International Skating Union

I had no idea Canada posted their start orders so early but here they are:

https://skatecanada.ca/2018-canadian-ti ... pionships/

Anyone there watching practices?

Did I read somewhere that this event will NOT be geoblocked?? In other words, we Americans can watch the event LIVE!!

Saturday night!!

I think it's only the events that are not being shown on network tv that are being streamed internationally for free. So, the senior events, which will all be broadcast nationally on TSN, are not available for streaming.

But, don't hold that against Canada, Virginia!

Virginia wrote:

we Americans can watch the event LIVE!!

I LOVE CANADA!!!!!!!!

Me too!!!

Reports out that Gabby Daleman has returned to her Rhapsody in Blue free skate from last season for this weekend's Canadians. She's also apparently suffering from strep, not the ideal.

Strep? Gosh, poor girl.

But at least she can get it out of the way before the Olympics. Better to have strep now rather than a month from now.

And strep responds to antibiotics, so hopefully she'll kick it quickly!

Wondering what happened with her and the quad? Wasn't she going to go home after the GP Final and learn a quad?

I hadn't heard that. She definitely has capacity for it. Her 3T/3T is the best in the world, IMO, women or men!

SENIOR LADIES SHORT PROGRAM

1 - 77.88 Gabrielle DALEMAN 3t+3t, 3z, 2a
2 - 71.41 Kaetlyn OSMOND 3f↓, 3z+2t, 2a
3 - 54.34 Sarah TAMURA 3z+3t, 3lo, 2a
4 - 54.11 Michelle LONG 3f-to+2t, 3lo, 2a
5 - 53.96 Larkyn AUSTMAN 3s-to+2t, 3f-so, 2a
6 - 53.96 Triena ROBINSON 3s+2t, 3t, 2a
7 - 52.87 Sophie LAROUCHE 3t+2t, 3s, 2a
8 - 52.77 Aislinn GANCI 3lo, 3t+2t, 2a
9 - 52.19 Alaine CHARTRAND 3z↓-nc, 3lo↓, 2a-fwd
10 - 51.95 Amanda TOBIN 3t+3t, 3f, 2a
11 - 49.70 Kim DEGUISE LEVEILLEE 3f+2t, 3lo↓, 2a
12 - 49.43 Alicia PINEAULT 3t+2t, 1lo*, 2a
13 - 48.95 Kelsey WONG 3z↓-nc, 3f<, 2a
14 - 48.83 Aurora COTOP 3t+3t↓, 3lo↓, 2a
15 - 48.55 Emy DECELLES 3t-so, 3f<+2t, 2a
16 - 46.51 Jane GRAY 3z↓, 3lo+2t, 2a
17 - 39.90 Helene CARLE 3lo↓, 3s+2t<, 2a
18 - 39.85 Maysie POLIZIANI 3t↓, 3s+2t, 2a

I would love to be watching this, however CTV is showing it only on 2 TSN channels not part of my package, does not look like it will be on the main CTV channel at all. Poor show. You'd think they would make more of an effort since this is an Olympic year, and so on. Thank goodness CBC has the Olympics. CTV seems to be showing only NFL. Very patriotic. However I DID get to see the Americans last weekend on the main NBC channel. Such a pity we can't see our own guys. Irony, anyone?

SENIOR SHORT DANCE

1 - 85.12 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR All elements L4
2 - 78.37 Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER 1RH3kpNYY all else L4
3 - 70.97 Carolanne SOUCISSE / Shane FIRUS Pst3 all else L4
4 - 70.31 Kaitlin WEAVER / Andrew POJE STw↓, NtMiSt3, all else L4
5 - 63.84 Haley SALES / Nikolas WAMSTEEKER Stw4, SILi4, all else L3
6 - 60.18 Sarah ARNOLD / Thomas WILLIAMS Pst3 (sep), 1RH3kpNYY, SILi4 ext lift, STw2, NtCiSt3
7 - 57.38 Molly LANAGHAN / Dmitre RAZGULAJEVS NtMiSt3, PSt3, SILi4, STw4, 1RH1kpNNN
8 - 51.19 Gina CIPRIANO / Jake RICHARDSON 1RH1kpNNN, PSt3, STw4, NtDiSt3, SILi4, choreo restr
9 - 47.36 Ravie CUNNINGHAM / Cedar BRIDGEWOOD 1RH3kpYYN, STw1, PSt2, SILi4, NtCiSt2
10 - 42.38 Vanessa CHARTRAND / Alexander SEIDEL 1RH1kpNNN, PSt2, STw4, NtMiSt2, RoLi4

Did weaver poje fall on twizzles?

Andrew slipped on the first twizzle and put both hands down on the ice.

See it here, at 2:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXk000_ZuBs

SENIOR PAIRS SHORT PROGRAM

1 - 81.78 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD
2 - 68.51 Julianne SEGUIN / Charlie BILODEAU ↓3s
3 - 68.28 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Michael MARINARO
4 - 65.45 Lyubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH ↓3t<
5 - 62.61 Evelyn WALSH / Trennt MICHAUD
6 - 60.18 Camille RUEST / Andrew WOLFE ↓3t
7 - 56.42 Sydney KOLODZIEJ / Maxime DESCHAMPS ↓3s

MEN SHORT PROGRAM

1 - 90.98 Patrick CHAN 4t↓, 3z+3t, 3a-so
2 - 86.20 Kevin REYNOLDS 3s+3t, 3a, 4t
3 - 85.65 Keegan MESSING 3t+3t, 3a, 3z
4 - 84.91 Elladj BALDE 3f, 3a, 3z+3t
5 - 83.39 Nam NGUYEN 4s+3t, 3a, 3z↓
6 - 79.56 Nidolas NADEAU 4t+3t, 3a↓, 3lo
7 - 78.72 Roman SADOVSKY 4s+3t, 4t, 3a<↓
8 - 78.01 Joseph PHAN 4t+3t, 3a, 2z*
9 - 77.44 Liam FIRUS 4t<, 3a, 3z+3t↓
10 - 73.69 Conrad ORZEL 3a, 4t↓, 3z+3t
11 - 72.61 Stephen GOGOLEV 4s+3t, 3a, 1z*
12 - 69.96 Samuel ANGERS 3z+3t, 3lo, 2a
13 - 68.83 Bennet TOMAN 4t<<↓, 3z+3t, 3a
14 - 64.82 Eric LIU 3fe+3t, 2a, 3z
15 - 63.61 Olivier BERGERON 3a↓, 3z+3t, 2f*
16 - 60.32 Jeremie CREVAUX 3f+3t<, 3z, 2a, 0 cssp
17 - 57.95 Dustin SHERRIFF-CLAYTON 3t, 1z*+2t, 2a
18 - 56.14 Edrian Paul CELESTINO 3z, 2a, 0 cssp, 3f<<↓-nc


What was REALLY strange was when Chan's elements first came up on the live page. The first element was displayed as QUAD AXEL.
I thought hmmm was that why Chan was hiding away, working on a 4A? Didn't make much sense, considering his problems with the 3A.
Turns out whoever was entering the data was doing a little leg-pulling. It was really a 4t and he fell on it.

I was able to stream the Pairs Short programs from that web site down here in the good ol' US of A.

I'll say it again, I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE Canada!!!!!!!

I specifically wanted to see Liubov and Dylan's Phil Collins SP, which really grabbed me during the GP season. The announcer said, " ... skating to Something in the Air by Phil Collins". Then the music began, and it was definitely not Phil Collins! It was Tango Jalousie. Seems they switched back to last year's short without telling the broadcast folks. Kind of funny.

Virginia wrote:Andrew slipped on the first twizzle and put both hands down on the ice.

See it here, at 2:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXk000_ZuBs

Any error on the first twizzle in the series automatically assigns no level and the entire element is scored as zero. In this case, with a -1 for the fall.

That mistake cost them at least 8 points. It will be almost impossible to make that up in the FD.

Better that Andrew fall here than in Pyeongchang.

This is my first time seeing Soucisse and Firus. I really like their smooth, fast flow over the ice. They also have my favorite short dance music of any dance team I’ve seen this year. They are a very promising team.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTjCTKFuh8Q

Maleeva wrote:Better that Andrew fall here than in Pyeongchang.

This is my first time seeing Soucisse and Firus. I really like their smooth, fast flow over the ice. They also have my favorite short dance music of any dance team I’ve seen this year. They are a very promising team.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTjCTKFuh8Q

Wow! Now I have two Canadian ice dance teams to root for. S/F and G/P. Maybe one day in the future we'll see these two teams along with my favorite U.S. team, H/B, competing for gold.