Senior Grand Prix Final 2009

It's sad to know that Mao will not be defending her GPF title but excited to see the others compete.

Men:
1 Nobunari ODA JPN
2 Evan LYSACEK USA
4 Jeremy ABBOTT USA
5 Daisuke TAKAHASHI JPN
6 Johnny WEIR USA
7 Tomas VERNER CZE

Substitutes
8 Michal BREZINA CZE
9 Takahiko KOZUKA JPN

Withdrawn
WD Brian JOUBERT FRA

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Ladies
1 Yu-Na KIM KOR
2 Miki ANDO JPN
3 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN
4 Alena LEONOVA RUS
5 Ashley WAGNER USA
6 Akiko SUZUKI JPN

Substitutes
7 Rachael FLATT USA
8 Alissa CZISNY USA
9 Mao ASADA JPN

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Pairs
1 Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN
2 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN
3 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS
4 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER
5 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS
6 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN

Substitutes
7 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN
8 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Stanislav MOROZOV UKR
9 Keauna McLAUGHLIN / Rockne BRUBAKER USA

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Ice Dance
1 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA
2 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN
4 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA
5 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA
6 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR
8 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER CAN

Substitutes
9 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR

Withdrawn
WD Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA
WD Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS


So far we have three withdrawals...

i guess I'm a bit out of the loop, but why did belbin/agosto withdraw?

Are there always 8 dance teams? It's actually the first time I noticed that...

cera wrote:

i guess I'm a bit out of the loop, but why did belbin/agosto withdraw?

I've read somewhere that Tanith needs/needed an oral surgery.

I'm so sad that Mao won't be there But still it may be an interesting competition!

chiyori wrote:

Are there always 8 dance teams? It's actually the first time I noticed that...

There are only 6. That's Crone and Poirier's original standing.

We'll see 'til before the final if there will still be other withdrawals.
I've read somewhere that Khokhlova has the flu that's why they withdrew, too? Is this confirmed?

kaarolcia wrote:

I'm so sad that Mao won't be there But still it may be an interesting competition!

Me, too!

roma wrote:

chiyori wrote:

Are there always 8 dance teams? It's actually the first time I noticed that...

There are only 6. That's Crone and Poirier's original standing.

We'll see 'til before the final if there will still be other withdrawals.
I've read somewhere that Khokhlova has the flu that's why they withdrew, too? Is this confirmed?

kaarolcia wrote:

I'm so sad that Mao won't be there But still it may be an interesting competition!

Me, too!

Aah... thanks roma... I think I read this before this morning lol.

Here's the schedule:
http://www.isuresults.com/events/GPF-09_TimeSchedule.pdf

Can anyone understand this schedule?
I'm having the hardest time trying to figure it out.
If someone can read this, could you please let me know when junior dance, senior dance, senior ladies and snior men are set to compete. I'm assuming this is in JST.
Thanks!

(It's probably very simple but still for some reason I can't get it!)

Brian withdrew? I didn't know that. I better go change my fantasy skating game card...

I wonder who else is going to withdraw...

MaoMaoRevolution wrote:

Here's the schedule:
http://www.isuresults.com/events/GPF-09_TimeSchedule.pdf

Can anyone understand this schedule?
I'm having the hardest time trying to figure it out.
If someone can read this, could you please let me know when junior dance, senior dance, senior ladies and snior men are set to compete. I'm assuming this is in JST.
Thanks!

(It's probably very simple but still for some reason I can't get it!)

From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong):

Senior OD : Thursday at 21:15
Senior FD: Friday at 20:50

Junior OD: Saturday at 13:30
Junior FD: Sunday at 12:30

Senior Ladies SP: Friday at 19:40
Senior Ladies FS: Saturday at 19:30

Senior Men SP: Friday at 18:30
Senior Men FS: Saturday at 18:00

It's somewhat weird that Senior Dance is before Junior Dance...

ETA: I feel sorry for Brian but... woohoo!!! Tomas in the GPF!!

chiyori wrote:

From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong)

It's somewhat weird that Senior Dance is before Junior Dance...

Thank you so much!! I've been trying to figure it out for 3 days...
I think it's unusual too. Then again, Skate Canada seemed strange to me when the only event scheduled for the third day was the FD. A lot of really strange timing this season. It all must work out somehow

Brian withdrew??!! Awww... Hope he gets over his injury soon!

It seems that everyone gets injured around the Grand Prix Final, doesn't it? Last year too, a lot of people withdrew at the Final itself, right?

Batsuchan wrote:

Brian withdrew??!! Awww... Hope he gets over his injury soon!

Too bad about the injury. It must be quite bad as it was reported he could see his bone. Ahh!

He seemed really excited to be in the GPF when he won NHK. But his surgery seemed like a success based on this twitter update so I hope he can get back to form in time for his other competitions.

@CTVOlympics: Joubert's surgery a 'success': Former world champion Brian Joubert's preparations for the Winter... http://bit.ly/6EgVXX

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Batsuchan wrote:

Brian withdrew??!! Awww... Hope he gets over his injury soon!

It seems that everyone gets injured around the Grand Prix Final, doesn't it? Last year too, a lot of people withdrew at the Final itself, right?

oh that's sad. I hope he will recover soon and be healthy for the OG. I also wish some ladies will withdraw so Mao will go to GPF

coolmeia wrote:

oh that's sad. I hope he will recover soon and be healthy for the OG. I also wish some ladies will withdraw so Mao will go to GPF

Haha! You've actually posted what I'm hoping for.

roma wrote:

coolmeia wrote:

oh that's sad. I hope he will recover soon and be healthy for the OG. I also wish some ladies will withdraw so Mao will go to GPF

Haha! You've actually posted what I'm hoping for.

Unfortunately I can't agree with you both. Although I am extremly sad that we won't see Mao and that she won't have an opportunity to defend her title, I think that being a replacement in last possible moment will be very hard for her. I think that right now she knows that she has to train and being disrupted will only make her more nervous. She has a one more month of trainings and mental healing and suddenly having to complete may only damage the work done so far.
And I don't even want to think what would happen if Mao had another one not satisfactory performance...

I hope that Mao will be able to train and rest more and then come back stronger than ever at Japanese Nationals

kaarolcia wrote:

roma wrote:

coolmeia wrote:

oh that's sad. I hope he will recover soon and be healthy for the OG. I also wish some ladies will withdraw so Mao will go to GPF

Haha! You've actually posted what I'm hoping for.

Unfortunately I can't agree with you both. Although I am extremly sad that we won't see Mao and that she won't have an opportunity to defend her title, I think that being a replacement in last possible moment will be very hard for her. I think that right now she knows that she has to train and being disrupted will only make her more nervous. She has a one more month of trainings and mental healing and suddenly having to complete may only damage the work done so far.
And I don't even want to think what would happen if Mao had another one not satisfactory performance...

I hope that Mao will be able to train and rest more and then come back stronger than ever at Japanese Nationals

well, OTOH, IF Mao somehow gets to go to the GPF at the last minute, she could have very little time to think about it n this could mean not having enough time to really mull over the situation n get nervous. And she would be under little pressure, I think, because people's expectations of her wouldn't be very high cuz this tends to be influenced by the latest results.

But this is only one side of the coin. The reverse could be just as probable...

...but it's nice to dream...

is there any online TV I can watch the competition???

It seems CCTV5 is going to show the competition. I've just found the CCTV5 stream at TV Ants. I hope it's a good one and that it'll be available during the GPF!

A member of fsvids.net posted following schedule:

CCTV5, GMT+8
DEC, 3 THU
15:55 - 17:13 LIVE (Junior) Pairs SP
19:30 - 21:30 LIVE (Senior) Pairs SP, Original Dance, (Junior)Men SP
DEC, 4 FRI
04:00 - 05:30 Recorded SA Pairs
08:35 - 10:10 Selection
15:35 - 16:58 LIVE (Junior) Pairs LP
19:30 - 21:30 LIVE (Senior) Free Dance, Ladies SP
DEC, 5 SAT
15:30 - 16:35 LIVE (Senior) Pairs LP
17:00 - 18:00 LIVE (Senior) Men LP
18:55 - 19:55 LIVE (Senior) Ladies LP
DEC, 6 SUN
17:30 - 18:00 LIVE Gala

However I am a little bit confused ... They are not going to show Men SP? The hours are also a litlle bit off when comparing with official schedule at ISU website.

inskate wrote:

Nobu in practice:

4-3-3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_slLhNfwdh4

4-3-3 (same as above), another 4-3-3, 3A-3T-3L and 2 short interviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nfolq75uWk

I saw that earlier today. He's a machine!!! Those jumps were absolutely gorgeous and I hope we get to see great ones in competition here.

More videos of the Japanese Team (including Miki, Dai, Nobu, and Akiko! ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpxmMB3vZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6nAvubJaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTGXdiCTeUU

Anyone understand what they said in their interviews in the videos?

inskate wrote:

I saw that earlier today. He's a machine!!! Those jumps were absolutely gorgeous and I hope we get to see great ones in competition here.

I have to ditto your

Go Nobu! Man, he is looking killer! Plushenko better watch out--Nobu's coming

Gosh! Nobu's jumps are Amazing!

What time will the competition (esp for men and ladies) start in Japan?
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Wait... based on kaarolcia's post, CCTV5 will be airing this and the senior men and ladies will start on the 4th? No Men's SP?

Go, Team Japan!!!

Nobu is amazing, but my heart is with Dai .


you think that if Miki do it very well, Mao would feel less or more pressure

sorry my english

Yuko's injury might be affecting their performances a bit, but the pairs competition today was really good!

1 Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN 75.36 40.80 34.56 8.55 8.55 8.70 8.70 8.70 0.00 #6
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 73.14 39.66 33.48 8.35 8.10 8.30 8.55 8.55 0.00 #3
3 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 69.78 39.02 30.76 7.85 7.40 7.75 7.75 7.70 0.00 #4
4 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 68.04 36.20 31.84 8.00 7.70 8.00 8.00 8.10 0.00 #5
5 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 66.24 37.72 28.52 7.30 6.75 7.20 7.20 7.20 0.00 #1
6 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 62.30 32.86 29.44 7.25 7.15 7.35 7.50 7.55 0.00 #2