Skating Stuff

A roundup of news, results, pictures, videos and anything else related to competitive figure skating! Only a fan.

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Rostelecom Ice Dance standings after the RD

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Rostelecom Cup Men’s standings after the SP.

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#throwback: Ten-year old Nathan Chen’s gala performance after winning the U.S. Novice title in 2010. My heart.

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2018 Rostelecom Cup Predictions

In parentheses are their results from previous GP competition, if applicable

Men

Yuzuru Hanyu (1 Helsinki)

Mikhail Kolyada (4 Helsinki)

Keegan Messing (2 Canada)

Ladies

Alina Zagitova (1 Helsinki)

Mako Yamashita (2 Canada)

Gracie Gold (I just love a comeback story tbh)

Pairs

Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (1 America)

Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise (2 Helsinki)

Daria Pavliuchenko / Denis Khodykin (3 Helsinki)

Ice Dance

Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin (1 Helsinki)

Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko (5 Helsinki)

Sarah Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin (4 Helsinki)

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(Alissa Czisny, 2010)

I really miss when spirals were a much bigger component of skating. Also, one of my favorite costumes in history!