2018 Ondrej Nepela Trophy: Ice Dance pre-game chat

[GS Forum Staff]

Pre-game chat and predictions for 2018 Ondrej Nepela Trophy: Ice Dance

Here is a link to the entries for the Ice Dance (Updated 9/12)
http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03108802.htm

Anna KUBLIKOVA / Yuri HULITSKI	BLR
Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS	FIN
Adelina GALAYAVIEVA / Louis THAURON	FRA
Elise MONTANIER / Laurent ABECASSIS	FRA
Katharina MÜLLER / Tim DIECK	GER
Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON	GBR
Robynne TWEEDALE / Joseph BUCKLAND	GBR
Shira ICHILOV / Vadim DAVIDOVICH	ISR
Jasmine TESSARI / Francesco FIORETTI	ITA
Betina POPOVA / Sergey MOZGOV	RUS
Victoria SINITSINA / Nikita KATSALAPOV	RUS
Lorraine MCNAMARA / Quinn CARPENTER	USA
Rachel PARSONS / Michael PARSONS	USA	SUB

 

[elbkup]

All the best McNamara & Carpenter!!

 

[LadyB]

Popova/Mozgov could be a surprise winner here, but it should be a good competition between the three leading teams.

 

[AlexRus]

Main Entries in order of Personal Best

1 Victoria SINITSINA / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS 177.15
2 Betina POPOVA / Sergey MOZGOV RUS 164.07
3 Lorraine MCNAMARA / Quinn CARPENTER USA 163.65
4 Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON GBR 150.46
5 Katharina MÜLLER / Tim DIECK GER 150.14
6 Robynne TWEEDALE / Joseph BUCKLAND GBR 143.82
7 Jasmine TESSARI / Francesco FIORETTI ITA 133.00
8 Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS FIN 128.39
9 Anna KUBLIKOVA / Yuri HULITSKI BLR 119.42

Adelina GALAYAVIEVA / Louis THAURON FRA - (new couple)

WD Elise MONTANIER / Laurent ABECASSIS FRA -

 

[Hyena]

Based on their previous scores, this should be Sinitsina/Katsalapov's. But I'm thinking Popova/Mozgov and McNamara/Carpenter will be close behind them; both teams were on the rise last season.

 

[ancientpeas]

I feel as if Nikita and Victoria don't win this it will be a huge upset.

People were saying that they have a great PD (from the Russian test skates maybe?)