Previews

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Robin Ritoss Six of the world’s top junior teams are ready to hit the ice in Sochi, Russia, for the Junior Grand Prix (JGP)…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Liz Chastney The Grand Prix series draws to a close with the sixth event, NHK Trophy in Sendai, Japan, featuring a full field of…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Julia Komarova If the line-up at this week’s fifth Grand Prix stop in Paris seems eerily familiar, there’s a good reason: all but two…

by Daphne Backman  The 2012 Ice Challenge will be held in Graz, Austria, from November 5 to 10. Ice Challenge is an annual competition hosted by the Austrian Figure Skating…

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photo by Robin Ritoss Russia is taking center stage in the figure skating world in the run-up to the Sochi Olympics, and Rostelecom Cup, or Cup…

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…