This Week in Skating / June 5, 2023

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Episode 79 Show Notes

• Skate Canada Pride Merchandise
• Skate Canada Pride Season 2023

Events Results Brief

• 2023 Hong Kong Figure Skating Championships

Segment - General Skating News 

• ISU released the international single & pair skating, ice dance and synchronized skating competitions for 2023-24 season.
• ISU released the ice dance scale of values for the 2023-24 season.
• ISU posted the three countries that applied to replace Hungary for 2024 European Championships: Sofia, Bulgaria; Kaunas, Lithuania and Warsaw, Poland.
• Skate Canada's Volunteer Portal is now open for the 2023-2024 season includes volunteering for Montreal Worlds.
• The German Skating Union announced that they received clearance from the ISU for Russia’s Nikita Volodin to skate with Minerva Hase. They can represent Germany at international competitions this season.

Segment - Recent Interviews

• John Coughlin scandal rocked U.S. Figure Skating. Now a supporter of his has been hired, by Christine Brennan, USA Today
• U.S. Figure Skating honored coach once suspended for alleged sexual relationship with 16-year-old, by Christine Brennan, USA Today
• Video: A Day With The Haydenettes (USA) 
• Video/Article: Family grieves sudden loss of Las Vegas’s iconic ‘Benny the Ice-Skating Dog’, by Sasha Loftis, 8NewsNow.com
• Golden Knights favorite Benny the Ice Skating Dog dies at 12, by Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Podcast: Shared Tenacity and a Matched Energy ft. Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, by Polina Edmunds
• With World Title, Chock and Bates Join U.S. Ice Dance Royalty, by Darci Miller, U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone
• The Nisei Sacrifice, by Barb Reichert, U.S. Figure Skating
• Chen, Shibutanis pen children’s book with emphasis on AAPI representations, by Lynn Rutherford, Team USA
• Olympian Kaetlyn Osmond mentors Fort McMurray figure skaters at weekend skating clinic, Vincent McDermott, Fort McMurray Today

Segment - Social Media Updates

• Congratulations are in order for former U.S. competitive skater Douglas Razzano who got married over the weekend. Photos appeared on Doug’s Instagram story.
• Ice Academy of Montreal posted a photo of Shun Sato with Guillaume Cizeron. Cizeron is choreographing a program for Sato.
• Ice Academy also posted photos of Kaori Sakamoto with Marie-France Dubreuil and Samuel Chouinard. She was there in Montreal choreographing a program as well.
• Solene Mazingue posted in her Instagram story that she had a fall in practice last Friday and hit her head. Her doctor said she now has another concussion. 
• Former competitive ice dancer Louis Thauron has been busy choreographing for ice dancers in his native France.
• Randi Strong was in Novi, Michigan working with Igor Shpilband’s teams, choreographing new programs. 
• Kinoshita Skating Academy announced that Utana Yoshida has partnered with Masaya Morita.  
• Thornton Park Ice Arena in Shaker Heights, Ohio shared on Instagram that it will be hosting a Freestyle and Ice Dance clinic with Kori Ade and Rob Peal on June 8th and 9th. Registration has closed for this seminar.
• Skate Canada will be hosting its first Adult Training Camp this summer (August 23-26) at Sportplexe Pierrefonds in Montreal. Elizabeth Manley will be part of this clinic. 
• New team training at the Ice Academy of Montreal announced on June 2 by Kayleigh Maksymec - she and Canada’s Felix Desmarais for Switzerland. 
• Ilia Malinin  posted a video of himself doing 4A+3A+3A+3A+3A combination during a warm-up at SOI. 
• Paulina Ramanauskaite and Deividas Kizala have left Maurizio Margaglio to move to Madrid and train with the new SK International Ice Dance School headed by Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin. 

Segment -  Program Announcements

• Check out our website for a listing of program music announcements - will be updated as they are announced!
• Men
• Women
• Pairs
• Dance

Segment - Upcoming Events 

• Ice on Fire, June 10 at 6 p.m. at the ION Arena in Leesburg, Virginia 
• Hollins Trophy International, June 9-12 in Erina, NSW, Australia (final ISU international fro the 2022-23 season) 
• 2023 National Theatre on Ice, June 26-30 in Fraser, Michigan 

IDC and FSO spotlight

• IDC: Reiten & Majorov: A New Beginning