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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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Grand Prix Final qualified countries
SENIOR
🇯🇵🇧🇪🇯🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵 Women
🇯🇵🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇮🇹🇮🇹 Pairs
🇺🇸🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇮🇹🇯🇵 Men
🇨🇦🇮🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸 Dance
JUNIOR
🇯🇵🇯🇵🇰🇷🇯🇵🇰🇷🇰🇷 Women
🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Pairs
🇺🇸🇮🇹🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇺🇸 Men
🇨🇿🇨🇦🇰🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷 Dance
bit.ly/3AdPhtU #GPFigure
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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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This thread: Men’s free skate press conference #Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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It happened again twitter.com/rockerskating/…
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To the person who told Kaitlin Hawayek she needs to lose weight, please leave.
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Wow this might be the best figure skater pitch I’ve ever seen? +5GOE twitter.com/sung_minkim/st…
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I never got to post this - at the front of the #Worlds2022 arena was this exhibition piece. It reenacts Surya Bonaly’s iconic one-foot backflip and the trajectory of her skates #WorldFigure
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Ivan Shmuratko UKR
3A, 2A, 2Lz, 3Lo, 3F, 2F2T, 2A - thank you, Ivan Shmuratko
bit.ly/3IFydOQ #Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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The closest quad axel I’ve ever seen twitter.com/Lily628/status…
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Daisuke Takahashi - Phantom of the Opera 16 seasons ago
youtube.com/watch?v=KS0vVO…
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Rinka Watanabe’s beautiful triple axel at #LombardiaTrophy
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#WorldFigure
2023 Saitama
2024 Montreal
2025 Boston
2026 Prague
#4ContsFigure
2023 Colorado Springs
2024 Shanghai
2025 Seoul <-- new!
2026 TBA
#EuroFigure
23 Espoo
24 Budapest
25 Zagreb
26 Sheffield
#WorldJFigure
23 Calgary
24 Taipei
25 Debrecen
26 Tallinn <-- new!
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Good morning to Bond, Jun Bond. #SkateAmerica
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Ami Nakai 中井亜美
3A3T, 3Lz, 3A(q?ftdwn), 2A, 3F1Eu3S, 3Lo, 3Lz - HOLY MOLY!
bit.ly/3FSTTaJ #全日本フィギュア
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Shoma Uno JPN
4Lo, 4S(q?), 4T2T, 3A, 4F, 4T(ur?2ft,turn), 3A1Eu(<<)1F
TES 107.71, PCS 95.14, FS 202.85, TOTAL 312.48 into 1st - SHOMAGEDDON
bit.ly/3IFydOQ #Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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#GPFinal22 Men SP
1 Shoma Uno 99.99 4F 4T2T 3A
2 Sota Yamamoto 94.86 4T3T 4S 3A
3 Kao Miura 87.07 4S3T(fall) 3A 4T
5 Daniel Grassl 80.40 4Lz(e?fall) 3A 3Lz3T
5 Ilia Malinin 80.10 4T(ur?)3T(step) 4S 3A(step,hand)
6 Shun Sato 76.62 4Lz(q?fall) 4T2T 3A
#GPFigure
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Men singles skaters who have won both JGPF and GPF
+ Evan Lysacek: Jr (2003), Sr (2009)
+ Yuzuru Hanyu: Jr (2009), Sr (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
+ Shoma Uno: Jr (2014); Sr (2022)
+ Nathan Chen: Jr (2015), Sr (2017, 2018, 2019)
bit.ly/3BqV0Nn #GPFinal22 #GPFigure
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Waiting for the medals like
#Worlds2022 #WorldFigure
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Junhwan Cha has withdrawn from #Worlds2022 - after practice, he talked with Brian Orser and they decided it would not be safe for him to skate with his equipment issues
bit.ly/3IFydOQ #WorldFigure
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Practice notes
Uno: 2A, 3Lo, 3A, 4T3T, 4F, 4S, 4Lo, 3A1Eu3F, 3A1Eu3F, 4T(ftdwn), 4T(hangs on)2T, 3A, 3F1Eu3F(dramatic Shoma fall), 3A1Eu3F, 3A, marked jumps in runthru
bit.ly/3D4vey7 #WorldFigure #Worlds2022
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#GPFigure Final Women champs
08 Mao Asada
09 Yuna Kim
10 Alissa Czisny
11 Carolina Kostner
12 Mao Asada
13 Mao Asada
14 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
15 Evgenia Medvedeva
16 Evgenia Medvedeva
17 Alina Zagitova
18 Rika Kihira
19 Alena Kostornaia
20 COVID
21 COVID
22 Mai Mihara
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🇺🇦 Worlds may be over, but keep them in your hearts
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