2011 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS – BERN, SWITZERLANDJanuary 24-30, 2011 ADDITIONAL RESULTS & PROTOCOLS: FINAL RESULTS: FPl. Name Nation Points SD FD 1 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 167.40 1 1 2 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 161.14 2…
Senior Short Dance Report When Alex & Maia Shibutani finished their short dance to “Carousel Waltz” at the 2011 AT&T U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the audience rose to its feet and the scoreboard lit up with 70.47 — the highest…
Junior Short Dance Report Just when you think you know what’s going to happen in ice dance–or what will probably happen–the new short dance laughs in your face. Joylyn Yang & Jean-Luc Baker, the 2010 novice bronze medalists, edged out…
Greetings from Greensboro – Day 6 Thursday, 26 January 2011 No dance competition at U.S. Nationals or Euros, so this made for a day of catching up (both on sleep and Euros photos). We did head over to the senior…
Novice Compulsory Dance Report – Blues & Paso Doble The 2011 U.S. National Championships officially began with the novice pattern dances. Twelve teams skated first the Blues, followed by the Paso Doble. Pattern dances, formerly referred to as compulsory dances,…
Junior Short Dance Report Victoria Hasegawa & Connor Hasegawa – “The Merry-Go-Round of Life” (waltz) Good character, the most expressive I’ve seen them skate. Cute play on a sibling rivalry theme. Excellent twizzles (lv 4, +0.5). Level 4 on both…
Novice Free Dance Report Although quite a few of the teams hit some bumps along the way, the novice dance competition at the 2011 Skate Canada Junior Nationals in Victoria, B.C., ended up just about as expected. The top four…
The 2011 U.S. National Championships get underway on Sunday, January 23rd with the novice compulsory dances. Since 2008, the main event arena has hosted all of the competitive events for all disciplines, novice through senior, and this year that honor…