I'm not sure why they bother to have ice dance and men's these days. Just give D/W and Chan their medals for showing up and call it a day.

I haven't watched pairs yet, but I don't really like any of the GPF competitors' SPs save for K/S's, so I think I'll just skip the SPs and hope for a kickass LP from S/S.

The ladies' SPs were quite enjoyable, and Carolina was wonderful! I'm sure it was especially difficult for the ladies considering the sad news about Mao's mother; I understand that not all of them knew that she'd passed away, but of course they knew why Mao had flown home. Someone on GS pointed out that Liza lost her father earlier this year, and that hearing about Mao's mother might have affected her more than the other skaters.

My condolenses to mao, her sister and her family. What a tragedy. Poor girl

Free Program :
1 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 121.05 55.83 65.22 8.25 7.86 8.00 8.36 8.29 0.00 #5
2 Elizaveta TUKTAMISHEVA RUS 119.52 63.86 55.66 7.11 6.46 7.18 6.96 7.07 0.00 #1
3 Akiko SUZUKI JPN 118.46 56.53 61.93 8.00 7.32 7.82 7.75 7.82 0.00 #4
4 Alena LEONOVA RUS 115.96 57.95 59.01 7.50 6.89 7.54 7.32 7.64 1.00 #3
5 Alissa CZISNY USA 96.67 40.22 58.45 7.71 6.82 6.93 7.39 7.68 2.00 #2

RESULTS

1	Carolina KOSTNER	ITA	187.48	1	1
2	Akiko SUZUKI	JPN	179.76	2	3
3	Alena LEONOVA	RUS	176.42	3	4
4	Elizaveta TUKTAMISHEVA	RUS	174.51	5	2
5	Alissa CZISNY	USA	156.97	4	5

1	Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY	GER	142.44	70.80		71.64	8.75	8.75	9.07	9.07	9.14	0.00	#5
2	Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV	RUS	140.51	69.22		71.29	8.89	8.64	8.96	9.00	9.07	0.00	#6
3	Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV	RUS	126.40	61.77		64.63	7.82	7.71	8.29	8.36	8.21	0.00	#3
4	Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG	CHN	119.11	61.04		58.07	7.43	7.07	7.32	7.36	7.11	0.00	#4
5	Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD	CAN	109.39	55.32		55.07	6.89	6.89	6.86	6.96	6.82	1.00	#2
6	Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN	JPN	104.88	51.68		55.20	6.86	6.93	6.64	7.07	7.00	2.00

#1



Results
1 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY
GER
212.26 2 1

2 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV
RUS
212.08 1 2

3 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV
RUS
187.77 4 3

4 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG
CHN
182.54 3 4
5 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD

CAN
170.43 5 5

6 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN
JPN
164.42 6 6

Results:
1 Patrick CHAN
CAN
260.30


2 Daisuke TAKAHASHI
JPN
249.12

3 Javier FERNANDEZ
ESP
247.55


4 Yuzuru HANYU
JPN
245.82

5 Jeremy ABBOTT

USA
238.82

6 Michal BREZINA
CZE
218.98


Free Program:
1 Patrick CHAN CAN 173.67 87.59 87.08 8.75 8.61 8.61 8.75 8.82 1.00 #6
2 Daisuke TAKAHASHI JPN 172.63 87.05 85.58 8.57 8.36 8.61 8.50 8.75 0.00 #2
3 Yuzuru HANYU JPN 166.49 87.21 79.28 8.04 7.64 8.14 7.86 7.96 0.00 #3
4 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 166.29 84.89 81.40 8.21 7.96 8.18 8.21 8.14 0.00 #4
5 Jeremy ABBOTT USA 156.16 74.80 83.36 8.36 8.07 8.25 8.39 8.61 2.00 #5
6 Michal BREZINA CZE 143.72 71.34 73.38 7.54 7.07 7.25 7.54 7.29 1.00 #1

Thanks Kasia for the results!
I'm happy for Carolina Kostner and I'm not surprised because of Chan's victory who has a big support among the judges.
In my opinion Chan didn't deserve to win after such two programs, what a pity that the judges don't want and can't see that!
I'm sure if Brian would skate with such mistakes like Chan, judges wouldn't let him to win.
Chan always gets many points for his programs and it makes that he thinks: "I'm the best".
This is just an enormous merit of the judges and not some great skating of Chan.
That also makes that other skaters are disadvantaged and frustrated, I saw it at Daisuke Takahashi's face yesterday.
I can't understand how these judges can be so one-sided and unfair!!!
The figure skating that not just the components, technical elements are also important and Chan is winning just thanks these components.
I'm already bored because when Chan competes, it's not difficult to anticipate his winning so the big emotions have gone...
I'm happy that I won't see Chan at the European Championships!!!
I'm already sick of him!!!

The other two junior finals are also finished.

Junior Men - Free Skating
1 Han YAN CHN 141.70 77.86 63.84 7.21 5.68 6.46 6.25 6.32 0.00 #4
2 Jason BROWN USA 139.64 69.92 69.72 6.96 6.68 7.14 7.04 7.04 0.00 #5
3 Joshua FARRIS USA 130.99 63.85 69.14 7.04 6.71 6.82 7.04 6.96 2.00 #6
4 Maxim KOVTUN RUS 130.08 69.22 60.86 6.25 5.75 6.11 6.21 6.11 0.00 #3
5 Keiji TANAKA JPN 112.99 55.33 57.66 6.07 5.54 5.68 5.86 5.68 0.00 #1
6 Ryuju HINO JPN 112.63 60.77 52.86 5.68 4.93 5.25 5.43 5.14 1.00 #2

Junior Men - Overall Result
1 Jason BROWN USA 208.41 2 2
2 Han YAN CHN 205.93 3 1
3 Joshua FARRIS USA 203.98 1 3
4 Maxim KOVTUN RUS 193.76 4 4
5 Ryuju HINO JPN 172.75 5 6
6 Keiji TANAKA JPN 171.14 6 5

Junior Ice Dance - Free Dance
1 Victoria SINITSINA / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN RUS 87.06 42.93 45.13 7.61 7.25 7.68 7.61 7.64 1.00 #6
2 Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN RUS 82.69 38.14 44.55 7.54 7.21 7.50 7.50 7.50 0.00 #3
3 Anna YANOVSKAIA / Sergei MOZGOV RUS 80.39 38.36 42.03 7.11 6.71 7.11 7.18 7.11 0.00 #5
4 Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON USA 77.42 38.86 38.56 6.50 6.18 6.46 6.61 6.54 0.00 #2
5 Anastasia GALYETA / Alexei SHUMSKI UKR 65.04 28.58 36.46 6.18 5.82 6.21 6.29 6.04 0.00 #1
6 Maria NOSULIA / Evgen KHOLONIUK UKR 59.84 24.15 36.69 6.25 5.93 5.96 6.36 6.18 1.00 #4

Junior Ice Dance - Overall Result
1 Victoria SINITSINA / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN RUS 147.53 1 1
2 Anna YANOVSKAIA / Sergei MOZGOV RUS 136.61 2 3
3 Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN RUS 135.17 4 2
4 Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON USA 129.01 5 4
5 Anastasia GALYETA / Alexei SHUMSKI UKR 115.17 6 5
6 Maria NOSULIA / Evgen KHOLONIUK UKR 113.79 3 6

I suspected the whole "V/M and D/W, BFFs" thing was too good to be true, and now Scott Moir has proven that is indeed the case. Check out his post-FD comments... interesting times ahead for the Canton teams!

Guess the kid gloves are off now!?

Hate to have to say it, but the leading Canadian skaters are sounding more & more arrogant........

Thanks for all the results. Too bad Dai didn't win. Love love love that Meryl and Charlie won.

I'm happy for Nathalie and Fabian!
I like their short and free dance