These women are all built so differently. Madi Hubbell and Tessa Virtue in person don’t have an ounce of fat on them. If they tried to be waifs, it would be losing muscle mass.
I am forever questioning why we haven't seen a Twin Peaks programme (or maybe there was in the 90s idk) - such a great soundtrack and so many options for interpretation.
I could see some of the orchestral covers of pop hits from Bridgerton finding their way into ice dance in coming seasons.
I liked the orchestral versions of "Dancing On My Own" and "Sign of the Times" and added them to one of my playlists.
I’m the same - as a huge Robyn fan I just know this is the only way to get a good cover of her music into figure skating
Probably because the judges don’t like creativity.
Jr Worlds entry lists are here - https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00111050.htm
The Mrazeks lost to Cimlova & Hlavsa at Nationals, I believe.
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The Egna Trophy doesn't count for season's bests.
I do think it was an interesting result at Nationals. (They also finished second in the FD there). Maybe there was an injury or something else going on as well. I don't know. I didn't see the competition. And, TBH, I don't remember them from the JGP, though I watched all the events so I will have to watch them again or just pay better attention next season.
The list is up on the ISU Home Page under Junior World Championships. This is dance http://results.isu.org/events/wjc2022_JuniorIceDance.htm
They split in March. She's looking for a new partner, I haven't seen him post anything on his future plans.
| Average of 2 international competitions | Nationals | Egna | Total | |
| Tali/Frasca | 145.46 (Mezzaluna + Bavarian Open) | 149.64 | 146.02 | 441.12 |
| Calderari/Cilli | 145.275 (JGP Kosice + Mezzaluna) | 149.91 | 141.51 | 436.695 |
| Galimberti/Mandelli | 135.74 (JGP Russia + Bavarian Open) | 127.65 | 134.93 | 398.33 |
| Ventura/Bonetto | 110.64 (NRW + Mezzaluna) | 115.42 | 118.53 | 344.59 |
| Finelli/Pedesini | 102.575 (NRW+ Nice) | 116.41 | 114.63 | 333.615 |
| Pizzorni/Bucciarelli | 107.84 (Mezzaluna+Pavel Roman) | 103.93 | 116.16 | 327.93 |
| Boccalini/Capuci | 89.12 (Mezzaluna + no second international competition) | 87.27 | 92.55 | 268.94 |
| Kirichenko/Pellegrini | 130.345 (Mezzaluna + NRW) | 133.75 | - | 264.095 |
On the subject of Hernandez, I was looking up Rose Brown & Hernandez yesterday to see what had happened as they were having a strong season in 2019-20 and defeating Fear & Waddell in competition that year. Apparently, per a facebook post, Emily retired or "stepped back" from skating. Thought I would mention this here in case anyone else had missed this news due to the pandemic.
I don't know, but I'm dying to see what Chock & Bates do next year. If they went with space/alien in an Olympic year, it's nice to think they'd go way further down the unique lane after! Praying they don't play it safe if a world title is on the line...
Given the success they had with their Chopin program this year, I expect we'll see another classical FD next year.
Sigh.
Junior Worlds is an interesting one for me this year. Even with no Russians / several ill-timed splits / unexpected team selections it still seems a pretty deep field, but also fewer obvious future stars than some years. Though I'm usually bad at identifying which juniors will go on to future success, so probably there are a couple of sets of future Olympic champions in the mix.
Pak's IPS bio indicates he's left Russia and might be looking elsewhere for a partner this time around. I thought he showed a lot of potential for one of the youngest guys on the JGP so potentially a good opportunity for an ice dance girl who's up for some country hopping. And the path in Kazakhstan looks pretty clear, since Nauryzova/Datiev, while fun, do not appear to be on a DenStavs career trajectory (also, hope they've left the Zhulin group) and the Florida-Kazakhs split with only the Florida part apparently continuing.
It does seem an odd choice, since the Mrazeks looked ready to play spoiler if one of the US or Canadian teams stumbles, but national selection criteria are national selection criteria. But they are still quite young and look well-placed to be competing at the top of the pack next season, assuming some teams move up.
I agree that Bekker/Hernadez have good potential - a British junior team who can skate a pattern.
But they've been pretty messy this season (not too surprising given her lack of experience) so while top ten would be excellent, mostly I'd like them to manage to put together two good programmes and let the results fall where they will. I really hope that all these young teams stay together, or at least stay in GB dance - it would be great to have some domestic rivalry again.Emily B moved back to the UK and is at uni. Seems like she's doing great post-skating.
