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Season 3: Episode 47 (Feb. 18, 2025)
General Skating News
- U.S. Figure Skating announced that Teams Elite and Skyliners will represent Team USA at the ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships March 7-8 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Legacy on Ice Show in Washington, DC will be streamed live on Peacock Sunday, March 2 and broadcast on NBC Sunday, March 30.
- Liam Kapeikis has replaced Daniel Martynov in the men’s field at the Road to 26 competition. Natalie Taschlerová and Filip Taschler have withdrawn from the ice dance event.
- 2002 Olympic Champion Sarah Hughes was announced as a board member of the organizing committee for the 2023 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Spanish pairs skater Laura Baquero has been suspended for six years (February 2022-2028) for testing positive for clostebol, a banned substance, during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Event Results Brief
- 9th Asian Winter Games
- Challenge Cup
- Hevelius Cup (Synchro)
- Tallink Hotels Cup
- Merano Trophy
- Spring Cup (Synchro)
- 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival
Upcoming Events for the Week
| DATES | EVENT | LOCATION |
| Feb. 19-23 | Four Continents Championship | Seoul, South Korea |
| Feb. 19-20 | Road to 26 Olympic Test Event | Assago, Italy |
| Feb. 18-23 | Bellu Memorial 2025 | Bucharest, Romania |
| Feb. 20-23 | Lumiere Cup 2025 (SYNCHRO) | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
Online Updates:
| DATE | ARTICLE SUBJECT | OUTLET / OUTLET TYPE |
| Feb. 13 | Yelim Kim is retiring from competitive skating. | |
| Feb. 13 | Natalia Pallu & Jayin Panesar have withdrawn from Four Continents after a collision in the warm up at Egna Trophy resulted in Natalia fracturing her knee. | |
| Feb. 16 | Newly crowned European Champion Lukas Britschgi posted that he had an accident on the ice last week and had to get five stitches. The wound got infected and he had to undergo a small surgery. | |
| Feb. 14 | Maïssane Chine & Morgan Laliberté-Laurent are a new junior team representing France. | |
| Feb. 15 | U.S. ice dancers Emily Renzi & William Lissauer have ended their partnership. | |
| Feb. 16 | So Youn Park and Misha Ge got married. | Instagram stories |
| Feb. 14 | Maxime Weatherby and Sasha Kolosovskyi got engaged. | |
| Feb. 12 | Gender, Power and the Culture of Pairs | Anything GOE |
| Feb. 13 | Madison Hubbell and Gabriella Papadakis podcast interview | The Future of Figure Skating podcast |
| Feb. 17 | A Subtle Revolution at Art on Ice | Anything GOEs |
| Feb. 13 | Mao Asada sets out to safeguard the future of figure skating | The Japan Times |
| Feb. 14 | When we skate, we’ll skate for them | WBUR |
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