International Skating Union

[nowthen]

Luckily the Olympics as a whole are not an ISU event and they have no control over the opening ceremonies of an non-ISU event!! Much like the way Navka and Kostamarov skated at the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics.

[siteadmin]

Come on folks, we've already been down the road of who should have won the Olympics. If you'd like to travel it again, please do it in the proper thread.

As to whether or not some countries run the ISU, that's like discussing block judging. Unless you have some facts, please do it somewhere else. (Like another website.)

Thank-you.

[sackie]

See that Evgeny is off the GP list already but McLaughlin/Brubaker are still on the list for 2 events.

[Dragonlady]

never mind

[siteadmin]

DL, judges caught cheating and subsequently suspended are facts. But the subject was countries running the ISU. Trying to use the facts from one topic in a different topic, could be stretching things a bit.

[chuckiem]

[AliasJohnDoe]

Under the rules (a new one I believe), if Brubaker found another partner soon, he can still skate in the GP's. Or am I mistaken/confused about the new rule?

[MrRuggles]

For those of you who are JWeir fans (and especially to DragonLady who's never seen him skate live), I'm very doubtful he will be competing in the GP series this season. His Twitter messages (@ www.twitter.com/johnnygweir) speak of shows in Japan for Yu-Na and in China (September) for Shen and Zhao.
He had a "Twitter chat" with fans today under the aegis of BlueFly.com and covers many areas, including cosmetics and hygiene as well as topics on needing space from Galina after the Olympics, who he thinks is the next great hope for U.S. figure skating and his middle name (it starts with G).
He's said nothing about ice time (except for working on show numbers) nor hinted at program music (which he did pre-Vancouver).
I also point out that he's "scheduled" to compete in Skate Canada and the Trophee Eric Bompard, not in Russia or Japan which he prefers. Maybe the ISU knows something we don't.

[chuckiem]

[Dragonlady]

[chuckiem]

The Mc/B were scheduled for Skate America and that spot is now vacant; the US also has a TBA spot in Pairs for Skate America.

The US has the right to assign a host pick spot to any pair they want, and that would include Brubaker+partner----if (and that's a huge if) they had demonstrated their readiness to compete.

[Dragonlady]

While hosts can put anyone they want in their home event, Brubaker and new partner would not be eligible for any other GP assignments this season. I know I should have made that clearer in my previous post.

Their situation would be similar to that of Duhamel & Buntin in 2008. D&B teamed up in late May - too late to be put on SC's list of GP skaters for that season so even though Craig carried forward points from his former partnership with Valery Marcoux. D&B were assigned to Skate Canada but they still weren't eligible for any GP assignments other than Skate Canada, but only because they teamed up too late.

Sadly, the ISU ranking points have diminishing value so by next year, Rockne's ranking will have slipped too far to ensure their assignments, although they could earn spots on their own merits as Meagan and Craig did.

[ClockwiseSpinner]

I'd love to see Johnny Weir competing again next year, but if I fear he will not, i think it will be difficult for him to find the motivation to go through another year, and another fact is that it will be difficult for him to change again and become more successful. Quads are out of question definitively for him, also considering that are almost useless for everybody also the skaters who land them consistently. So what could he bring new? it could be another program like this year's?

[Winnipeg]

It seems like JW has so many opportunities from t.v. to shows to other that he is on his way to a skating-related career so why go back and compete.

[sackie]

JW time may have passed! Even skating as well as he did last year at the Olympics he only came 6th. The one medal he won at worlds was when others were making big mistakes and he was able to hold on for 3rd place. Even in the US he might be hard pressed to make it to another worlds.

[loveskating]

[Dragonlady]

A Russian poster said that Plushenko was on Russian TV blaming Piseev for his loss of eligibility. Plushenko has been quite vocal in his criticism of Piseev and publically supported Anton S. to replace Piseev as federation President.

Plushenko has complained bitterly about lack of funding from the Russian federation for his training expenses. There was an ongoing battle about this over the past season about what money he was to receive. Others have complained that Plushenko got far more money than anyone else and was not under-funded

Not to mention that without Plushenko at Worlds, Russia is down to one entry in the Men's event.

[nowthen]

Most people expected Russia would get two spots at worlds next year because of Borodulin but then his blade broke and only Voronov was left and he bombed. Now Plushenko by himself could get Russia two spots but I think next year Borodulin could get two spots for 2012. I assume that Borodulin is going to be Russian Champ and go to worlds 2011. I mean I guess it could always be Gachinsky! Looks like Russian federation loves him already.

[tennisfan]

As expected the Zaretsky' have been removed from the entry list for the ISU Grand Prix Events.

[Isk]