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It seems she wanted to emphasize that she got injured while she still trained with Panova and not after she moved to Eteri. It can happen that it was an old injury that got to a breaking point much later, after she moved to Eteri. She did really well at JGPF 2018 when she won bronze with new personal best scores. I read her interviews she did around the test skates in August, and there were some controversial things - first she said she didn't plan to jump 4T at all in the 2019/20 season, because she could get high scores if she does quality triples just like Kostornaia does. And a few days later which was after the test skate she said the opposite, that she was planning to do 4T in the free skate. Days after that she got deleted from the JGP France entry list and we know the rest. It sounds to me she was training the quad last summer but she couldn't decide whether she wanted to go for it at competitions or not. She was one of the best junior skaters, I am sorry we won't be seeing her in singles anymore. I hope things will turn out well for her in ice dance. She is already in Samokhin's group: And in other news, Tarakanova and Vasilieva will miss Juniors Nationals:

Sapporo is a potential candidate city for 2030, nothing is decided yet.

The countdown has begun

I knew I bombed the mens prediction, the rest was quite OK. I always got the bonus questions wrong before but this time I somehow managed to answer them.

Sad news, she had so much potential. I wish her good luck in ice dance.

Ivett finished 21st at Europeans which is her worst placement in the last couple of years. Her aim was somewhere around Top 10. So the federation decided the placement at Challenge Cup will decide who will go to Worlds - Ivett or Julia Lang. Julia had to skip Nationals because of the flu so she couldn't fight for a spot at Europeans but she'll get another chance for Worlds. She doesn't have TES minimum now (she lost it after they raised the minimum), so she'll also need to reach that score. She'll also do Bavarian Open before Challenge Cup.

They had no real chance for qualifying into the free dance, since their personal best score was six points lower than the cut off (which was 59) and they skated less than their PB. It was their first big ISU competition so that's fine. Here a new interview with them from yesterday if you're interested, google translate is needed. https://www.bumm.sk/sport/2020/01/23/amerikabol-jottek-mesterseguk-cimere-jegtancos

Japan Times has removed the article. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2020/01/21/figure-skating/mai-mihara/#.XiqrmzJKiUk

Gorshkov says there'll be discussion who to send for the second spot at Worlds in the men's. https://rsport.ria.ru/20200124/1563806970.html Since Artur is the National silver medalist and European silver medalist I hope they'll send him...

I don't understand how that article was allowed to be published in Japan Times. That's a new low.

I've just sent my predictions, too! Thanks for doing this game again, @Old Cat Lady

From Zhou's and Barkell's words it sounds like we shouldn't expect much from him this Nationals, it seems he is far from his good form.

I believe CBC has the rights for Worlds so we won't have Tracy then.