Daisuke TAKAHASHI - SP

Daisuke Takahashi leads after the men's short program with a personal best of 90.43 points (also the best men's short score of the season).



Brandon Mroz finish 3rd in the short program after landing the first quad lutz ever landed in international competition

Men's Short Results
Protocols

Free Dance Results
Protocols
Ice Dance Overall Results

Pairs Freeskate Results
Protocols
Pairs Overall Results

Skating Updates

 Laura Lepisto has withdrawn from Worlds due to a back injury.

Skate America will be held in Ontario, California, much to my chagrin.

Evgeni Plushenko has been training and working on quad salchows and loops and is hopeful that his ban from ISU competition will be lifted in the near future.

A new article on Nathan Chen. So looking forward to seeing him in the future!

Adelina Sotnikova won the ladies title at Junior Worlds, with Elizaveta Tuktamishiva & Agnes Zawadzki winning silver and bronze, respectively.

Andrei Rogozine of Canada won the men's event, followed by Keiji Tanaka and Alexander Majorov.

Sui and Han defended their World Junior title, despite lingering questions about the formers age eligibility. Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov & Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran rounded out the top three.


Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khaliavin won the World Junior Dance title by a large margin, winning the gold over Ekaterina Pushkash and Jonathan Guerreiro and Charlotte Lichtman and Dean Copely.

4 Continents Pairs Videos

Pang & Tong's short program


Pang & Tong's Freeskate


Evora & Ladwig's short program


Takahashi & Tran's short program


Takahashi & Tran's freeskate


Duhamel & Radford's Freeskate

4 Continents Pairs Freeskate & Overall Results

1. Qing Pang & Jian Tong TE 61.23 PCS 66.81;FS 128.04 = 199.45 Total (CHN)
2.Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford TE 66.55 PCS 55.32 ;FS 121.87 = 181.79 Total (CAN)
3.Paige Lawrence & Rudi Swiegers TE 58.20 PCS 53.53.55 ;FS 111.75 = 171.73 Total (CAN)
4.Caitlin Yankowskas & John Coughlin TE 57.16 PCS 54.56 ;FS 111.72 = 166.97 Total (USA)
5.Kirsten Moore-Towers & Dylan Moscovitch TE 58.93 PCS 53.88 -1.00 ;FS 111.81 = 166.22 Total (CAN)
6.Amanda Evora & Mark Ladwig TE 53.57 PCS 53.50 -2.00 ;FS 105.07 =  Total 157.30 (USA)
7.Narumi Takahashi & Mervin Tran TE 52.56 PCS 51.82 -2.00 ;FS 102.38 = 152.63 Total (JPN)
8.Mary Beth Marley & Rockne Brubaker TE 51.35 PCS 47.51 ;FS 98.86 = 144.46 Total (USA)
9.Huibo Dong & Yiming Wu TE 47.38 PCS 41.31 ;FS 88.69 = 135.10 Total (CHN)
10. Yue Zhang & Lei Wang TE 45.63 PCS 42.69 ;FS 88.32 = 138.93 Total (CHN)

Detailed Freeskate Results
Protocols

4 Continents Pairs Short Results

1. Qing Pang & Jian Tong TE 39.29 PCS 33.12 - 1.00 = 71.41 Total (CHN)2. Paige Lawrence & Rudi Swiegers TE 34.21 PCS 25.77  = 59.98 Total (CAN)
3. Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford TE 35.38 PCS 25.54 -1.00  = 59.92 Total (CAN)
4.Caitlin Yankowskas & John Coughlin TE 29.02 PCS 26.23 = 55.25 Total (USA)
5.Kristen Moores-Towers & Dylan Moscovitch TE 28.12 PCS 26.29  = 54.41 Total (CAN)
6.Amanda Evora & Mark Ladwig TE 28.14 PCS 25.09 -1.00 = 52.23 Total (USA)
7.Yue Zhang & Lei Wang TE 28.93 PCS 21.68  = 50.61 Total (CHN)
8.Narumi Takahashi & Mervin Tran TE 26.77  PCS 25.48 -2.00 = 50.25 Total (JPN)
9.Huibo Dong & Yiming Wu TE 25.41 PCS 21.00 = 46.41 Total (CHN)
10. Mary Beth Marley & Rockne Brubaker TE 23.60 PCS 22.00 = 45.60 Total (USA)

Detailed Results
Protocol

Japanese Nationals - Schedule & Starting Orders

My sister was kind enough to convert the schedule from Japanese time to Eastern Standard time. =)

Friday, December 24th

Pairs Short 2:00 AM - 2:15 AM

Mens Short 2:20 AM - 6:30 AM

Short Dance 11:00 PM - 11:20 PM

Pairs Free 11:20 - 11:35 PM

Ladies Short 11:50 PM - 4:10 AM

Saturday, December 25th

Mens Free 4:05 AM - 8:00 AM

Pairs & Men's Awards 8:00 AM

Sunday, December 26th

Free Dance 1:00 AM - 1:20 AM

Ladies Free 1:30 AM - 5:30 AM

Ladies and Ice Dance Awards 5:40 AM

World's Team Announcement 7:00 AM

Monday, December 27th

Medalist on Ice Exhibition (Guests Stephane Lambiel and Evgeni Plushenko) 3:00 AM - 6:00 AM

Check on ontd_skating for streaming times (not live though).

Practice Videos 

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(Sorry, I tried to embed them but they turned out huge and messed with the page a bit.)

Daisuke Takahashi, Takahiko Kozuka, and Nobunari Oda all seem to be in good condition - Daisuke told the press that his quad toe is inconsistent right now, but he might still go for it , but that if it is too unstable, he may try the quad flip instead. He does attempt a quad flip in one of the videos above and while I'm not sure it was fully rotated, I think it may have been more rotated than the attempt at the Grand Prix Final (though still two footed). Reportedly, the rest of his jumps are fine.

Also notable is that Mao Asada did land a triple axel in practice, but on the video it does look at least a little bit cheated.

Starting Orders
Mens Short

1	Ryuichi KIHARA
2	Yukihiro YOSHIDA
3	Sei KAWAHARA
4	Junzo NISHIGAMI
5	Yuya TAMADA
6	Yuki HORINOUCHI
7	Fumiya ITAI
8	Hiroki HABU
9	Ryujyu HINO
10	Kento NAKAMURA
11	Akio SASAKI
12	Jun SUZUKI
13	Hayato MIYAZAKI
14	Koshin YAMADA
15	Keiji TANAKA
16	Hikaru MURAYAMA
17	Junki SANO
18	Naoto SAITO
19	Yoji TSUBOI
20	Jo MATSUMURA
21	Yuzuru HANYU
22	Takuya KONDO
23	Kensuke NAKANIWA
24	Daisuke TAKAHASHI
25	Hayato ODAJIMA
26	Takahiko KOZUKA
27	Daisuke MURAKAMI
28	Tatsuki MACHIDA
29	Takahito MURA
30	Nobunari ODA
31	Yasuharu NANRI
32	Tomoyuki KORIYAMA

Ladies Short

1	Saya UENO
2	Haruna SUZUKI
3	Rumi SUIZU
4	Haruka INOUE
5	Nana TAKEDA
6	Shion KOKUBUN
7	Kana MURAMOTO
8	Juri OKAWA
9	Naomi TANIKAWA
10	Karen KEMANAI
11	Risa SHOJI
12	Kako TOMOTAKI
13	Aki SAWADA
14	Hikaru NASUNO
15	Yuki NISHINO
16	Risa MOCHIZUKI
17	Miyabi OHBA
18	Roannasari OSHIKAWA
19	Eri SETO
20	Risa SASAKI
21	Mutsumi TAKAYAMA
22	Ayane NAKAMURA
23	Shoko ISHIKAWA
24	Kanako MURAKAMI
25	Haruka IMAI
26	Miki ANDO
27	Mari SUZUKI
28	Akiko SUZUKI
29	Mao ASADA
30	Fumie SUGURI
31	Ayumi GOTO
32	Yuka KOUNO

Pairs Short
1Narumi TAKAHASHI/Mervin TRAN

Short Dance

1	Cathy REED/Chris REED
2	Emi HIRAI/Taiyo MIZUTANI

Universal Sports Article

I'm so excited!