2010 Winter Olympics - Olympic Teams

AUSTRALIA



Ladies
Cheltzie Lee


AUSTRIA



Ladies
Miriam Ziegler

Men
Viktor Pfeifer


BELGIUM



Ladies
Isabelle Pieman

Men
Kevin Van Der Perren


CANADA



Ladies
Joannie Rochette
Cynthia Phaneuf

Men
Patrick Chan
Vaugh Chipeur

Pairs
Jessica Dube & Bryce Davison
Anabelle Langlois & Cody Hay

Ice Dance
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
Vanessa Crone & Paul Poirier


CHINA



Ladies
Liu Yan

Pairs
Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo
Pang Qing & Tong Jian
Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao

Ice Dance
Huang Xintong & Zheng Xun


CZECH REPUBLIC



Men
Michal Brezina
Tomas Verner

Ice Dance
Kamila Hajkova & David Vincour


ESTONIA



Ladies
Elena Glebova

Pairs
Maria Sergejeva & Ilja Glebov

Ice Dance
Irina Shtork & Taavi Rand


FINLAND



Ladies
Laura Lepisto
Kiira Korpi

Men
Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari


FRANCE



Men
Brian Joubert
Florent Amodio

Pairs
Vanessa James & Yannick Bonheur

Ice Dance
Isabelle Delobel & Olivier Schoenfelder
Nathalie Pechalat & Fabian Bourzat


GEORGIA



Ladies
Elene Gedevanishvili

Ice Dance
Allison Reed & Otar Japaridze


GERMANY



Ladies
Sarah Hecken

Men
Stefan Lindemann

Pairs
Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy
Maylin Hausch & Daniel Wende

Ice Dance
Christina Beier & William Beier


GREAT BRITAIN



Ladies
Jenna McCorkell

Pairs
Stacey Kemp & David King

Ice Dance
Sinead Kerr & John Kerr
Penny Coomes & Nicholas Buckland


HUNGARY



Ladies
Julia Sebestyen

Ice Dance
Nora Hoffmann & Maxim Zavozin


ISRAEL



Ice Dance
Alexandra Zaretsky & Roman Zaretsky


ITALY



Ladies
Carolina Kostner

Men
Samuel Contesti
Paolo Bacchini

Pairs
Nicole Della Monica & Yannick Kocon

Ice Dance
Federica Faiella & Massimo Scali
Anna Cappellini & Luca Lanotte


JAPAN



Ladies
Mao Asada
Akiko Suzuki
Miki Ando

Men
Nobunari Oda
Daisuke Takahashi
Takahiko Kozuka

Ice Dance
Cathy Reed & Chris Reed


KAZAKHSTAN



Men
Denis Ten
Abzal Rakimgaliyev


DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA



Men
Ri Song Chol


REPUBLIC OF KOREA



Ladies
Kim Yu-Na
Kwak Min-Jung


POLAND



Ladies
Anna Jurkiewicz

Men
Przemyslaw Domanski

Pairs
Joanna Sulej & Mateusz Chruscinski


ROMANIA



Men
Zoltan Kelemen


RUSSIAN FEDERATION



Ladies
Ksenia Makarova
Alena Leonova

Men
Evgeni Plushenko
Artem Borodulin

Pairs
Yuko Kavaguti & Alexander Smirnov
Maria Mukhortova & Maxim Trankov
Vera Bazarova & Yuri Larionov

Ice Dance
Oksana Domnina & Maxim Shabalin
Jana Khokhlova & Sergei Novitski
Ekaterina Bobrova & Dmitri Soloviev


SLOVENIA



Ladies
Teodora Postic

Men
Gregor Urbas


SLOVAKIA



Ladies
Ivana Reitmayerova


SPAIN



Ladies
Sonia Lafuente

Men
Javier Fernandez


SWEDEN



Men
Adrian Schultheiss


SWITZERLAND



Ladies
Sarah Meier

Men
Stephane Lambiel

Pairs
Anais Morand & Antoine Dorsaz


TURKEY



Ladies
Tugba Karademir


UKRAINE



Men
Anton Kovalevski

Pairs
Tatiana Volosozhar & Stanislav Morozov
Ekaterina Kostenko & Roman Talan

Ice Dance
Anna Zadorozhniuk & Sergei Verbillo


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Ladies
Rachael Flatt
Mirai Nagasu

Men
Jeremy Abbott
Evan Lysacek
Johnny Weir

Pairs
Caydee Denney & Jeremy Barrett
Amanda Evora & Mark Ladwig

Ice Dance
Meryl Davis & Charlie White
Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto
Emily Samuelson & Evan Bates


UZBEKISTAN



Ladies
Anastasia Gimazetdinova

2010 Four Continents Championships - Men's LP and Final Result

Long Program

1 Adam RIPPON USA 156.22 pts
2 Tatsuki MACHIDA JPN 147.88 pts
3 Ryan BRADLEY USA 145.97 pts
4 Shawn SAWYER CAN 143.98 pts
5 Brandon MROZ USA 141.80 pts
6 Nan SONG CHN 136.73 pts
7 Jialiang WU CHN 133.27 pts
8 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN 131.39 pts
9 Jinlin GUAN CHN 131.06 pts
10 Joey RUSSELL CAN 114.39 pts
11 Yasuharu NANRI JPN 109.88 pts
12 Min-Seok KIM KOR 103.60 pts


Final Result

1 Adam RIPPON USA 225.78 pts
2 Tatsuki MACHIDA JPN 217.48 pts
3 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN 212.99 pts
4 Brandon MROZ USA 212.68 pts
5 Ryan BRADLEY USA 212.19 pts
6 Nan SONG CHN 209.68 pts
7 Shawn SAWYER CAN 206.34 pts
8 Jialiang WU CHN 203.60 pts
9 Jinlin GUAN CHN 195.66 pts
10 Denis TEN KAZ 172.65 pts
11 Joey RUSSELL CAN 171.44 pts
12 Yasuharu NANRI JPN 171.36 pts

An Olympic Qualifier, but Not in Israel’s Eyes

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Israel has its first Olympic qualifier in women’s figure skating — but officials will not let her compete at the Vancouver Games.

Tamar Katz, the three-time national champion, met the International Skating Union’s standards for Olympic eligibility. But the Olympic Committee of Israel has a rule that says a skater must place among the top 14 at the European championships to earn a trip to the Olympics, the group’s president said. Katz finished 21st at the recent championships in Tallinn, Estonia.

“This issue is not about resources or gender — it’s purely professional,” Efraim Zinger, the secretary general for the Israeli Olympic Committee, said in a telephone interview. “We set the target about two years ahead of time for our athletes. Those who don’t make it must stay back. Some countries’ main goals are to participate, some send their athletes to win. We are interested in our athletes reaching the top.”

Katz, 20, was born in Dallas and practices at Sport-o-Rama in Monsey, N.Y., under her coach, Peter Burrows. Her skating career started in Rockville, Md., and when the family moved back to Israel, they decided to live in Metulla, near Israel’s only regulation ice rink. She moved back to the United States on her own at 15 so she would have access to better coaches, she said.

“If the Israeli Olympic Committee is concerned I’ll place last in the Olympics, they don’t have to worry — even if I don’t skate my best, I can place in the top 20,” Katz said in a telephone interview. “I am not talking about a medal, because it is not just about medals, it is also about representing your country with honor and respect.”

Katz gained Olympic eligibility by finishing seventh at a competition in Oberdorf, Germany, in September.

In explaining the decision not to send Katz to the Vancouver Games, the president of Israel’s Olympic Committee, Zvi Varshaviak, said: “We have internal rules for our athletes. She needed to be in the top 14 at the European championships. She came in 21st, and it’s not good enough.”

Israel will send three athletes to Vancouver: a team of ice dancers and a skier. The country has never won a medal at the Winter Olympics.

“It’s the first time an Israeli woman had the chance to go to the Olympics,” said Boris Chait, president of Israel’s skating federation. “If I said it was a good call, I would be lying, but the rules don’t allow her to compete. I made a personal plea from Tallinn to the I.O.C. I stated my case and appealed, but they did not see it my way.”

Israel sent its first Winter Olympic team to compete in the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Its national Olympic committee has modified its qualification rules over the years. The group has 10 people who decide the requirements for athletes in the Summer and Winter Games.

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2010 Four Continents Championships - Free Dance and Final Result

Free Dance

1 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 85.07 pts
2 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 81.46 pts
3 Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL CAN 79.01 pts
4 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 77.69 pts
5 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA 75.66 pts
6 Jane SUMMERSETT / Todd GILLES USA 75.32 pts
7 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 73.05 pts
8 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 70.91 pts
9 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN 64.89 pts
10 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN AUS 60.71 pts
11 Maria BOROUNOV / Evgeni BOROUNOV AUS 56.49 pts
12 Corenne BRUHNS / Andrew LAVRIK MEX 54.03 pts


Final Result

1 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 166.16 pts
2 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 159.56 pts
3 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 154.20 pts
4 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 150.38 pts
5 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA 148.92 pts
6 Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL CAN 147.38 pts
7 Jane SUMMERSETT / Todd GILLES USA 144.53 pts
8 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 141.55 pts
9 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN 127.06 pts
10 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN AUS 115.73 pts
11 Corenne BRUHNS / Andrew LAVRIK MEX 106.07 pts
12 Maria BOROUNOV / Evgeni BOROUNOV AUS 106.03 pts

2010 Four Continents Championships - Ladies' LP and Final Result

Long Program

1 Mao ASADA JPN 126.74 pts
2 Akiko SUZUKI JPN 114.84 pts
3 Caroline ZHANG USA 105.68 pts
4 Min-Jung KWAK KOR 101.03 pts
5 Amanda DOBBS USA 100.67 pts
6 Haruka IMAI JPN 100.23 pts
7 Myriane SAMSON CAN 99.30 pts
8 Amelie LACOSTE CAN 97.99 pts
9 Alexe GILLES USA 91.98 pts
10 Diane SZMIETT CAN 91.28 pts
11 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA UZB 87.27 pts
12 Chae-Hwa KIM KOR 82.57 pts


Final Result

1 Mao ASADA JPN 183.96 pts
2 Akiko SUZUKI JPN 173.72 pts
3 Caroline ZHANG USA 160.78 pts
4 Amanda DOBBS USA 158.23 pts
5 Haruka IMAI JPN 155.29 pts
6 Min-Jung KWAK KOR 154.71 pts
7 Amelie LACOSTE CAN 152.45 pts
8 Myriane SAMSON CAN 150.90 pts
9 Alexe GILLES USA 140.88 pts
10 Diane SZMIETT CAN 140.10 pts
11 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA UZB 134.15 pts
12 Yan LIU CHN 126.11 pts

2010 Four Continents Championships - Men's SP

Short Program

1 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN 81.60 pts
2 Nan SONG CHN 72.95 pts
3 Brandon MROZ USA 70.88 pts
4 Denis TEN KAZ 70.50 pts
5 Jialiang WU CHN 70.33 pts
6 Tatsuki MACHIDA JPN 69.60 pts
7 Adam RIPPON USA 69.56 pts
8 Ryan BRADLEY USA 66.22 pts
9 Jinlin GUAN CHN 64.60 pts
10 Shawn SAWYER CAN 62.36 pts
11 Yasuharu NANRI JPN 61.48 pts
12 Joey RUSSELL CAN 57.05 pts

2010 Four Continents Championships - Pairs' LP and Final Result

Long Program

1 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 126.36 pts
2 Keauna MCLAUGHLIN / Rockne BRUBAKER USA 105.61 pts
3 Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN USA 101.39 pts
4 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN 101.12 pts
5 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN 98.09 pts
6 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN 92.44 pts
7 Mylene BRODEUR / John MATTATALL CAN 90.37 pts
8 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN 88.03 pts
9 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN 87.00 pts
10 Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR USA 84.31 pts
11 Amanda SUNYOTO-YANG / Darryll SULINDRO-YANG TPE 73.07 pts


Final Result

1 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 192.22 pts
2 Keauna MCLAUGHLIN / Rockne BRUBAKER USA 170.17 pts
3 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN 158.02 pts
4 Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN USA 157.49 pts
5 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN 151.83 pts
6 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN 146.60 pts
7 Mylene BRODEUR / John MATTATALL CAN 146.31 pts
8 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN 136.05 pts
9 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN 135.76 pts
10 Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR USA 128.91 pts
11 Amanda SUNYOTO-YANG / Darryll SULINDRO-YANG TPE 116.49 pts

2010 Four Continents Championships - Original Dance

Original Dance

1 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 48.42 pts
2 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 48.21 pts
3 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 47.21 pts
4 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 46.75 pts
5 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA 44.12 pts
6 Jane SUMMERSETT / Todd GILLES USA 43.95 pts
7 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 42.48 pts
8 Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL CAN 41.80 pts
9 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN 40.53 pts
10 Corenne BRUHNS / Andrew LAVRIK MEX 34.33 pts
11 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN AUS 33.90 pts
12 Maria BOROUNOV / Evgeni BOROUNOV AUS 32.32 pts


Current Standings

1 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 81.09 pts
2 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 78.10 pts
3 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 77.33 pts
4 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 76.51 pts
5 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA 73.26 pts
6 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 70.64 pts
7 Jane SUMMERSETT / Todd GILLES USA 69.21 pts
8 Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL CAN 68.37 pts
9 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN 62.17 pts
10 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN AUS 55.02 pts
11 Corenne BRUHNS / Andrew LAVRIK MEX 52.04 pts
12 Maria BOROUNOV / Evgeni BOROUNOV AUS 49.54 pts

2010 Four Continents Championships - Ladies' SP

Short Program

1 Akiko SUZUKI JPN 58.88 pts
2 Amanda DOBBS USA 57.56 pts
3 Mao ASADA JPN 57.22 pts
4 Caroline ZHANG USA 55.10 pts
5 Haruka IMAI JPN 55.06 pts
6 Amelie LACOSTE CAN 54.46 pts
7 Min-Jung KWAK KOR 53.68 pts
8 Myriane SAMSON CAN 51.60 pts
9 Alexe GILLES USA 48.90 pts
10 Diane SZMIETT CAN 48.82 pts
11 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA UZB 46.88 pts
12 Yan LIU CHN 46.60 pts

2010 Four Continents Championships - Pairs' SP

Short Program

1 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 65.86 pts
2 Keauna MCLAUGHLIN / Rockne BRUBAKER USA 64.56 pts
3 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN 56.90 pts
4 Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN USA 56.10 pts
5 Mylene BRODEUR / John MATTATALL CAN 55.94 pts
6 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN 54.16 pts
7 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN 53.74 pts
8 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN 48.76 pts
9 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN 48.02 pts
10 Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR USA 44.60 pts
11 Amanda SUNYOTO-YANG / Darryll SULINDRO-YANG TPE 43.42 pts

2010 Four Continents Championships - Compulsory Dance

Compulsory Dance

1 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 32.67 pts
2 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 30.12 pts
3 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 29.89 pts
4 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 29.76 pts
5 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA 29.14 pts
6 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 28.16 pts
7 Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL CAN 26.57 pts
8 Jane SUMMERSETT / Todd GILLES USA 25.26 pts
9 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN 21.64 pts
10 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN AUS 21.12 pts
11 Corenne BRUHNS / Andrew LAVRIK MEX 17.71 pts
12 Maria BOROUNOV / Evgeni BOROUNOV AUS 17.22 pts