Selevko
2025 National Champion
It was honestly very unexpected, the fall on the quad-toe and I’m not quite sure what happened…but it was a wake up call. I knew I had to skate everything else clean. I'm disappointed, but happy I qualified for the free program. The inspiration for this program is from a game I played and I liked the spooky nature of the game, and hadn't seen anything like that in figure skating before. I wanted to skate this program at World Championships. I came to Boston a week before the competition to adjust to jet lag and prepare for this competition.
Hyungyeom Kim
2024 Youth Olympic Games Champion
During practice, I was making some mistakes, so I lowered the difficulty of the program a bit. Looking back, I think I was a bit underprepared. It’s unfortunate, but I’m placing value on the fact that I completed the short program. Up until last season, I felt confident in my triples and especially my Axel. But this season, that confidence has been a bit shaky. Still, I’m planning to keep working hard moving forward. (on his university life) Pretty good — balancing school and skating has been fine so far.
Andrew Torgashev
2025 National silver medalist
This is awesome, I am so blessed to have had the opportunity to compete at Worlds in Japan and here in Boston, in my home country, in front of a home crowd. There’s so much support for figure skating from this country, from Boston. I love it. I’ve been training so hard, so I was happy to be able to give a good performance. (pressure or motivation of being a Nationals medalist, big crowd) Lots of both. Very exciting, and some nerves of course. In Japan, it was an amazing crowd with lots of people, and this is the first time I saw a crowd of this size in the US. I love it, and I hope it’s not the last time I get to compete in front of a crowd like this. (preparation for Worlds) Lots of runthroughs. I didn’t do Four Continents, I let my body recover after Nationals. Sometimes overtraining leads to injury, so I wanted to recover properly. I’ve been doing many runthroughs every single day, two shorts and two longs every single day, if not more. I feel prepared, and just want to be very confident and skate well. (on his short program) I love this short. It was an idea when I was having a hard time in my life with skating and life, and to use all of those emotions into this program, it was very healing. It gives me lots of motivation to train every day. Shae-Lynn (Bourne), my
choreographer, is amazing, she has such a great vision and made this program so amazing. I try to respect her work and work on it as much as possible. I know other guys are using the same music, but I just want to do my best with this program. I look forward to the free skate. I think the free is more about the elements for this season, that’s where I’m at in my career. I’ve been trying to add choreography all season while still performing quality elements. It’s a great piece. My coach Raf (Rafael Arutunian), Vera (Arutunian), Nadia (Kanaeva), they all worked together to create it. Nadi is the head choreographer but they all have a piece, and it’s very strong, and I know this music has lots of history with Yuna Kim and Evan Lysacek, so I want to respect the music and do the best I can.
Vladimir Samoilov
2025 National Champion
I really wanted to skate clean program. I am going to show really good free program. (on his Short Program) I love this short program but I need to change it since this is already second year. Not sure what or who I use for choreography. I may do something really fun. (on missing the quad Salchow) I don’t know. I probably got into it too early. After a pop I was sort of lost, but today I was able to keep it together. I really wanted to make sure to nail the Axel “my favorite jump”. (What is the chance of getting Polish citizenship?) Very good, I’m confident that it will happen.
Jason Brown
2024 World Championships 5th
I was so disappointed on my last jumping element - I did a double instead of a triple (toe in the combination). It eats at me. But I'm proud that I fought the whole way through. That being said I was so overwhelmed with emotion to have this moment in Boston. It was so great to get out and compete again. I’m really proud of the progress that I've made this year after withdrawing from the US Championships. Each step is another opportunity to grow, to learn and another step forward to that goal to compete in the Olympics.
Vladimir Litvintsev
2024 Bosphorus Cup Champion
(on his result and performance) I'm very satisfied. I was very nervous, but I got through it. I have cotton legs now. My right foot went numb before the skate. Can you imagine? I have to go out to skate, and my right foot is numb. But I did it, I did great. It's just nerves. (qualifying for the Olympics) I'm very happy. I didn't know that qualifying for the free skate was enough for that. (on his preparations for Worlds) Everything was good, I was well prepared. Not every day, of course, but it was good. (on the organization, new way of presenting skaters) I really like the organization, it is different from other competitions. I like that they are so meticulous about everything. I am very grateful to the organizers for this opportunity. (on his new image, new looks) Honestly, I just wanted to, I mean I'm not trying to look like someone, I don't want to seem older, I just wanted to try something new.
Adam Hagara
2025 & 2024 World Junior bronze medalist
(on coming off Junior Worlds) Well, I had time to prepare and I was really ready for this competition and I think everything went as I wanted it to. The main thing for me here was to qualify for the Olympics and I got it into the free skates so I'm really happy about that. (on possibly competing his trademark Short Program “Another Love” for the last time) I'm really happy that it went this way, the short, because this is the last time competing it and I'm really happy that it went like it did. (on plans for the Free Skating) I might try a quad (toeloop). Right now I think I have nothing to lose, basically, so maybe I'll go for it and see how it
goes. Even if I fall, I already did my job, I think, and I'm going to do my best. I decided when I left from home, because at home it was okay. Now the practice was a little bit messy, but I think it can be okay. I still have a day (of practice). (on the new way of presenting the skaters) I like it because everyone is different and everyone wants to tell their own story. I like how it's diverse and it's not just a competition. It's maybe an achievement for people to compete here and it makes it even more special than it already is.
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Men, Short Program (warm up group 6)
Deniss Vasiljevs
2022 European bronze medalist
Figure skating is very dear to me. It was a great performance that had a mistake. Coming here after 9 years (since 2016 World Championships) feels like my whole career started here and now it keeps going and I'm proud to say every year I am growing up. This path has an enormous amount of emotions as an athlete. It's truly an experience I cannot describe, you can only feel it. This performance skating for these people was joyful. My intention today was to do a quad. As ironic as it may sound, I was working the whole season on the quad, and it kept improving, but we decided to go easy clean with the triple. It was a surprise when I
made a mistake (on the triple Axel). It just shows that no matter how much you prepare it's the moment that counts and you can’t control everything.
Daniel Grassl
2025 National Champion
I feel OK, not happy. I feel relieved. I am not sad, I feel happy about how I fought after the fall on the (quad) Lutz. It is an improvement for me because at the beginning of the season, I used to make more mistakes after a fall. I want to work on my (quad) loop. It has been good until I came here. (going into Free Program) I want to do a clean program. I feel more nervous on short always and this is a big event. Yes, there is a big pressure for Olympic qualification and everything, but I’m going to give my best. (On the next Olympic Games in Italy) Everyone of us Italians wants to compete in the next Olympics. We can for sure get two spots, and maybe the third one.
Junhwan Cha
2025 Asian Winter Games Champion
I’m a little disappointed about the Axel, but I really tried my best (and pleased). In the second half of the season, I focused on recovering from my injury, and (despite) having back-to-back competitions, I learned a lot from competing at major events. Even though it’s been (physically demanding) and I made a mistake today, I’m very happy and satisfied with my performance. (I feel grateful) to perform in Boston and got a lot of energy from the supporters and fans. I still have the free skate left, and I’ll try my best. (On his choreography and expression, what has kept him going in figure skating since childhood, and where his
passion comes from) I think my driving force is experience — the experience of receiving support from so many people and stepping onto the competition stage. The Olympics, being the dream stage for all athletes, is also a major source of motivation. Since figure skating is a creative sport, I gain a lot of inspiration and passion from that creative process in particular. (on the music choice) With Natural, I felt the lyrics had a positive influence on me. I liked the strong, masculine, and powerful vibe, and I worked hard to express that. With Loco, I was captivated by the voice of the legendary Italian singer. The lyrics were also
beautifully poetic, and I found myself completely immersed in them — it allowed me to skate with deep emotion.
Nika Egadze
2025 European Championships 4th
It feels amazing to skate in front of this audience, but I'm a bit disappointed in my spin speed and my step sequence since I didn't get a level 4. Overall I'm happy though. I want to push here on my free program. To prepare for this event, I practiced like the competition. I would arrive at the arena, do a six minute warm up, leave the ice, the come back in and perform the program like it was a competition. The other thing is I changed my free program music. I have a friend who cut the music to my program. We sent him a video of the program and he made the music to match…so the program is the same but the music is different (all
from Oppenheimer soundtrack), and I can't wait to skate it here in Boston.
Kevin Aymoz
2024 GP Skate America silver medalist
(on his mindset during the program and emotions) I was really concentrated on my program. I worked so hard for a month after the European championships, that was a disaster. I skated with my heart, but I trust my body with the muscle memory for the jumps and spins. I was in the moment. (on his feelings here at Worlds) I was just happy at the practice this week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I was so happy and was flying around, jumping around. I don’t know how to explain, I was just happy to be here because back home I was crying because my life was crumbling, and now I am just happy to be here, it was my goal to come back. (on his expectations for the score) I was just landing my jumps and spins and I was happy to be here. It was more like I did it, I worked on it, I'm back. I'm so glad to be here. (on his goals) I have no goals today. I got my second quad back, so now I can do quad toe and quad sal, maybe I am not going to put it in on Saturday because the Olympic spot is really important. So I have to keep it together, to try to qualify for the Olympics. But for sure for the next competition, if France is going to the World trophy, I will put it in. And we will see more on Saturday. (on the crowd) Oh my God this is crazy. I feel like the US and Japan are so on fire during competition. I was so happy right now. I can't believe I made both world championships in Boston. That's so good, so good.
Nikolaj Memola
2025 European silver medalist
I’m super happy I skated clean. I was trying to reach my goal. Of course, I got (edge) attention (calls) on both my Lutzes so I lost a lot of points, but I’m extremely satisfied. I don’t really care about the scores, I just want to get on the rink and be like, okay, I did my job. And today happened, so I’m just super happy and extremely ready for the free skate. (inspiration for short) I created this program with Barbara Fusar Poli, a famous ice dance coach as you all know. I tried to match and take inspiration from actual flamenco dancers as much as possible, so I’m just trying to portray it. I didn’t want to picture anyone on the ice, because I
think when you try to do dance, especially flamenco, I think you look at a real dancer off-ice. It really helped me understand the moves. Overall, I really feel this type of music inside of me. Not easy, but it was something I was really eager to work on.
Men, Short Program (warm up group 6)
Deniss Vasiljevs
2022 European bronze medalist
Figure skating is very dear to me. It was a great performance that had a mistake. Coming here after 9 years (since 2016 World Championships) feels like my whole career started here and now it keeps going and I'm proud to say every year I am growing up. This path has an enormous amount of emotions as an athlete. It's truly an experience I cannot describe, you can only feel it. This performance skating for these people was joyful. My intention today was to do a quad. As ironic as it may sound, I was working the whole season on the quad, and it kept improving, but we decided to go easy clean with the triple. It was a surprise when I
made a mistake (on the triple Axel). It just shows that no matter how much you prepare it's the moment that counts and you can’t control everything.
Daniel Grassl
2025 National Champion
I feel OK, not happy. I feel relieved. I am not sad, I feel happy about how I fought after the fall on the (quad) Lutz. It is an improvement for me because at the beginning of the season, I used to make more mistakes after a fall. I want to work on my (quad) loop. It has been good until I came here. (going into Free Program) I want to do a clean program. I feel more nervous on short always and this is a big event. Yes, there is a big pressure for Olympic qualification and everything, but I’m going to give my best. (On the next Olympic Games in Italy) Everyone of us Italians wants to compete in the next Olympics. We can for sure get two spots, and maybe the third one.
Junhwan Cha
2025 Asian Winter Games Champion
I’m a little disappointed about the Axel, but I really tried my best (and pleased). In the second half of the season, I focused on recovering from my injury, and (despite) having back-to-back competitions, I learned a lot from competing at major events. Even though it’s been (physically demanding) and I made a mistake today, I’m very happy and satisfied with my performance. (I feel grateful) to perform in Boston and got a lot of energy from the supporters and fans. I still have the free skate left, and I’ll try my best. (On his choreography and expression, what has kept him going in figure skating since childhood, and where his
passion comes from) I think my driving force is experience — the experience of receiving support from so many people and stepping onto the competition stage. The Olympics, being the dream stage for all athletes, is also a major source of motivation. Since figure skating is a creative sport, I gain a lot of inspiration and passion from that creative process in particular. (on the music choice) With Natural, I felt the lyrics had a positive influence on me. I liked the strong, masculine, and powerful vibe, and I worked hard to express that. With Loco, I was captivated by the voice of the legendary Italian singer. The lyrics were also
beautifully poetic, and I found myself completely immersed in them — it allowed me to skate with deep emotion.
Nika Egadze
2025 European Championships 4th
It feels amazing to skate in front of this audience, but I'm a bit disappointed in my spin speed and my step sequence since I didn't get a level 4. Overall I'm happy though. I want to push here on my free program. To prepare for this event, I practiced like the competition. I would arrive at the arena, do a six minute warm up, leave the ice, the come back in and perform the program like it was a competition. The other thing is I changed my free program music. I have a friend who cut the music to my program. We sent him a video of the program and he made the music to match…so the program is the same but the music is different (all
from Oppenheimer soundtrack), and I can't wait to skate it here in Boston.
Kevin Aymoz
2024 GP Skate America silver medalist
(on his mindset during the program and emotions) I was really concentrated on my program. I worked so hard for a month after the European championships, that was a disaster. I skated with my heart, but I trust my body with the muscle memory for the jumps and spins. I was in the moment. (on his feelings here at Worlds) I was just happy at the practice this week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I was so happy and was flying around, jumping around. I don’t know how to explain, I was just happy to be here because back home I was crying because my life was crumbling, and now I am just happy to be here, it was my goal to come back. (on his expectations for the score) I was just landing my jumps and spins and I was happy to be here. It was more like I did it, I worked on it, I'm back. I'm so glad to be here. (on his goals) I have no goals today. I got my second quad back, so now I can do quad toe and quad sal, maybe I am not going to put it in on Saturday because the Olympic spot is really important. So I have to keep it together, to try to qualify for the Olympics. But for sure for the next competition, if France is going to the World trophy, I will put it in. And we will see more on Saturday. (on the crowd) Oh my God this is crazy. I feel like the US and Japan are so on fire during competition. I was so happy right now. I can't believe I made both world championships in Boston. That's so good, so good.
Nikolaj Memola
2025 European silver medalist
I’m super happy I skated clean. I was trying to reach my goal. Of course, I got (edge) attention (calls) on both my Lutzes so I lost a lot of points, but I’m extremely satisfied. I don’t really care about the scores, I just want to get on the rink and be like, okay, I did my job. And today happened, so I’m just super happy and extremely ready for the free skate. (inspiration for short) I created this program with Barbara Fusar Poli, a famous ice dance coach as you all know. I tried to match and take inspiration from actual flamenco dancers as much as possible, so I’m just trying to portray it. I didn’t want to picture anyone on the ice, because I
think when you try to do dance, especially flamenco, I think you look at a real dancer off-ice. It really helped me understand the moves. Overall, I really feel this type of music inside of me. Not easy, but it was something I was really eager to work on.
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Men, Short Program (warm up group 7)
Lukas Britschgi
2025 European Champion
I still feel relieved that I completed my elements, even though the first element had an unusual landing mistake. There was a lot of tension, and I didn’t have the best preparation for a competition like this, but I’m still happy that I did all of my elements. (on winning Euro and pressure) I felt more positive energy and motivation after the unfortunate accident (and setback), so it felt great to get back on the ice — and it’s really exciting to be here in America. I want to focus on recovering and resting until the free skate. (on his short program costume and what the words mean) They are the speech of Charlie Chaplin, translated into
different languages. This program is really meaningful to me — it’s about freedom and liberty in the world. It was personally important for me to skate to something with meaning. Usually, I choose fun programs, so this is such a great finish — to skate here (Worlds). It wasn’t perfect, but it was okay, and I’m happy with it.
Mikhail Shaidorov
2025 Four Continents Champion
I was so nervous and I’m so happy that I did everything I can. The combination quad Lutz-triple toe was great today. (on coming in as Four Continents Champion) It’s not easy. There is a lot of attention on me and it is different for me. (on the Free Skating) We’ll see what I’ll do, but I’m not planning a big surprise. (on the preparation) It was difficult as this is the last competition of the season. I want to skate clean and give my best.
Shun Sato
2024 ISU GP Final bronze medalist
The quad Lutz had a good flow to it, and I’m glad it turned out the way it does in practice. For the free, because I had a hand down on the quad toe, and I want to try to iron out those small kinks. Nonetheless, I was glad that there were no major mistakes. (on preparation for Worlds) I have been working on my posture when jumping the quad Lutz and trying to correct it, so I’m glad it turned out well today. I was extremely nervous coming into this competition, but found myself much calmer when the music
started.
Adam Siao Him Fa
2024 & 2024 European Champion
(on his performance) It was not what I was expecting and that's also not what I was doing in training. So of course I'm disappointed, but it's part of the process in my last competition. Coming back from an injury is also part of the process, so I will just keep looking forward. The competition is not over yet, so I will just keep looking forward to it. (on his preparations and his mindset) I was gaining more confidence, more confidence to go with myself and it jumps. So I was really in good shape and in a good way to approach a competition. Of course, it's not what I was expecting, so I am a bit sad about it, but it's fine. (looking back to Worlds in Montreal coming back in the free from the 19th place) I am getting closer. I am not 19th again, so that’s good. But yeah, last year it was a total mess, today it was not what I was expecting, but it’s a good thing, a good experience. So I'm still seeing positive things from this.
Ilia Malinin
2024 World Champion
I don't even know how to feel right now. I felt really nervous - more than usual before but when the music came on I just went into a flow state and it just went from there. This is one of my favorite programs of all time. It was very exciting to be skating here in Boston. I hadn't even finished my program and the crowd was standing, and I was really happy about that. I really like the music for this program and I connect with the words…I sometimes sing out loud when I'm skating this. It helps me with the timing and rhythm of the program.
Yuma Kagiyama
2024, 2023 & 2022 World silver medalist (CORRECTION: 2024, 2022, & 2021 World silver medalist)
I was able to skate and perform as I planned. I know the special pressure skating after Ilia (Malinin) but I just imagined how cool it is to do a great skate as the last skater. I was more excited about my being able to close the competition with a great skate than any other negative thinking. I am glad to arrange the music with good accents. I really like this program and would like to skate to this more.
Men, Short Program (warm up group 7)
Lukas Britschgi
2025 European Champion
I still feel relieved that I completed my elements, even though the first element had an unusual landing mistake. There was a lot of tension, and I didn’t have the best preparation for a competition like this, but I’m still happy that I did all of my elements. (on winning Euro and pressure) I felt more positive energy and motivation after the unfortunate accident (and setback), so it felt great to get back on the ice — and it’s really exciting to be here in America. I want to focus on recovering and resting until the free skate. (on his short program costume and what the words mean) They are the speech of Charlie Chaplin, translated into
different languages. This program is really meaningful to me — it’s about freedom and liberty in the world. It was personally important for me to skate to something with meaning. Usually, I choose fun programs, so this is such a great finish — to skate here (Worlds). It wasn’t perfect, but it was okay, and I’m happy with it.
Mikhail Shaidorov
2025 Four Continents Champion
I was so nervous and I’m so happy that I did everything I can. The combination quad Lutz-triple toe was great today. (on coming in as Four Continents Champion) It’s not easy. There is a lot of attention on me and it is different for me. (on the Free Skating) We’ll see what I’ll do, but I’m not planning a big surprise. (on the preparation) It was difficult as this is the last competition of the season. I want to skate clean and give my best.
Shun Sato
2024 ISU GP Final bronze medalist
The quad Lutz had a good flow to it, and I’m glad it turned out the way it does in practice. For the free, because I had a hand down on the quad toe, and I want to try to iron out those small kinks. Nonetheless, I was glad that there were no major mistakes. (on preparation for Worlds) I have been working on my posture when jumping the quad Lutz and trying to correct it, so I’m glad it turned out well today. I was extremely nervous coming into this competition, but found myself much calmer when the music
started.
Adam Siao Him Fa
2024 & 2024 European Champion
(on his performance) It was not what I was expecting and that's also not what I was doing in training. So of course I'm disappointed, but it's part of the process in my last competition. Coming back from an injury is also part of the process, so I will just keep looking forward. The competition is not over yet, so I will just keep looking forward to it. (on his preparations and his mindset) I was gaining more confidence, more confidence to go with myself and it jumps. So I was really in good shape and in a good way to approach a competition. Of course, it's not what I was expecting, so I am a bit sad about it, but it's fine. (looking back to Worlds in Montreal coming back in the free from the 19th place) I am getting closer. I am not 19th again, so that’s good. But yeah, last year it was a total mess, today it was not what I was expecting, but it’s a good thing, a good experience. So I'm still seeing positive things from this.
Ilia Malinin
2024 World Champion
I don't even know how to feel right now. I felt really nervous - more than usual before but when the music came on I just went into a flow state and it just went from there. This is one of my favorite programs of all time. It was very exciting to be skating here in Boston. I hadn't even finished my program and the crowd was standing, and I was really happy about that. I really like the music for this program and I connect with the words…I sometimes sing out loud when I'm skating this. It helps me with the timing and rhythm of the program.
Yuma Kagiyama
2024, 2023 & 2022 World silver medalist (CORRECTION: 2024, 2022, & 2021 World silver medalist)
I was able to skate and perform as I planned. I know the special pressure skating after Ilia (Malinin) but I just imagined how cool it is to do a great skate as the last skater. I was more excited about my being able to close the competition with a great skate than any other negative thinking. I am glad to arrange the music with good accents. I really like this program and would like to skate to this more.
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Pairs, Free Skating (warm up groups 1 & 2)
Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel
2023 European bronze medalists
Hocke: I'm both proud and also a little bit sad because I'm just mad about my mistake on the Salchow (double and step out). It was unnecessary because I think at the moment it was one of the strongest it has ever been and it's a shame that I couldn't pull it together in competition. On the other hand, after yesterday we learned that we're always thrown into new situations and it was a good learning experience even though it was not a nice learning experience. It's always hard but in the end you have to take the good out of it we thought and it wasn't clean but it was a good fight.
Kunkel: We didn't give up after yesterday, we gave it all-all. We did some small mistakes, which cost a lot of points. We skated first. I think I never skated in that early group. You can see that in the points as well. But I think it's way harder to do a competition like this than skate clean two times. And you learn also way more from this than if you're just too perfect and you can celebrate. We will grow a lot from this.
Ioulia Chtchetinina/Michal Wozniak
2025 National Champions
Chtchetinina: We were really relieved after this performance because yesterday was really really tough. I couldn't handle the pressure and was very upset. It was quite hard today to get my mind back on track. I want to thank my partner and coaches for helping me who helped me through this day. I really want to give thanks to my partner because he did his job yesterday. Sometimes it's hard when you mess up but it affects both of us. It takes an enormous amount of strength to be like a rock and get through today. Now we just have to wait and see what happens.
Wozniak: I think of us as a team. It was OUR failure (yesterday). This performance was more a representation of what we can do. We were prepared for this event. I'm proud of the whole season for all the work we've put in with our team. We thank everyone, our coaches, our federation and all the people who want to make our skating as great as possible.
Oksana Vouillamoz/Tom Bouvart
2025 National Champions
Vouillamoz: (on their feelings about the performance) We're very happy to have been able to do this program here in Boston, it was our biggest goal of the season, to qualify here for the world championships. We're still happy, even if there were some mistakes, but it's still an incredible experience. (on the program) It's a theme we wanted to skate on. (on their experience at Worlds) I'm only positive about it. It was a really great competition, an incredible arena, an incredible audience. So frankly, it was all positive. (on their development as a team) It all happened pretty quickly, so we've only been together for a year since the end
of January. We wanted to get on the international circuit quickly, so we had to work very, very hard to be able to show some good programs. So it's true that we've been working quite hard, but it's only the beginning.
Bouvart: (on their feelings about the performance) I don't remember the mistakes. And now we're here, it's already great. So I only take the positive, only the best, and the rest we throw in the garbage can, so there you go. (on the program) Personally, I wanted to change the style a bit, break the codes of skating a bit, there's not a lot of African music and as a professional I wanted to put my own personal touch on it. So I came up with a piece of music that was a bit different, if you can feel that we like it, so there you go. (on their experience at Worlds) It was an extraordinary experience for our first world championships to arrive
here in Boston. A year ago, I watched it in bed and today I'm taking part. And on top of that, I'm skating the long program. (on their development as a team) We're already a good team. And personally, I'd like to be a bit of an acrobat team, doing new tricks, being very impressive. And I'm rather strong and rather light. So we have the physical capacity to do some pretty incredible things, I think. (on goals) The Olympics, obviously. We're athletes. We've done all the competitions. We're only missing one in our lives now, so we're going to work hard to get there.
Sofia Holichenko/Artem Darenskiy
2025 World Junior silver medalists
Holichenko: I’m happy about the results. It’s regardless of how difficult it was to get ready for the season, skating in Ukraine in this situation. In general, the skate did still have mistakes, and it would be nice to skate without mistakes. (regarding the situation in Ukraine) It’s very hard to train in this environment, since we are under missile attacks every day. So everything is inconsistent, the sleep is inconsistent, we are always under stress. It’s really difficult. (on motivation) It’s really important to represent our country right now internationally, just to be here, just to still be fighting, to not give up.
Darenskyi: It’s the first season’s best in the free. It’s not bad, except for the triple flip (she fell). Obviously, the main goal is to qualify for the Olympic Games, but first we want to recover and get ready for the new season. We plan to change the programs and make more difficult content. (on dreaming despite the situation) We don’t really have a dream–we have a goal. With our life in Ukraine, you never know what’s going to happen tomorrow, so we live day by day and just do our best, just perform the best.
Milana Vaananen/Filippo Clerici
2025 National Champions
Vaananen: For me, it was ok. I think I just focused on Short Program too much, that’s why our Free Skate
wasn’t so good.
Clerici: It’s a competition, it can happen. Today it was hers (mistakes/falls), tomorrow it can be mine. We had a good preparation for Worlds, but we couldn’t show it. Yesterday we had a good skate, but today was not good. But it’s a competition. (on their partnership) I think we can work together well after mistakes. We would like to be the Japanese team (Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara), going to super fast and get the elements done. We’re working on that. We still think what to do after a mistake during the program, but we’ll take a note and improve for the next season.
Daria Danilova/Michel Tsiba
2025 National Champions
Tsiba (spoke for both of them): We feel disappointed because the first part was quite good. I struggled with the lifts today and have no idea why because I'm in great shape. I don't know if its because of the schedule but I don't do excuses. It's a shame, because the throw we always do - and we came here to do better. (This program has been used for 2 years) We love this program and we look at it with a lot of pride. It's a bit unfortunate we have to wait for the others to skate. I wish we just did our stuff. If we were to lose (out on a spot to the Olympics) it could be the Polish team because they are our teammates. It's our dream to get to the Olympics. (No NED Pairs have ever qualified for the Olympic Games). We will see what happens.
Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini
2023 European silver & 2024 European bronze medalists
Ambrosini: (on their performance and fighting through the program) It was an amazing skate here in TD Garden with a lot of public, it was wonderful. They helped us a lot. We skated from the beginning to the end and we tried to enjoy this moment because it doesn’t happen many times. (on their take-away of this season) What I learned is that we need to take the past for learning what will happen in the future, to improve ourselves. We need to learn from the past and to use it for the future.
Ghilardi: (on their performance and fighting through the program) I think you're really happy about this fight. The program is a big grow up, indicating the end of the program. So we were really focused on that part. We really like to skate the last straw with the lifts. We tried to put a lot of energy into that last part. (on their mindset after the disappointing short program) I think every competition we know even in the practice, and things are not working as we want to, but whatever, we always say, the day after is another day, just try to keep day after day and try to do our best. It doesn't matter what was on the day before, what happened the day before or in the morning, just try to leave the moment and focus element after element from the
beginning to the end. (on their take-away of this season) I agree (on learning from the past), we always have a chance to improve every day, every moment. (on their plans) Now we will take some rest, we will go back home, we're going to have our meeting with our coaches, planning the summer and the next season, the music change, everything. So there is a lot of work to do, but we have time to do everything.
Anastasia Vaipan-Law/Luke Digby
2025 National Champions
Digby: (thoughts on performance) A little bit relieved, to be honest. A little bit relieved that we put down what we feel we could produce, and I think that was the main thing. Obviously, it was a difficult event with the expectation to qualify for the Olympic spot, but we’re really pleased with how today went. We kept our focus, our togetherness. That’s how we’ve been all season, and that’s what paid off today. (thoughts on this season) I think it’s difficult to analyze this season. We’ll obviously sit down and have a good look at everything, but overall we’ve made much improvement in our consistency. At the moment, it’s pretty much
all positive, but in the off season will be the time where we look more in-depth at what elements need work. (plans for next season) I think for sure we’ll try and challenge our artistic aspects, try and improve our components. That’s the main goal with our new program.
Vaipan-Law: Obviously, there was a couple of things in there, we both made one mistake each, but I think we held it together really well and we just continued on and just kept fighting all the way to the end. I think that’s what we’re really proud of. I think it’s going to be very small little things that we’ll probably make tweaks around, but I would say nothing in particular is negative, like Luke said. I think we’ve come on really well this season, and I think that’s probably the biggest thing we will take away from this season, feeling confident and positive, and just proceed that onwards.
Pairs, Free Skating (warm up groups 1 & 2)
Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel
2023 European bronze medalists
Hocke: I'm both proud and also a little bit sad because I'm just mad about my mistake on the Salchow (double and step out). It was unnecessary because I think at the moment it was one of the strongest it has ever been and it's a shame that I couldn't pull it together in competition. On the other hand, after yesterday we learned that we're always thrown into new situations and it was a good learning experience even though it was not a nice learning experience. It's always hard but in the end you have to take the good out of it we thought and it wasn't clean but it was a good fight.
Kunkel: We didn't give up after yesterday, we gave it all-all. We did some small mistakes, which cost a lot of points. We skated first. I think I never skated in that early group. You can see that in the points as well. But I think it's way harder to do a competition like this than skate clean two times. And you learn also way more from this than if you're just too perfect and you can celebrate. We will grow a lot from this.
Ioulia Chtchetinina/Michal Wozniak
2025 National Champions
Chtchetinina: We were really relieved after this performance because yesterday was really really tough. I couldn't handle the pressure and was very upset. It was quite hard today to get my mind back on track. I want to thank my partner and coaches for helping me who helped me through this day. I really want to give thanks to my partner because he did his job yesterday. Sometimes it's hard when you mess up but it affects both of us. It takes an enormous amount of strength to be like a rock and get through today. Now we just have to wait and see what happens.
Wozniak: I think of us as a team. It was OUR failure (yesterday). This performance was more a representation of what we can do. We were prepared for this event. I'm proud of the whole season for all the work we've put in with our team. We thank everyone, our coaches, our federation and all the people who want to make our skating as great as possible.
Oksana Vouillamoz/Tom Bouvart
2025 National Champions
Vouillamoz: (on their feelings about the performance) We're very happy to have been able to do this program here in Boston, it was our biggest goal of the season, to qualify here for the world championships. We're still happy, even if there were some mistakes, but it's still an incredible experience. (on the program) It's a theme we wanted to skate on. (on their experience at Worlds) I'm only positive about it. It was a really great competition, an incredible arena, an incredible audience. So frankly, it was all positive. (on their development as a team) It all happened pretty quickly, so we've only been together for a year since the end
of January. We wanted to get on the international circuit quickly, so we had to work very, very hard to be able to show some good programs. So it's true that we've been working quite hard, but it's only the beginning.
Bouvart: (on their feelings about the performance) I don't remember the mistakes. And now we're here, it's already great. So I only take the positive, only the best, and the rest we throw in the garbage can, so there you go. (on the program) Personally, I wanted to change the style a bit, break the codes of skating a bit, there's not a lot of African music and as a professional I wanted to put my own personal touch on it. So I came up with a piece of music that was a bit different, if you can feel that we like it, so there you go. (on their experience at Worlds) It was an extraordinary experience for our first world championships to arrive
here in Boston. A year ago, I watched it in bed and today I'm taking part. And on top of that, I'm skating the long program. (on their development as a team) We're already a good team. And personally, I'd like to be a bit of an acrobat team, doing new tricks, being very impressive. And I'm rather strong and rather light. So we have the physical capacity to do some pretty incredible things, I think. (on goals) The Olympics, obviously. We're athletes. We've done all the competitions. We're only missing one in our lives now, so we're going to work hard to get there.
Sofia Holichenko/Artem Darenskiy
2025 World Junior silver medalists
Holichenko: I’m happy about the results. It’s regardless of how difficult it was to get ready for the season, skating in Ukraine in this situation. In general, the skate did still have mistakes, and it would be nice to skate without mistakes. (regarding the situation in Ukraine) It’s very hard to train in this environment, since we are under missile attacks every day. So everything is inconsistent, the sleep is inconsistent, we are always under stress. It’s really difficult. (on motivation) It’s really important to represent our country right now internationally, just to be here, just to still be fighting, to not give up.
Darenskyi: It’s the first season’s best in the free. It’s not bad, except for the triple flip (she fell). Obviously, the main goal is to qualify for the Olympic Games, but first we want to recover and get ready for the new season. We plan to change the programs and make more difficult content. (on dreaming despite the situation) We don’t really have a dream–we have a goal. With our life in Ukraine, you never know what’s going to happen tomorrow, so we live day by day and just do our best, just perform the best.
Milana Vaananen/Filippo Clerici
2025 National Champions
Vaananen: For me, it was ok. I think I just focused on Short Program too much, that’s why our Free Skate
wasn’t so good.
Clerici: It’s a competition, it can happen. Today it was hers (mistakes/falls), tomorrow it can be mine. We had a good preparation for Worlds, but we couldn’t show it. Yesterday we had a good skate, but today was not good. But it’s a competition. (on their partnership) I think we can work together well after mistakes. We would like to be the Japanese team (Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara), going to super fast and get the elements done. We’re working on that. We still think what to do after a mistake during the program, but we’ll take a note and improve for the next season.
Daria Danilova/Michel Tsiba
2025 National Champions
Tsiba (spoke for both of them): We feel disappointed because the first part was quite good. I struggled with the lifts today and have no idea why because I'm in great shape. I don't know if its because of the schedule but I don't do excuses. It's a shame, because the throw we always do - and we came here to do better. (This program has been used for 2 years) We love this program and we look at it with a lot of pride. It's a bit unfortunate we have to wait for the others to skate. I wish we just did our stuff. If we were to lose (out on a spot to the Olympics) it could be the Polish team because they are our teammates. It's our dream to get to the Olympics. (No NED Pairs have ever qualified for the Olympic Games). We will see what happens.
Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini
2023 European silver & 2024 European bronze medalists
Ambrosini: (on their performance and fighting through the program) It was an amazing skate here in TD Garden with a lot of public, it was wonderful. They helped us a lot. We skated from the beginning to the end and we tried to enjoy this moment because it doesn’t happen many times. (on their take-away of this season) What I learned is that we need to take the past for learning what will happen in the future, to improve ourselves. We need to learn from the past and to use it for the future.
Ghilardi: (on their performance and fighting through the program) I think you're really happy about this fight. The program is a big grow up, indicating the end of the program. So we were really focused on that part. We really like to skate the last straw with the lifts. We tried to put a lot of energy into that last part. (on their mindset after the disappointing short program) I think every competition we know even in the practice, and things are not working as we want to, but whatever, we always say, the day after is another day, just try to keep day after day and try to do our best. It doesn't matter what was on the day before, what happened the day before or in the morning, just try to leave the moment and focus element after element from the
beginning to the end. (on their take-away of this season) I agree (on learning from the past), we always have a chance to improve every day, every moment. (on their plans) Now we will take some rest, we will go back home, we're going to have our meeting with our coaches, planning the summer and the next season, the music change, everything. So there is a lot of work to do, but we have time to do everything.
Anastasia Vaipan-Law/Luke Digby
2025 National Champions
Digby: (thoughts on performance) A little bit relieved, to be honest. A little bit relieved that we put down what we feel we could produce, and I think that was the main thing. Obviously, it was a difficult event with the expectation to qualify for the Olympic spot, but we’re really pleased with how today went. We kept our focus, our togetherness. That’s how we’ve been all season, and that’s what paid off today. (thoughts on this season) I think it’s difficult to analyze this season. We’ll obviously sit down and have a good look at everything, but overall we’ve made much improvement in our consistency. At the moment, it’s pretty much
all positive, but in the off season will be the time where we look more in-depth at what elements need work. (plans for next season) I think for sure we’ll try and challenge our artistic aspects, try and improve our components. That’s the main goal with our new program.
Vaipan-Law: Obviously, there was a couple of things in there, we both made one mistake each, but I think we held it together really well and we just continued on and just kept fighting all the way to the end. I think that’s what we’re really proud of. I think it’s going to be very small little things that we’ll probably make tweaks around, but I would say nothing in particular is negative, like Luke said. I think we’ve come on really well this season, and I think that’s probably the biggest thing we will take away from this season, feeling confident and positive, and just proceed that onwards.
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Pairs, Free Skating (warm up group 3)
Kelly Ann Laurin/Loucas Ethier
2025 National bronze medalists
Laurin: Today’s Free skating was not so good, but it’s ok. We don't really understand what happened today. Because atmosphere was good, we worked so hard to do a good Free Program (for worlds). We don’t really understand (why we made mistakes), but we will in a couple of days.
Ethier: Our practice was fine, it was a bit early and we were a little bit tired. Practice was so good. We have to think why, how that (mistakes) happened. Because this is not the first time. We’ll try to make sure to minimize errors for the next one, especially a big event like this one. We really hope Canada gets three spots for the Olympics. Of course with the teammates help, let’s see that can happen. But we have to figure out what went wrong today’s Free Skate first.
Ekaterina Geynish/Dmitrii Chigirev
2025 Asian Winter Games Champions
Geynish: (on her excitement at the end of the program) I was really happy to be here at this competition, and I felt it throughout the whole skate. And at the very end, I finally managed to express it. I was happy because the skate was pretty clean, decent, so I was happy with the way everything turned out. (on their skate today and qualification for the Olympics) We are very glad that our skate today was better than at some other competitions and overall we had a very good result.
Chigirev: (on the result and their overall experience at this competition) This was the final event of the season, so the preparation was different, and of course there were some ups and downs, some nerves and some challenges throughout the way. (on their take-away from this season being a new team) Overall, for the first season it was pretty good, but we aimed for higher results and unfortunately there were some mistakes along the way. But anyway we are trying to find some things to be happy about. So it was good for the first season. (on the off season plans to improve the results in the next season) First, we have to
deal with some injuries and then we will start a new chapter in our career, increase the intensity of our training to get into a better physical shape. So this is something that we'll focus on in the offseason. (on qualification for the Olympics) Of course, it was our goal, it is not surprising, because we put a lot of effort in our preparations for Worlds to achieve it. Unfortunately, we made some mistakes but we achieved the goal.
Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud
2025 Four Continents bronze medalists
Michaud: I’m really proud of Lia, she was awesome today. We did a lot of great things today. Unfortunately, a few mistakes cost us some points, but I’m still happy with quite a few things we did, we fought through those moments. A lot of great things this week, and I’m just excited to get ready for next season,
Pereira: (on improvement this season) Thank you for noticing! We definitely feel that as well. We chose two very different pieces of music and two very specific styles that need a lot of work, and we’re very fortunate to work with ice dancers to choreograph both programs accordingly. I think we felt the development of the performances through each competition. We plan on continuing that and doing two separate styles of music and really pushing our performance, because I think that’s what separates the elite skaters in the world. Also, we want to bring a little bit of ice dance performance into pairs skating: there’s so many cool tricks
and elements that are definitely special to pairs, but I think some of the most powerful performances are are the ones where you feel emotional watching at the stands, so we hope to have that effect on others, and we’ll continue to improve on that for the next few seasons. (plans for next season) We have music in a playlist, we have choreography booked, and we’re really looking forward to doing our first Stars on Ice tour in April. We already have our eyes set on next year, and we’ve already started the planning process. It’ll come quick, and we’re ready for it.
Alisa Efimova/Misha Mitrofanov
2025 National Champions
Efimova: the focus we managed to get for the program was something very special. I hope I made everyone proud who has had heavy time during this time (since the plane crash). I hope that if the people who we lost were here that they would be proud.
Pairs, Free Skating (warm up group 3)
Kelly Ann Laurin/Loucas Ethier
2025 National bronze medalists
Laurin: Today’s Free skating was not so good, but it’s ok. We don't really understand what happened today. Because atmosphere was good, we worked so hard to do a good Free Program (for worlds). We don’t really understand (why we made mistakes), but we will in a couple of days.
Ethier: Our practice was fine, it was a bit early and we were a little bit tired. Practice was so good. We have to think why, how that (mistakes) happened. Because this is not the first time. We’ll try to make sure to minimize errors for the next one, especially a big event like this one. We really hope Canada gets three spots for the Olympics. Of course with the teammates help, let’s see that can happen. But we have to figure out what went wrong today’s Free Skate first.
Ekaterina Geynish/Dmitrii Chigirev
2025 Asian Winter Games Champions
Geynish: (on her excitement at the end of the program) I was really happy to be here at this competition, and I felt it throughout the whole skate. And at the very end, I finally managed to express it. I was happy because the skate was pretty clean, decent, so I was happy with the way everything turned out. (on their skate today and qualification for the Olympics) We are very glad that our skate today was better than at some other competitions and overall we had a very good result.
Chigirev: (on the result and their overall experience at this competition) This was the final event of the season, so the preparation was different, and of course there were some ups and downs, some nerves and some challenges throughout the way. (on their take-away from this season being a new team) Overall, for the first season it was pretty good, but we aimed for higher results and unfortunately there were some mistakes along the way. But anyway we are trying to find some things to be happy about. So it was good for the first season. (on the off season plans to improve the results in the next season) First, we have to
deal with some injuries and then we will start a new chapter in our career, increase the intensity of our training to get into a better physical shape. So this is something that we'll focus on in the offseason. (on qualification for the Olympics) Of course, it was our goal, it is not surprising, because we put a lot of effort in our preparations for Worlds to achieve it. Unfortunately, we made some mistakes but we achieved the goal.
Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud
2025 Four Continents bronze medalists
Michaud: I’m really proud of Lia, she was awesome today. We did a lot of great things today. Unfortunately, a few mistakes cost us some points, but I’m still happy with quite a few things we did, we fought through those moments. A lot of great things this week, and I’m just excited to get ready for next season,
Pereira: (on improvement this season) Thank you for noticing! We definitely feel that as well. We chose two very different pieces of music and two very specific styles that need a lot of work, and we’re very fortunate to work with ice dancers to choreograph both programs accordingly. I think we felt the development of the performances through each competition. We plan on continuing that and doing two separate styles of music and really pushing our performance, because I think that’s what separates the elite skaters in the world. Also, we want to bring a little bit of ice dance performance into pairs skating: there’s so many cool tricks
and elements that are definitely special to pairs, but I think some of the most powerful performances are are the ones where you feel emotional watching at the stands, so we hope to have that effect on others, and we’ll continue to improve on that for the next few seasons. (plans for next season) We have music in a playlist, we have choreography booked, and we’re really looking forward to doing our first Stars on Ice tour in April. We already have our eyes set on next year, and we’ve already started the planning process. It’ll come quick, and we’re ready for it.
Alisa Efimova/Misha Mitrofanov
2025 National Champions
Efimova: the focus we managed to get for the program was something very special. I hope I made everyone proud who has had heavy time during this time (since the plane crash). I hope that if the people who we lost were here that they would be proud.
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Pairs, Free Skating (warm up group 4)
Anastasia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
2023 & 2022 World Junior silver medalists
Giotopoulos Moore: Definitely we are happy we are here, we got to skate at Worlds. Well, it wasn’t absolutely the best skate, but we are happy with the results, we finished strong in top 10 which is our goal, and we are happy about that. I think this competition really taught us no matter what's happened, injuries and sickness, we just have to push through it. And you had to learn what comes from that we have to accept that. We had injuries before the competition, and we got sickness in fact. This experience taught us how to push to the end.
Golubeva: I'm a little bit worried about my mistakes, but otherwise, it’s good. At this event, people were super supportive and friendly, and I was happy to skate here.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps
2024 World Champions
Stellato-Dudek: We went out there to fight to the end. I’m really proud of how we came back, but I'm mad about my combo because I haven't missed a triple toe in about two years. We're really happy with how we fought and came back from a really hard program yesterday. We watched R&R win in japan then have a hard year the following year and we were hoping we could learn from someone not being in their shoes, but it turns out you can't! You have to go through your own hardships which we've been through this year. We're excited to go to World Team Trophy, but we're also excited to turn the page on this season and start
anew. After WTT I can't wait to get started on an Olympic year. I've got
Deschamps: We were really proud of ourselves getting out on the ice. At WTT we have no expectations, we want to go out there and skate well.
Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko
2024 World Championships 4th
Pavlova: (on their performance) The performance was OK. We had some drops, but overall I think it was good. I have a question about my fall because it wasn't a fall, but they put it like it was. So that's the moment that I'm curious about. But everything else I think we did pretty good. We're happy. We have qualified (for the Olympics). We achieved our goal, we enjoyed it. (on the biggest experience from the season) I think we're just grateful for what we have because this season was hard, with difficulties , health issues, something else and we started to enjoy every moment of it and we're grateful for every second we have on the ice. I think it's like that right now. So we're not that worried about this skate. Usually I would be very sad and we were just going to be disappointed, but now I'm happy. It was OK. (on their goals for the off-season to prepare for the Olympics) We will work on new programs, both of them. And I think we're just going to work on everything, elements, spins, step sequence, components, just in general everything. (on ideas for new programs) Yes, we have an idea for the short and for the free. We just have to put it together. But it's a secret, you will see in the next season.
Ellie Kam/Danny O’Shea
2024 Four Continents bronze medalists
Kam: (on earning a potential third Olympic spot for USA) It means so much. We can have another season of growth, and we also have a little bit more of a breathing room next year, hopefully, and give another team a shot at making the Olympic games.
O’Shea: (on road to Milano) Honestly, we’re so excited to go after it next season. It’s been an awesome season, we started off really, really strong. We’ve grown so much this season, our longest season by far, and something we’ve learned through and grown through along the way. This week is something we’ll take with us for sure. I hurt my foot on Saturday, we pushed through a lot of stress and emotion this week, so we’re really happy to have done that with Team USA, and I’m proud of Alisa and Misha too to represent the country.
Pairs, Free Skating (warm up group 4)
Anastasia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
2023 & 2022 World Junior silver medalists
Giotopoulos Moore: Definitely we are happy we are here, we got to skate at Worlds. Well, it wasn’t absolutely the best skate, but we are happy with the results, we finished strong in top 10 which is our goal, and we are happy about that. I think this competition really taught us no matter what's happened, injuries and sickness, we just have to push through it. And you had to learn what comes from that we have to accept that. We had injuries before the competition, and we got sickness in fact. This experience taught us how to push to the end.
Golubeva: I'm a little bit worried about my mistakes, but otherwise, it’s good. At this event, people were super supportive and friendly, and I was happy to skate here.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps
2024 World Champions
Stellato-Dudek: We went out there to fight to the end. I’m really proud of how we came back, but I'm mad about my combo because I haven't missed a triple toe in about two years. We're really happy with how we fought and came back from a really hard program yesterday. We watched R&R win in japan then have a hard year the following year and we were hoping we could learn from someone not being in their shoes, but it turns out you can't! You have to go through your own hardships which we've been through this year. We're excited to go to World Team Trophy, but we're also excited to turn the page on this season and start
anew. After WTT I can't wait to get started on an Olympic year. I've got
Deschamps: We were really proud of ourselves getting out on the ice. At WTT we have no expectations, we want to go out there and skate well.
Maria Pavlova/Alexei Sviatchenko
2024 World Championships 4th
Pavlova: (on their performance) The performance was OK. We had some drops, but overall I think it was good. I have a question about my fall because it wasn't a fall, but they put it like it was. So that's the moment that I'm curious about. But everything else I think we did pretty good. We're happy. We have qualified (for the Olympics). We achieved our goal, we enjoyed it. (on the biggest experience from the season) I think we're just grateful for what we have because this season was hard, with difficulties , health issues, something else and we started to enjoy every moment of it and we're grateful for every second we have on the ice. I think it's like that right now. So we're not that worried about this skate. Usually I would be very sad and we were just going to be disappointed, but now I'm happy. It was OK. (on their goals for the off-season to prepare for the Olympics) We will work on new programs, both of them. And I think we're just going to work on everything, elements, spins, step sequence, components, just in general everything. (on ideas for new programs) Yes, we have an idea for the short and for the free. We just have to put it together. But it's a secret, you will see in the next season.
Ellie Kam/Danny O’Shea
2024 Four Continents bronze medalists
Kam: (on earning a potential third Olympic spot for USA) It means so much. We can have another season of growth, and we also have a little bit more of a breathing room next year, hopefully, and give another team a shot at making the Olympic games.
O’Shea: (on road to Milano) Honestly, we’re so excited to go after it next season. It’s been an awesome season, we started off really, really strong. We’ve grown so much this season, our longest season by far, and something we’ve learned through and grown through along the way. This week is something we’ll take with us for sure. I hurt my foot on Saturday, we pushed through a lot of stress and emotion this week, so we’re really happy to have done that with Team USA, and I’m proud of Alisa and Misha too to represent the country.
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Pairs, Free Skating (warm up group 6)
Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava
2025 European bronze & 2024 European silver medalists
Metelkina: (on improving the quality of their elements and consistency) The most important is to manage things mentally. At big events where the fight is really tough, we will need to learn how to tackle this in a more calm way. So I think we should probably use the help of a mental coach, especially in the Olympic season before the Olympics skates.
Berulava: (on their feelings after the skate) We need to work more, both mentally and physically, there is space to grow. There is still much stuff we can do. We are very grateful that with this skate, we still hold the place that we held after the shot. We're going to do everything in our power to make the next season more successful. You're going to listen to our coach team, we're going to work very hard, we're going to be really workaholics, to do everything in our power to be better. (on new elements, programs for the Olympic season) Element wise it is going to be the same. We just have to be really clean with them, especially with the death spiral. We will work on step sequence and spins. You know, those easy elements that are actually not easy. We haven’t decided about the music yet. We're thinking of getting more mature programs next season, more classic style, less of a party one.
Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin
2025 European Champions & 2024 World bronze medalists
Hase: It was an amazing feeling. I was so zoned out. I was so anxious to go out and then to put out a skate like this, I don’t have words for that. For one second we hoped it would be enough (to win) but we did everything in this free skate and we cannot be ashamed or regret that we held back. We did our maximum in the program. It was a little bit sad (not to win the gold) but we are so happy with the skate. And next season, I hope we will make it.
Volodin: When you are done everything comes out. It was the best skate of the season. We did everything we could in that skate. We feel good and very happy. Now the season is done. It was the last performance for us and it was very important.
Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii
2025 European silver & 2023 World bronze medalists
Conti: We are super happy! It was so hard, the tension was so high. the other couple (the Japanese) are incredible. They did their best program of their career, but I'm so happy we tried to do our best on every element. We are so happy with the medal.
Macii: It was really difficult for me tonight because I felt really tired…even before the twist. We were not actually together during the program but we fight to make a good program. We were nervous (after our performance) because we didn't see the other couples skate. Every time a score was announced, I would make noise to myself so I didn't hear the score. When the Germans skated we saw all the people standing up so we knew they got a good score.
Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara
2023 World & 2025 & 2023 Four Continents Champions
Miura: (on being a World champion for the second time) We’re thrilled to have won this title. But despite the mistakes, we were able to get a new season’s best, which shows that there is still room for more growth moving forward. We’ve been through a lot of injuries and hardships over the past two years, so although we had several minor mistakes today, I’m glad the two of us were able to clinch this title together.
Kihara: (on relationship with Bruno Marcotte and Meagan Duhamel) We train in Oakville under Bruno and Meagan, and although we are training far away from home, everyone in Oakville has been very warm and kind to us. I think it’s thanks to Bruno and Meagan, and the wonderful environment we train in that we have been able to come this far.
Pairs, Free Skating (warm up group 6)
Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava
2025 European bronze & 2024 European silver medalists
Metelkina: (on improving the quality of their elements and consistency) The most important is to manage things mentally. At big events where the fight is really tough, we will need to learn how to tackle this in a more calm way. So I think we should probably use the help of a mental coach, especially in the Olympic season before the Olympics skates.
Berulava: (on their feelings after the skate) We need to work more, both mentally and physically, there is space to grow. There is still much stuff we can do. We are very grateful that with this skate, we still hold the place that we held after the shot. We're going to do everything in our power to make the next season more successful. You're going to listen to our coach team, we're going to work very hard, we're going to be really workaholics, to do everything in our power to be better. (on new elements, programs for the Olympic season) Element wise it is going to be the same. We just have to be really clean with them, especially with the death spiral. We will work on step sequence and spins. You know, those easy elements that are actually not easy. We haven’t decided about the music yet. We're thinking of getting more mature programs next season, more classic style, less of a party one.
Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin
2025 European Champions & 2024 World bronze medalists
Hase: It was an amazing feeling. I was so zoned out. I was so anxious to go out and then to put out a skate like this, I don’t have words for that. For one second we hoped it would be enough (to win) but we did everything in this free skate and we cannot be ashamed or regret that we held back. We did our maximum in the program. It was a little bit sad (not to win the gold) but we are so happy with the skate. And next season, I hope we will make it.
Volodin: When you are done everything comes out. It was the best skate of the season. We did everything we could in that skate. We feel good and very happy. Now the season is done. It was the last performance for us and it was very important.
Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii
2025 European silver & 2023 World bronze medalists
Conti: We are super happy! It was so hard, the tension was so high. the other couple (the Japanese) are incredible. They did their best program of their career, but I'm so happy we tried to do our best on every element. We are so happy with the medal.
Macii: It was really difficult for me tonight because I felt really tired…even before the twist. We were not actually together during the program but we fight to make a good program. We were nervous (after our performance) because we didn't see the other couples skate. Every time a score was announced, I would make noise to myself so I didn't hear the score. When the Germans skated we saw all the people standing up so we knew they got a good score.
Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara
2023 World & 2025 & 2023 Four Continents Champions
Miura: (on being a World champion for the second time) We’re thrilled to have won this title. But despite the mistakes, we were able to get a new season’s best, which shows that there is still room for more growth moving forward. We’ve been through a lot of injuries and hardships over the past two years, so although we had several minor mistakes today, I’m glad the two of us were able to clinch this title together.
Kihara: (on relationship with Bruno Marcotte and Meagan Duhamel) We train in Oakville under Bruno and Meagan, and although we are training far away from home, everyone in Oakville has been very warm and kind to us. I think it’s thanks to Bruno and Meagan, and the wonderful environment we train in that we have been able to come this far.
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Ice Dance, Rhythm Dance (warm up groups 2, 4 & 5)
Milla Ruud Reitan/Nikolaj Majorov
2025 National Champions
Majorov: it was so fun. It's a fantastic way to end the season, so happy. We might not be world champions,but we really felt like world champions on the ice today. We almost wanted to stay on the ice, honestly. I wouldn't have had no problem to a double run today. I can skate one more time if they want to. (on competing in their second World Championship) In all sports you need to learn it before you can know what to improve on and I think the best improvement we did is to keep to the music, keep to the energy always the same in competition as in our practice. (on chances to go to the Olympic Games) First of all, we need to qualify. Second of all, she needs also to get a passport (as she is Norvegian). If we miss this Olympics, it's not a problem, there's four more years. We'll probably go to the Beijing qualification, and then, you know, it's not our choice to, you know, approve the passports, you know, that is the government that has to do so.
Reitan: (on competing in their second World Championship) this year we enjoyed it much more because we got the experience from last year. So I think we managed to enjoy it even more and we were much more relaxed and just wanted to skate our best and perform.
Utana Yoshida/Masaya Morita
2025 Asian Winter Games Champions
Morita: We were able to enjoy skating throughout the Rhythm Dance with a warm welcoming atmosphere here in Boston. I was most nervous in the official practice yesterday, but I didn’t get nervous in today’s competition, so it turned out good. We were happy that we were able get levels that we were hoping for, and it showed in the score. For Free Dance, we would like to put our everything onto ice, as coach Scott (Moir) advised us.
Yoshida: I was able to enjoy performing from the beginning to the end today. Skill wise, of course we have a lot to improve for the future, but we are happy with the results. I think we were able to show our preparation and training for this big event today.
Elizabeth Tkachenko/Alexei Kiliakov
2024 World Junior silver medalists
Kiliakov: This is our first time competing at World Championships. It was incredible feeling with this atmosphere, audience, and arena here. It’s great energetic event, and a lot of fun. We had to miss the Europeans, because I had collision with another skater in the practice session, and the cut on my leg was pretty bad. It was deep cut on my leg. I couldn’t skate for a few weeks, obviously. But we made a quick recovery, and we are happy to be here. Thanks to the doctors and our coaching team. It’s all good now.(on the difference between junior and senior) We have been working on connections (between us), presentation, and emotions for the audience rather than energetic skating for the Worlds. Also consistency is important, because you could mess up a little bit at Junior level, a lot of teams do. But at the Senior level, top teams have consistency. So we’ve been trying to work on that, too.
Jennifer Janse van Rensburg/Benjamin Steffan
2025 National Champions
Janse van Rensburg: I was actually not nervous, yesterday I felt more stressed out. Today I came into the rink and all the nerves were gone. (on her partner becoming a father) The next generation is on its way. Auntie Jenny (herself) gave little hockey skates as a gift.
Steffan: The venue is fantastic, the atmosphere is cool and it was so much fun to skate this program and I think it helps when you focus on that. So it went really well. We had a great preparation in the last four weeks in my old home town in Chemnitz as the ice rink in Oberstdorf is closed due to renovations. My wife came with us and on Monday, March 17, our little son Leon was born. I was happy that I was able to be there, our boy made it really easy for us and it was even on our day off. Everything was just perfect timing. (on whether he wants his son to become a skater) He doesn’t have to but he is welcome to become one.
Katerina Mrazkova/Daniel Mrazek
2023 World Junior Champions
Mrazek: I think our mindset at last year’s Worlds was very good — it was one of our best competitions. We went in with the mindset that we wanted to perform as best as possible, to show how we can skate and to entertain, without thinking about other things. This year, it was a similar approach. Of course, we gain experience with every competition and try to learn each time, so it felt a bit different this time, but the approach was the same: to deliver a good rhythm dance. We started skating together, so we don’t know how to skate with anyone else. I think it works well since we’ve been skating together from a young age.
Mrazkova: (on sibling dynamic) I think it has positives and negatives. The positive is that we’ll probably skate together forever and don’t want to split, so that makes it easy. We’re also honest and open, so sometimes we say things in a way that’s not the best, and we might fight — but overall, I think we have a good relationship.
Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin
2024 Golden Spin Zagreb silver medalists
Smolkin: It feels great to be honest competing here. Incredible crowd, so much energy, so much joy they bring to this rink. It was great. (on competing at Worlds for the second time, how is it different) It's very different because we're coming to this competition with our new team. So it's our first world championship for this team. And everything is different. Our mindset is different, programs are different, we're different. We're just learning every day, we're trying to put everything in that we're trained, we're trying to trust our muscle memory and it's something new. (on competing for qualification for the Olympics, feeling pressure or motivation) I think everyone feels pressure, but the ice is slippery, so anything could happen. But we try not to think about it much. We believe in ourselves, our coach team believes in us and we believe that we are good enough to qualify and to put up some fight here. (on expectations from the free dance) Well, hopefully clean skate and we can bring some joy and some energy at the end of the free dance. So hopefully we'll be able to do that and the American audience will be hopefully reacting to that. We hope that we can do our best. (on a new organization of the event) The organization is just incredible here, the only thing we face more trouble with is transportation, we have to wait for the elevator for 10 minutes to get upstairs, but the rest is just incredible. I think it's going to be a good example for other championships. And well, we didn't expect less from the United States, you know, like there's such a huge and enormous power in the field of figure skating. So I think they hold the level and it's great.
Ice Dance, Rhythm Dance (warm up groups 2, 4 & 5)
Milla Ruud Reitan/Nikolaj Majorov
2025 National Champions
Majorov: it was so fun. It's a fantastic way to end the season, so happy. We might not be world champions,but we really felt like world champions on the ice today. We almost wanted to stay on the ice, honestly. I wouldn't have had no problem to a double run today. I can skate one more time if they want to. (on competing in their second World Championship) In all sports you need to learn it before you can know what to improve on and I think the best improvement we did is to keep to the music, keep to the energy always the same in competition as in our practice. (on chances to go to the Olympic Games) First of all, we need to qualify. Second of all, she needs also to get a passport (as she is Norvegian). If we miss this Olympics, it's not a problem, there's four more years. We'll probably go to the Beijing qualification, and then, you know, it's not our choice to, you know, approve the passports, you know, that is the government that has to do so.
Reitan: (on competing in their second World Championship) this year we enjoyed it much more because we got the experience from last year. So I think we managed to enjoy it even more and we were much more relaxed and just wanted to skate our best and perform.
Utana Yoshida/Masaya Morita
2025 Asian Winter Games Champions
Morita: We were able to enjoy skating throughout the Rhythm Dance with a warm welcoming atmosphere here in Boston. I was most nervous in the official practice yesterday, but I didn’t get nervous in today’s competition, so it turned out good. We were happy that we were able get levels that we were hoping for, and it showed in the score. For Free Dance, we would like to put our everything onto ice, as coach Scott (Moir) advised us.
Yoshida: I was able to enjoy performing from the beginning to the end today. Skill wise, of course we have a lot to improve for the future, but we are happy with the results. I think we were able to show our preparation and training for this big event today.
Elizabeth Tkachenko/Alexei Kiliakov
2024 World Junior silver medalists
Kiliakov: This is our first time competing at World Championships. It was incredible feeling with this atmosphere, audience, and arena here. It’s great energetic event, and a lot of fun. We had to miss the Europeans, because I had collision with another skater in the practice session, and the cut on my leg was pretty bad. It was deep cut on my leg. I couldn’t skate for a few weeks, obviously. But we made a quick recovery, and we are happy to be here. Thanks to the doctors and our coaching team. It’s all good now.(on the difference between junior and senior) We have been working on connections (between us), presentation, and emotions for the audience rather than energetic skating for the Worlds. Also consistency is important, because you could mess up a little bit at Junior level, a lot of teams do. But at the Senior level, top teams have consistency. So we’ve been trying to work on that, too.
Jennifer Janse van Rensburg/Benjamin Steffan
2025 National Champions
Janse van Rensburg: I was actually not nervous, yesterday I felt more stressed out. Today I came into the rink and all the nerves were gone. (on her partner becoming a father) The next generation is on its way. Auntie Jenny (herself) gave little hockey skates as a gift.
Steffan: The venue is fantastic, the atmosphere is cool and it was so much fun to skate this program and I think it helps when you focus on that. So it went really well. We had a great preparation in the last four weeks in my old home town in Chemnitz as the ice rink in Oberstdorf is closed due to renovations. My wife came with us and on Monday, March 17, our little son Leon was born. I was happy that I was able to be there, our boy made it really easy for us and it was even on our day off. Everything was just perfect timing. (on whether he wants his son to become a skater) He doesn’t have to but he is welcome to become one.
Katerina Mrazkova/Daniel Mrazek
2023 World Junior Champions
Mrazek: I think our mindset at last year’s Worlds was very good — it was one of our best competitions. We went in with the mindset that we wanted to perform as best as possible, to show how we can skate and to entertain, without thinking about other things. This year, it was a similar approach. Of course, we gain experience with every competition and try to learn each time, so it felt a bit different this time, but the approach was the same: to deliver a good rhythm dance. We started skating together, so we don’t know how to skate with anyone else. I think it works well since we’ve been skating together from a young age.
Mrazkova: (on sibling dynamic) I think it has positives and negatives. The positive is that we’ll probably skate together forever and don’t want to split, so that makes it easy. We’re also honest and open, so sometimes we say things in a way that’s not the best, and we might fight — but overall, I think we have a good relationship.
Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin
2024 Golden Spin Zagreb silver medalists
Smolkin: It feels great to be honest competing here. Incredible crowd, so much energy, so much joy they bring to this rink. It was great. (on competing at Worlds for the second time, how is it different) It's very different because we're coming to this competition with our new team. So it's our first world championship for this team. And everything is different. Our mindset is different, programs are different, we're different. We're just learning every day, we're trying to put everything in that we're trained, we're trying to trust our muscle memory and it's something new. (on competing for qualification for the Olympics, feeling pressure or motivation) I think everyone feels pressure, but the ice is slippery, so anything could happen. But we try not to think about it much. We believe in ourselves, our coach team believes in us and we believe that we are good enough to qualify and to put up some fight here. (on expectations from the free dance) Well, hopefully clean skate and we can bring some joy and some energy at the end of the free dance. So hopefully we'll be able to do that and the American audience will be hopefully reacting to that. We hope that we can do our best. (on a new organization of the event) The organization is just incredible here, the only thing we face more trouble with is transportation, we have to wait for the elevator for 10 minutes to get upstairs, but the rest is just incredible. I think it's going to be a good example for other championships. And well, we didn't expect less from the United States, you know, like there's such a huge and enormous power in the field of figure skating. So I think they hold the level and it's great.
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Ice Dance, Rhythm Dance (warm up group 6)
Yuka Orihara/Juho Pirinen
2025 National silver medalists
Orihara: Today was our best performance, as we were able to concentrate every single moment. I just found out recently Donna Summer is from Boston, but we didn’t think about Worlds in Boston when we picked our music for Rhythm Dance.
Pirinen: It was very relaxing atmosphere, and our performance was done very quickly I felt. But we really had a good time, we did great job today even for every single edge. We were very pleased. I think the energy of our music bring us up, as we know we are capable of reaching up to the music. We always pick that kind of music, and it fit us (our skating style) very well. For the Free Dance, we skate to Broadway music. I think the audience will like our Free Dance, which is very dynamic and energetic. That’s our strength.
Olivia Smart/Tim Dieck
2024 GP Skate America bronze medalists
Smart: We are very happy. It’s a very different feeling out there vs. the practice rink. Today was a little bit more challenging getting used to the environment and higher nerves of course. When we took our opening pose we were nervous, but I just told myself we need to rely on our training. Towards the end of the program I was really trying to enjoy it more because I was so focused. I'm also excited for the free as well. for the free tomorrow we know a lot of people in the crowd are here for our free dance. Tomorrow will probably be the last time we get to skate this program and we love skating it and we just want to go out
there and skate our best. We've built so many fans and relationships through this program and to be able to show it in front of the world's stage in front of all these people here tomorrow, I'll have to keep myself calm. It'll be a moment to remember for both of us no matter what happens.
Dieck: We had so much fun during our skate, especially just before our step sequence. The crowd here is amazing. Our goal was really to skate two clean programs. I think this preparation was a bit different for us than other competitions. For instance, Europeans we had a week of consistent training and here we had 4-5 weeks of consistent training. Also it was very challenging because the last two weeks were very intense, so we felt a bit tired at the end. The goal was to peak this week, so it's looking good.
Natalie Taschlerova/Filip Taschler
2025 National Champions
Taschlerova: The atmosphere - the crowd really helped us and I think we enjoyed it…but tomorrow’s another day. The goal for us was to skate two clean programs. Unfortunately, that didn't happen today and it is what it is.
Taschler: I think there was a mistake in the twizzles which is unfortunate and cost us some points. The field is pretty packed so I think every little shake (mis-step) makes a difference. Right now we just want to focus on ourselves and improve, not worry about the standings.
Hannah Lim/Ye Quan
2025 National Champions
Lim: I feel really good — the crowd had so much energy, and it felt great to deliver this program for the last time this season. I wanted to show my best performance. (on being an Olympic qualifying event) I was a bit nervous, but it was a good kind of pressure. The second year really shows us that ice dance is a long-term sport — the more experience you gain, the higher you can climb. This season truly showed us that. (on being a multicultural team) Being from Canada and growing up there, I feel a bit different when I go to Korea and spend time with Korean friends — (different kind of social dynamic), and tend to be a bit more
(reserved). I think you can see that contrast in my character on the ice. I’m not afraid to show full expression, and I’m grateful to have grown up experiencing so many different cultures.
Quan: I coach in Canada, so my students came to watch me this time — that was a nice difference compared to last year. I feel like this year has been a good learning year. Last year was our first as seniors, so we didn’t have any expectations — we just tried to do our best. This year, now that we have a general understanding of where we’re placed and how we can get more points, it’s been a season of growth for us. (on being a multicultural team) I think it really diversifies the way we portray our dancing — we’re not limited to just one style.
Loicia Demougeot/Theo Le Mercier
2025 National Golden Spin Zagreb silver medalists
Demougeot: (on their performance) Apparently we lost a few levels on the PST, so we'll watch the video later. But after all I think we're happy with what we did. Personally, I made the most of the moment. The audience was great throughout the program. I think that helped us a lot. Yes, I was a little disappointed with the points, but then I think we came here to be happy with what we'd done. I think we're both happy, so we're fine with that. (on his specific objectives for this championship) No, not really. We just want to finish our season well and be happy with the programs we're showing. After that, the rest doesn't depend solely
on us, the scores, the places, that's not necessarily in our hands alone. So we just want to be satisfied with the programs we show, and then we'll see if the rest follows. (on the preparations and changes in the programs) We also wanted to gain confidence in what we were doing, to be more in tune with it, and I think that's been successful in training, and it’s to see if it works here too. But we've worked a lot on that.
Le Mercier: (on their performance) Obviously a little disappointed with the points, but very happy after skating with what we'd done. Now we'll look in detail at why it didn't work. We really felt we'd done a lot better than the times before. Also, these world championships have the highest level on the planet. (on the audience) It was incredible. We felt the public was with us, applauding and so on, but frankly, thank you for that. It was incredible. We really enjoyed skating because that's what's most important. (on preparations and changes) We worked a lot on the elements, worked on the power of skating in this free dance. We really worked to make it much more qualitative, so that the free dance would take all the way to the end.
Ice Dance, Rhythm Dance (warm up group 6)
Yuka Orihara/Juho Pirinen
2025 National silver medalists
Orihara: Today was our best performance, as we were able to concentrate every single moment. I just found out recently Donna Summer is from Boston, but we didn’t think about Worlds in Boston when we picked our music for Rhythm Dance.
Pirinen: It was very relaxing atmosphere, and our performance was done very quickly I felt. But we really had a good time, we did great job today even for every single edge. We were very pleased. I think the energy of our music bring us up, as we know we are capable of reaching up to the music. We always pick that kind of music, and it fit us (our skating style) very well. For the Free Dance, we skate to Broadway music. I think the audience will like our Free Dance, which is very dynamic and energetic. That’s our strength.
Olivia Smart/Tim Dieck
2024 GP Skate America bronze medalists
Smart: We are very happy. It’s a very different feeling out there vs. the practice rink. Today was a little bit more challenging getting used to the environment and higher nerves of course. When we took our opening pose we were nervous, but I just told myself we need to rely on our training. Towards the end of the program I was really trying to enjoy it more because I was so focused. I'm also excited for the free as well. for the free tomorrow we know a lot of people in the crowd are here for our free dance. Tomorrow will probably be the last time we get to skate this program and we love skating it and we just want to go out
there and skate our best. We've built so many fans and relationships through this program and to be able to show it in front of the world's stage in front of all these people here tomorrow, I'll have to keep myself calm. It'll be a moment to remember for both of us no matter what happens.
Dieck: We had so much fun during our skate, especially just before our step sequence. The crowd here is amazing. Our goal was really to skate two clean programs. I think this preparation was a bit different for us than other competitions. For instance, Europeans we had a week of consistent training and here we had 4-5 weeks of consistent training. Also it was very challenging because the last two weeks were very intense, so we felt a bit tired at the end. The goal was to peak this week, so it's looking good.
Natalie Taschlerova/Filip Taschler
2025 National Champions
Taschlerova: The atmosphere - the crowd really helped us and I think we enjoyed it…but tomorrow’s another day. The goal for us was to skate two clean programs. Unfortunately, that didn't happen today and it is what it is.
Taschler: I think there was a mistake in the twizzles which is unfortunate and cost us some points. The field is pretty packed so I think every little shake (mis-step) makes a difference. Right now we just want to focus on ourselves and improve, not worry about the standings.
Hannah Lim/Ye Quan
2025 National Champions
Lim: I feel really good — the crowd had so much energy, and it felt great to deliver this program for the last time this season. I wanted to show my best performance. (on being an Olympic qualifying event) I was a bit nervous, but it was a good kind of pressure. The second year really shows us that ice dance is a long-term sport — the more experience you gain, the higher you can climb. This season truly showed us that. (on being a multicultural team) Being from Canada and growing up there, I feel a bit different when I go to Korea and spend time with Korean friends — (different kind of social dynamic), and tend to be a bit more
(reserved). I think you can see that contrast in my character on the ice. I’m not afraid to show full expression, and I’m grateful to have grown up experiencing so many different cultures.
Quan: I coach in Canada, so my students came to watch me this time — that was a nice difference compared to last year. I feel like this year has been a good learning year. Last year was our first as seniors, so we didn’t have any expectations — we just tried to do our best. This year, now that we have a general understanding of where we’re placed and how we can get more points, it’s been a season of growth for us. (on being a multicultural team) I think it really diversifies the way we portray our dancing — we’re not limited to just one style.
Loicia Demougeot/Theo Le Mercier
2025 National Golden Spin Zagreb silver medalists
Demougeot: (on their performance) Apparently we lost a few levels on the PST, so we'll watch the video later. But after all I think we're happy with what we did. Personally, I made the most of the moment. The audience was great throughout the program. I think that helped us a lot. Yes, I was a little disappointed with the points, but then I think we came here to be happy with what we'd done. I think we're both happy, so we're fine with that. (on his specific objectives for this championship) No, not really. We just want to finish our season well and be happy with the programs we're showing. After that, the rest doesn't depend solely
on us, the scores, the places, that's not necessarily in our hands alone. So we just want to be satisfied with the programs we show, and then we'll see if the rest follows. (on the preparations and changes in the programs) We also wanted to gain confidence in what we were doing, to be more in tune with it, and I think that's been successful in training, and it’s to see if it works here too. But we've worked a lot on that.
Le Mercier: (on their performance) Obviously a little disappointed with the points, but very happy after skating with what we'd done. Now we'll look in detail at why it didn't work. We really felt we'd done a lot better than the times before. Also, these world championships have the highest level on the planet. (on the audience) It was incredible. We felt the public was with us, applauding and so on, but frankly, thank you for that. It was incredible. We really enjoyed skating because that's what's most important. (on preparations and changes) We worked a lot on the elements, worked on the power of skating in this free dance. We really worked to make it much more qualitative, so that the free dance would take all the way to the end.
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Ice Dance, Rhythm Dance (warm up group 6)
Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis
2023 European bronze medalists
Turkkila: I don’t know what to say. But audience was amazing here after the fall, and they helped us to keep going and we tried to save what we could. We were able to manage the components.
Versluis: It’s hard to say anything right now. Somewhat my feet (to pick he meant) got stuck and I fell.
Caroline Green/Michael Parsons
2025 National bronze medalists
Green: The energy was incredible. There’s so much technical mastery that goes into skating — our job is to make sure that the performance is layered on top of it. (on the costume and program) I love 60’s culture — there’s so much fun music and so many cultural touchpoints. We started choreographing our programs knowing that Worlds would be in Boston. (on partnership and growth) We started the season with the idea of rebuilding, but we quickly realized there was no need to rebuild — just to be ourselves and push to discover new sides of our skating, our partnership, and our love for the sport.
Parsons: All of the skaters feel it — the energy — and the fans feel it too. This is why we train. We’re going to put everything into the free dance. (on partnership and growth) We realized we’re better than we’ve ever been, and we’re peaking at just the right moment. We’re enjoying every single moment. I think the foundation of this is confidence — confidence in our bodies, in each other — and you can’t be a successful team without those three. We’ve spent a lot of time building that, and this is the first season where it’s really come to fruition. It feels like everything we’re doing is moving in the right direction, with the entire team.
Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko
2024 Four Continents bronze medalists
Carreira: We came in so prepared and were so excited to skate. The crowd is incredible. Performing on home ice is not something we get to do very often but this feels amazing. All week, even on practice ice, as soon as they say USA people just start screaming. The fans have been so supportive
Ponomarenko: We never broken 80 points so it was amazing to do it at home. It's a dream come true. We're coming in very prepared and we gave it our best today and we're here to grow and learn. boston has a very rich/deep sports history - with the Celtics and the Bruin, it's pretty special. You look up in the rafters and all the banners are right up there. It's an honor.
Allison Reed/Saulius Ambrulevicius
2024 European bronze medalists
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Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha
2025 Four Continents bronze medalists
Lajoie: It was fun. I feel like I enjoyed every step. We did a good job and we have worked very hard these past three weeks. It’s a very stressful competition so it can go into your head. I feel we did a good job, we just focused on the performance and we were able to enjoy it. (on the audience) We see so many Canadian flags, it means the world to us.
Lagha: The only pressure we have comes from ourselves. I don’t care about results, I don’t care about scores. We just want to skate clean, do what we do in training and what we do in competition, that is important. The rest does not depend on us. (on the message to the crowd ‘Hold my beer’) I just wanted to find something funny.
Ice Dance, Rhythm Dance (warm up group 6)
Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis
2023 European bronze medalists
Turkkila: I don’t know what to say. But audience was amazing here after the fall, and they helped us to keep going and we tried to save what we could. We were able to manage the components.
Versluis: It’s hard to say anything right now. Somewhat my feet (to pick he meant) got stuck and I fell.
Caroline Green/Michael Parsons
2025 National bronze medalists
Green: The energy was incredible. There’s so much technical mastery that goes into skating — our job is to make sure that the performance is layered on top of it. (on the costume and program) I love 60’s culture — there’s so much fun music and so many cultural touchpoints. We started choreographing our programs knowing that Worlds would be in Boston. (on partnership and growth) We started the season with the idea of rebuilding, but we quickly realized there was no need to rebuild — just to be ourselves and push to discover new sides of our skating, our partnership, and our love for the sport.
Parsons: All of the skaters feel it — the energy — and the fans feel it too. This is why we train. We’re going to put everything into the free dance. (on partnership and growth) We realized we’re better than we’ve ever been, and we’re peaking at just the right moment. We’re enjoying every single moment. I think the foundation of this is confidence — confidence in our bodies, in each other — and you can’t be a successful team without those three. We’ve spent a lot of time building that, and this is the first season where it’s really come to fruition. It feels like everything we’re doing is moving in the right direction, with the entire team.
Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko
2024 Four Continents bronze medalists
Carreira: We came in so prepared and were so excited to skate. The crowd is incredible. Performing on home ice is not something we get to do very often but this feels amazing. All week, even on practice ice, as soon as they say USA people just start screaming. The fans have been so supportive
Ponomarenko: We never broken 80 points so it was amazing to do it at home. It's a dream come true. We're coming in very prepared and we gave it our best today and we're here to grow and learn. boston has a very rich/deep sports history - with the Celtics and the Bruin, it's pretty special. You look up in the rafters and all the banners are right up there. It's an honor.
Allison Reed/Saulius Ambrulevicius
2024 European bronze medalists
No comment
Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha
2025 Four Continents bronze medalists
Lajoie: It was fun. I feel like I enjoyed every step. We did a good job and we have worked very hard these past three weeks. It’s a very stressful competition so it can go into your head. I feel we did a good job, we just focused on the performance and we were able to enjoy it. (on the audience) We see so many Canadian flags, it means the world to us.
Lagha: The only pressure we have comes from ourselves. I don’t care about results, I don’t care about scores. We just want to skate clean, do what we do in training and what we do in competition, that is important. The rest does not depend on us. (on the message to the crowd ‘Hold my beer’) I just wanted to find something funny.
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Ice Dance, Rhythm Dance (warm up group 8)
Evgenia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud
2025 European silver medalists
Lopareva: (on their performance and feelings) I think we still performed well in terms of expression. The technique is a bit low and we had a little imbalance, so it was so expensive. But hey, there are days like that sometimes and tomorrow we will come back stronger than today. (on the public) The public was really warm, we felt that even before we went out on the ice, during our warm-up. When we were out there, they were so supportive. It was such a pleasure. It was so nice. (on their placements this year, objectives) Right now, we just want to show what we've been working on all season. The last four weeks of preparation went really well, so the aim is just to show what we've worked on, perform well and enjoy the last competition of the year. (on the specific elements) In the free we changed our one foot sequence completely, we modified the spins. For the rest, there were no changes.
Brissaud: (on their performance and feelings) We'll be careful tomorrow and the score will be higher tomorrow. (on their expectations, motivation or pressure) We came ready, we wanted to do well, today unfortunately it didn't pay off what we'd worked for, but it will pay off tomorrow. That's how it is, it happens too, we had a great season. That's okay. Tomorrow will be better.
Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier
2025 Four Continents Champions & 2024 World silver medalists
Piper: (on rivalry with Chock and Bates) I think it’s just friendly competition — we have so much respect for them. They bring so much to the table, just like we do. It pushes us to skate better, and (ultimately) the audience gets a better performance. (on the lead-up to Worlds) We felt so prepared and tried to mimic the training we had coming out of our last competition — the national championships. We didn’t even think we would still be skating after the Olympics in 2022. It’s interesting to see all of us continuing — that there is longevity in this. Experience really does trump everything.
Poirier: We felt really calm and present in the moment (returning to Boston after many years). It felt like we could really dance and enjoy ourselves. (on being in the last group for the first time at the “last” Worlds in Boston) That was such a milestone for us — it was a surprise at the time. Now, we come into these championships with so much more experience and expectations. It’s exciting to now be standing on a level we once aspired to. It’s been an unpredictable season for ice dance, and our job is to come out and give our best performance tomorrow.
Madison Chock/Evan Bates
2024 & 2023 World Champions
Chock: This was so fun, honestly. We really love this routine. We love dance and this program really showcases so many styles of dance, and it comes with a lot of joy. We love Boston. We've been here multiple times. We came here for camp in August and we got to tour the city. This time we haven't been doing too much sightseeing because we've got our focus set on the ice. This is a business trip. It feels great to close out our season with a great performance. I think we've evolved the program quite a lot this season - tinkering with the music, tinkering with the steps, the PSD and just really getting it to a place where we feel free and feel the joy of each style of dance.
Bates: The crowd was unbelievable. When I was doing the last lift and felt, heard the noise, it was an unbelievable atmosphere. I love skating with Maddie, she's, I think the best in the world. I love being out there with her. We’ll see where we stand at the end of the day and we'll recharge and reset for tomorrow.(Regarding skating in Boston Worlds 9 years later) I remember 2016 very fondly, I remember having a full crowd and a lot of joy and support and today it was the same. From the 5 minute warm up to the introductions all the way through - it was so fun.
Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson
2024 GP Final bronze medalists
Fear: I’m so happy, this is the skate we have been wanting for all season, we really put in the work in between European and Worlds. Now what we have been training for really showed up under the pressure. That’s what we wanted and our goal, so we are very excited.
Gibson: We had the most fun crowd here, it was really amazing. People were screaming at us when we were passing by them, which was really cool. We tried to entertain each other, so people entertain us, so the connection (between audience and us) really adds to our performance.
Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri
2025 European Champions & 2024 World bronze medalists
Guignard: We were a bit tense today, but this doesn’t happen to us for the first time. In each competition, there is a different kind of tension. I am curious to watch our program from the outside how it was because while we didn’t feel that it was absolutely perfect we did not expect to get those low levels. Honestly, fourth place was not what we were expecting. We had a normal preparation, nothing extraordinary. We have worked a lot on the precision, to be very well together in the step sequence and on all those details. We are a bit disappointed that the last time we presented this program we didn’t do it in the way we can do it. (on heading into the Free Dance) Tomorrow we want to perform the way we know we can do it and like we have done it many times before and like we did at Europeans where we had a very strong performance. We still have the Free Dance. We’ll try everything to move up. We did not make major changes, just some details.
Ice Dance, Rhythm Dance (warm up group 8)
Evgenia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud
2025 European silver medalists
Lopareva: (on their performance and feelings) I think we still performed well in terms of expression. The technique is a bit low and we had a little imbalance, so it was so expensive. But hey, there are days like that sometimes and tomorrow we will come back stronger than today. (on the public) The public was really warm, we felt that even before we went out on the ice, during our warm-up. When we were out there, they were so supportive. It was such a pleasure. It was so nice. (on their placements this year, objectives) Right now, we just want to show what we've been working on all season. The last four weeks of preparation went really well, so the aim is just to show what we've worked on, perform well and enjoy the last competition of the year. (on the specific elements) In the free we changed our one foot sequence completely, we modified the spins. For the rest, there were no changes.
Brissaud: (on their performance and feelings) We'll be careful tomorrow and the score will be higher tomorrow. (on their expectations, motivation or pressure) We came ready, we wanted to do well, today unfortunately it didn't pay off what we'd worked for, but it will pay off tomorrow. That's how it is, it happens too, we had a great season. That's okay. Tomorrow will be better.
Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier
2025 Four Continents Champions & 2024 World silver medalists
Piper: (on rivalry with Chock and Bates) I think it’s just friendly competition — we have so much respect for them. They bring so much to the table, just like we do. It pushes us to skate better, and (ultimately) the audience gets a better performance. (on the lead-up to Worlds) We felt so prepared and tried to mimic the training we had coming out of our last competition — the national championships. We didn’t even think we would still be skating after the Olympics in 2022. It’s interesting to see all of us continuing — that there is longevity in this. Experience really does trump everything.
Poirier: We felt really calm and present in the moment (returning to Boston after many years). It felt like we could really dance and enjoy ourselves. (on being in the last group for the first time at the “last” Worlds in Boston) That was such a milestone for us — it was a surprise at the time. Now, we come into these championships with so much more experience and expectations. It’s exciting to now be standing on a level we once aspired to. It’s been an unpredictable season for ice dance, and our job is to come out and give our best performance tomorrow.
Madison Chock/Evan Bates
2024 & 2023 World Champions
Chock: This was so fun, honestly. We really love this routine. We love dance and this program really showcases so many styles of dance, and it comes with a lot of joy. We love Boston. We've been here multiple times. We came here for camp in August and we got to tour the city. This time we haven't been doing too much sightseeing because we've got our focus set on the ice. This is a business trip. It feels great to close out our season with a great performance. I think we've evolved the program quite a lot this season - tinkering with the music, tinkering with the steps, the PSD and just really getting it to a place where we feel free and feel the joy of each style of dance.
Bates: The crowd was unbelievable. When I was doing the last lift and felt, heard the noise, it was an unbelievable atmosphere. I love skating with Maddie, she's, I think the best in the world. I love being out there with her. We’ll see where we stand at the end of the day and we'll recharge and reset for tomorrow.(Regarding skating in Boston Worlds 9 years later) I remember 2016 very fondly, I remember having a full crowd and a lot of joy and support and today it was the same. From the 5 minute warm up to the introductions all the way through - it was so fun.
Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson
2024 GP Final bronze medalists
Fear: I’m so happy, this is the skate we have been wanting for all season, we really put in the work in between European and Worlds. Now what we have been training for really showed up under the pressure. That’s what we wanted and our goal, so we are very excited.
Gibson: We had the most fun crowd here, it was really amazing. People were screaming at us when we were passing by them, which was really cool. We tried to entertain each other, so people entertain us, so the connection (between audience and us) really adds to our performance.
Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri
2025 European Champions & 2024 World bronze medalists
Guignard: We were a bit tense today, but this doesn’t happen to us for the first time. In each competition, there is a different kind of tension. I am curious to watch our program from the outside how it was because while we didn’t feel that it was absolutely perfect we did not expect to get those low levels. Honestly, fourth place was not what we were expecting. We had a normal preparation, nothing extraordinary. We have worked a lot on the precision, to be very well together in the step sequence and on all those details. We are a bit disappointed that the last time we presented this program we didn’t do it in the way we can do it. (on heading into the Free Dance) Tomorrow we want to perform the way we know we can do it and like we have done it many times before and like we did at Europeans where we had a very strong performance. We still have the Free Dance. We’ll try everything to move up. We did not make major changes, just some details.
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Women, Free Skating (warm up groups 1 & 2)
Meda Variakojyte
2025 National Champion
It feels amazing to be in the final. It feels unreal. I didn’t believe I could do it. So I would’ve been happy any way I skated because I’m here. But, of course, I wanted a little bit better. It was stressful because it’s all new to me, but I loved it. The crowd is awesome, and the atmosphere, I loved it. The biggest experience this season, I think, is this competition. This season was really long and hard, but it was kind of one of my best seasons so I feel good about it. (on who inspires her) I really love Evgenia Medvedeva. Her skating skills are so amazing and she was my inspiration for a long time. (on next season) I would love to try some quads and triple Axel, because that’s kind of my task to try at least one time. I’m a little scared of it, but that’s my goal. (on clinching an Olympic spot) It’s still unreal. I don’t know how I did it. It was such a lucky day for me. There was only one hundredth of a point from the final, so it was so incredible. (on free program) I’m a statue and I come alive with every piece of my choreography, so at the end, I am alive, skating to show everybody what I can do. (on watching final groups) I really love Alysa Liu. She came back so strong. I love it. She’s the coolest.
Ekaterina Kurakova
2025 National Champion
I am very proud of myself for my Free Skate. I want to better and I know I can do much better technically. But today, my rain was working, and this was one of the best performance for me. I was talking and laughing before the performance, because it’s a first time for me not skating for (Polish) dfederation. Every time I put pressure on myself like “I need to be this Katya, I need to be this Katya.” Because I feel so much responsibilities (for my country). Also, I started laughing with the fact I'm the best skater in my country, I know it’s sounds selfish, but it’s true. Now, I’m learning how to deal with that. But today I decided to skate
for myself before the performance, and I felt so good after the last element. When I made a mistake, of course I didn’t want to cry, I told myself “Come on, Katya! Where is your 3Lutz and 3 Flip? I've been doing those since I was 17 years old.” And I kept going. The audience understand me and they were so happy to see me. I was so grateful for that. I think I was born for the mission, I came here to make people happy. People (audience) made me really, really happy today. Today I was so happy, so I spread my happiness to the people. (About costume change) I think it’s amazing! Every time I change the costume, people were
screaming with surprise! I look for the moment, thinking “I'm gonna change I’m gonna change! It's time to do that!” It was my idea, and I’m super high like this, even music changes, and showing a quiet face to audience. (on her next step) I’m looking forward to the vacation. It’s time to rest. I might go to Paris, or Netherlands, and Poland. I will do whatever makes me happy!
Maria Seniuk
2025 National Champion
It wasn’t my best but I am really happy that I managed to stay focused and to show a different performance here. I thought about last year’s program. There are a lot of pressure I got…I tried not to worry about not messing up, just focused to do each element. (What do you want to improve next season) I would like to work more on telling story in my performance. I feel my jumps are getting solid. I want to work on making a good flow in program.
Olga Mikutina
2025 National Champion
I didn’t expect a clean program today because I know I went through a lot. It was about 65% of what I am capable of doing. I was sick and off the ice for whole month of January. I worked really hard after getting better, but it is hard when you are not doing anything for a whole month. With my team, we worked on the schedule to get ready for this. I did work really hard to catch up but honestly I didn’t have enough time. Hopefully, next season, I will be ready. (on next season) Just one step at a time. First small goal is to work on the programs, then during summer training camp, then get ready for various competitions. Clean the programs and improve my jumps…all those things. Then do European and hopefully Olympics.
Julia Sauter
2025 European Championships 7th
(on competing while being sick) I am proud of myself because I have fought. Obviously I would have loved to keep my position and I knew it was possible, but this is life and I still enjoyed competing in front of all these people. This is the most important. (on her family coming to watch) It made me a bit nervous but it was wonderful of course. My parents were here, my mother in law, after so many years it is nice to have that. My mom had come only once to a competition in Bratislava, my dad never was at a competition before. (on her citizenship process) I have submitted all documents and I have to re-submit something but
hopefully it will work out. A lot of people will help me with this now after the good result at the European Championships and qualifying a spot for the Olympic Games.
Lorine Schild
2024 National Champion
(On Self-Reflection & Goals) I think today was the proudest moment of my season. It’s been a really difficult season for me — I had a lot of problems with injuries — so I’m happy I was able to deliver a performance like this at Worlds. This is definitely the highlight of my season. Just after the warm-up, my nose started bleeding, so that was a little weird — but I didn’t think too much about it. It actually happens almost every day. (on the big ovation by the crowd at the end of the program) It was such a huge pleasure — really heartwarming. (on plans after the season) Maybe World Team Trophy, and then I’ll start preparing for next season after taking a vacation — this season has been very exhausting. (Probably) I’ll start working on a new program and music.
Lara Naki Gutmann
2024 GP Finlandia Trophy bronze medalist
I feel really great with my free skate. The first 5 jumps were really good, but too bad with the 3 Lutz. During my program, I was in a good mental state, and I felt powerful and I could pull off a really great program. I tried to get to that feeling with smiling and elegant as possible. I tried to give something to the audience.
Sofia Samodelkina
Winter University Games bronze medalist
Unfortunately, the last jump (triple Lutz) did not work out and this really spoiled the impression of my program and my score. (on her first Worlds) I am very happy I got this opportunity, but it was not my best free skating. We will work and hopefully it will be better at my next Worlds. (on plans for next season) It is hard to say what will come but I hope to show a better performance next season.
Women, Free Skating (warm up groups 1 & 2)
Meda Variakojyte
2025 National Champion
It feels amazing to be in the final. It feels unreal. I didn’t believe I could do it. So I would’ve been happy any way I skated because I’m here. But, of course, I wanted a little bit better. It was stressful because it’s all new to me, but I loved it. The crowd is awesome, and the atmosphere, I loved it. The biggest experience this season, I think, is this competition. This season was really long and hard, but it was kind of one of my best seasons so I feel good about it. (on who inspires her) I really love Evgenia Medvedeva. Her skating skills are so amazing and she was my inspiration for a long time. (on next season) I would love to try some quads and triple Axel, because that’s kind of my task to try at least one time. I’m a little scared of it, but that’s my goal. (on clinching an Olympic spot) It’s still unreal. I don’t know how I did it. It was such a lucky day for me. There was only one hundredth of a point from the final, so it was so incredible. (on free program) I’m a statue and I come alive with every piece of my choreography, so at the end, I am alive, skating to show everybody what I can do. (on watching final groups) I really love Alysa Liu. She came back so strong. I love it. She’s the coolest.
Ekaterina Kurakova
2025 National Champion
I am very proud of myself for my Free Skate. I want to better and I know I can do much better technically. But today, my rain was working, and this was one of the best performance for me. I was talking and laughing before the performance, because it’s a first time for me not skating for (Polish) dfederation. Every time I put pressure on myself like “I need to be this Katya, I need to be this Katya.” Because I feel so much responsibilities (for my country). Also, I started laughing with the fact I'm the best skater in my country, I know it’s sounds selfish, but it’s true. Now, I’m learning how to deal with that. But today I decided to skate
for myself before the performance, and I felt so good after the last element. When I made a mistake, of course I didn’t want to cry, I told myself “Come on, Katya! Where is your 3Lutz and 3 Flip? I've been doing those since I was 17 years old.” And I kept going. The audience understand me and they were so happy to see me. I was so grateful for that. I think I was born for the mission, I came here to make people happy. People (audience) made me really, really happy today. Today I was so happy, so I spread my happiness to the people. (About costume change) I think it’s amazing! Every time I change the costume, people were
screaming with surprise! I look for the moment, thinking “I'm gonna change I’m gonna change! It's time to do that!” It was my idea, and I’m super high like this, even music changes, and showing a quiet face to audience. (on her next step) I’m looking forward to the vacation. It’s time to rest. I might go to Paris, or Netherlands, and Poland. I will do whatever makes me happy!
Maria Seniuk
2025 National Champion
It wasn’t my best but I am really happy that I managed to stay focused and to show a different performance here. I thought about last year’s program. There are a lot of pressure I got…I tried not to worry about not messing up, just focused to do each element. (What do you want to improve next season) I would like to work more on telling story in my performance. I feel my jumps are getting solid. I want to work on making a good flow in program.
Olga Mikutina
2025 National Champion
I didn’t expect a clean program today because I know I went through a lot. It was about 65% of what I am capable of doing. I was sick and off the ice for whole month of January. I worked really hard after getting better, but it is hard when you are not doing anything for a whole month. With my team, we worked on the schedule to get ready for this. I did work really hard to catch up but honestly I didn’t have enough time. Hopefully, next season, I will be ready. (on next season) Just one step at a time. First small goal is to work on the programs, then during summer training camp, then get ready for various competitions. Clean the programs and improve my jumps…all those things. Then do European and hopefully Olympics.
Julia Sauter
2025 European Championships 7th
(on competing while being sick) I am proud of myself because I have fought. Obviously I would have loved to keep my position and I knew it was possible, but this is life and I still enjoyed competing in front of all these people. This is the most important. (on her family coming to watch) It made me a bit nervous but it was wonderful of course. My parents were here, my mother in law, after so many years it is nice to have that. My mom had come only once to a competition in Bratislava, my dad never was at a competition before. (on her citizenship process) I have submitted all documents and I have to re-submit something but
hopefully it will work out. A lot of people will help me with this now after the good result at the European Championships and qualifying a spot for the Olympic Games.
Lorine Schild
2024 National Champion
(On Self-Reflection & Goals) I think today was the proudest moment of my season. It’s been a really difficult season for me — I had a lot of problems with injuries — so I’m happy I was able to deliver a performance like this at Worlds. This is definitely the highlight of my season. Just after the warm-up, my nose started bleeding, so that was a little weird — but I didn’t think too much about it. It actually happens almost every day. (on the big ovation by the crowd at the end of the program) It was such a huge pleasure — really heartwarming. (on plans after the season) Maybe World Team Trophy, and then I’ll start preparing for next season after taking a vacation — this season has been very exhausting. (Probably) I’ll start working on a new program and music.
Lara Naki Gutmann
2024 GP Finlandia Trophy bronze medalist
I feel really great with my free skate. The first 5 jumps were really good, but too bad with the 3 Lutz. During my program, I was in a good mental state, and I felt powerful and I could pull off a really great program. I tried to get to that feeling with smiling and elegant as possible. I tried to give something to the audience.
Sofia Samodelkina
Winter University Games bronze medalist
Unfortunately, the last jump (triple Lutz) did not work out and this really spoiled the impression of my program and my score. (on her first Worlds) I am very happy I got this opportunity, but it was not my best free skating. We will work and hopefully it will be better at my next Worlds. (on plans for next season) It is hard to say what will come but I hope to show a better performance next season.
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Women, Free Skating (warm up group 3)
Niina Petrokina
2025 European Champion
(How did you like sitting in the winnner’s chair) Great! Always great. (on her performance) I can say I fought till the end and I’m very proud of myself because it has been very difficult season for me. I have been well prepared physically, but mentally, I have had some struggles. The crowd in Boston is so supportive. I was told to “chill and enjoy, because the crowd will support you” and it really helped me. (on skating to “Dune” which is popular this season) I am happy to be in the trend. I love the music and the feel of that music brings. For me, I wasn’t trying to portray any character, but I was trying to show what I feel inside from the music. (What are you doing after this event) We’ll, I’m so happy to finally rest a little and have some fun with friends, but before I get there are some shows to perform and a lot of events already scheduled in Estonia. I will be part of dancing (not on the ice) for Mother’s Day event. Of course, I will support the Men tomorrow and enjoy being in America bit. (What’s for next year?) I’m planning to change the short program. It’s in the work already, but I’m not going to tell you what. It will be very different. I want to surprise you. I will likely keep the music for free but change some components and the costume. I believe we have two
spots for the Olympics (the second one needs to be confirmed in Beijing) so it will be very important season coming up. Coming here, getting a spot for Olympics was the at most important goal, and now we got (the chance for) two, so very happy.
Chaeyeon Kim
2025 Four Continents Champion & 2024 World bronze medalist
Overall, I was nervous — but a little less than yesterday. I focused on everything, but gave special attention to the combination in the second half. The second combo didn’t work out perfectly, so I’m a bit disappointed about that part — but also relieved that it’s over. I want to work on my mindset and continue improving every element as I prepare for the Olympics. (on plans for next season) I think I’ll use new music next year and make some changes. (on her highlights this season) Winning the Asian Games and Four Continents are definite highlights. It would have been nice to perform just as well here, too.
Kimmy Repond
2024 World Championships 5th
I’m very disappointed about the first few things that didn’t work out. I don’t know why, because practice was always good. On the other hand, I am very proud of myself for not giving and continuing after the two falls, and doing everything clean afterwards. But I just know that I could have done so much better, and I really felt like I’m doing to do great, so I don’t know what happened. (on takeaway from Worlds) I’m very happy with the short, of course, and also the second part of the free, but not the first part. But overall, it was pretty good. (on this season) I’m very happy with both of my grand prixs, and of course, also with Nationals, and
with the short at Europeans as well as the short at Worlds. (plans for next season) It’s the Olympic season, but other than that, I going to do it like this year. (on what she’d like to improve) I’m sure I can improve on every jump, so I will just try to make them better and better. But I’m not planning on learning any new jumps. (on coach Michael Huth) I really love training with him. He’s an amazing coach. I have been looking up to him since before I even started skating professionally because of Carolina. I’ve always been a huge fan of Carolina(Kostner), and that’s where I knew him from. I’ve been training with him since last year and
it’s going really well, and I’m really happy.
Amber Glenn
2024 GP Final Champion, 2024 & 2025 National Champion
I'm proud I was able to keep my composture. I'm upset I messed up my easiest jump, I just rushed a little bit. I'm happy I ended on a successful note. I barely landed my triple axel. I hadn't been feeling the greatest this week. It's been a really tough month and a half since nationals. I've been dealing with a lot mentally but I'm happy I was able to put out a good performance. I've also been dealing with a lot of grief and loss recently so I've had a tough time. I just wanted to come out here see everyone and enjoy the program. (Regarding team USA and Olympics) I have so much confidence in Alysa and Isabeau and I knew we would be good no matter what. Honestly I went out there and skated for myself and in memory of those that I lost recently.
Nina Pinzarrone
2025 & 2024 European bronze medalist
Oh my god, I am so relieved to make the top 10 and secure the two spots for Belgium. I’m just so, so, so, so happy about it. I tried not to keep it in my mind too much, but of course, it was always there, and I’m just so happy. To be honest, at the beginning of my program today, I was so out of it, I thought I would forget the entire program. Also, the arena was so loud, which was understandable because Amber did amazing. I really thought I would forget my entire program, but once I did the first jump, I was able to settle and continue and got into my program. I’m so glad with how I did today. Next season will be a very exciting one. I am not really sure right now what I will do next week, but in two weeks, I will go to France to do two new programs with Benoit. I’m also looking forward to some vacation in Sicily. I have family there, and I haven’t seen them for seven years, so I’m excited to go there and very excited to prepare for the Olympic season.
Haein Lee
2023 World silver medalist & Four Continents Champion
Overall, I was really nervous today. I love listening to loud music, but during the warm-up, the loud music made me feel more anxious. Once I saw my friends in the audience, I (felt better). Even though I made a mistake on my first jump, I was able to handle the rest well. (on next season) I haven’t decided yet, but as a junior skater, I performed Fire Dance, and I’d like to try something similar. I was worried I might make the same mistake as at Four Continents (missing the Lutz in the combo), but I landed it here — so I feel a bit proud of myself for doing better. Of course, there are still many things I need to work on, but for now, I’m very happy. (On Personal Growth & Return to Form) I feel grateful to be able to compete again. I wasn’t able to participate in the Beijing Olympics, so my desire to make it to the Milano Olympics is even stronger. But I’m not the one who decides that, so I’ll just keep working harder. (most meaningful part of the season) Four Continents and Worlds were both very meaningful, but the highlight for me was the Korean National Ranking competition. Even though I made a mistake in the short, I made up for it in the free skate. That gave me the confidence to believe that I can do well.
Women, Free Skating (warm up group 3)
Niina Petrokina
2025 European Champion
(How did you like sitting in the winnner’s chair) Great! Always great. (on her performance) I can say I fought till the end and I’m very proud of myself because it has been very difficult season for me. I have been well prepared physically, but mentally, I have had some struggles. The crowd in Boston is so supportive. I was told to “chill and enjoy, because the crowd will support you” and it really helped me. (on skating to “Dune” which is popular this season) I am happy to be in the trend. I love the music and the feel of that music brings. For me, I wasn’t trying to portray any character, but I was trying to show what I feel inside from the music. (What are you doing after this event) We’ll, I’m so happy to finally rest a little and have some fun with friends, but before I get there are some shows to perform and a lot of events already scheduled in Estonia. I will be part of dancing (not on the ice) for Mother’s Day event. Of course, I will support the Men tomorrow and enjoy being in America bit. (What’s for next year?) I’m planning to change the short program. It’s in the work already, but I’m not going to tell you what. It will be very different. I want to surprise you. I will likely keep the music for free but change some components and the costume. I believe we have two
spots for the Olympics (the second one needs to be confirmed in Beijing) so it will be very important season coming up. Coming here, getting a spot for Olympics was the at most important goal, and now we got (the chance for) two, so very happy.
Chaeyeon Kim
2025 Four Continents Champion & 2024 World bronze medalist
Overall, I was nervous — but a little less than yesterday. I focused on everything, but gave special attention to the combination in the second half. The second combo didn’t work out perfectly, so I’m a bit disappointed about that part — but also relieved that it’s over. I want to work on my mindset and continue improving every element as I prepare for the Olympics. (on plans for next season) I think I’ll use new music next year and make some changes. (on her highlights this season) Winning the Asian Games and Four Continents are definite highlights. It would have been nice to perform just as well here, too.
Kimmy Repond
2024 World Championships 5th
I’m very disappointed about the first few things that didn’t work out. I don’t know why, because practice was always good. On the other hand, I am very proud of myself for not giving and continuing after the two falls, and doing everything clean afterwards. But I just know that I could have done so much better, and I really felt like I’m doing to do great, so I don’t know what happened. (on takeaway from Worlds) I’m very happy with the short, of course, and also the second part of the free, but not the first part. But overall, it was pretty good. (on this season) I’m very happy with both of my grand prixs, and of course, also with Nationals, and
with the short at Europeans as well as the short at Worlds. (plans for next season) It’s the Olympic season, but other than that, I going to do it like this year. (on what she’d like to improve) I’m sure I can improve on every jump, so I will just try to make them better and better. But I’m not planning on learning any new jumps. (on coach Michael Huth) I really love training with him. He’s an amazing coach. I have been looking up to him since before I even started skating professionally because of Carolina. I’ve always been a huge fan of Carolina(Kostner), and that’s where I knew him from. I’ve been training with him since last year and
it’s going really well, and I’m really happy.
Amber Glenn
2024 GP Final Champion, 2024 & 2025 National Champion
I'm proud I was able to keep my composture. I'm upset I messed up my easiest jump, I just rushed a little bit. I'm happy I ended on a successful note. I barely landed my triple axel. I hadn't been feeling the greatest this week. It's been a really tough month and a half since nationals. I've been dealing with a lot mentally but I'm happy I was able to put out a good performance. I've also been dealing with a lot of grief and loss recently so I've had a tough time. I just wanted to come out here see everyone and enjoy the program. (Regarding team USA and Olympics) I have so much confidence in Alysa and Isabeau and I knew we would be good no matter what. Honestly I went out there and skated for myself and in memory of those that I lost recently.
Nina Pinzarrone
2025 & 2024 European bronze medalist
Oh my god, I am so relieved to make the top 10 and secure the two spots for Belgium. I’m just so, so, so, so happy about it. I tried not to keep it in my mind too much, but of course, it was always there, and I’m just so happy. To be honest, at the beginning of my program today, I was so out of it, I thought I would forget the entire program. Also, the arena was so loud, which was understandable because Amber did amazing. I really thought I would forget my entire program, but once I did the first jump, I was able to settle and continue and got into my program. I’m so glad with how I did today. Next season will be a very exciting one. I am not really sure right now what I will do next week, but in two weeks, I will go to France to do two new programs with Benoit. I’m also looking forward to some vacation in Sicily. I have family there, and I haven’t seen them for seven years, so I’m excited to go there and very excited to prepare for the Olympic season.
Haein Lee
2023 World silver medalist & Four Continents Champion
Overall, I was really nervous today. I love listening to loud music, but during the warm-up, the loud music made me feel more anxious. Once I saw my friends in the audience, I (felt better). Even though I made a mistake on my first jump, I was able to handle the rest well. (on next season) I haven’t decided yet, but as a junior skater, I performed Fire Dance, and I’d like to try something similar. I was worried I might make the same mistake as at Four Continents (missing the Lutz in the combo), but I landed it here — so I feel a bit proud of myself for doing better. Of course, there are still many things I need to work on, but for now, I’m very happy. (On Personal Growth & Return to Form) I feel grateful to be able to compete again. I wasn’t able to participate in the Beijing Olympics, so my desire to make it to the Milano Olympics is even stronger. But I’m not the one who decides that, so I’ll just keep working harder. (most meaningful part of the season) Four Continents and Worlds were both very meaningful, but the highlight for me was the Korean National Ranking competition. Even though I made a mistake in the short, I made up for it in the free skate. That gave me the confidence to believe that I can do well.
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Women, Free Skating (warm up group 4)
Madeline Schizas
2025 National Champion
I'm happy with parts of how I skated. I trained really well going into this, I have no regrets about it. I really wish tonight I could have been a top ten finish…eleventh will be a tough pill to swallow. We'll see how the rest plays out it's not over yet. Every other year that would have been enougt for a top 10 but maybe not today.
Kaori Sakamoto
2024 & 2023 World Champion
I was nervous even before I got to the venue so I didn’t know what was going to happen, but I’m glad I put myself out there the way I did today.
Wakaba Higuchi
2024 GP Skate America Champion, 2018 World silver medalist
I was not able to compete in the Worlds in the last two years. So coming to a big event was one of my big goals in this season. I think I was able to give the performance I was hoping for, so I’m happy. Unfortunately, the score was a bit lower than I expected, so I need to check the detailed judging sheet and make improvements for the next season.
Isabeau Levito
2024 World silver medalist
When I fell on the first jump, I wanted it to be over and stop the program — like, you’ve got to be kidding me (laughing). But I think I finished the rest of the program really well, and I’m proud of myself for doing that. That’s the harder part — not the first jump, but pushing through. I didn’t think I was going to be strong enough physically, or that my training had fully prepared me. But my coaches were right when they said I was ready for this competition. (goal coming to Boston) My goal was to manage my stress and remind myself that I’m okay. Like Amber said, “We’re not chasing a bear in the woods.” (overall thoughts on the season) I missed a large part of the season and felt like it was (wasted), but after how this competition went, I honestly don’t even remember that part — this just feels really good. (on Olympic season and triple Axel) The triple Axel is definitely on the list of things I want to do. Since I need to stay injury-free for the Olympic season, I’m not sure when it’ll happen — but it will happen sometime in my life. I’m excited about the Olympics — it doesn’t feel scary. (on Olympics qualifications) I knew between the
three (US skaters) we were going to get the scores and it feels good knowing we got three spots.
Mone Chiba
2024 Four Continents Champion
It wasn’t 100%. The level of the nerve was as bad as last year’s free. My body was a little stiff going into the program, but coach Hamada kept telling me to trust myself and trust the training, so I kept telling myself to get through the program. I am proud of fighting throughout the program. A little sad about triple Salchow. I am really happy that I was able to contribute to the Olympic spot and getting on the podium. (What did you learn from this event?) I was able to manage the time different well this time. So it was good. I think for me most important thing is practice, so I will work hard to gain self confidence so I can perform when it counts.
Alysa Liu
2022 World bronze medalist
What the h*ll just happened?! I haven't even process my short program yet, I don't know how I'm going to process this one! When Kaori and I hugged, I said you really inspire me - her jumps are so good.
Women, Free Skating (warm up group 4)
Madeline Schizas
2025 National Champion
I'm happy with parts of how I skated. I trained really well going into this, I have no regrets about it. I really wish tonight I could have been a top ten finish…eleventh will be a tough pill to swallow. We'll see how the rest plays out it's not over yet. Every other year that would have been enougt for a top 10 but maybe not today.
Kaori Sakamoto
2024 & 2023 World Champion
I was nervous even before I got to the venue so I didn’t know what was going to happen, but I’m glad I put myself out there the way I did today.
Wakaba Higuchi
2024 GP Skate America Champion, 2018 World silver medalist
I was not able to compete in the Worlds in the last two years. So coming to a big event was one of my big goals in this season. I think I was able to give the performance I was hoping for, so I’m happy. Unfortunately, the score was a bit lower than I expected, so I need to check the detailed judging sheet and make improvements for the next season.
Isabeau Levito
2024 World silver medalist
When I fell on the first jump, I wanted it to be over and stop the program — like, you’ve got to be kidding me (laughing). But I think I finished the rest of the program really well, and I’m proud of myself for doing that. That’s the harder part — not the first jump, but pushing through. I didn’t think I was going to be strong enough physically, or that my training had fully prepared me. But my coaches were right when they said I was ready for this competition. (goal coming to Boston) My goal was to manage my stress and remind myself that I’m okay. Like Amber said, “We’re not chasing a bear in the woods.” (overall thoughts on the season) I missed a large part of the season and felt like it was (wasted), but after how this competition went, I honestly don’t even remember that part — this just feels really good. (on Olympic season and triple Axel) The triple Axel is definitely on the list of things I want to do. Since I need to stay injury-free for the Olympic season, I’m not sure when it’ll happen — but it will happen sometime in my life. I’m excited about the Olympics — it doesn’t feel scary. (on Olympics qualifications) I knew between the
three (US skaters) we were going to get the scores and it feels good knowing we got three spots.
Mone Chiba
2024 Four Continents Champion
It wasn’t 100%. The level of the nerve was as bad as last year’s free. My body was a little stiff going into the program, but coach Hamada kept telling me to trust myself and trust the training, so I kept telling myself to get through the program. I am proud of fighting throughout the program. A little sad about triple Salchow. I am really happy that I was able to contribute to the Olympic spot and getting on the podium. (What did you learn from this event?) I was able to manage the time different well this time. So it was good. I think for me most important thing is practice, so I will work hard to gain self confidence so I can perform when it counts.
Alysa Liu
2022 World bronze medalist
What the h*ll just happened?! I haven't even process my short program yet, I don't know how I'm going to process this one! When Kaori and I hugged, I said you really inspire me - her jumps are so good.
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