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Japan Open 2022 10/8 entrants:
Team Japan
- Yuma Kagiyama, Rika Kihira, Kaori Sakamoto, Shoma Uno
Team Europe
- Michal Brezina, Daniel Grassl, Loena Hendrickx, Ekaterina Kurakova
Team North America
- Mariah Bell, Jason Brown, Ilia Malinin, Bradie Tennell
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Rinka Watanabe’s beautiful triple axel at #LombardiaTrophy
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Righty 3S-lefty 2S combo from Sonja Hilmer - she’s landed this in competition before twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Figure skating firsts
3S: Robertson (1952), 4S: Goebel (1998)
3T: Litz (1964), 4T: Browning (1988)
3Lo: Button (1952), 4Lo: Hanyu (2016)
3F: ??, 4F: Uno (2016)
3Lz: Jackson (1962), 4Lz: Mroz (2011)
3A: Taylor (1978), 4A: Malinin (2022) twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Seriously though, in any other circumstance, this 3Lz3A would’ve been the coolest new thing in the program twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Official ILIAAAA twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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#USIntlClassic Men FINAL
G Ilia Malinin 257.28
S Kevin Aymoz 236.17
B Camden Pulkinen 219.49
4 Mark Gorodnitsky 218.83
5 Jimmy Ma 216.76
6 Stephen Gogolev 208.43
7 Arlet Levandi 202.29
8 Donovan Carrillo 181.44
9 Eric Sjoberg 179.09
10 Wesley Chiu 171.69
bit.ly/3xq8LKm
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Ilia Malinin USA
4A, 4T, 4Lz(ur?fall), 4S, 4Lz(q?hangs on)1Eu3S, 3F3T, 3Lz3A
TES 108.69, PCS 77.75, -1.00, FS 185.44, TOTAL 257.28 into 1st
bit.ly/3xq8LKm #USIntlClassic
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Ilia Malinin USA
4A, 4T, 4Lz(ur?fall), 4S, 4Lz(q?hangs on)1Eu3S, 3F3T, 3Lz3A - STARTS WITH A QUAD AXEL AND ENDS WITH A 3Lz3A?!?!
bit.ly/3xq8LKm #USIntlClassic
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FIRST QUAD AXEL IN HISTORY FOR ILIA MALININ
bit.ly/3xq8LKm #USIntlClassic
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#USIntlClassic Men SP Top 10
1 Kevin Aymoz 83.52
2 Mark Gorodnitsky 77.65
3 Camden Pulkinen 77.44
4 Daniel Grassl 73.69
5 Stephen Gogolev 72.89
6 Ilia Malinin 71.84
7 Arlet Levandi 70.02
8 Jimmy Ma 69.88
9 Donovan Carrillo 68.10
10 Wesley Chiu 55.14
bit.ly/3qEsodT
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Two triple axels today in the women’s event at #JGPFigure Courchevel - step out on a fully-rotated 3A for Hana Yoshida, landed quarter-turn short 3A for Yujae Kim twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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Now complete: #GPFigure 2022
10/21-23 Skate America - Norwood
10/28-30 Skate Canada International - Mississauga
11/4-6 Internationaux de France - Angers
11/11-13 MK John Wilson Trophy - Sheffield
11/18-20 NHK Trophy - Sapporo
11/25-27 GP Finland - Espoo
12/8-11 GP Final - Torino twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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The legend has retired - thank you, Yuzuru Hanyu 羽生結弦! 😭
Hanyu’s historic accomplishments:
OLY🥇🥇
WC 🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉
FC 🥇🥈🥈🥈
JPN 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉
GPF 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈
GP 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈
JWC 🥇
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Per Kyodo News (via Japan Times), “sources say” two-time Olympic champ and legend Yuzuru Hanyu 羽生結弦 will announce his retirement during the major announcement press conference to be held later today (Tuesday 7/19) in Tokyo
japantimes.co.jp/sports/2022/07…
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Latest #GPFigure announcements:
10/21-23 Skate America - Norwood
10/28-30 Skate Canada International - Mississauga
11/4-6 Internationaux de France - Angers
11/11-13 to be confirmed
11/18-20 NHK Trophy - Sapporo
11/25-27 GP Finland - Espoo
12/8-11 GP Final - Torino
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Also, one of my faves from the original dance era
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The closest quad axel I’ve ever seen twitter.com/Lily628/status…
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Watching Alysa Liu do this gala program live was so fun
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get that choreo assisted jump twitter.com/natecurlsquad/…
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Ukrainian silver medalists Mariia Holubtsova/Kyryl Bielobrov have started a gofundme to help fund their training since fleeing Ukraine and relocating to Oberstdorf
gofundme.com/f/help-mariiak…
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More news: 3-time Japanese medalist and 2011 World Junior silver medalist Keiji Tanaka 田中刑事 announces retirement
Full compilation here: bit.ly/3qKd2oG twitter.com/deka_1122/stat…
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