This Week in Skating / May 22, 2023

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Episode 77 Show Notes

Events Results Brief

• 2023 Nations’ Cup
• 2023 Adult Gold Cup 
• 2023 Thailand Open Figure Skating
• 2023 Oceania International
• 2023 ISU Adult International 
• 2023 Mexico Cup

Segment - General Skating News 

• ISU published the 2023-24 Junior Grand Prix General Announcement document on their JGP info page.
• The Hungarian Skating Federation announced they have withdrawn from hosting the 2024 European Championships.
• Skate Canada announced April 26 that Calgary will host the 2024 Canadian National Championships:
• Skate Canada unveiled their 2023-2024 domestic event calendar on May 16.
• U.S. Figure Skating has announced that 2023 Skate America will be held in Allen, Texas.
• U.S. Figure announced its 2024 Adult Qualifying Season - Adult Nationals to take place in Cleveland, Ohio 
• 2002 Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hughes has filed to run for Congress.
• Ice Dance Elite’s website was updated recently and includes profiles on the two new Canadian junior teams of Emma Goodstadt & USA’s Christian Bennett and Sophia Gover & Great Britain’s Billy Wilson-French: https://www.icedanceelite.ca/
• All the IDE teams performed in Scarboro FSC’s Spring Showcase that was live streamed via the club’s Facebook page on May 13: 
• Japan Skating Federation official confirmed the partnership splits of pair team Haruna Murakami/Sumitada Moriguchi and the ice dance team of Nao Kida/Masaya Morita.

Segment - Recent Interviews

• Knierim and Frazier Close Out Season with World Silver and Big Plans, by Elvin Walker, U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone
• Olympian LeDuc returns for Eastern Iowa Figure Skating Club show, by Diana Nollen,The Gazette
• Meeting Medalists: Olympic Gold Medal Winners Discuss Careers, by David Prenatt, The Post-Journal
• Hana Yoshida gains confidence for the 2023-2024, by Maria-Laura Mitsuoka, Golden Skate
• Hocke and Kunkel: ‘Quitting is not an option’, by Paula Slater, Golden Skate
• Sihyeong Lee continues international climb, by Judith Dombrowski, Golden Skate 
• Video: Wild Ice | A Documentary About Angelina Huang
• The Once Unthinkable Revolution Coming to Figure Skating, by Talia Barrington, Slate
• Talia spoke on Slate’s April 24th podcast (starting after the 47-minutre mark)
• Lucas Broussard sums up the successful season, by Judith Dombrowski, Golden Skate

Segment - Social Media Updates

• Team USA’s Katarina Wolfkostin announced that she and Dimitry Tsarevski are skating together and training at MIDA with Charlie White, Tanith White and Greg Zuerlein.
• Slovakia’s Mária Sofia Pucherová / Nikita Lysak have changed coaches from Barbara Fusar Poli and Roberto Pelizolla to Luca Lanotte.
• Norway’s Milla Ruud Reitan / Nikolaj Majorov are a new ice dance team for Sweden.
• Czech Figure Skating announced that Barbora Kuciánová / Martin Bidař are a new pairs team
• Korea’s Hyejin Cho / Steven Adcock have ended their partnership. Cho is searching for a new pair partner to continue representing South Korea. Adcock posted on May 6 that he has retired due to a back injury. 
• Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama are announced as a new ice dance team for Japan and will train at the Ice Academy of Montreal.
• Two new pairs for Japan, based on the Kinoshita Academy in Kyoto: Yuna Nagaoka & Sumitada Moriguchi and Sae Shimuzu & Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda who are ISU Junior age-eligible.
• Balazs Nagy, who has skated for the USA and Hungary, posted a clip of a split triple twist with Chelsea Liu, captioned “We’re back” on May 8.
• Great Britain’s Natasha McKay has announced her retirement from competitive skating.
• Two-time Olympic gold medalist Tessa Virtue posted that she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Masters of Applied Positive Psychology program this week.

Segment - Program Announcements

• Jordan Cowan of On Ice Perspectives filmed a 14-minute video of the process of Camden Pulkinen’s short program being choreographed by Marie-France Dubreuil in Montreal.

Segment - Upcoming Events 

• Stars on Ice 2023 U.S. Tour

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