Previews

by Jacquelyn Thayer For the second consecutive season, Shanghai prepares to host Cup of China, the third stop on this year’s Grand Prix circuit. The competition here will mark the…

  by Melanie Hoyt This weekend, the Windsor Family Credit Union Centre will host Skate Canada International for the first time. The arena has hosted skating shows several times since…

  A field of seven teams will kick off the I.S.U. Senior Grand Prix at Hilton HHonors Skate America, hosted for the first time by the Seattle suburb of Kent,…

With six events completed, the 2012 Junior Grand Prix Series will conclude this weekend in Chemnitz, Germany. Germany’s JGP event, Pokal der Blauen Schwerter, has been held five previous times…

With a few spots in this year’s Junior Grand Prix Final still up for grabs, the JGP Series moves to Zagreb, Croatia, this week for its penultimate event. Zagreb has…

The 20th Ondrej Nepela Memorial will take place from October 3-6 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Named for the 1972 Olympic gold medalist and held annually since 1993, the event has included…

by Jacquelyn Thayer This year at Finlandia Trophy, 14 teams, ranging from world champions to rising stars, will take the ice for competition. The city of Espoo, Finland, will be…

Nebelhorn Trophy has long been the traditional start of the senior international season. This year, however, a couple of international events have already been staged, but that doesn’t diminish the…

With only three events remaining in the Junior Grand Prix Series, the battle for the berths to the Final is starting to heat up. This week at Sencila Bled Cup…

This week, the Junior Grand Prix Series will move to Istanbul, Turkey, its fourth stop this year, for JGP Bosphorus. Considered to be one of the smaller federations in the…

This week, 17 teams representing 14 countries will take the ice in Linz, Austria, for the third stop on the 2012-13 Junior Grand Prix series. Austria has hosted the JGP…

For the first time, the United States has been named host to a Senior B ISU-sanctioned competition, a chance for skaters to improve upon their ISU standings and scores as…

This week, the United States will host the second stop of the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) Series in Lake Placid, N.Y., a town that is very familiar to ice dancers.…

The International Skating Union’s 16th annual Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating kicks off this week in Courchevel, France. Over the next eight weeks, the series will move around the…

by Jacquelyn Thayer & IDC Staff   The lovely city of Nice, on the French Riviera, has played host to the World Figure Skating Championships once before, in 2000. That…