World Figure Skating Championships 2014

mao is taking part in the world champion ship, just wonder is there any rundown and live stream link released?

just cant miss it!!!!!

^ Live streams will be for sure. Just later.   

Volosozhar/Trankov are officially out http://news.rambler.ru/24008283/ Mozer says they still will be in Saitama as quests. Probably for coming after-Worlds shows in Osaka? No idea.

No news on Adelina yet.

so any idea of the world championship date?

thank you sooooo much!

jimmyshum_999 wrote:

so any idea of the world championship date?

thank you sooooo much!

It's from 26th to 30th. The official website:
http://www.wfc2014.jp/english/index.html

Perhaps we can start a new topic on WC2014?

I took liberty to marge some posts related to the worlds 2014 to this thread.   

http://www.isu.org/en/single-and-pair-skating-and-ice-dance/events/2014/03/world-figure-skating-championships-2014

Schedule: JPN local time

03/26(Wed.) 11:00- Pairs SP
03/26(Wed.)) 14:45- Opening on Ice
03/26(Wed.)) 15:35- Men SP
03/27(Thu.) 11:30- Pairs FS
03/27(Thu.) 14:45- Pairs Victory Ceremony
03/27(Thu.) 15:35- Ladies SP
03/28(Fri.) 11:30- Ice Dance SD
03/28(Fri.) 17:00- Men FS
03/28(Fri.) 21:25- Men Victory Ceremony
03/29(Sat.) 12:30- Ice Dance FD
03/29(Sat.) 16:05- Ice Dance Victory Ceremony
03/29(Sat.) 17:15- Ladies FS
03/29(Sat.) 21:25- Ladies Victory Ceremony
03/30(Sun.) 15:00- EX

Men

Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Slavik HAYRAPETYAN (*) ARM 1
Sarkis HAYRAPETYAN (*) ARM 1 S
2 Brendan KERRY AUS 2
3 Viktor PFEIFER AUT 3
4 Jorik HENDRICKX BEL 4
5 Elladj BALDE CAN 5
6 Nam NGUYEN CAN 5
7 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN 5
Andrei ROGOZINE CAN 5 S
8 Han YAN CHN 6
Nan SONG CHN 6 S
Yi WANG CHN 6 S
9 Chih-I TSAO (*) TPE 7
10 Michal BREZINA CZE 8
11 Tomas VERNER CZE 8
Petr COUFAL (*) CZE 8 S
Pavel KASKA (*) CZE 8 S
Tomas KUPKA (*) CZE 8 S
12 Justus STRID DEN 9
13 Viktor ROMANENKOV EST 10
Samuel KOPPEL (*) EST 10 S
14 Valtter VIRTANEN (*) FIN 11
Tomi PULKKINEN (*) FIN 11 S
Viktor ZUBIK (*) FIN 11 S
15 Florent AMODIO FRA 12
16 Chafik BESSEGHIER FRA 12
17 Peter LIEBERS GER 13
Paul FENTZ GER 13 S
Franz STREUBEL GER 13 S
18 Phillip HARRIS (*) GBR 14
Harry MATTICK (*) GBR 14 S
Matthew PARR (*) GBR 14 S
David RICHARDSON (*) GBR 14 S
19 Ronald LAM HKG 15
20 Alexei BYCHENKO ISR 16
Daniel SAMOHIN (*) ISR 16 S
21 Ivan RIGHINI ITA 17
Paolo BACCHINI ITA 17 S
Paul Bonifacio PARKINSON ITA 17 S
Maurizio ZANDRON (*) ITA 17 S
22 Yuzuru HANYU JPN 18
23 Takahiko KOZUKA JPN 18
24 Tatsuki MACHIDA JPN 18
Takahito MURA JPN 18 S
25 Abzal RAKIMGALIEV KAZ 19
26 Kim LUCINE MON 20
27 Christopher CALUZA PHI 21
Michael Christian MARTINEZ PHI 21 S
28 Maciej CIEPLUCHA POL 22
29 Jin Seo KIM KOR 23
June Hyoung LEE KOR 23 S
30 Zoltan KELEMEN ROU 24
31 Maxim KOVTUN RUS 25
Konstantin MENSHOV RUS 25 S
Sergei VORONOV RUS 25 S
32 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 26
33 Javier RAYA (*) ESP 26
34 Alexander MAJOROV SWE 27
35 Stephane WALKER SUI 28
36 Yakov GODOROZHA UKR 29
37 Max AARON USA 30
38 Jeremy ABBOTT USA 30
Jason BROWN USA 30 S
Richard DORNBUSH USA 30 S
Joshua FARRIS USA 30 S
39 Misha GE UZB 31

Ladies

Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Brooklee HAN AUS 1
2 Kerstin FRANK AUT 2
3 Kaat VAN DAELE BEL 3
4 Gabrielle DALEMAN CAN 4
5 Kaetlyn OSMOND CAN 4
Alaine CHARTRAND CAN 4 S
Amelie LACOSTE CAN 4 S
Veronik MALLET CAN 4 S
6 Zijun LI CHN 5
7 Kexin ZHANG CHN 5
Ziquan ZHAO CHN 5 S
8 Eliska BREZINOVA CZE 6
Elizaveta UKOLOVA CZE 6 S
9 Anita MADSEN DEN 7
10 Elena GLEBOVA EST 8
Helery HÄLVIN (*) EST 8 S
Gerli LIINAMÄE EST 8 S
11 Juulia TURKKILA FIN 9
Rosaliina KUPARINEN (*) FIN 9 S
Emilia TOIKKANEN (*) FIN 9 S
12 Mae Berenice MEITE FRA 10
Laurine LECAVELIER FRA 10 S
13 Nathalie WEINZIERL GER 11
Sarah HECKEN GER 11 S
14 Jenna MCCORKELL GBR 12
15 Ami PAREKH (*) IND 13
16 Netta SCHREIBER ISR 14
17 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 15
18 Valentina MARCHEI ITA 15
Carol BRESSANUTTI ITA 15 S
Francesca RIO (*) ITA 15 S
Roberta RODEGHIERO ITA 15 S
19 Mao ASADA JPN 16
20 Kanako MURAKAMI JPN 16
21 Akiko SUZUKI JPN 16
Rika HONGO JPN 16 S
Haruka IMAI JPN 16 S
Satoko MIYAHARA JPN 16 S
22 Inga JANULEVICIUTE LTU 17
23 Fleur MAXWELL (*) LUX 18
24 Anne Line GJERSEM NOR 19
Camilla GJERSEM (*) NOR 19 S
Anine RABE (*) NOR 19 S
25 Alisson Krystle PERTICHETO PHI 20
26 Hae Jin KIM KOR 21
27 So Youn PARK KOR 21
28 Julia LIPNITSKAIA RUS 22
29 Anna POGORILAYA RUS 22
Nikol GOSVIANI RUS 22 S
Alena LEONOVA RUS 22 S
Adelina SOTNIKOVA RUS 22 S
30 Nicole RAJICOVA SVK 23
Alexandra KUNOVA (*) SVK 23 S
31 Dasa GRM (*) SLO 24
Nika CERIC (*) SLO 24 S
32 Sonia LAFUENTE ESP 25
33 Joshi HELGESSON SWE 26
Viktoria HELGESSON SWE 26 S
Isabelle OLSSON SWE 26 S
34 Anna OVCHAROVA SUI 27
Tina STUERZINGER SUI 27 S
35 Natalia POPOVA UKR 28
36 Polina EDMUNDS USA 29
37 Gracie GOLD USA 29
38 Ashley WAGNER USA 29
Samantha CESARIO USA 29 S
Courtney HICKS USA 29 S
Mirai NAGASU USA 29 S

Pairs

Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Miriam ZIEGLER / Severin KIEFER AUT 1
2 Maria PALIAKOVA / Nikita BOCHKOV BLR 2
3 Elizaveta MAKAROVA / Leri KENCHADZE BUL 3
4 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD CAN 4
5 Paige LAWRENCE / Rudi SWIEGERS CAN 4
6 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN 4
Margaret PURDY / Michael MARINARO CAN 4 S
Natasha PURICH / Mervin TRAN CAN 4 S
7 Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG CHN 5
8 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN 5
Xuehan WANG / Lei WANG CHN 5 S
Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN CHN 5 S
9 Natalja ZABIJAKO / Alexandr ZABOEV EST 6
10 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES FRA 7
11 Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT FRA 7
12 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 8
13 Maylin WENDE / Daniel WENDE GER 8
Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE GER 8 S
14 Amani FANCY / Christopher BOYADJI GBR 9
Stacey KEMP / David KING GBR 9 S
15 Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK ITA 10
16 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA 10
17 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Ryuichi KIHARA JPN 11
18 Julia ANTIPOVA / Nodari MAISURADZE RUS 12
19 Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV RUS 12
20 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV RUS 12
Vasilisa DAVANKOVA / Andrei DEPUTAT RUS 12 S
Evgenia TARASOVA / Vladimir MOROZOV RUS 12 S
Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 12 S
21 Julia LAVRENTIEVA / Yuri RUDYK UKR 13
22 Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR USA 14
23 Caydee DENNEY / John COUGHLIN USA 14
Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER USA 14 S
Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM USA 14 S
Felicia ZHANG / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY USA 14 S

Ice Dance

Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN AUS 1
2 Julia ZLOBINA / Alexei SITNIKOV AZE 2
3 Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV BLR 3
4 Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER CAN 4
5 Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM CAN 4
6 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 4
Madeline EDWARDS / Zhao Kai PANG CAN 4 S
7 Gabriela KUBOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE 5
Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Neil BROWN CZE 5 S
8 Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SORENSEN DEN 6
9 Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND EST 7
10 Henna LINDHOLM / Ossi KANERVO FIN 8
Olesia KARMI / Max LINDHOLM FIN 8 S
11 Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON FRA 9
12 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 9
Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES FRA 9 S
13 Angelina TELEGINA / Otar JAPARIDZE GEO 10
14 Tanja KOLBE / Stefano CARUSO GER 11
15 Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI GER 11
Shari KOCH / Christian NÜCHTERN GER 11 S
16 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR 12
17 Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR HUN 13
18 Allison REED / Vasili ROGOV ISR 14
19 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 15
20 Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI ITA 15
21 Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 16
22 Isabella TOBIAS / Deividas STAGNIUNAS LTU 17
23 Justyna PLUTOWSKA / Peter GERBER POL 18
24 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 19
25 Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS 19
26 Victoria SINITSINA / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN RUS 19
Ksenia MONKO / Kirill KHALIAVIN RUS 19 S
Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO RUS 19 S
Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN RUS 19 S
27 Federica TESTA / Lukas CSOLLEY SVK 20
28 Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ ESP 21
29 Ramona ELSENER / Florian ROOST SUI 22
30 Alisa AGAFONOVA / Alper UCAR TUR 23
31 Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON USA 24
32 Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES USA 24
33 Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA 24
Lynn KRIENGKRAIRUT / Logan GIULIETTI-SCHMITT USA 24 S

Kozuka's short interview and practice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFtbCzu1zrM&feature=youtu.be

Since the announcement of continuing with his skating career, Kozuka says he's looking forward to 'the starting of a new chapter'!

Good luck!!

Thanks for the update!

I am glad he is continuing, it was so sad to see him cry when he didn't make the team, but still gracious as ever
Selfishly, I hope this will rub off on Mao a bit. I really love the dynamics of Team Sato ! Good Luck at Worlds to Team Sato!

very short clip to promote WC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcGb6UmxjM

Announcement of practicing group:

http://www.isuresults.com/events/WC14_MusicRotationAll.pdf

Anybody else here going to watch the competition live in Saitama? If yes, which dates will you be going?

COHK wrote:

Announcement of practicing group:

http://www.isuresults.com/events/WC14_MusicRotationAll.pdf

Is the list just for practice, or is this the actual competition lineup?

shar wrote:

COHK wrote:

Announcement of practicing group:

http://www.isuresults.com/events/WC14_MusicRotationAll.pdf

Is the list just for practice, or is this the actual competition lineup?

I think its just for practice... don't they usually draw numbers for competition lineup?

emory903 wrote:

shar wrote:

COHK wrote:

Announcement of practicing group:

http://www.isuresults.com/events/WC14_MusicRotationAll.pdf

Is the list just for practice, or is this the actual competition lineup?

I think its just for practice... don't they usually draw numbers for competition lineup?

Thanks emory903. I saw Mao listed in the second group along with the other Japanese ladies, and I thought I was looking at Sochi's LP lineup repeat.   

shar wrote:

emory903 wrote:

shar wrote:

COHK wrote:

Announcement of practicing group:

http://www.isuresults.com/events/WC14_MusicRotationAll.pdf

Is the list just for practice, or is this the actual competition lineup?

I think its just for practice... don't they usually draw numbers for competition lineup?

Thanks emory903. I saw Mao listed in the second group along with the other Japanese ladies, and I thought I was looking at Sochi's LP lineup repeat.   

Yes, emory903 is correct. This music rotation group is for practices up until the drawing of SP lineup, namely on Mar 24&25. The official drawing of starting order for ladies' SP will be on Mar 26 (16:30, local time). All practices afterwards will be grouped according to the starting order of SP.

BTW, re. entry list, the updated news is that, Florent Amodio in men's and Kexin Zhang in ladies' had withdrawn. As far as I know Kexin has been struggling with her boots issue, which might have led to injury...

I hope we will get some news about Mao really soon, i'm very curious about how her training has been, i am bit afraid of her still being tired and exhausted after the Olympics after all it was quite a roller coaster both physically and emotionally.

pre-Worlds news with a very short post-Sochi interview and a look back at past Worlds wins

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjg4ODMxOTUy.html
(found from another forum)

Looks like they have her past costumes and the Olympic medal in display somewhere

Can anybody translate the interview part with Mao and Mr. Sato?

Mao was not in the morning practice (at practicing rink) today, but just finished the 2nd practice, which took place in the main rink. I saw from twitter that she was practicing FS, with these jumps attempted:
A (popped) 3F3Lo 3Lz ／ 2A3T 3S 2F2Lo2Lo 3Lo jumps with flow, didn't do the spin when music was on, but with Stsq
It seemed there were successful 3As afterwards.

The practices at WC this time are open to public. So we should be hearing more about the practices soon.

And here's a video of Mao's 3f+3lo and 3a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyG7Sgzi9y0&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for the reports and practice clips, Mao's 3A was marvelous and effortless, true candy to the eye
The competition has not started yet, but I am just soo excited to see her again

roma wrote:

Anybody else here going to watch the competition live in Saitama? If yes, which dates will you be going?

Are you going roma?  If so, I hope you will have a great time!
I'm in Tokyo this week but I have to work   I had been trying hard to get a 29th ticket but in vain ...  

Thanks everyone for the update and links!!!   

linglang wrote:

roma wrote:

Anybody else here going to watch the competition live in Saitama? If yes, which dates will you be going?

Are you going roma?  If so, I hope you will have a great time!
I'm in Tokyo this week but I have to work   I had been trying hard to get a 29th ticket but in vain ...  

Thanks everyone for the update and links!!!   

Yes, I'm going on the 27th, linglang. I still have no ticket for the 29th, too. Pochi recommended some sites to find tickets for the 29th and found some not so exorbitantly priced but unfortunately only accepts JP CCs.

l-spiralmao wrote:

And here's a video of Mao's 3f+3lo and 3a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyG7Sgzi9y0&feature=youtu.be

The height on her 3A.... amazing  

sweetdream wrote:

l-spiralmao wrote:

And here's a video of Mao's 3f+3lo and 3a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyG7Sgzi9y0&feature=youtu.be

The height on her 3A.... amazing  

and the distance on the 3f-3lo    

OMG! But look at that 3F-3l! This is by far the best 3-3 combination I've seen from Mao in years and definitely one of the best combinations ending with loop that any lady is capable of doing. Honestly, I didn't expect to see such an effortlessly landed, fully rotated 3F-3L from Mao these days...this looked like the ones she used to land when she was 16 but with more height and distance.

And that triple axel was incredible. Mao always makes these jumps look easy but these ones are actually more rotated than ever, at least to my eyes. The x0.25 option in youtube doesn't lie   ...Mao is awesome!

GO MAO!!!!