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Season 3: Episode 13 (August 20, 2024)
General Skating News
- 2024 Lombardia Trophy assignments came out Aug. 19, 2024.
- Entries were announced for the 2024 Junior Grand Prix Ankara – Men, Women, Pairs and Dance
- Entries were announced for the 2024 Junior Grand Prix Bangkok – Men, Women and Dance
- Entries were announced for the 2024 John Nicks Pairs Challenge – the second ISU Challenger Series event taking place Sept. 3-4 in New York City.
- Grand Prix lists were updated with China’s host picks.
- Skate Canada announced its 59 athletes that will be part of this year’s NextGen Team.
- Tickets for the 2025 Canadian National Skating Championships go live Thursday at 10:00 a.m. EST.
Event Results Brief
- Skate the Lake (NQS for Singles) – Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin
- Cup of Colorado (NQS for Singles and Pairs) – Highlands Ranch, Colorado
- Potomac Open (NQS for Singles) is in Ashburn, Virginia
- Skate Ontario Sectional Series – August
- Summer Sizzle Videos/Notes from Claire Cloutier, A Divine Sport
Recent Interviews/ Articles
- From Ice Rinks to Weather Reports, by Tarah Kayne, U.S Figure Skating
Social Media Updates
- “I’m seeing where else life takes me: ” Nathan Chen on Simone Biles, Mondo Duplantis, Hanyu Yuzuru, and the retirement of Uno Shoma, by Nick McCarvel, Olympics.com
- Adam Solya: Thinking outside the box, by Judith Dombrowski, Golden Skate (with video)
- Video: Madison Chock and Evan Bates, from The Hub Today
- Elite US figure skaters get a jump on the season with Summer Sizzler at Skating Club of Boston, by Kat Cornetta, Boston Globe
- Video: Oona Brown and Gage Brown, from Newsday
- On Ice and On Screen: Movies and Series Featuring Figure Skating, by ISU
Social Media
- Julia Sylvia Gunnarsdottir / Manuel Piazza are announced as a new pairs team. They are the first pair to represent Iceland at the international level.
- Beck Strommer announced on Instagram that he has moved coaches from Viktor Pfeifer and Eva Martinek to Jonathan Cassar and the rest of the LA Elite Ice team in southern California
- Ilia Malinin threw out the first pitch at the Boston Red Sox game last Monday.
- 2022 Olympian Lindsay Van Zundert from The Netherlands has retired from figure skating
- Charlie Anderson and Cayden Dawson are a new ice dance team for Canada.
- Tessa Virtue had her baby – a boy named McCormick Rielly
Upcoming Events for the Week
- 2024 Providence Open & Little New England Championships – Aug. 21-25, Providence, Rhode Island
https://www.ppfsc.org/events/competition - Skate San Francisco – Aug. 23-25, San Francisco, California
IDC and FSO spotlight & TWIS updates
- New at TWIS: This Week in Skating is now on YouTube Music
- New at TWIS: This Week in Skating store
- New at TWIS: Program Music Section
- New at TWIS: This Week in Skating Patreon
- New at IDC: Recap: 2024 Česká Lípa Summer Dance Camp
- New at IDC: Veronica Carhart: From Singles to Success in Solo Dance
- New at IDC: Solo Dance Profiles
- New at FSO: Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier’s reactions to long-awaited Olympic gold medal and what they hoped was learned
- New at FSO: Photos: 2024 Japanese Dream Ice Gala
- New at FSO: Photos: 2024 Cranberry Cup