Cup of Russia Nov. 18 – 2, 2010 *SPOILERS*

[Artemis]

Link for entries & results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/gprus2010/

[Artemis]

Men's short program results:

[spoiler]1 Patrick CHAN   CAN
81.96 1 
2 Jeremy ABBOTT   USA
77.61 2 
3 Tomas VERNER   CZE
74.10 3 
4 Artur GACHINSKI   RUS
72.41 4 
5 Alban PREAUBERT   FRA
70.50 5 
6 Yuzuru HANYU   JPN
70.24 6 
7 Konstantin MENSHOV   RUS
67.34 7 
8 Javier FERNANDEZ   ESP
66.46 8 
9 Samuel CONTESTI   ITA
65.69 9 
10 Ivan TRETIAKOV   RUS
65.61 10 
11 Anton KOVALEVSKI   UKR
60.05 11 
12 Tatsuki MACHIDA   JPN
56.37 12 
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[Isk8NYC]

I've been so crazy-busy with work, I didn't do anything for this competition.  I even missed the USFSA Fantasy Skating entry deadline.  Thanks for starting the thread and posting results, Artemis.

[Artemis]

Pairs short program results:

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1 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV   RUS
61.91 1 
2 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN   JPN
55.90 2 
3 Katarina GERBOLDT / Alexander ENBERT   RUS
53.62 3 
4 Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG   USA
52.58 4 
5 Paige LAWRENCE / Rudi SWIEGERS   CAN
51.67 5 
6 Britney SIMPSON / Nathan MILLER   USA
50.28 6 
7 Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK   ITA
49.78 7 
8 Tatiana NOVIK / Mikhail KUZNETSOV   RUS
45.48 8
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[Artemis]

Ladies' short program results:

[spoiler]
1 Akiko SUZUKI   JPN
57.43 1 
2 Agnes ZAWADZKI   USA
56.84 2 
3 Ashley WAGNER   USA
56.17 3 
4 Sofia BIRYUKOVA   RUS
54.99 4 
5 Miki ANDO   JPN
54.00 5 
6 Valentina MARCHEI   ITA
53.61 6 
7 Myriane SAMSON   CAN
53.26 7 
8 Ksenia MAKAROVA   RUS
52.93 8 
9 Alena LEONOVA   RUS
46.61 9 
10 Elena GLEBOVA   EST
45.78 10
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[Artemis]

Short dance (still not used to calling it that!) results:

[spoiler]
1 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV   RUS
60.80 1 
2 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI   ITA
57.65 2 
3 Nora HOFFMANN / Maxim ZAVOZIN   HUN
57.24 3 
4 Kristina GORSHKOVA / Vitali BUTIKOV   RUS
51.97 4 
5 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL   USA
50.59 5 
6 Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV   RUS
49.14 6 
7 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK   CZE
48.45 7 
8 Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM   CAN
45.75 8

Yoiks, complete meltdown for Alex & Mitch. I had thought that in this field they'd have a shot at the podium ... [/spoiler]

[Isk8NYC]

I'm watching the Ladies SP now - lots of little mistakes from the veterans.

close race though.

[Artemis]

Woah, bit of a train wreck for the dance event -- 3 pairs withdrew after the short dance. Federica Faiella/Massimo Scali because "he was suffering from lumbago." Madison Hubbell/Keiffer Hubbell withdrew because he was having back pain. Alexandra Paul/Mitchell Islam had to quit because she had a muscle injury was aggravated in the morning practice. (I had expected Alex & Mitch to be higher in the standings after the short dance, but the injury would explain their multiple deductions.)

[AgnesNitt]

Just caught the tail end of the Cup of Russia on Universal Sports. I only saw Chan and Abbott.

Two of the most boring skaters I've ever seen. Dull music, boring costumes.  Geeze I miss Johnny Wier.

I only caught Verner's performance on Youtube. His Sp was fine, but the music cuts in his FS were abrupt (and dare I say amateurish), still he's still  hot s** on ice. He's also got Evan's problem of hunching his shoulders . Geeze I miss Johnny Wier--he had such balletic attention to hie arm positions.