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Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis FD at 2024 Nepela Memorial

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Video of Ivett’s FS at Nepela Memorial!

Program layout: 3S, 3Lz, 2Lo, 2A || 3Lz1T, 3T1Eu3S, 2A2T

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Entries for Nepela Memorial have been announced.

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2018 CS Autumn Classic International & CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy: Info & Streaming

No Junior Grand Prix this week, but the Challenger Series continues with two events in Canada and Slovakia!

AUTUMN CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL

Website & results | Entries | Schedule | ISU

Designation: Challenger Series When: Sept. 20-22 Where: Oakville, ON, Canada Level & disciplines: senior men, ladies, pairs, ice dance How to watch: Free Dailymotion livestream

Schedule (EDT, UTC-4) 9/20: Pairs' SP 16:05; Ladies' SP 17:03 9/21: Short Dance 12:05; Men's SP 13:13; Pair's FS 16:03; Ladies' FS 17:08 9/22: Free Dance 11:10; Men's FS 12:28

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ONDREJ NEPELA TROPHY

Results & schedule | Entries | Website | ISU

Designation: Challenger Series When: Sept. 19-22 Where: Bratislava, Slovakia Level & disciplines: senior men, ladies, pairs, ice dance How to watch: Free Youtube livestream

Schedule (CEST, UTC+2) 9/20: Ladies' SP 13:00, Men's SP 16:00, Pairs' SP 19:00 9/21: Short Dance 13:00, Pairs' FS 14:45 9/22: Ladies' FS 13:15, Free Dance 16:15, Men's FS 18:15

Notable entries: Morisi Kvitelashvili, Daniel Samohin, Keiji Tanaka, Alexander Samarin, Mikhail Kolyada, Sergei Voronov, Rika Kihira, Rin Nitaya, Elizabet Tursynbaeva, Stanislava Konstantinova, Polina Tsurskaya, Ashley Cain/Timothy Leduc, Deanna Stellato/Nathan Bartholomay, Betina Popova/Sergey Mozgov, Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov, Lorraine McNamara/Quinn Carpenter

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We'll probably never get used to the Ondrej Nepela special prize lol

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Aaaaaaa! Rika was fantastic! Congratulations for the win, the wonderful 3As and the new world record.

Keep it up!

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Evgenia performing her Short Program at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy 2017

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omg i loved jun’s short. so chaotic but in a very controlled way, even more so than junliet imo.

the only part i did not love was the billie jean to smooth criminal transition and that was less on choreo and more on the music cut, it was a lot lazier than the other ones which were pretty clever! 

love the back of the costume, literally screamed at the gold chain detailing. jun really said he’s the prince of the ice and he’s right. the front is...idk.

presentation was...yeah. i did not like the score. today was not his best outing, he definitely had a lot of anxiety going in and that carried over in a lack of energy, but his composition was extraordinary and so were his skating skills. imo his PCS should have been higher by a bit and his TS lower.

ah, junaxel. ah, jun 3lz3lo. how i loathe and love you.

화이팅 junhwan! literally. you’re doing great, please manage pre-performance anxiety. keep chewing on those power bars.

[jennibeultimate]

So Kaori got less PCS than Alexandra Trusova??? Are you kidding me??? 😠

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Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson FD at 2024 Nepela Memorial

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New interview by ujszo, it takes place after Nepela Memorial. Translation by @fanpower98​, thank you very much!

You ended up 8th on the first competition of the season. How do you estimate your performance in Bratislava?

I’m not fully satisfied. I wanted to start the season that I let myself go, I slacken a bit, enjoy the programs more so i can relax for the jumps too. My production wasn’t perfect but there were a lot positive things in my accomplishment. The spins and the step sequence in the short program weren’t executed on that level I’ve wanted to so in the free program I paid more attention to them and this showed on the points too. The quality of the jumps weren’t ideal yet but it’s still the beginning of the season. I’m glad I only have one new program, I kept the free from last year.

Why did you decide to keep the free program?

We wanted two new programs but couldn’t manage a cooperation with the french Benoit Richaud who choreographed my previous programs. There would have been no time to create two programs. So the free stayed and we set the short program together with my coaches and Nóra Hoffmann.

This evocative program of the twenties adapts very good to the feeling of the music, the costume and the hair superbly complete the production. How did you choose this music?

I didn’t have a swing-jazz program so far so I wanted to choose something like this. Previously the fans and the judges could see my dancy, modern, hip-hop side and now I wanted a program where I can show also my girly, womanlike side.

This swing-jazz style, is it close to you, anyway? Do you listen to it in your free time or this personality only shows up on the ice?

I can’t say I’m this or that fan, I love all sorts of music. I listen to jazz and when I have to run through my short at 7 am, this jazz music makes it much more easier. We will work some more on how to show the womanliness in the program, how to communicate better, flirt with everyone, look out to the judges. This is also a goal for the season.

What was it like to work with Nóra Hoffmann?

I haven’t worked with her before but I enjoyed it very much. She is very motivating, and it doesn’t matter what style the competitor has, she can bring that girly, womanly, wild side out of them that I haven’t even felt I had it in me. It was also a surprise for me that I can become like this, that I can put on a lot of dresses and characters and I can execute it more authentic than I thought.

What were the first feedbacks of this program like, what did the judges, the fans and maybe the other competitors say?

I have performed this short program once or twice on several galas, there the feedback was very positive. They said this program suits me very well, we got the dress right and something new is beginning to shine in my style again. I didn’t heard the judges opinion so far on it but my coaches and fans were very positive about the music choice, the costume and the whole program.

How did the preparation go? Did you change something comparing to previous years?

It was different now that we could go to a training camp. We spent one and a half week in Námestovo, Slovakia. Last year we couldn’t go, then we were home the whole time. We had ice opportunity in the training camp, we could work a lot, we had to accommodate to the hockey players tho, we could only go on the ice early morning or late evening. The preparation itself didn’t changed, of course I want to do more runthroughs during practices, I can still evolve in this.The main thing I want to pay attention to enjoy the program a little bit more, to be in the moment when I’m on a competition and this helps to do the jumps better. This sounds very cliché but on a competition your biggest rival is always yourself, you have to defeat those barriers in yourself so the choreography will be very good and you can do those practiced-for-thousand-years jumps.

You talked about similar things at the EC in Minsk in January that you want to slacken a bit, not to tighten on things that much. How do you feel where are you on this road?

I’m that type, and I think all athletes are like this, that I want to perform perfectly. I feel like most of the time my every portion is on it to make everything totally perfect and these times I get lost in the details. Very often things go differently on competitions than in practices. It’s easier there, of course, but at practices the percents are very positive, reassuring. We are working on it to do competitions like I’m doing practice.

How did you manage it at Nepela Memorial? Did you feel calmer or you still felt stress?

I wasn’t that nervous now that it overwhelmed my head. But if I can do the jumps in training with a better percentage, then I’ll get that small part which is missing now.

With what kind of goals did you started the season? Do you have a concrete goal settled or the main goal is to find this slackness?

This slackness is very much in the ring but we would like to have a more balanced season than last year. We would like to avoid big ups and downs so I can count on it to do things at competitions like I do at practices.

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Nepela Trophy - Ladies FS

Mako Yamashita: I don’t think this program is a good fit for her. She’s still really young and has something really innocent about her, so I feel like the flirty character she’s trying to portray here doesn’t suit her at all.

Hanul Kim: Really nice performance. And her hydroblading gives me life.

Lara Naki Gutmann: Just wanted to say that her skating to The Mission is reminding me of Mai :(( (Get well soon, Mai....)

Kaori Sakamoto: HOLY SHIT WHAT A PERFOMANCE!!! I am in love with this program already! And did you see how she skates? The insane speed across the ice, the height and speed of each jump, wow. I am floored. Thank you Kaori for my life. Thank you for reminding me what I love about this sport and why I watch it. It’s precicely for performances like this. *brb gonna murder the three judges who ranked Sasha higher in skating skills than Kaori*

Alexandra Trusova: An undeserved world record beats two previous undeserved world records. Now, I don’t want to downplay what she does and what she’s able to do - of course those quads are super impressive. But imo, figure skating should be about more than just that. And Alexandra’s skating is still lacking in many areas - seeing her and Kaori back to back really highlighted that. And she had some stumbles here and there, too. Really think the judges went way overboard with that score, but I’m not surprised. Her skating makes me feel kind of like Nathan Chen’s: Yes, the quads are impressive, but many other areas are average and her performance makes me feel nothing. For a world record performance this just felt underwhelming.

Side note: Now that there’s programs to awful, misogynistic “fantasy” media like Game of Thrones and Twilight, why is there still no one skating to good fantasy like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings? (No one in seniors at least.) Come on, those soundtracks are so beautiful! Just imagine someone skating to “Into the West” ... I’d die.

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2017 CS Autumn Classic International, CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy, & JGP Belarus: Info & Streaming

Two more Challenger Series competitions this week in Canada and Slovakia, while the Junior Grand Prix returns with its fourth stop in Belarus! More information will be added to this post as it becomes available.

AUTUMN CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL

Website & results | Entries | Detailed schedule | Livestream

Designation: Challenger Series When: Sept. 20-23 Where: Montreal, QC, Canada Level & disciplines: senior men, ladies, ice dance, pairs How to watch: Free livestream on Skate Canada's Dailymotion (including practices)

Schedule (EDT, UTC-4) 9/21: Ladies' SP 20:05 9/22: Short Dance 17:00; Pairs' SP 18:30; Men's SP 19:40 9/23: Ladies' FS 13:45; Free Dance 16:50; Pairs' FS 18:35; Men's FS 20:00

ONDREJ NEPELA TROPHY

Results | Entries | Detailed schedule | Website | Livestream

Designation: Challenger Series When: Sept. 21-23 Where: Bratislava, Slovakia Level & disciplines: senior men, ladies, ice dance, pairs How to watch: Free livestream on Youtube

Schedule (CEST, UTC+2) 9/21: Ladies' SP 13:00; Men's SP 16:15; Pairs' SP 19:15 9/22: Short Dance 13:00; Pairs' FS 15:10 9/23: Ladies' FS 12:00; Free Dance 15:40; Men's FS 19:00

Notable entries: Brendan Kerry, Nicolas Nadeau, Chafik Besseghier, Keiji Tanaka, Sergei Voronov, Mikhail Kolyada, Alexander Samarin, Grant Hochstein, Rika Hongo, Dabin Choi, Alena Leonova, Evgenia Medvedeva, Elena Radionova, Nicole Rajicova, Caroline Zhang, Kristina Astakhova/Alexei Rogonov, Natalia Zabiiako/Alexander Enbert, Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev, Rachel Parsons/Michael Parsons

JGP MINSK ARENA CUP

Live results & entries | Detailed schedule | Livestream

Designation: Junior Grand Prix When: Sept. 20-23 Where: Minsk, Belarus Level & disciplines: junior men, ladies, ice dance, pairs How to watch: Free livestreams on the JGP Youtube channel

Schedule (MSK, UTC+3) 9/21: Short Dance 10:30; Ladies' SP 13:10; Men's SP 18:45 9/22: Pairs' SP 11:00; Ladies' FS 13:15; Free Dance 19:00 9/23: Pairs' FS 10:15; Men's FS 12:45; Gala 19:00

Notable entries: Tatsuya Tsuboi, Sihyeong Lee, Alexey Erokhov, Andrew Torgashev, Nana Araki, Riko Takino, Ye Lim Kim, Stanislava Konstantinova, Alexandra Trusova, Tessa Hong, Lori-Ann Matte/Thierry Ferland, Apollinariia Panfilova/Dmitry Rylov, Anastasia Skoptcova/Kirill Aleshin, Arina Ushakova/Maxim Nekrasov, Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko

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Jessica Pfund and Joshua Santillan skating to You Raise Me Up for their free program at the 2017 Ondrej Nepela Trophy.

(Source: Joanna Grams)