Kimmie Meissner Back on Track

Coral Springs, Florida, located some 20 miles northwest of Ft. Lauderdale, is the place Kimmie Meissner now calls her “home-away-from-home.” In early February the Bel Air, Md. native relocated to the sunny south to work with renowned coach Richard Callaghan and his talented team.

After claiming the gold medal at Skate America, her first Grand Prix event last season, she placed second at Trophée Eric Bompard. But after that, things started going steadily downhill for the talented young skater. The 2008 Grand Prix Final was a disaster for Meissner; she fell on three jumps and wound up in a distant last place. The writing was on the wall.

Following her disappointing seventh-place finish at the 2008 U.S. National Championships Meissner knew it was time.

Full article here.

Dubreuil & Lauzon getting married

After 11 years of getting to know one another, one of Canada's best-loved ice dancing teams, Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon, are getting married.

Dubreuil, now 33, and Lauzon, 32, are best remembered for their romantic routines that helped them win two silver medals at world figure skating championships.

And they've always had a flair for the dramatic, with lives and adventures and crazy incidents that read like soap operas (losing costumes and skates, falling ill at the wrong time, having to withdraw from the Turin Olympics after a spectacular accident in a final rotational lift, making a comeback at a world championship in their home country.)

They will marry on Aug. 23 in Montreal. They are hoping for more romance and less drama.

Full article here.

Carolina Kostner on the Top

At the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships, Italy's Carolina Kostner added a silver medal to the bronze that she won in Moscow in 2005, the last time the World Championships were held in Europe. In 2010, however, she is looking forward to the chance to add a gold in her native land in the city of Torino.

Kostner has already established herself as the greatest figure skater in Italian history. Among her many firsts are the first to win a medal at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships, the first to win a silver medal at Worlds, the first to win Europeans, the first to win a Grand Prix event, and the first to medal at the ISU Grand Prix Final.

Full article here.

The Ice 2008

2008 Liberty Summer Competition

Results: http://www.libertyskating.org/2008ResultsSeniors.html


Rachael Flatt's SP


Ashley Wagner's SP


Brittney Rizo's SP

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Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir

Ahhh! I got so excited when I saw these new pics of Tessa & Scott! They're just so sweet together!




The pics were taken by Myra Klarman, for more pics: http://relish.myraklarman.com/ice-dancing-champs

2008/2009 SPs, LPs, ODs, FDs

So without competitions this is getting a little bit boring. As way of making a preview of this upcoming season I thought it would be cool if I post the programs... well at least works for me, it's not so boring the waiting if I'm busy lol.
Here are the programs so far announced (not all of them are officialy announced):

McLaughlin and Brubaker
SP: Malaguena
LP: West Side Story

Jenn Wester and Daniil Barantse
FD: Requiem for a Dream

Jeremy Abbott
SP: Adagio in G Minor by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
LP: Eight Seasons Tangos by Astor Piazzolla (variations of Vivaldi's Four Seasons)

Savchenko and Szolkowy
LP: Schindler's List

Kiira Korpi
LP: "Agatha" by Kerkko Koskinen

Laura Lepistö
SP: music by Karl Jenkins

Jenni Vähämaa
LP: West Side Story, "an unusual version"

Pang and Tong
SP: blues style music
LP: mixture of tango and lyrics music, done by Morozov

Zhang and Zhang
LP: they have temporarily chosen 'Yangtze'

Mao Asada
SP: Clair de Lune - Claude Achille Debussy
LP: Masquerade - Aram Khachaturian

Nobunari Oda
SP: Masked Ball - Verdi
LP: Warsaw Concerto

Yu-Na Kim
SP: Danse Macabre
LP: Scheherazade

Kevin Van Der Perren
SP: Night on a Bald Mountain
LP: Safri Duo

Sinead and John Kerr
OD: The boogie bumper and Minnie the Moocher by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
FD: Ruled by Secrecy by Muse

Yukari Nakano
SP: “Romance” from “The Gadfly Suite” by D. Shostakovich
FS: Giselle

Evan Lysacek
SP: "Bolero" Ravel
LP: "Rhapsody in Blue" Gershwin

Bebe Liang
SP: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas
FS: Selections from the Memoirs of a Geisha by John Williams