#benoit richaud

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called clean deniss in both sp and fs 😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. i don't feel anything.

5 minutes later: dude i swear figure skating is the greatest sport ever created

my buddy benoit richaud, pacing: i'm going to create something drastic

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Adam Siao Him Fa x B E N O Î T

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Baldman in 3 pic

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B e n o i t jumpscare for you all

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Zingas/Kolesnik programs 👀 very surprised by this FD choice- feels like a junior theme though some of this music is very pretty and hits some high moments that are practically made for a big straight line lift - and another MJ program 😔 though they’ll probably do really well with smooth criminal

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Grand Prix de France 2023

Adam Siao Him Fa - FS (Departure (Home), The Quality of Mercy, Mercy (Voiceless Mix), Refuge - choreo. by Benoit Richaud)

TSS 205.71, Total Score 306.78 (1st)

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Chaeyeon KIM 🇰🇷

SP: Tron : New Legacy OST by Daft Punks (choreo. Benoit Richaud)

FS: Whisperers of the Heart by Karl Hugo, arranged by Hugo Chouinard (choreo. Yeaji Shin)

Her FS music is an original piece specifically written for Chaeyeon by Karl Hugo!

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Cup of China medalists 🥰🥰🥰

From Benoit Richaud's Instagram

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Benoit literally does not look like a real person to me.

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Kao MIURA's programs for the upcoming season

SP - Conquest of Spaces, by Woodkid, choreo by Benoit Richaud

FS - Umbrellas of Cherbourg, choreo by Shae-Lynn Bourne

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Early 2024-25 Program Announcements

Men

Corey Circelli (ITA) - SP:  “Mon Dieu” by Édith Piaf; choreo by Guillaume Cizeron

Matteo Rizzo (ITA) will be keeping both his programs from last season.

Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ) - SP: Dune soundtrack, choreo by Ivan Righini

Jaekun Lee (KOR) - SP: "Movement"; FS: "Archangel" (Crusaders of the Light/Oratio Sanctus); choreo by Misha Ge

Deniss Vasiljevs (LAT) - SP: "La Bayadere;" choreo by Vadim Muntagirov

Sena Miyake (JPN) - SP: "LOVE"; choreo by Misha Ge

Rio Nakata (JPN) - SP: "Aroul/Uccen"

Koshiro Shimada (JPN) - SP: ""You're Just Too Good to Be True" by Shawn Mendes; FS: "Danse Macabre"

Sota Yamamoto (JPN) - SP: "Split;" "Postcards from Far Away" by Ezio Bosso; choreo by Benoit Richaud

Kyrylo Marsak (UKR) - SP: To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra; choreo by Monika Lindfors

Joseph Klein (USA) - SP: "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Lorde; FS: "Scotland" by the Lumineers mixed with "Northern Attitude" by Noah Kahan & Hosier; choreo by Silvia Fontana; Joseph Klein

Women

Hetty Shi (CAN) - SP: I Will Wait For You (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg); choreo by Misha Ge

Nataly Langerbauer (EST) - SP: "13 Beaches" by Lana del Ray; FS: "No More Fight Left in Me" by Imany; choreo by Rostislav Sinicyn

Niina Petrokina (EST) - SP: “Soldier” by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt; FS: Dune soundtrack by Hans Zimmer; choreo by Mark Pillay

Yuna Aoki - FP: Popsical

Mai Mihara - SP: "Grief" by Tony Ann; choreo by Misha Ge

Rion Sumiyoshi (JPN) - SP: "Un homme qui me plaît" (from Love Is a Funny Thing)

Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) - SP: Dune: Part Two soundtrack by Hans Zimmer; FS: “Nature Boy” by AURORA/Alien: Convenant soundtrack; choreo by Shae-Lynn Bourne

Minsol Kwon (KOR) - SP: James Bond Medley; choreo by Misha Ge

Yelim Kim (KOR) will be keeping her programs from last season.

Yujae Kim (KOR) - FP: Swan Lake; choreo by Misha Ge

Yuseong Kim (KOR) - SP: "Clare de Lune" by Claude Debussy

Young You (KOR) - SP: "Mosaic" (Modern Arabic); choreo by Misha Ge

Starr Andrews (USA) - SP: "Fur Elise" by Faouzia; choreo by Adam Rippon; FS: Selections from the Euphoria soundtrack

Sonja Hilmer (USA) - FP: "You're The First, My Last, My Everything" by Barry White; "Now and Then" by The Beatles; "Electric Energy" by Ariana DeBose, Boy George, and Nile Rodgers from the Argylle soundtrack; choreo by Sonja Hillmer

Mia Kalin (USA) will be keeping her short from the 2023-24 season. FP: Romeo & Juliet

Wren Warne-Jacobson (USA) - SP: "What Was I Made For"(from Barbie) by Billie Eilish; choreo by Kate Charbonneau Shurts

Pairs

Sofiia Holichenko / Artem Darenskiy (UKR) - FP: "Сosmic Love" by Florence and the Machine

Valentina Plazas & Maximiliano Fernandez (USA)- SP: "Never Enough" by Kelly Clarkson; choreo by Jim Peterson; FP: Dune soundtrack by Hans Zimmer; choreo by Christina Carreira; Anthony Ponomarenko

Anastasia Vapian-Law / Luke Digby (GBR) - FP: "Survivor;" "Gangsta's Paradise"

Ice Dance

Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont (CAN) - RD: Lady Marmalade/Le Freak

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Robert Brodie has done a write up from 2024 Skate Canada International. He leads off with news about Stephen.

#SCI24: Sharp dressed for some success Stephen Gogolev reminded everyone in Halifax of his bountiful talent in the men's short program. And he seems to have found a situation that suits him well. Stephen Gogolev is the mystery man of Canadian skating. Since winning the Junior Grand Prix Final in Vancouver in 2018, he’s long been seen as one of the future hopes of men’s skating in this country. But it’s been a roller-coaster ride in recent years for the Toronto native, with growth spurts, training base changes and, most notably, health issues standing in the way of unleashing his full potential. There have been flashes of his bounty of talents, to be sure — remember, for example, the outstanding long program he put together at 2023 nationals in Oshawa, Ontario? — but the words erratic and inconsistent might better describe the past few years or so of his still young career. But a lot has changed in the past several months, and maybe the 19-year-old (yes, he’s still that young) has finally found his comfort zone to thrive. Gogolev has been settled with Lee Barkell at the Granite Club since June (he previously divided his training between Toronto and California, where he worked with Rafael Arutyunyan) and added French choreographer Benoit Richaud to his coaching team. Add it all up, and we saw the very good side of Gogolev on Saturday in Halifax. With a clean skate that included a quad Salchow and triple Axel, he posted an 82.70 score that landed him in fifth place after the short program. Best of all, he exited the ice with a smile on his face — not the forlorn look of the 2024 Canadian Championships in Calgary, when a flareup of a previous back injury scuttled his short program and forced him to withdraw. While Barkell said there had been “some issues” in dealing with his back during the off-season, all is well for the moment and the decision was made to scale down his programs this week to protect his health (the short program will eventually have two quads. Gogolev has been landing quad loops in practice, and Barkell said either that or the quad toe will be added down the road in the combination. The long will be similarly watered down, with the plan to have three or four quads in it by season’s end). “It’s been kind of on and off,” Gogolev said of his back health. “We took it very carefully leading up to this competition.” Gogolev was all business, you could say, as he glided onto the ice in suit and tie (“It’s actually quite light. It’s really stretchy,” he said when asked what it’s like to skate in such attire). The music for the program — “Mugsy’s Move Medley,” by Eddie Nichols — had a lighter feel to it, especially compared to the dark tones of last season’s “The Sound of Silence,” by Disturbed. “This program is really fun. It’s the short program I’ve enjoyed the most doing in the past couple of years,” he said, adding he’s already halfway to his goal at Skate Canada. “Short and free, clean skates. So I got the first part of that done. Overall, I’m pretty happy and I just wanted to enjoy this experience.” The enthusiastic audience at Scotiabank Centre did its part to make that happen. “There was a lot more people than I expected and it was louder, which was nice to see,” he said. Both his programs this season are Richaud creations, and Gogolev decided he wanted to expand the Frenchman’s role this season. “I work with him as a choreographer and I really like his work ethic and his strategies, and I thought it would be a good idea to add him as a coach.” His score held up at the top of the leaderboard until well into the final group, and he’ll skate in the final flight in Saturday’s free skate. It’s no surprise that World champion Ilia (the Quad God) Malinin of the United States has a commanding lead (106.22), followed by a pair of Japanese, Shun Sato (96.52) and Sota Yamamoto (92.16).

It is concerning to hear that Stephen's back injury issues have not been resolved fully. It appears to be some kind of chronic issue now. If he is able to manage it without increasing his technical difficulty then that is best. He does not need to sacrifice his life long health for a few quads. We will have to put our trust in Lee Barkell regarding this matter.

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a surprisingly early look at Z/K’s FD, choreographed by Benoit Richaud

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Benoit Richaud is not seeing heaven.

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benoit richaud as a concept is so funny

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Kao MIURA 🇯🇵

SP: Conquest of Spaces by Woodkid (Choreo. Benoit Richaud)

FS: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (Choreo. Shae-Lynn Bourne)

EX: Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine

FS is still under consideration

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