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
6 More Things I Learned from the 2017 US National Figure Skating Championships
What’s a blogger to do when she wants to say everything about Nationals? Someone with more restraint – or an editor – might just skip stuff, but skating fans hate it when you skip stuff. As it does almost every year, NBC blacked out the live performances of a number of ladies and ice dancers in the… Continue reading 6 More Things I Learned from the 2017 US National Figure Skating Championships
5 Things I Learned from the 2017 US National Figure Skating Championships
Another U.S. Nationals is in the books, and as usual, I have a lot of opinions. So many opinions, in fact, that this is going to be a multi-part post. It’s not the only Nationals I have strong feelings about – I got out several thousand words on the Russian men a few weeks ago –… Continue reading 5 Things I Learned from the 2017 US National Figure Skating Championships
Quick Thoughts on the Short Dance Fracas at Euros
Because I’m still recapping Nationals, so who knows when I’m going to get around to Euros? Certainly, not until after le scandale has passed. The problem for me is, Cappellini/Lanotte are not my favorite team. I don’t have anything against them; I just like most of the other top teams more. They have a style… Continue reading Quick Thoughts on the Short Dance Fracas at Euros