Welcome to the third and final section of my guide to the men’s event at 2017 Worlds. We’re down to 36 competitors, as Han Yan confirmed on Saturday that a shoulder injury will keep him from participating, and China has not assigned an alternate in his place. (If you’re wondering what he needs his shoulder for,… Continue reading 2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 3
Month: March 2017
2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 2
We’re a week away from Worlds, and skaters are starting to converge on Helsinki. There are 37 of them on the roster for the men’s event, and I’m determined to profile every one before their short program begins on Thursday, March 30. I’m a third of the way there, so if you started with this… Continue reading 2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 2
Well, There Goes the Old Site
Happy Update 4/8/2017: SportsBlog has restored all the old posts! I’ll gradually be exporting them here, but you can click the link in the sidebar to read on SportsBlog until I do. I discovered today that SportsBlog has deleted almost all of my posts from the old blog. This happened in the last 48 hours,… Continue reading Well, There Goes the Old Site
2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 1
How is it time for Worlds already? It feels like just last week, I was booking a flight for Boston. Now, skaters are on their way to Helsinki to do it all over again. Although I won’t be there to witness the magic in person this year, I’ll still do my best to provide complete coverage… Continue reading 2017 World Championships Field Guide: Men Part 1
2017 Junior Worlds Men’s Recap: Pretty Sure I Dreamed This
If anyone was hoping I would live tweet the World Junior Championships men’s event, I’m sorry to have abandoned Twitter. But none of the men’s competition occurred at a reasonable hour, and I was already tired from full days of work before and after. To avoid publicly airing any inappropriate remarks about 16-year-old boys (or… Continue reading 2017 Junior Worlds Men’s Recap: Pretty Sure I Dreamed This
2017 Junior Worlds Cheat Sheet: Ladies
I’ve run out of time to do a full analysis of the ladies like I did of the men’s and ice dance fields, but I have the list of athletes I was going to write about. With 45 entries on the ladies’ roster, I know we could all use a cheat sheet. Since almost half… Continue reading 2017 Junior Worlds Cheat Sheet: Ladies
2017 Junior Worlds Field Guide: Ice Dance
Of the four disciplines at Junior Worlds this season, ice dance is the easiest to predict. Unless someone falls or in some other way has the worst skate of their lives, we know who’s going to be on the podium – although not necessarily the order in which they’ll place. Below those three golden teams,… Continue reading 2017 Junior Worlds Field Guide: Ice Dance
2017 Junior Worlds Field Guide: Men Part 2
The World Junior Figure Skating Championships are less than a week away, and there’s a good chance you don’t even know who most of these kids are. In men’s singles, there are 44 competitors on the list, almost half of whom won’t even qualify to perform their free skates. This guide covers the 22 athletes most… Continue reading 2017 Junior Worlds Field Guide: Men Part 2
2017 Junior Worlds Field Guide: Men Part 1
If you’re not following junior-level figure skating, the World Junior Figure Skating Championships is your excuse to start. For one thing, a lot of the athletes currently competing at the second-highest level will move up just in time to contend for the Olympics, so it’s worth getting to know them now. For another, the level… Continue reading 2017 Junior Worlds Field Guide: Men Part 1
2017 Asian Winter Games Recap: Triumph of the Improv Quad
It is lovely to finally have time to write about figure skating. In terms of relevant blogging, I missed the window on the European and Four Continents Championships, although I watched both and had very strong opinions at the time, most of which have been swept out of my memory in a mixture of mounting… Continue reading 2017 Asian Winter Games Recap: Triumph of the Improv Quad