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Ah so one of my predictions did come true, Mao Asada of Japan won the lady’s competition at the World Figure Skating Championships.  Bravo Mao!  I knew she would be World Champion one day the first time I saw her skate as a Junior back in 2004.  The pigs flying moment was a great one [...]

For the first time in the history of the World Figure Skating Championships a lady from Israel has qualified for the free skate in the Lady’s competition.  Tamar Katz landed  a couple of very big jumps today to finish 24th in the short program and move onto the Free Skate.    http://www.isufs.org/bios/isufs00006326.htm  Bravo Tamar have a [...]

Well another of my predictions has failed.  Dommina and Shabalin are not going to win the World Championship in Ice Dance; they have withdrawn due to injury.  Even the Russians haven’t figured out a way to cheat a victory in a contest they don’t enter.  This makes the US team the favorites to win.  The [...]

I should have posted this after Nationals and here we are only 11 days till Worlds.  But unlike all the other bloggers who post their predictions and run away I will rate my own predictions and fess up where my prognostications have been failures.  Here is what I said way back in 2007. Emily Hughes [...]

After a dazzling performance that included the triple lutz Victoria Rackohn is in 4th place in the Jr. Lady’s competition at US Figure Skating Nationals.   Earlier this season I would have said no way Victoria would even be at Nationals and now here she is close to the podium.  She had such a rough start [...]

Some truly lovely performances by our Jr. Lady’s today at Nationals.  Three of the young lady’s had triple/triple combinations and two landed the triple lutz.  If only they weren’t all risking permanent damge by doing Bielmans.  Cinquantta says we must have age limits for the health of our young skaters.  He could do far more [...]