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Yay im so happy Torgashev won! i guess he have big chance to qualify. My prediction Pulkinen, Gogolev, Torgashev, Sumoto/Shimada/ russian skater will go to JGPF.
I just realized that Adam Rippon has been removed from the ISP, even though he hasn't officially said anything about the future of his career (similar to Mirai, who is in fact, still on the ISP). Thoughts?
I just realized that Adam Rippon has been removed from the ISP, even though he hasn't officially said anything about the future of his career (similar to Mirai, who is in fact, still on the ISP). Thoughts?
… Lots of action going on this weekend. We had five U.S. men (four senior, 1 junior nationally) competing at three different competitions. Here's my summary of their performances.
… So after 3 JGP competitions and 2 Challengers, our top scoring U.S. man is Camden Pulkinen at 222.95. Tomoki Hiwatashi is 2nd with 213.24 and Jimmy Ma at 206.10. Obviously there are a whole bunch of U.S. men we haven't seen yet, so obviously these rankings will change. I'll do my score tracker when we have a few more folks compete.
But to sum things up -- U.S. men look good on the JGP, we could end up with up to three U.S. men to the JGPF. And we're 1 for 1 on medals in the Challenger series. …
Not necessarily relevant to the US men specifically, but man, my heart hurts just thinking about Oleg Protopopov performing without his wife.
Although it is not clear to me whether "special guest" means Oleg will give a performance, the point about losing Ludmila remains the same. …
With all men skating (except Nathan), I was hoping these scores are higher to start. I hope they only increase as the season progress.
But at the moment it feels like the US will rely on Nathan again, which I was hoping that someone else can be competitive internationally given Nathan is in school.
I thought by now Vincent can fix this underrotation problem because it is more worse for him in this new system. I know he is working on his PCs, but it will take years and he needs to be more consistent with his quads first tbh.
Alex K. still feels like a junior skater in senior. He needs more work and was hoping he change his FP so he looks more senior because it is not helping him.
Jimmy is fun, but he has awhile to go technically and skating wise to compete with the big boys.
Camden needs quads for senior, but right now ok since he still in juniors.
Was really hopeful for Jason shaking those nervous and being more confident with a new coach and environment, but his nerves still gets the best of him to let the program go. He really needs the quads and still a challenge for him all these years. That FP is not helping and should start anew. It does nothing for him.
I hope the US men can step it up this season and be more competitive.
To be honest right now beyond Nathan, Jason and Vincent there is not a lot depth with the US Men right now with all the retirements. No country lost as much in terms of top quality men as the US did this season so it will be up to the young guys like Camden, Alexi,Tommy H and Andrew T to rebuild that depth in the next couple of years.