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Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu nearly became the first skater to land a quadruple axel while easily outpacing Shoma Uno and Yumi Kagayami to win the Japanese national championship on Sunday. Hanyu tried the jump, which unlike other quads includes an additional half rotation, at the beginning of his free skate at Saitama Super Arena …

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A clean, fifth-place performance in Saturday’s free skate was enough for Canada’s Keegan Messing to hold off Russia’s Andrei Mozalev for the win at figure skating’s Golden Spin of Zagreb in Croatia. Messing, who lives in Girdwood, Alaska, just outside Anchorage and has dual citizenship, earned 255.07 points overall to edge Mozalev (252.15) and American …

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Two-time Olympian Gabrielle Daleman was victorious in Sunday’s free skate to win the women’s event at the 2022 Skate Canada Challenge in Regina. Daleman, from Newmarket, Ont., earned 173.66 points to finish ahead of Amanda Tobin of Burlington, Ont., (166.35) and Veronik Maillet of Sept-Iles, Que., (162.95). “It’s nowhere near perfect but it’s definitely going …

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The new COVID-19 variant has claimed another international sporting event. Next week’s ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Osaka, Japan has been postponed because of travel restrictions amid the new Omicron variant. The International Skating Union said in a statement that considering the complicated epidemic situation involving travel restrictions, quarantine requirements, safety concerns …

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That Figure Skating Show recaps the ice dance event at Rostelecom Cup that saw Canadians Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen take their second bronze this season. Source link

Montreal’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen finished the Rostelecom Cup with a fourth medal in as many figure skating competitions this season. The veteran ice dancers earned 191.40 points for bronze at the sixth stop on the ISU circuit on Saturday in Sochi, Russia. Hometown favourites Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov won the with …

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Canadian men’s competitor Roman Sadovsky and ice dancers Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen are both in third place after Friday’s short programs at the Rostelecom Cup figure skating event. Sadovsky, from Vaughan, Ont., earned a season-best score of 84.59 points in the men’s short program to put him behind Kazuki Tomono of Japan (95.8) …

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That Figure Skating Show previews the final Grand Prix stop of the season. The Russian skaters are expected to dominate, but the biggest showdown is in the women’s event. Source link