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The team to beat this weekend at Skate Canada, the second competition of the 2011 Grand Prix Series, is undoubtedly 2010 Olympic Champions Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir. Having previously…

This weekend marks the 16th International Cup of Nice (Coupe Internationale de Nice, for the francophones). Nice, France, is the site of this season’s World Championships, and 20 teams representing…

Skate America returns to the honor of starting off the 2011 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. For the past two seasons, the International Skating Union has adjusted the…

by Jacquelyn Thayer   The Junior Grand Prix will make its seventh and final stop at the JGP Tallinn Cup in Tallinn, Estonia, a city that last hosted a JGP…

This week, the sixth and penultimate stop on the Junior Grand Prix is in Milan, Italy, at the Trofeo W. Lombardi. The fashionable city of Milan will host 16 teams…

By Laura S. Marshall The 16th Finlandia Trophy is gearing up to be one of the most exciting ice dance competitions of the early season, with a deep field of…

The 19th Ondrej Nepela Memorial will take place from September 29 to October 1 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Named for the 1972 Olympic gold medalist and held annually since 1993, the…

by Laura S. Marshall   This week, the Junior Grand Prix heads to Brasov, Romania, for the fourth event in the series. The Brasov Cup roster contains 15 teams from…

by Melanie Hoyt The Junior Grand Prix is already in its fourth week, and skaters around the world have been competing in domestic events and proving themselves during test skates…

by Laura S. Marshall The third Junior Grand Prix event this year is the Baltic Cup, which will be held in Gdansk, Poland. The 21 ice dance teams from 15…

This week, the Junior Grand Prix will head Down Under for the first time in its history. Brisbane, Australia will host the second event of the 2011 series. The athletes…

The International Skating Union’s 15th annual Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating kicks off this week in with the Volvo Cup in Riga, Latvia. Over the next seven weeks, the…

In light of the natural and nuclear disasters that have shaken Japan in the past six weeks, the 2010-2011 season was unexpectedly lengthened. Fortunately for the qualified skaters, the 2011…

The culmination of the season for junior figure skaters — the 2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships — will take place from February 27-March 6 in Gangneung, South Korea. In…