World Team Trophy 2013

11-14 April 2013
Tokyo, Japan

Countries: Canada, USA, Japan, Russia, France, China
http://www.isuresults.com/events/wtt-13_teams.htm

Time and practice schedules:
http://www.isuresults.com/events/WTT2013_TimeandPracticeSchedule.pdf

Starting Order/Results
http://www.isuresults.com/results/wtt2013/

Team Japan
Ladies: Mao Asada, Akiko Suzuki
Men: Daisuke Takahashi, Takahito Mura
Ice Dance: Cathy Reed, Chris Reed
Pairs: none

I saw this announcement video on my twitter feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjr_09tZwo
Pochi posted this on the FB page: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130320-00000004-spnavi-spo

Team Russia via Absolute Skating: (edit: now final)
Men: Konstantin Menshov, Maxim Kovtun
Ladies: Adelina Sotnikova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Pairs: Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov
Ice Dance: Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev.

Team USA:
Men: Max Aaron, Jeremy Abbott
Ladies: Gracie Gold, Ashley Wagner
Pairs: Castelli/Shnapir
Ice Dance: Chock/Bates

Team France: (as posted by polosatik)
Ladies: Maé Bérénice MEITE, Lénaëlle GILLERON-GORY
Men : Florent AMODIO, Brian JOUBERT
Pairs : Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES
Ice Dance : Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabien BOURZAT

Team Canada:
Men: Patrick CHAN, Kevin REYNOLDS
Ladies: Gabrielle DALEMAN, Kaetlyn OSMOND
Pairs: Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD
Ice Dance: Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE

Team China:
Men: Nan SONG, Han YAN
Ladies: Zijun LI, Kexin ZHANG
Pairs: Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG
Ice Dance: Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG

Why not Yuzuru Hanyu?

Haidogirl wrote:

Why not Yuzuru Hanyu?

Yuzuru has been injured. Maybe they want him to rest and heal well. I want him to do the same.

Why no kanako?

roma wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

Why not Yuzuru Hanyu?

Yuzuru has been injured. Maybe they want him to rest and heal well. I want him to do the same.

I didnt know that! Did that happen at the Worlds?

Haidogirl wrote:

roma wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

Why not Yuzuru Hanyu?

Yuzuru has been injured. Maybe they want him to rest and heal well. I want him to do the same.

I didnt know that! Did that happen at the Worlds?

It happened right before. He was competing at worlds after only three days back on the ice between a foot injury and the flu.

roma wrote:

11-14 April 2013
Tokyo, Japan

Countries: Canada, USA, Japan, Russia, France, China

So it seems Japan has finalized its team:

Ladies: Mao Asada, Akiko Suzuki
Men: Daisuke Takahashi, Takahito Mura
Ice Dance: Cathy Reed, Chris Reed
Pairs: none

I saw this announcement video on my twitter feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjr_09tZwo
Pochi posted this on the FB page: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130320-00000004-spnavi-spo

Team Russia via Absolute Skating: (is this final?)
Men: Konstantin Menshov, Maxim Kovtun
Ladies: Adelina Sotnikova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Pairs: Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov
Ice Dance: Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev.

Haven't seen posts regarding other team lists yet.

Well just an hour ago the leader of our Federation denied the rumours about Team Russian, so it;s not official. They don't want to send Maxim Kovtun

Alokya wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

roma wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

Why not Yuzuru Hanyu?

Yuzuru has been injured. Maybe they want him to rest and heal well. I want him to do the same.

I didnt know that! Did that happen at the Worlds?

It happened right before. He was competing at worlds after only three days back on the ice between a foot injury and the flu.

I see! I only knew about him having a flu before the Worlds started!

polosatik wrote:

Well just an hour ago the leader of our Federation denied the rumours about Team Russian, so it;s not official. They don't want to send Maxim Kovtun

Oh... maybe it's not yet final for the men but I think for the ladies, pairs and ice dance they'd have no problems with the competitors, right?

btw, polosatik, why don't they seem to like kovtun?

roma wrote:

polosatik wrote:

Well just an hour ago the leader of our Federation denied the rumours about Team Russian, so it;s not official. They don't want to send Maxim Kovtun

Oh... maybe it's not yet final for the men but I think for the ladies, pairs and ice dance they'd have no problems with the competitors, right?

btw, polosatik, why don't they seem to like kovtun?

It's very confused situation. At first they sent Maxim instead of Menshov, it was a huge scandal,but they did it. Now, they don't want to send Maxim,because they think he's not ready for senior competitions.

polosatik wrote:

roma wrote:

polosatik wrote:

Well just an hour ago the leader of our Federation denied the rumours about Team Russian, so it;s not official. They don't want to send Maxim Kovtun

Oh... maybe it's not yet final for the men but I think for the ladies, pairs and ice dance they'd have no problems with the competitors, right?

btw, polosatik, why don't they seem to like kovtun?

It's very confused situation. At first they sent Maxim instead of Menshov, it was a huge scandal,but they did it. Now, they don't want to send Maxim,because they think he's not ready for senior competitions.

I think that after Euros and Worlds so-and-so result (not very good SP, excellent FS but with Zayak mistake; disastrous Worlds), they realized that he wasn't (and he isn't) ready for the big competitions, so he should just work hard on his consistency now, and giving a chance to Menshov is teh best thing to do at the moment, in my opinion.
But, the most important thing is that Mao will be there! Just remember how beautiful her programs where at the 2009 WTT, real masterpiecies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=327n8Gue9Ic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKxgKLUVB1I

Haidogirl wrote:

Alokya wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

roma wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

Why not Yuzuru Hanyu?

Yuzuru has been injured. Maybe they want him to rest and heal well. I want him to do the same.

I didnt know that! Did that happen at the Worlds?

It happened right before. He was competing at worlds after only three days back on the ice between a foot injury and the flu.

I see! I only knew about him having a flu before the Worlds started!

Flu, asthma, ankle sprain, knee problems... I can just imagine him popping some painkillers, gritting his teeth and getting ready to skate so he could get 3 spots for Japan.

The US just announced its world team.

Americans announce World Team Trophy squad: Aaron, Abbott, Gold, Wagner, Castelli/Shnapir, Chock/Bates.

Good news - we get to see JEREMY again! Weird news - what the hell is going on with not putting Meryl and Charlie on the squad? Did they ask to be left off it? Bad news - Ross Miner, once the poster boy, is now getting dumped by USFS. And what the hell news - WHY are they putting Castelli/Shnapir on the team when Smiceca/Knierim beat them into pulps at worlds? I would have thought that that would place them in higher world standing than Castelli/Shnapir? Thoughts on this from interested people?

Alokya wrote:

The US just announced its world team.

Americans announce World Team Trophy squad: Aaron, Abbott, Gold, Wagner, Castelli/Shnapir, Chock/Bates.

Good news - we get to see JEREMY again! Weird news - what the hell is going on with not putting Meryl and Charlie on the squad? Did they ask to be left off it? Bad news - Ross Miner, once the poster boy, is now getting dumped by USFS. And what the hell news - WHY are they putting Castelli/Shnapir on the team when Smiceca/Knierim beat them into pulps at worlds? I would have thought that that would place them in higher world standing than Castelli/Shnapir? Thoughts on this from interested people?

Why!??!?! I'm glad to see Jeremy in the list but shocked to see no Davis/White. What's the rule for choosing participants again?

klarification wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

Alokya wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

roma wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

Why not Yuzuru Hanyu?

Yuzuru has been injured. Maybe they want him to rest and heal well. I want him to do the same.

I didnt know that! Did that happen at the Worlds?

It happened right before. He was competing at worlds after only three days back on the ice between a foot injury and the flu.

I see! I only knew about him having a flu before the Worlds started!

Flu, asthma, ankle sprain, knee problems... I can just imagine him popping some painkillers, gritting his teeth and getting ready to skate so he could get 3 spots for Japan.

Yuzu fractured his ankle at last year's world and in order to heal completely he needed months off the ice- which with this stubborn kid was not going to happen so it flared up again in the 6 minute warm up. His knee injury will take about a month to heal (according to a tumblr user's report). Seriously.... the things this kid went through to guarantee 3 spots at Sochi. Let's sum up his problems this season....worsened asthma with the move to Canada, lingering ankle problem, virus from Sochi, flu from 4CC, walking into a door at 4CC and cutting his eye, knee injury before Worlds,.....

roma wrote:

Alokya wrote:

The US just announced its world team.

Americans announce World Team Trophy squad: Aaron, Abbott, Gold, Wagner, Castelli/Shnapir, Chock/Bates.

Good news - we get to see JEREMY again! Weird news - what the hell is going on with not putting Meryl and Charlie on the squad? Did they ask to be left off it? Bad news - Ross Miner, once the poster boy, is now getting dumped by USFS. And what the hell news - WHY are they putting Castelli/Shnapir on the team when Smiceca/Knierim beat them into pulps at worlds? I would have thought that that would place them in higher world standing than Castelli/Shnapir? Thoughts on this from interested people?

Why!??!?! I'm glad to see Jeremy in the list but shocked to see no Davis/White. What's the rule for choosing participants again?

Tessa and Scott are not going either.

polosatik wrote:

roma wrote:

Alokya wrote:

The US just announced its world team.

Americans announce World Team Trophy squad: Aaron, Abbott, Gold, Wagner, Castelli/Shnapir, Chock/Bates.

Good news - we get to see JEREMY again! Weird news - what the hell is going on with not putting Meryl and Charlie on the squad? Did they ask to be left off it? Bad news - Ross Miner, once the poster boy, is now getting dumped by USFS. And what the hell news - WHY are they putting Castelli/Shnapir on the team when Smiceca/Knierim beat them into pulps at worlds? I would have thought that that would place them in higher world standing than Castelli/Shnapir? Thoughts on this from interested people?

Why!??!?! I'm glad to see Jeremy in the list but shocked to see no Davis/White. What's the rule for choosing participants again?

Tessa and Scott are not going either.

Really? Huh. Marina must be behind this, telling them to rest and take a break before the Olympic season while she gets the music and choreography in order.

Alokya wrote:

polosatik wrote:

roma wrote:

Alokya wrote:

The US just announced its world team.

Americans announce World Team Trophy squad: Aaron, Abbott, Gold, Wagner, Castelli/Shnapir, Chock/Bates.

Good news - we get to see JEREMY again! Weird news - what the hell is going on with not putting Meryl and Charlie on the squad? Did they ask to be left off it? Bad news - Ross Miner, once the poster boy, is now getting dumped by USFS. And what the hell news - WHY are they putting Castelli/Shnapir on the team when Smiceca/Knierim beat them into pulps at worlds? I would have thought that that would place them in higher world standing than Castelli/Shnapir? Thoughts on this from interested people?

Why!??!?! I'm glad to see Jeremy in the list but shocked to see no Davis/White. What's the rule for choosing participants again?

Tessa and Scott are not going either.

Really? Huh. Marina must be behind this, telling them to rest and take a break before the Olympic season while she gets the music and choreography in order.

Yeah Marina said they were getting to work on next season's programs right when they get back. Besides, both countries have strong teams so it's not like either dance team is going to be needed (especially since Team Japan isn't entering a pairs team).

helen91 wrote:

klarification wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

Alokya wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

roma wrote:

Haidogirl wrote:

Why not Yuzuru Hanyu?

Yuzuru has been injured. Maybe they want him to rest and heal well. I want him to do the same.

I didnt know that! Did that happen at the Worlds?

It happened right before. He was competing at worlds after only three days back on the ice between a foot injury and the flu.

I see! I only knew about him having a flu before the Worlds started!

Flu, asthma, ankle sprain, knee problems... I can just imagine him popping some painkillers, gritting his teeth and getting ready to skate so he could get 3 spots for Japan.

Yuzu fractured his ankle at last year's world and in order to heal completely he needed months off the ice- which with this stubborn kid was not going to happen so it flared up again in the 6 minute warm up. His knee injury will take about a month to heal (according to a tumblr user's report). Seriously.... the things this kid went through to guarantee 3 spots at Sochi. Let's sum up his problems this season....worsened asthma with the move to Canada, lingering ankle problem, virus from Sochi, flu from 4CC, walking into a door at 4CC and cutting his eye, knee injury before Worlds,.....

Oh my gosh, i hope he get through this in time for the next season! It would be too sad, if he cant be fit for Olympia!

Oh,guys, our Federation is a HUGE joke

Here it is a final Russian team for WTT(find the difference)
Men: Maksim Kovtun, Konstantin Menshov
Ladies: Adelina Sotnikova, Elizaveta Tuktamisheva
Pairs: Tatiana Volosozhar, Maksim Trankov
Ice dance: Ekaterina Bobrova, Dmitri Soloviev

polosatik wrote:

Oh,guys, our Federation is a HUGE joke

Here it is a final Russian team for WTT(find the difference)
Men: Maksim Kovtun, Konstantin Menshov
Ladies: Adelina Sotnikova, Elizaveta Tuktamisheva
Pairs: Tatiana Volosozhar, Maksim Trankov
Ice dance: Ekaterina Bobrova, Dmitri Soloviev

haha! now i've put a FINAL note in the first post.

Any news why Akiko is competing instead of Kanako? I was sure that they will leave Akiko out since her bad placement at worlds.

polosatik wrote:

Oh,guys, our Federation is a HUGE joke

lol, what's up with them? First they push Kovtun to compete at both Euros and Worlds, whether he deserved it or not, then deciding he isn't ready for senior competiton (really, they figured this out AFTER worlds?!), and now sending him to WTT after all... They must've been drinking too much vodka.

About skipping this competition: I remember last year, there was a rule that forbade skaters to do shows for 2 weeks AFTER WTT if you qualyfied (world ranking) but chose not to compete. I wonder if they changed the rules, because Canadian Stars on Ice starts on April 19th and Tessa/Scott perform there.
Last year one of the punishments for breaking that rule was loss of eligibility.

Any news on the French, Chinese and Canadian Teams?

zarinaballerina wrote:

Any news why Akiko is competing instead of Kanako? I was sure that they will leave Akiko out since her bad placement at worlds.

I think JFS doesn't have a better reason NOT sending Akiko: she's still ahead of Mao in ISU world standings (yes, even after this world), and she's not physically injured. Plus, considering this will probably be her last WTT, while Kanako will have other chances to attend WTT in the future...

does anyone know where i can get WTT 2013 tickets? or are they sold out?