- I can't believe it's March already and Worlds is upon us.....but I can hardly wait!  Thanks Lina!

Karenna

Apparantly the whole thing will be on Eurosport.  I don't know how good the North America coverage will be.  At least we have good old Youtube for any bits people miss!

It may be worth checking out Eurosports website, at least for results:
http://eurosport.yahoo.com/

I've not used it much but I think sometimes they have video clips as well.
Sharon

Usually a cable/satellite station "CBC Country Canada" carries  a good portion of the skating  events which we would normally not see  through network coverage.  I'd love to get Eurosport after years of watching the video clips....you are so lucky sharon!

Karenna 

At last!  Now, not only is the regular ISU schedule and results page up, but they have also begun putting in the starting orders.

Yes, we are now poised at the top of the roller coaster descent track.  Buckle up, guys!  Get a firm grip on that safety rail!    The action  begins on March 18, which just happens to be Alexei's birthday.  Two reasons to be excited!

Russia's time is ahead of U.S. time, so,  happy birthday, Alexei!  All the best! 

Lina

HY!
Long time since i didn't vist you! :-*

Tomorrow will start the WC! HOORAY!:P
I am lucky i can see the WC on Eurosport(more the long programs-because of my job i will not be able to see the short's).
GO BRIAN! GO STEPH! GO TOMAS! :P
  But i think Daisuke is in polle-position :D

Hi, Adelina!  Good to see you!

I also like more than one of the top male skaters, so that makes the competition easier on my nerves lol. 

It's hard to say how tired or feeling pressured Daisuke might feel after winning at Four Continents; certainly it looks as if that contest was hard on Evan Lysacek.  I like Dai's programs very much, especially his SP, which is so new in style and brilliant.  I think that in many ways, Dai has become the best "all-around" eligible male single skater at this point, rather than  specializing in just one type of element, and I think that working with Nikolay Morozov has been very  good for Dai's career. 

Brian Joubert has been so terribly ill, but I am thinking he may pleasantly surprise us all at Worlds; certainly I appreciate very much his classic jumping style and carriage on the ice, as well as his general athletic presence, and I hope he is feeling like himself again.

I am not sure what to expect from Tomas Verner at this Worlds; each time I see him, he has improved so much from the time before!

I think that Stephane Lambiel was very smart to work on a program with an actual flamenco dancer; it gave his program the real flavor of flamenco; studying flamenco in Spain itself definitely seemed to help Anissina and Peizerat with their SP a while back.  I think the rhythyms of  Spain are often helpful to a skater, because they involve the audience emotionally. 

I am very fond of Johnny Weir's skating, which I find beautiful and in many ways, ideal; I hope he has a good competition, and really gets to show what he can do.  He has clearly been working hard, and I loved his work at the U.S. Nationals; I was very proud of him.  I think his coach just needs to  study the bean-counting that is now the order of the day in CoP, to lift Johnny onto the Worlds podium.  Certainly he is one of the purest and most graceful, naturally skilled, skaters out there.

For whom am I particularly rooting to do well?  Daisuke, Johnny, and Brian--and one more--I like Patrick Chan a lot.  His skating has sweep and naturally good style, very classic in feeling, which is a type of skating I really like.  I hope Patrick does very well at Worlds also.   

I am running out of steam, so I shall not attempt to describe my feelings about the other disciplines right now lol.    I shall only  say that I am very happy that Yu-Na is back, and I hope very much that means she really is physically okay enough to  be competing.

Lina     

WOW! I just love what you said about each skater. Thanks a lot!

I really think that we will see a very good competition this year :P

I am cheering for many skaters(Brian, Steph, Tomas, Johnny, Sergei, Zoli - romanian skater:P) but i really hope - because it will be the last time when we will se "Flamenco"-to Steph became the champion:P I really love this program... when i saw it for the first time at worlds, last year ,it was l"ove at first sight"  :D

Today was the CD and the french pair is on the lead. I didn't saw , but i heard that Tanith Belbin felt so they are only on 5th place .

1 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER 40.73
2 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR 38.71
3 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI 37.98
4 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI 37.15
5 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO 35.02
6 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT 34.82
7 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE 34.80
8 Sinead KERR / John KERR 33.48
9 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI 32.51
10 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN 31.86
11 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE 31.52
12 Kimberly NAVARRO / Brent BOMMENTRE 31.48
13 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS 29.85
14 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO 29.31
15 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER 29.14
16 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV 29.12
17 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO 28.33
18 Cathy REED / Chris REED 28.16
19 Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI 28.07
20 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE 27.74
21 Barbora SILNA / Dmitri MATSJUK 24.85
22 Kamila HAJKOVA / David VINCOUR 24.06
23 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG 23.90
24 Joanna BUDNER / Jan MOSCICKI 23.61
25 Leonie KRAIL / Oscar PETER 22.38
26 Sun Hye YU / Ramil SARKULOV 21.85
27 Krisztina BARTA / Adam TOTH 21.44
28 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN 20.24
29 Ksenia SHMIRINA / Egor MAISTROV 18.87
30 Ina DEMIREVA / Juri KURAKIN 17.75
31 Kristina KIUDMAA / Aleksei TROHLEV 16.72<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

(Message edited by whisper_steaua on 18/03/2008 15:09:25)

The pairs short program just ended.
The leaders are Zhang/Zhang. The deutch pair is on the second place. And Pang/Tong just on 5th :(

Thanks, Adelina :)

With my new fast connection, I was able to watch a lot of Worlds on Turkish streaming TV (I tried three other sites first lololololol).  My thanks to the posters at Goldenskate for that!  I need to go back there and thank them, for sure.

Then I had to run and finish work I left undone because I was watching Worlds lol

I am also hoping that Sergei Voronov does well enough at Worlds to gain a second entry spot for Russia next year.  There are so many talented guys in Russia to fill that second spot!

Here is the full results list from the Pairs SP:

Result Details 
   
1 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 74.36 43.50    30.86 7.96 7.57 7.82 7.64 7.57 0.00 #12 
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 72.00 40.75    31.25 7.86 7.61 7.86 7.86 7.86 0.00 #1 
3 Yuko KAWAGUCHI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 71.42 42.28    29.14 7.29 7.04 7.32 7.39 7.39 0.00 #15 
4 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN 68.66 40.52    28.14 6.96 6.82 7.11 7.14 7.14 0.00 #9 
5 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 67.87 37.58    30.29 7.57 7.43 7.61 7.61 7.64 0.00 #21 
6 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 64.09 36.94    27.15 6.79 6.61 6.86 6.93 6.75 0.00 #10 
7 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN 60.01 36.25    23.76 6.14 5.75 5.96 5.93 5.93 0.00 #14 
8 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Stanislav MOROZOV UKR 59.53 35.17    25.36 6.50 6.18 6.39 6.43 6.21 1.00 #3 
9 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY CAN 59.43 35.27    24.16 6.11 5.82 6.11 6.04 6.11 0.00 #16 
10 Rena INOUE / John BALDWIN USA 53.83 30.74    24.09 6.32 5.75 6.04 6.11 5.89 1.00 #2 
11 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN 50.49 30.88    19.61 5.39 4.68 4.93 4.89 4.64 0.00 #7 
12 Brooke CASTILE / Benjamin OKOLSKI USA 49.59 27.31    22.28 5.68 5.43 5.61 5.64 5.50 0.00 #4 
13 Stacey KEMP / David KING GBR 44.28 26.97    17.31 4.50 4.14 4.32 4.39 4.29 0.00 #19 
14 Laura MAGITTERI / Ondrej HOTAREK ITA 42.18 25.75    17.43 4.50 4.21 4.32 4.39 4.36 1.00 #6 
15 Hayley Anne SACKS / Vadim AKOLZIN ISR 41.96 25.73    16.23 4.18 3.82 4.04 4.18 4.07 0.00 #11 
16 Adeline CANAC / Maximin COIA FRA 41.75 24.52    18.23 4.61 4.43 4.57 4.64 4.54 1.00 #17 
17 Dominika PIATKOWSKA / Dmitri KHROMIN POL 38.32 23.43    16.89 4.43 4.04 4.32 4.21 4.11 2.00 #18 
18 Marina AGANINA / Dmitri ZOBNIN UZB 35.24 20.39    14.85 3.89 3.50 3.75 3.71 3.71 0.00 #8 
19 Ariel Fay GAGNON / Chad TSAGRIS GRE 33.34 19.17    14.17 3.79 3.32 3.64 3.57 3.39 0.00 #13 
20 Amy IRELAND / Michael BAHORIC CRO 26.57 15.89    10.68 2.96 2.57 2.75 2.64 2.43 0.00 #20   
 
Zhang and Zhang were so good today; I thought they really deserved the lead. 

Lina :)

Unfortunately, I was not able to watch any of the skating online, but there was good play-by-play posting at Goldenskate.  The ISU scores were not accessible during the competition, due no doubt to overload from the sport's real popularity.

At last the scores for the ladies are accessible on the ISU results site:

http://st.sportcentric.org/results/wc2008/SEG003.HTM

Ladies - Short Program
   
Result Details

1 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 64.28 36.34    27.94 7.07 6.64 7.07 6.96 7.18 0.00 #46 
2 Mao ASADA JPN 64.10 35.22    28.88 7.43 6.89 7.36 7.21 7.21 0.00 #45 
3 Yukari NAKANO JPN 61.10 34.83    26.27 6.68 6.21 6.64 6.68 6.64 0.00 #42 
4 Kiira KORPI FIN 60.58 34.22    26.36 6.68 6.29 6.68 6.64 6.68 0.00 #50 
5 Yu-Na KIM KOR 59.85 32.71    28.14 7.21 6.71 7.00 7.14 7.11 1.00 #48 
6 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN 59.53 32.99    26.54 6.68 6.25 6.71 6.75 6.79 0.00 #44 
7 Sarah MEIER SUI 59.49 32.17    27.32 6.86 6.54 6.96 6.86 6.93 0.00 #49 
8 Miki ANDO JPN 59.21 31.93    27.28 6.96 6.43 6.89 6.96 6.86 0.00 #43 
9 Kimmie MEISSNER USA 57.25 30.54    26.71 6.82 6.39 6.71 6.79 6.68 0.00 #53 
10 Beatrisa LIANG USA 52.81 30.30    22.51 5.79 5.32 5.68 5.71 5.64 0.00 #29 
11 Ashley WAGNER USA 51.49 27.94    23.55 6.11 5.71 5.93 5.86 5.82 0.00 #47 
12 Annette DYTRT GER 50.99 29.52    21.47 5.54 5.11 5.46 5.36 5.36 0.00 #40 
13 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA UZB 50.84 29.04    21.80 5.71 5.18 5.57 5.32 5.46 0.00 #30 
14 Mira LEUNG CAN 50.69 29.21    21.48 5.64 5.07 5.39 5.39 5.36 0.00 #41 
15 Ksenia DORONINA RUS 49.94 30.64    19.30 5.07 4.54 4.86 4.86 4.79 0.00 #20 
16 Viktoria HELGESSON SWE 49.68 28.88    20.80 5.29 4.93 5.25 5.18 5.36 0.00 #38 
17 Valentina MARCHEI ITA 48.89 27.52    21.37 5.39 5.04 5.43 5.36 5.50 0.00 #34 
18 Na-Young KIM KOR 47.96 27.02    20.94 5.50 4.89 5.36 5.21 5.21 0.00 #27 
19 Julia SEBESTYEN HUN 47.04 23.95    24.09 6.25 5.71 6.07 6.04 6.04 1.00 #52 
20 Elena GLEBOVA EST 46.26 25.84    20.42 5.21 4.79 5.21 5.14 5.18 0.00 #28 
21 Laura LEPISTO FIN 45.41 21.02    24.39 6.25 5.79 6.14 6.14 6.18 0.00 #51 
22 Melinda Sherilyn WANG TPE 44.77 26.90    17.87 4.57 4.11 4.57 4.57 4.50 0.00 #6 
23 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI GEO 44.06 23.69    21.37 5.50 5.00 5.29 5.43 5.50 1.00 #36 
24 Tamar KATZ ISR 43.58 24.41    19.17 5.07 4.50 4.89 4.79 4.71 0.00 #39 
25 Jenna MCCORKELL GBR 42.55 22.98    19.57 5.18 4.54 4.96 4.86 4.93 0.00 #33 
26 Ivana REITMAYEROVA SVK 41.79 26.10    15.69 4.11 3.75 4.00 3.89 3.86 0.00 #2 
27 Tugba KARADEMIR TUR 38.71 21.09    19.62 5.00 4.68 4.89 4.93 5.04 2.00 #31 
28 Merovee EPHREM MON 38.61 23.01    15.60 3.86 3.68 4.00 4.04 3.93 0.00 #21 
29 Victoria MUNIZ PUR 38.41 22.01    16.40 4.36 3.79 4.18 4.14 4.04 0.00 #8 
30 Sonia LAFUENTE ESP 38.35 20.38    17.97 4.68 4.29 4.54 4.50 4.46 0.00 #32 
31 Yan LIU CHN 38.13 19.01    19.12 5.00 4.54 4.82 4.79 4.75 0.00 #37 
32 Nella SIMAOVA CZE 37.72 21.30    17.42 4.54 4.18 4.43 4.39 4.25 1.00 #35 
33 Sonia RADEVA BUL 37.44 21.81    16.63 4.36 3.86 4.18 4.18 4.21 1.00 #10 
34 Anna JURKIEWICZ POL 37.09 20.00    17.09 4.43 4.00 4.32 4.32 4.29 0.00 #11 
35 Irina MOVCHAN UKR 36.17 20.23    15.94 4.25 3.79 4.04 3.93 3.93 0.00 #26 
36 Julia SHEREMET BLR 34.69 18.84    15.85 4.18 3.68 4.04 3.93 4.00 0.00 #13 
37 Tina WANG AUS 34.00 19.28    15.72 4.00 3.57 4.00 4.04 4.04 1.00 #22 
38 Candice DIDIER FRA 33.91 19.91    16.00 4.32 3.64 4.07 4.00 3.96 2.00 #5 
39 Roxana LUCA ROU 32.07 17.33    14.74 3.82 3.46 3.71 3.71 3.71 0.00 #4 
40 Viviane KAESER SUI 30.37 15.86    15.51 4.04 3.68 3.89 4.00 3.79 1.00 #14 
41 Mirna LIBRIC CRO 30.20 16.69    13.51 3.54 3.14 3.43 3.46 3.32 0.00 #25 
42 Ksenia JASTSENJSKI SRB 29.05 16.11    12.94 3.43 2.96 3.29 3.32 3.18 0.00 #7 
43 Barbara KLERK BEL 28.38 15.72    14.66 3.79 3.46 3.57 3.71 3.79 2.00 #16 
44 Loretta HAMUI MEX 28.15 15.26    13.89 3.43 3.32 3.43 3.61 3.57 1.00 #18 
45 Gracielle Jeanne TAN PHI 27.85 13.62    14.23 3.57 3.18 3.54 3.68 3.82 0.00 #17 
46 Denise KOEGL AUT 27.36 13.36    16.00 4.07 3.71 3.93 4.11 4.18 2.00 #19 
47 Charissa TANSOMBOON THA 27.28 14.84    13.44 3.43 3.14 3.39 3.46 3.39 1.00 #24 
48 Stasia RAGE LAT 26.45 14.39    13.06 3.43 3.07 3.29 3.36 3.18 1.00 #23 
49 Tamami ONO HKG 26.20 13.05    14.15 3.68 3.32 3.57 3.61 3.50 1.00 #3 
50 Maria-Elena PAPASOTIRIOU GRE 25.95 13.78    13.17 3.39 3.07 3.25 3.39 3.36 1.00 #12 
51 Lejeanne MARAIS RSA 25.85 14.94    12.91 3.29 3.00 3.14 3.32 3.39 2.00 #9 
52 Morgan FIGGINS NZL 25.16 13.57    12.59 3.21 2.89 3.18 3.25 3.21 1.00 #1 
53 Beatrice ROZINSKAITE LTU 24.02 11.93    12.09 3.18 2.82 3.04 3.11 2.96 0.00 #15   
 
As you can see, there have been surprises.  It was clear from the descriptions that Yu-Na Kim still is not herself; I fear  her hip injury  may not be  sufficiently healed, as well as  it having caused her a  loss of practice time leading up to the event. 

Many posters  at Goldenskate seemed unhappy with a lot of the judges' decisions during this event. 
 
The Pairs  Free Skate should be under way before long. 

Lina  


   

Ah, the Pairs Free Skate *has* started!

The ISU page where results can be followed is:

http://st.sportcentric.org/results/wc2008/SEG006.HTM

Lina :)

The ISU results page had so many hits today, that it was often inaccessible.  The final results of the Pairs competition are now available, though. 

http://static.sportresult.com/sports/figureskating/live/results/wc2008/CAT003RS.HTM

Pairs
   
Result 
 
1 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY    GER
  202.86 2 1
2 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG    CHN
  197.82 1 3
3 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON    CAN
  192.78 4 2
4 Yuko KAWAGUCHI / Alexander SMIRNOV    RUS
  191.33 3 4
5 Qing PANG / Jian TONG    CHN
  186.78 5 5
6 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN    CAN
  169.61 7 6
7 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV    RUS
  166.64 6 9
8 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY    CAN
  164.67 9 7
9 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Stanislav MOROZOV    UKR
  159.95 8 10
10 Rena INOUE / John BALDWIN    USA
  157.20 10 8
11 Brooke CASTILE / Benjamin OKOLSKI    USA
  146.03 12 11
12 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU    CHN
  142.83 11 12
13 Laura MAGITTERI / Ondrej HOTAREK    ITA
  126.38 14 13
14 Adeline CANAC / Maximin COIA    FRA
  124.68 16 14
15 Stacey KEMP / David KING    GBR
  123.98 13 15
16 Dominika PIATKOWSKA / Dmitri KHROMIN    POL
  111.94 17 16
17 Hayley Anne SACKS / Vadim AKOLZIN    ISR
  111.23 15 17
18 Marina AGANINA / Dmitri ZOBNIN    UZB
  97.31 18 19
19 Ariel Fay GAGNON / Chad TSAGRIS    GRE
  95.65 19 18
20 Amy IRELAND / Michael BAHORIC    CRO
  77.39 20 20
WD Ekaterina KOSTENKO / Roman TALAN    UKR 
         
Legend 
WD Withdrawn 

Here are the details of the Free Skate:

http://static.sportresult.com/sports/figureskating/live/results/wc2008/SEG006.HTM

Pairs - Free Skating
   
Result Details 
     
1 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 130.86 68.77    63.09 7.96 7.75 7.79 7.93 8.00 1.00 #19 
2 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN 124.12 66.92    57.20 7.21 6.93 7.21 7.21 7.18 0.00 #17 
3 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 123.46 64.15    59.31 7.71 7.25 7.43 7.39 7.29 0.00 #18 
4 Yuko KAWAGUCHI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 119.91 61.40    58.51 7.39 7.18 7.39 7.36 7.25 0.00 #20 
5 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 118.91 58.79    60.12 7.54 7.32 7.61 7.57 7.54 0.00 #13 
6 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN 109.60 58.86    50.74 6.46 6.11 6.39 6.39 6.36 0.00 #14 
7 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY CAN 105.24 57.46    47.78 6.18 5.75 6.11 5.89 5.93 0.00 #10 
8 Rena INOUE / John BALDWIN USA 103.37 58.81    46.56 6.07 5.57 5.89 5.79 5.79 2.00 #9 
9 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 102.55 50.99    51.56 6.68 6.36 6.32 6.50 6.36 0.00 #15 
10 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Stanislav MOROZOV UKR 100.42 51.59    49.83 6.50 6.04 6.25 6.32 6.04 1.00 #16 
11 Brooke CASTILE / Benjamin OKOLSKI USA 96.44 49.81    46.63 5.96 5.68 5.86 5.82 5.82 0.00 #11 
12 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN 92.34 49.94    42.40 5.75 5.00 5.36 5.32 5.07 0.00 #12 
13 Laura MAGITTERI / Ondrej HOTAREK ITA 84.20 46.80    38.40 4.79 4.46 5.00 4.79 4.96 1.00 #6 
14 Adeline CANAC / Maximin COIA FRA 82.93 46.31    36.62 4.61 4.25 4.75 4.64 4.64 0.00 #5 
15 Stacey KEMP / David KING GBR 79.70 46.08    34.62 4.43 4.14 4.32 4.43 4.32 1.00 #8 
16 Dominika PIATKOWSKA / Dmitri KHROMIN POL 73.62 41.35    33.27 4.36 4.00 4.18 4.18 4.07 1.00 #4 
17 Hayley Anne SACKS / Vadim AKOLZIN ISR 69.27 37.44    33.83 4.46 4.11 4.25 4.18 4.14 2.00 #7 
18 Ariel Fay GAGNON / Chad TSAGRIS GRE 62.31 35.60    27.71 3.71 3.21 3.46 3.57 3.36 1.00 #1 
19 Marina AGANINA / Dmitri ZOBNIN UZB 62.07 33.79    28.28 3.79 3.29 3.57 3.57 3.46 0.00 #2 
20 Amy IRELAND / Michael BAHORIC CRO 50.82 29.68    21.14 2.86 2.39 2.68 2.71 2.57 0.00 #3   

Tomorrow the Ladies will have their Free Skate and there will be the Ice Dancing OD ;)

Lina
 

 

Here are the Ice Dancing Original Dance results:

http://static.sportresult.com/sports/figureskating/live/results/wc2008/SEG008.HTM

I
ce Dancing - Original Dance
   
Folk Country Dance
   
Online Result
   
FPl. Name Nat. Points CD OD FD
1 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER    FRA
  107.98 1 1 
2 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI    RUS
  103.97 3 2 
3 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR    CAN
  103.52 2 3 
4 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI    ITA
  100.70 4 5 
5 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO    USA
  99.71 5 4 
6 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT    FRA
  95.49 6 6 
7 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE    USA
  95.16 7 7 
8 Sinead KERR / John KERR    GBR
  93.34 8 8   
 
 
Result Details
   
Pl. Name Nation TSS
= TES
+    PCS
+ SS MO PF CH IT Deduction
- StN.
1 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA 67.25 35.30    31.95 8.43 8.21 8.43 8.54 8.46 0.00 #29 
2 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 65.99 35.67    30.32 7.89 7.79 8.11 8.00 8.11 0.00 #26 
3 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 64.81 34.58    30.23 7.86 7.79 8.04 8.04 8.07 0.00 #27 
4 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA 64.69 34.23    30.46 7.93 7.79 8.11 8.14 8.14 0.00 #23 
5 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 63.55 34.16    29.39 7.68 7.54 7.82 7.79 7.86 0.00 #28 
6 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 60.67 32.72    27.95 7.29 7.14 7.43 7.54 7.43 0.00 #21 
7 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 60.36 32.74    27.62 7.29 7.14 7.29 7.25 7.36 0.00 #30 
8 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 59.86 32.81    27.05 7.00 6.93 7.25 7.18 7.25 0.00 #22 
9 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR 58.10 32.16    25.94 6.82 6.71 6.82 6.82 6.93 0.00 #24 
10 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 57.05 32.80    24.25 6.39 6.11 6.46 6.39 6.54 0.00 #19 
11 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE 56.35 30.86    25.49 6.75 6.46 6.71 6.79 6.82 0.00 #25 
12 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 52.88 30.64    22.24 5.75 5.61 5.89 6.04 6.00 0.00 #12 
13 Kimberly NAVARRO / Brent BOMMENTRE USA 52.10 29.36    22.74 5.89 5.79 6.04 6.07 6.14 0.00 #20 
14 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS LTU 51.66 29.25    22.41 5.82 5.71 5.96 5.89 6.07 0.00 #13 
15 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER RUS 49.52 28.42    21.10 5.57 5.39 5.64 5.57 5.61 0.00 #11 
16 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR 49.17 27.12    22.05 5.75 5.68 5.86 5.89 5.86 0.00 #15 
17 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 48.62 28.63    19.99 5.29 5.04 5.36 5.32 5.32 0.00 #14 
18 Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 47.70 27.87    19.83 5.32 5.07 5.29 5.21 5.21 0.00 #18 
19 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 47.01 27.22    19.79 5.29 4.96 5.25 5.25 5.29 0.00 #16 
20 Barbora SILNA / Dmitri MATSJUK AUT 46.90 28.50    18.40 4.82 4.61 4.86 5.00 4.93 0.00 #7 
21 Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI GER 45.52 25.87    19.65 5.14 5.04 5.25 5.25 5.21 0.00 #17 
22 Leonie KRAIL / Oscar PETER SUI 44.10 27.28    16.82 4.32 4.21 4.50 4.46 4.61 0.00 #2 
23 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 43.97 26.66    17.31 4.68 4.46 4.64 4.46 4.54 0.00 #10 
24 Krisztina BARTA / Adam TOTH HUN 42.64 26.85    15.79 4.25 4.00 4.29 4.14 4.14 0.00 #8 
25 Kamila HAJKOVA / David VINCOUR CZE 41.91 26.32    16.59 4.50 4.21 4.21 4.50 4.39 1.00 #1 
26 Ksenia SHMIRINA / Egor MAISTROV BLR 40.50 25.48    15.02 4.00 3.79 4.14 4.04 3.89 0.00 #9 
27 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN AUS 39.88 25.70    14.18 3.71 3.54 3.82 3.71 3.86 0.00 #5 
28 Joanna BUDNER / Jan MOSCICKI POL 38.67 24.63    16.04 4.32 4.11 4.14 4.39 4.18 2.00 #3 
29 Ina DEMIREVA / Juri KURAKIN BUL 35.63 21.76    13.87 3.61 3.64 3.54 3.79 3.68 0.00 #4 
30 Sun Hye YU / Ramil SARKULOV UZB 35.08 21.47    13.61 3.68 3.39 3.54 3.79 3.57 0.00 #6   
 
Now, as to the Ladies--a lot happened.  Miki Ando had to withdraw, although she tried to skate in spite of being injured.    Yu-Na came back so strongly in the Free Skate that she won it, but she still did not win overall.  Mao Asada had a terrible fall in the Free Skate where she slide across the ice on her stomach, but she still won overall, and is now the Ladies' World Champion.

http://static.sportresult.com/sports/figureskating/live/results/wc2008/CAT002RS.HTM

Ladies
   
Result
   
FPl. Name Nat. Points SP FS

1 Mao ASADA    JPN
  185.56 2 2
2 Carolina KOSTNER    ITA
  184.68 1 3
3 Yu-Na KIM    KOR
  183.23 5 1
4 Yukari NAKANO    JPN
  177.40 3 4
5 Joannie ROCHETTE    CAN
  174.12 6 5
6 Sarah MEIER    SUI
  171.88 7 6
7 Kimmie MEISSNER    USA
  149.74 9 12
8 Laura LEPISTO    FIN
  147.26 21 7
9 Kiira KORPI    FIN
  145.73 4 17
10 Beatrisa LIANG    USA
  145.29 10 13
11 Julia SEBESTYEN    HUN
  145.17 19 8
12 Annette DYTRT    GER
  144.31 12 11
13 Valentina MARCHEI    ITA
  142.93 17 9
14 Mira LEUNG    CAN
  140.59 14 14
15 Elena GLEBOVA    EST
  140.10 20 10
16 Ashley WAGNER    USA
  137.40 11 15
17 Ksenia DORONINA    RUS
  135.25 15 16
18 Viktoria HELGESSON    SWE
  127.96 16 20
19 Na-Young KIM    KOR
  127.32 18 19
20 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI    GEO
  125.99 23 18
21 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA    UZB
  124.92 13 21
22 Tamar KATZ    ISR
  116.86 24 22
23 Melinda Sherilyn WANG    TPE
  116.12 22 23
WD Miki ANDO    JPN
    8 
25 Jenna MCCORKELL    GBR
  FNR 25 
26 Ivana REITMAYEROVA    SVK
  FNR 26 
27 Tugba KARADEMIR    TUR
  FNR 27 
28 Merovee EPHREM    MON
  FNR 28 
29 Victoria MUNIZ    PUR
  FNR 29 
30 Sonia LAFUENTE    ESP
  FNR 30 
31 Yan LIU    CHN
  FNR 31 
32 Nella SIMAOVA    CZE
  FNR 32 
33 Sonia RADEVA    BUL
  FNR 33 
34 Anna JURKIEWICZ    POL
  FNR 34 
35 Irina MOVCHAN    UKR
  FNR 35 
36 Julia SHEREMET    BLR
  FNR 36 
37 Tina WANG    AUS
  FNR 37 
38 Candice DIDIER    FRA
  FNR 38 
39 Roxana LUCA    ROU
  FNR 39 
40 Viviane KAESER    SUI
  FNR 40 
41 Mirna LIBRIC    CRO
  FNR 41 
42 Ksenia JASTSENJSKI    SRB
  FNR 42 

and here are the details:

http://static.sportresult.com/sports/figureskating/live/results/wc2008/SEG004.HTM

Ladies - Free Skating
   
Result Details

1 Yu-Na KIM KOR 123.38 64.82    58.56 7.57 7.00 7.46 7.25 7.32 0.00 #22 
2 Mao ASADA JPN 121.46 61.89    60.57 7.75 7.29 7.61 7.57 7.64 1.00 #23 
3 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 120.40 61.88    58.52 7.54 7.04 7.25 7.39 7.36 0.00 #20 
4 Yukari NAKANO JPN 116.30 56.98    59.32 7.50 7.21 7.61 7.32 7.43 0.00 #24 
5 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN 114.59 60.52    54.07 6.93 6.54 6.86 6.71 6.75 0.00 #19 
6 Sarah MEIER SUI 112.39 56.57    55.82 6.96 6.64 7.07 7.04 7.18 0.00 #16 
7 Laura LEPISTO FIN 101.85 54.42    47.43 6.04 5.57 6.04 5.96 6.04 0.00 #4 
8 Julia SEBESTYEN HUN 98.13 49.39    48.74 6.32 5.86 6.25 5.96 6.07 0.00 #5 
9 Valentina MARCHEI ITA 94.04 50.83    43.21 5.50 5.04 5.54 5.43 5.50 0.00 #7 
10 Elena GLEBOVA EST 93.84 53.32    40.52 5.18 4.71 5.25 5.07 5.11 0.00 #6 
11 Annette DYTRT GER 93.32 47.67    45.65 5.89 5.36 5.89 5.71 5.68 0.00 #14 
12 Kimmie MEISSNER USA 92.49 45.19    49.30 6.39 5.96 6.21 6.07 6.18 2.00 #13 
13 Beatrisa LIANG USA 92.48 48.54    45.94 5.96 5.46 5.79 5.71 5.79 2.00 #15 
14 Mira LEUNG CAN 89.90 47.88    43.02 5.68 5.07 5.50 5.32 5.32 1.00 #10 
15 Ashley WAGNER USA 85.91 39.66    47.25 5.96 5.68 6.00 5.89 6.00 1.00 #18 
16 Ksenia DORONINA RUS 85.31 45.39    40.92 5.39 4.86 5.21 5.11 5.00 1.00 #9 
17 Kiira KORPI FIN 85.15 35.47    50.68 6.46 6.25 6.21 6.43 6.32 1.00 #21 
18 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI GEO 81.93 41.13    40.80 5.43 4.82 5.18 5.07 5.00 0.00 #1 
19 Na-Young KIM KOR 79.36 41.57    38.79 5.21 4.64 4.82 4.86 4.71 1.00 #11 
20 Viktoria HELGESSON SWE 78.28 36.66    42.62 5.36 5.07 5.39 5.39 5.43 1.00 #12 
21 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA UZB 74.08 34.50    39.58 5.14 4.64 4.96 4.86 5.14 0.00 #8 
22 Tamar KATZ ISR 73.28 39.20    35.08 4.71 4.21 4.50 4.29 4.21 1.00 #2 
23 Melinda Sherilyn WANG TPE 71.35 37.41    35.94 4.54 4.25 4.64 4.54 4.50 2.00 #3   
 
Tomorrow, the  Men skate their short program, and we get the Free Dance.

Lina :)
   

The Men have finished skating.  Alban Preaubert withdrew.

There is some discussion about the 2 points deducted from Brian Joubert's score, because he fell only once, on the Lutz; it turned out that the second deduction was about his program's music, and it may be that his score will change later, after all, but I shall put here what the scores are now.  As you can see, the top three scores are very close indeed.  Daisuke  skated a little nervously at the beginning of his program, but then he really got into it.  The skating in general was unbelievably good; I am just hoping that the overall high quality will continue tomorrow into the FS.

Of course, I am a Johnny Weir fan, so I am especially hoping this for him.  

http://static.sportresult.com/sports/figureskating/live/results/wc2008/SEG001.HTM

Men - Short Program
   
Online Result
   
FPl. Name Nat. Points SP FS
1 Jeffrey BUTTLE    CAN
  82.10 1 
2 Johnny WEIR    USA
  80.79 2 
3 Daisuke TAKAHASHI    JPN
  80.40 3 
4 Tomas VERNER    CZE
  79.87 4 
5 Stephane LAMBIEL    SUI
  79.12 5 
  ...               
8 Takahiko KOZUKA    JPN
  70.91 8 
9 Kevin VAN DER PERREN    BEL
  70.24 9 
10 Kristoffer BERNTSSON    SWE
  69.02 10   
 
 
Result Details 
   
1 Jeffrey BUTTLE CAN 82.10 44.07    38.03 7.71 7.46 7.61 7.54 7.71 0.00 #41 
2 Johnny WEIR USA 80.79 42.64    38.15 7.79 7.43 7.71 7.54 7.68 0.00 #40 
3 Daisuke TAKAHASHI JPN 80.40 41.15    39.25 7.86 7.64 7.79 7.89 8.07 0.00 #42 
4 Tomas VERNER CZE 79.87 41.44    38.43 7.82 7.43 7.71 7.68 7.79 0.00 #37 
5 Stephane LAMBIEL SUI 79.12 40.57    38.55 7.82 7.54 7.61 7.79 7.79 0.00 #39 
6 Brian JOUBERT FRA 77.75 41.14    38.61 7.86 7.43 7.82 7.68 7.82 2.00 #43 
7 Patrick CHAN CAN 72.81 38.66    34.15 7.07 6.68 6.82 6.79 6.79 0.00 #44 
8 Takahiko KOZUKA JPN 70.91 37.15    33.76 7.04 6.43 6.79 6.71 6.79 0.00 #45 
9 Kevin VAN DER PERREN BEL 70.24 37.03    33.21 6.82 6.36 6.68 6.64 6.71 0.00 #46 
10 Kristoffer BERNTSSON SWE 69.02 38.48    30.54 6.11 5.75 6.21 6.18 6.29 0.00 #24 
11 Stephen CARRIERE USA 68.20 37.06    31.14 6.32 6.04 6.21 6.25 6.32 0.00 #35 
12 Sergei DAVYDOV BLR 68.19 36.58    31.61 6.61 6.07 6.36 6.25 6.32 0.00 #36 
13 Adrian SCHULTHEISS SWE 66.45 37.16    29.29 6.00 5.54 5.86 5.89 6.00 0.00 #28 
14 Jeremy ABBOTT USA 65.61 32.75    32.86 6.68 6.18 6.64 6.61 6.75 0.00 #34 
15 Sergei VORONOV RUS 65.26 33.41    31.85 6.54 6.14 6.46 6.32 6.39 0.00 #31 
16 Yannick PONSERO FRA 64.46 34.47    29.99 6.29 5.71 5.96 5.96 6.07 0.00 #33 
17 Karel ZELENKA ITA 64.05 35.80    28.25 5.82 5.39 5.68 5.61 5.75 0.00 #30 
18 Gregor URBAS SLO 61.65 35.04    26.61 5.54 5.04 5.32 5.32 5.39 0.00 #25 
19 Igor MACYPURA SVK 61.19 35.91    25.28 5.25 4.71 5.07 5.04 5.21 0.00 #21 
20 Yasuharu NANRI JPN 60.89 32.06    28.83 5.93 5.36 5.86 5.82 5.86 0.00 #27 
21 Anton KOVALEVSKI UKR 60.74 34.21    26.53 5.50 4.96 5.32 5.25 5.50 0.00 #13 
22 Jamal OTHMAN SUI 57.75 29.54    28.21 5.82 5.36 5.61 5.71 5.71 0.00 #32 
23 Chengjiang LI CHN 53.99 26.34    27.65 5.93 5.29 5.50 5.50 5.43 0.00 #29 
24 Abzal RAKIMGALIEV KAZ 51.58 29.87    21.71 4.61 4.14 4.43 4.21 4.32 0.00 #7 
25 Alexandr KAZAKOV BLR 51.00 27.64    23.36 4.93 4.50 4.64 4.68 4.61 0.00 #22 
26 Michael CHROLENKO NOR 50.50 27.43    23.07 4.79 4.29 4.71 4.57 4.71 0.00 #19 
27 Pavel KASKA CZE 49.98 24.91    25.07 5.21 4.79 5.07 5.00 5.00 0.00 #26 
28 Boris MARTINEC CRO 48.91 27.88    21.03 4.46 3.89 4.25 4.25 4.18 0.00 #23 
29 Elliot HILTON GBR 48.10 26.70    21.40 4.57 4.04 4.36 4.18 4.25 0.00 #18 
30 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 47.87 27.34    20.53 4.36 3.89 4.14 4.07 4.07 0.00 #2 
31 Mikko MINKKINEN FIN 47.15 26.33    21.82 4.54 4.07 4.32 4.43 4.46 1.00 #16 
32 Peter LIEBERS GER 46.96 26.42    21.54 4.61 4.04 4.21 4.43 4.25 1.00 #4 
33 Zoltan KELEMEN ROU 45.58 25.65    20.93 4.36 3.93 4.14 4.29 4.21 1.00 #11 
34 Maxim SHIPOV ISR 44.32 25.53    18.79 4.04 3.54 3.75 3.75 3.71 0.00 #8 
35 Sean CARLOW AUS 43.98 24.48    19.50 4.04 3.64 3.86 4.00 3.96 0.00 #9 
36 Luis HERNANDEZ MEX 42.74 22.27    20.47 4.29 3.82 4.18 4.11 4.07 0.00 #17 
37 Manuel KOLL AUT 42.47 21.61    20.86 4.32 3.93 4.11 4.25 4.25 0.00 #20 
38 Justin PIETERSEN RSA 38.67 20.73    17.94 3.68 3.36 3.54 3.75 3.61 0.00 #12 
39 Naiden BORICHEV BUL 38.36 22.07    17.29 3.71 3.11 3.43 3.54 3.50 1.00 #6 
40 Konstantin TUPIKOV POL 37.47 18.94    19.53 4.25 3.71 3.79 3.89 3.89 1.00 #10 
41 Tristan THODE NZL 35.29 18.11    18.18 3.89 3.39 3.61 3.75 3.54 1.00 #14 
42 Kutay ERYOLDAS TUR 35.04 19.72    17.32 3.79 3.21 3.43 3.50 3.39 2.00 #5 
43 Danil PRIVALOV AZE 34.73 19.36    16.37 3.64 3.11 3.29 3.29 3.04 1.00 #3 
44 Tigran VARDANJAN HUN 32.37 15.72    17.65 3.75 3.29 3.46 3.61 3.54 1.00 #1 
45 Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS LTU 28.63 13.19    16.44 3.61 3.11 3.18 3.36 3.18 1.00 #15   
 
Lina :)

Thanks, ladies, for all your efforts posting the results.

Regarding Joubert's deductions, I believe the second one is in relation to a time problem. Namely, his skating ended after the 2:40 minute cut off for the SP. Whether it happened because Brian got tired during his program or lost his focus is immaterial at this point. From my understanding, gained by reading other boards (primarily FSU and Golden Skate) he and his coach are  protesting about the score. However, even if it should be decided that the time penalty was made in error, Brian's placement (77.75 points)  would still remain at 6th; the one-point addition would not give him enough placement to place above Lambiel, who is in 5th place with 79.12 points. The only advantage would come at the end of the LP when the total points are added for both SP and LP. Then, there might be enough points gained to influence a podium placement. Of course, that is dependant upon Brian producing a completely clean LP with at least one quad, and one or more of 5 competitors above him would have to screw up considerably. With the pressure at World's anything is possible, LOL.

Mary C.

"With the pressure at World's anything is possible, LOL."--How true, Mary!

I've been so glued to TV streaming today that I am visually exhausted--but I just stopped typing to watch the Kerrs on the big screen lol.

OK, here are the figures for the Ice Dancing Free Dance and Final  Results, which occurred today, and parts of it are being shown on TV right now:

http://static.sportresult.com/sports/figureskating/live/results/wc2008/CAT004RS.HTM

Ice Dancing
   
Result
   
FPl. Name Nat. Points CD OD FD
1 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER    FRA
  212.94 1 1 2
2 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR    CAN
  208.80 2 3 1
3 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI    RUS
  203.26 3 2 5
4 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO    USA
  203.00 5 4 3
5 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI    ITA
  201.91 4 5 4
6 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE    USA
  191.19 7 7 6
7 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT    FRA
  190.51 6 6 7
8 Sinead KERR / John KERR    GBR
  186.94 8 8 8
9 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI    ISR
  179.21 9 9 10
10 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE    ITA
  179.03 11 10 9
11 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN    AZE
  173.95 10 11 11
12 Kimberly NAVARRO / Brent BOMMENTRE    USA
  165.90 12 13 14
13 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV    RUS
  164.72 16 12 13
14 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS    LTU
  164.28 13 14 12
15 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER    RUS
  160.37 15 15 15
16 Cathy REED / Chris REED    JPN
  155.15 18 18 16
17 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE    CAN
  154.84 20 17 17
18 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO    UKR
  153.25 14 16 21
19 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO    CAN
  153.13 17 19 18
20 Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI    GER
  150.82 19 21 19
21 Barbora SILNA / Dmitri MATSJUK    AUT
  147.21 21 20 20
22 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG    CHN
  139.20 23 23 23
23 Kamila HAJKOVA / David VINCOUR    CZE
  138.63 22 25 22
24 Leonie KRAIL / Oscar PETER    SUI
  126.50 25 22 24
25 Krisztina BARTA / Adam TOTH    HUN
  FNR 27 24 
26 Joanna BUDNER / Jan MOSCICKI    POL
  FNR 24 28 
27 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN    AUS
  FNR 28 27 
28 Ksenia SHMIRINA / Egor MAISTROV    BLR
  FNR 29 26 
29 Sun Hye YU / Ramil SARKULOV    UZB
  FNR 26 30 
30 Ina DEMIREVA / Juri KURAKIN    BUL
  FNR 30 29 
  Kristina KIUDMAA / Aleksei TROHLEV    EST
  NQD 31     
 
Here are the Free Dance details:
 
http://static.sportresult.com/sports/figureskating/live/results/wc2008/SEG009.HTM

Ice Dancing - Free Dance
   
Result Details 
   
1 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 105.28 54.69    50.59 8.46 8.21 8.54 8.46 8.64 0.00 #23 
2 Isabelle DELOBEL / Oli