This Week in Skating / June 5, 2023

This Week in Skating is hosted by Gina Capellazzi and Daphne Backman and is a cooperative project between Figure Skaters Online and Ice-dance.com. New episodes are available every Monday.Website: http://www.thisweekinskating.comEmail: thisweekinskating@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisweekinskatingTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/thiswkinskatingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinskating-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Episode 79 Show NotesSkate Canada Pride MerchandiseSkate Canada Pride Season 2023Events Results Brief2023 Hong Kong Figure Skating ChampionshipsSegment - General Skating News ISU released the international single & pair skating, ice dance and synchronized skating competitions for 2023-24 season.ISU released the ice dance scale of values for the 2023-24 season.ISU posted the three countries that applied to replace Hungary for 2024 European Championships: Sofia, Bulgaria; Kaunas, Lithuania and Warsaw, Poland.Skate Canada's Volunteer Portal is now open for the 2023-2024 season includes volunteering for Montreal Worlds.The German Skating Union announced that they received clearance from the ISU for Russia’s Nikita Volodin to skate with Minerva Hase. They can represent Germany at international competitions this season. Segment - Recent InterviewsJohn Coughlin scandal rocked U.S. Figure Skating. Now a supporter of his has been hired, by Christine Brennan, USA TodayU.S. Figure Skating honored coach once suspended for alleged sexual relationship with 16-year-old, by Christine Brennan, USA TodayVideo: A Day With The Haydenettes (USA) Video/Article: Family grieves sudden loss of Las Vegas’s iconic ‘Benny the Ice-Skating Dog’, by Sasha Loftis, 8NewsNow.comGolden Knights favorite Benny the Ice Skating Dog dies at 12, by Las Vegas Review-JournalPodcast: Shared Tenacity and a Matched Energy ft. Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, by Polina EdmundsWith World Title, Chock and Bates Join U.S. Ice Dance Royalty, by Darci Miller, U.S. Figure Skating Fan ZoneThe Nisei Sacrifice, by Barb Reichert, U.S. Figure SkatingChen, Shibutanis pen children’s book with emphasis on AAPI representations, by Lynn Rutherford, Team USAOlympian Kaetlyn Osmond mentors Fort McMurray figure skaters at weekend skating clinic, Vincent McDermott, Fort McMurray TodaySegment - Social Media UpdatesCongratulations are in order for former U.S. competitive skater Douglas Razzano who got married over the weekend. Photos appeared on Doug’s Instagram story.Ice Academy of Montreal posted a photo of Shun Sato with Guillaume Cizeron. Cizeron is choreographing a program for Sato.Ice Academy also posted photos of Kaori Sakamoto with Marie-France Dubreuil and Samuel Chouinard. She was there in Montreal choreographing a program as well.Solene Mazingue posted in her Instagram story that she had a fall in practice last Friday and hit her head. Her doctor said she now has another concussion. Former competitive ice dancer Louis Thauron has been busy choreographing for ice dancers in his native France.Randi Strong was in Novi, Michigan working with Igor Shpilband’s teams, choreographing new programs. Kinoshita Skating Academy announced that Utana Yoshida has partnered with Masaya Morita.  Thornton Park Ice Arena in Shaker Heights, Ohio shared on Instagram that it will be hosting a Freestyle and Ice Dance clinic with Kori Ade and Rob Peal on June 8th and 9th. Registration has closed for this seminar.Skate Canada will be hosting its first Adult Training Camp this summer (August 23-26) at Sportplexe Pierrefonds in Montreal. Elizabeth Manley will be part of this clinic. New team training at the Ice Academy of Montreal announced on June 2 by Kayleigh Maksymec - she and Canada’s Felix Desmarais for Switzerland. Ilia Malinin  posted a video of himself doing 4A+3A+3A+3A+3A combination during a warm-up at SOI. Paulina Ramanauskaite and Deividas Kizala have left Maurizio Margaglio to move to Madrid and train with the new SK International Ice Dance School headed by Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin. Segment -  Program AnnouncementsCheck out our website for a listing of program music announcements - will be updated as they are announced!MenWomenPairsDanceSegment - Upcoming Events Ice on Fire, June 10 at 6 p.m. at the ION Arena in Leesburg, Virginia Hollins Trophy International, June 9-12 in Erina, NSW, Australia (final ISU international fro the 2022-23 season) 2023 National Theatre on Ice, June 26-30 in Fraser, Michigan IDC and FSO spotlightIDC: Reiten & Majorov: A New BeginningSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/this-week-in-skating-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy