Mary Wehmeier: Skating DivaNews, opinions and views from the world of Figure and Artistic Skating.Skating Diva News: Final Results Men's 2002 World Championships - Nagano, Japan- March 21, 2002 Skating Diva News: Men's 2002 World Championships - Nagano, Japan FINAL RESULTS 1 Alexei YAGUDIN RUS (left) 2 Timothy GOEBEL USA (right) 3 Takeshi HONDA JPN (lower left) 4 Alexander ABT RUS5 Chengjiang LI CHN6 Michael WEISS USA7 Anthony LIU AUS8 Jeffrey BUTTLE CAN 9 Min ZHANG CHN10 Andrejs VLASCENKO GER11 Frederic DAMBIER FRA12 Matthew SAVOIE USA13 Brian JOUBERT FRA14 Kevin VAN DER PERREN BEL15 Ben FERREIRA CAN16 Song GAO CHN17 Ivan DINEV BUL18 Stephane LAMBIEL SUI19 Roman SKORNIAKOV...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/21.html#a128 Skating Diva Report: Pairs Final Results- March 21, 2002 Skating Diva Report: Pairs Final Results Pairs just finished up a short while ago according to IceCalc, the official scoring system. And while this is fine to know where the placements are-- it does little to tell you exactly HOW people skated. So I waited a bit for Judy Blumberg's report on iSkater. Below's the final placements and links to the gory details-- are here, and here . 2002 World Pairs Finals 1 Xue SHENHongbo ZHAO CHN (left) 2 Tatiana TOTMIANINAMaxim MARININ..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/20.html#a126 Skating Diva Reports: Wrap up on Women Freestyle Qualifying Rounds A & B- March 20, 2002 Skating Diva Reports: Notes on Wrap up on Women Freestyle Qualifying Rounds A & B The Women's Event today was a marathon. 37 Ladies had to take the ice today to qualify for ranking. What the Japanese hosts in Nagano and the ISU did not realize or plan-- is that many of the ladies would have to ready to leave their dormitory housing and board the buses to the M-Wave Arena BEFORE 5 AM for a 9 AM start time. What on earth were they thinking This is the World Championships, right Add to..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/20.html#a123 Women's Freeskating Event - B Level Qualifying Round Placements.- March 20, 2002 World Championships Results - Women's Freeskating Event - A Level Qualifying Round Placements The first qualifying round for World's ended a short time ago. More news as to how they skated when I get it. Placements are as follows. 1 Irina SLUTSKAYA RUS (left)2 Sasha COHEN USA3 Yoshie ONDA JPN4 Elena LIASHENKO UKR5 Tatiana MALININA UZB6 Susanna POYKIO FIN7 Julia SOLDATOVA BLR8 Laetitia HUBERT FRA9 Viktoria VOLCHKOVA RUS10 Idora HEGEL CRO11 Asa PERSSON SWE12 Dan FANG CHN13 Miriam...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/20.html#a122 Women's Freeskating Event - A Level Qualifying Round Placements- March 20, 2002 World Championships Results - Women's Freeskating Event - A Level Qualifying Round Placements The first qualifying round for World's ended a short time ago. More news as to how they skated when I get it. Placements are as follows. 1 Michelle KWAN USA (left)2 Fumie SUGURI JPN 3 Julia SEBESTYEN HUN 4 Jennifer KIRK USA 5 Jennifer ROBINSON CAN 6 Maria BUTYRSKAYA RUS 7 Silvia FONTANA ITA8 Lucie KRAUSOVA CZE9 Julia LAUTOWA AUT 10 Galina MANIACHENKO UKR11 Zuzana BABIAKOVA SVK 12 Gintare...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/19.html#a121 The Skating Diva Speaks - Marie-Reine Le Gougne's and ISU President Cinquanta are Back in the News-- Again- March 20, 2002 The Skating Diva Speaks: Marie-Reine Le Gougne's and ISU President Cinquanta are Back in the News-- AgainWorlds News is below-- scroll down Max Miller, attorney for former Olympic Pairs Judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne, (left) is talking to the press again, during the World Championships in order to garner more public media attention and expose a few of the ISU's warts in public. While Miller doesn't have one of the more popular people in the skating world as a client, he is still claiming...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/19.html#a119 Skating Diva: Report on the World Figure Skating Championships in Nagano- March 19, 2002 World Figure Skating Championship Report - Men Nail Quads in Qualifying at World's It appears the calling card to enter the top levels of the Elite Mens Freestyle Event at the World Championships are to land at least one quad-revolution jump-- and preferably in a combination. On Monday the qualifying rounds and Tuesday's Short Programs for the Men's event heated up Nagano's M Arena. Note: Unlike the Olympics where the number of skaters per nation are...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/19.html#a118 (Untitled)- March 5, 2002 Slippery Ice- You can tell the Olympics is over, because life in the skating world is not running smoothly. The slate of entries for World's still isn't posted on the World Championship site as of tonight. It appears they're having the same type of problems with their ISP I've been having. (more later) The "Welcome Home" parade in Great Neck, NY for Sarah Hughes had to be postponed, due to rain. It's rescheduled for next weekend. (Weather permitting-- of course.) And it appears Amy Fisher has..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/05.html#a97 Skating Diva: Who's Not Going to Worlds- March 3, 2002 REMINDER to Now VOTE VOTE VOTE for your favorite Best Olympic Parody Song of the Year:Swipe the URL and tell your friends! Voting ends March 2, 2002 at Midnight Pacific Time. The deadline registration for the World Championships in Nagano, Japan are Monday. The following skaters have announced they are not skating Worlds Peizerat and Anissina - Dance France (Announced Retirement) Sale and Pelletier - Pairs Canada Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze - Pairs Russia Lobacheva.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/03.html#a96 The Skating Diva Daily- March 1, 2002 REMINDER to Now VOTE VOTE VOTE for your favorite Best Olympic Parody Song of the Year: Swipe the URL and tell your friends! Voting ends March 2, 2002 at Midnight Pacific Time. Michelle Kwan announced on Jay Leno's Show tonight that she is definitely going to the World Championships, March 18-24, 2002 in Nagano, Japan next month. She also announced she is touring in Champions on Ice until she goes back to UCLA this fall. You knew it wouldn't take them long... Tank McNamara by Jeff Millar and.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/03/01.html#a95 |