November 8, 2009
Pairs
Adeline CANAC / Maximin COIA from France won with 136.60 points. Their “Samson and Delilah” LP included a Level 3 double Twist Lift and a clean triple Salchow side by side. The Russian pair Ksenia OZEROVA / Alexander ENBERT finished second with 133.55 points. They fell on their opening triple Toeloop aswell as on their double Axel sequence. Third are Katerina KOSTENKO / Roman TALAN from the Ukraine with 123.30 points. The German pair finished only 4th with 119.48 points. They had three falls on the double Axel, throw double Loop and throw triple Salchow. They clearly failed the required 138 points to fulfil the German Olympic norm.
Men
Artur GACHINSKIY from Russia won with 189.59 points. He fell on the double Axel but did two clean triple Axels before. Alban PREAUBERT from France finished second with 188.26 points. Alban had tough problems on both of his triple Axels and the triple Loop. Seems that he also has problems with his quadruple Toeloop since this season as he does not show it anymore. Third is Javier FERNANDEZ from Spain with 184.33 points and an absolute fantastic Free Skate. He was only 11th after the SP but fought back in the LP with two clean triple Axels, a triple Flip and a triple Loop. Unfortunately he fell on his opening quadruple Toeloop.
Yannick Ponsero withdrew. Hopefully not due to injury because he fell again on his opening Quad in the SP, the same jump where he cut his elbow at the Cup of China.
Dance
Only two pairs skated the Free Dance. Chloé IBANEZ / Marien DE LA ASUNCION from France won with 102.44 points. Both of their Rotational Lifts got Level 4. Second are Henna LINDHOLM / Ossi KANERVO from Finland with 94.27 points. Their Straight line Lift also got Level 4. The third pair Katelyn GOOD / Nikolaj SORENSEN from Denmark withdrew after the OD.
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November 8, 2009
Boring sunday, so I made a small summary about the Grand Prixs and their results. There are still two Grand Prix events to come, so notice that some skaters/pairs only have one Grand Prix (yet) or some do not take part this year. If the Olympics would be today, these would be the results:
Pairs
* They won’t keep the LP they skated here
Men
* Nebelhorn Trophy is no ISU Grand Prix
Dance
Ladies
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November 7, 2009
Men
Préaubert leads with 73.88 points. The start of this season must be pretty confusing for him. He skated almost clean in all competitions and got high marks at Masters, very low marks at TEB and now quite good marks again for the SP. I can’t wait to see him in Canada in two weeks. Second is Artur Gachinskiy from Russia with 65.45 points. In third place is Chafik Besseghier from France with 64.29 points. Yannick Ponsero again seemed to struggle at his jumps and is only 7th with 59.15 points. Exact the same points got the young German skater Daniel Dotzauer, with higher technical marks than Ponsero but four points lower in components.
Pairs
As I expected Tanja Szewczenko and Norman Jeschke do not take part in Nice. Russia’s Ksenia Ozerova and Alexander Enbert took the lead with 47.08 points. Second are Mari Vartmann and Florian Just with 45.66 points. Germany has one pairs spot left for the Olympics and a pair must achieve twice a minimum of 138 points in total, in two different competitions to get the spot. The other German pair Maylin Hausch and Daniel Wende already achieved this at the Nebelhorn Trophy so Mari and Flo must keep up with them. Third are Adeline Canac and Maximin Coia from France with 43.92 points. Their chances to get the only French Olympics spot are bigger again as Vanessa James and Yannick Bonheur did not very well in both of their Grand Prix events.
The SP of the Ladies is today as well as the LP of Men and Pairs and the Free Dance, where only three couples take part, so I am supposed to think that all of them will medal 
I am curious about the two German girls Sarah Hecken and Katharina Häcker as Germany’s number one Lady Annette Dytrt today failed again to achieve the required minimum of 128 points at the NHK Trophy.
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November 3, 2009
Question: What do you think about the new Scoring System in Figure Skating?
91%
The change was necessary but the ISU need to modify some parts
5%
It sucks, I want the 6.0 back
5%
The ISU should have modified the old system instead of creating a new one
No votes for
Nothing really changed compared to the old system and
I don’t know/don’t care
Thanks to all voters.
A new poll is already up. Question: Which male skater do you think will win the Gold medal in Vancouver?
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