trophée Eric Bompard

MEN
Brian and Alban "debuts" face to recent grand Prix winners : Chan and Kozuka
No. Name Nation
1 Patrick CHAN CAN
2 Jialiang WU CHN
3 Yoann DESLOT FRA
4 Brian JOUBERT FRA
5 Alban PREAUBERT FRA
6 Peter LIEBERS GER
7 Takahiko KOZUKA JPN
8 Igor MACYPURA SVK
9 Gregor URBAS SLO
10 Ryan BRADLEY USA
11 Brandon MROZ USA

Ladies:
certainly at the top: Joannie and Mao
No. Name Nation
1 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN
2 Binshu XU CHN
3 Candice DIDIER FRA
4 Gwendoline DIDIER FRA
5 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI GEO
6 Mao ASADA JPN
7 Emily HUGHES USA
8 Beatrisa LIANG USA
9 Caroline ZHANG USA
10 Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVA UZB

Pairs:
The world champions certainly first and the Russian second
1 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN
2 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN
3 Adeline CANAC / Maximin COIA FRA
4 Melodie CHATAIGNER / Medhi BOUZZINE FRA
5 Vanessa JAMES / Yannick BONHEUR FRA
6 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER
7 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS
8 Tiffany VISE / Derek TRENT USA

Ice Dance:
very interesting competition with the world champions, another french good pair, a very original french pair (Zoe and Pierre-Loup), the Kerr who are stronger this season, and the italian pair
No. Name Nation
1 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE
2 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER CAN
3 Zoe BLANC / Pierre-Loup BOUQUET FRA
4 Pernelle CARRON / Mathieu JOST FRA
5 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA
6 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR
7 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA
8 Joanna BUDNER / Jan MOSCICKI POL
9 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER RUS
10 Jennifer WESTER / Daniil BARANTSEV USA

TEB is going to be really interesting. For the men, it will be a huge factor in determining who makes the Final. Evan Lysacek especially will be waiting for these results. Of course there is Brian and Alban making their season debut. I hope Brian got his blade problems sorted out. In the ladies, there's the anticipated debut of Mao. I'm especially looking forward to that.

Will you be going, anne-marie?

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Thank you for TEB information, anne-marie.

I hope Brian will win. It's time that a veteran wins a gold, I think. I'm looking forward to seeing Mao's new programs, too. Joannie skated wonderfully with great confidence at SC (I love her FP!), so I'm interested in how she will fight Mao.

swandie wrote:

Will you be going, anne-marie?

annne-marie answered the same question of mine. I will copy it here.

anne-marie wrote:

I am not happy at all. I can't attend the TEB and I can't watch figure skating on TV because I live now in New Zealand/ I have 4 channels specialized in sports, and there are only rugby, football, nothing in figure skating ... for 2 weeks now I can't watch youtube videos...

It's a pity.. I think New Zealand is a beautiful place to live but maybe not good for figure skating fans.

Thanks for the lists, anne-marie. Go Brian and go Mao!

an article : http://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/breves2008/20 … chard.html
Joubert revanchard the revenge !
Brian said that the trophée Bompard is quite the most important competition for him this season, because he missed it last year(because his virus) , because it is in Paris, and because Eric Bompard (cashmere clothes) is his sponsor ... He wants revenge! His problems with the blades are not completely solved..;?????He is not anxious whith the jumps and is well prepared.
His free program will include 2 different quads and 2 triplesAxel. He will be happy to go back to Moscow. He wanted to add China and Japan at his grand prix list but not this year, because Buttle was scheduled to do China, and Japan is too far and too losed to the national french championships. Another time!
His goal in South Corea is to win. Figure skating starts developing there because
His goal is the podium at the European and world championships. But he doesn't intend to skate at 100% ..reserving himself for the Vancouver, in order to be ready on the D day, and maybe he will repeat there 3 quads...

sorry: add "Yu na Kim "

Thanks for the article, anne-marie. It's too bad Brian is still having blade issues but his jump content sounds very ambitious! I find it interesting that he scaled back his goals for Euros and Worlds this year though. I guess he sees that the pre-Olympic world champion usually doesn't end up winning the Olympics.

NHK will be earlier next season so maybe he can go then (unless he ends up in the same seeding group as Daisuke).

" I guess he sees that the pre-Olympic world champion usually doesn't end up winning the Olympics. "
it is only superstition!!!

Maybe I should have worded that better. I know it's a superstition but I was trying to say that maybe Brian believes in it to a degree.

Men's SP results:

1 Patrick CHAN CAN 81.39 44.24 37.15 7.50 7.15 7.40 7.45 7.65 0.00 #11
2 Takahiko KOZUKA JPN 77.00 42.70 35.30 7.25 6.80 7.05 7.05 7.15 1.00 #8
3 Brian JOUBERT FRA 73.75 36.20 37.55 7.60 7.20 7.60 7.45 7.70 0.00 #12
4 Alban PREAUBERT FRA 73.24 39.64 33.60 6.60 6.45 6.60 6.95 7.00 0.00 #9
5 Ryan BRADLEY USA 69.35 39.30 30.05 6.00 5.50 6.20 5.95 6.40 0.00 #7
6 Brandon MROZ USA 65.44 35.04 30.40 6.30 5.85 6.05 6.10 6.10 0.00 #10
7 Jialiang WU CHN 62.74 36.94 25.80 5.50 4.95 5.10 5.05 5.20 0.00 #4
8 Peter LIEBERS GER 61.59 35.24 26.35 5.45 4.90 5.45 5.20 5.35 0.00 #2
9 Igor MACYPURA SVK 61.58 35.78 25.80 5.40 5.00 5.25 5.00 5.15 0.00 #3
10 Yoann DESLOT FRA 55.65 30.30 26.35 5.55 4.90 5.35 5.20 5.35 1.00 #1
11 Gregor URBAS SLO 55.01 30.16 24.85 5.25 4.80 5.00 4.90 4.90 0.00 #5
12 Andrei LUTAI RUS 53.33 27.18 27.15 5.75 5.20 5.30 5.45 5.45 1.00 #6

I haven't seen the programs yet...
... but, what happens to the top skaters??? only 73 points for Brian...

Hasn't sharpened his blades properly. Sorry for Brian. Everything may change on FS but actually I'm not sure that this will happen.

Joubert's SP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U1mprPotZ8

He completly missed the combination...

Patrick Chan's SP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA500umco5Q

Really good job! I'm falling in love with this guy...

Kozuka's SP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOjcO4a_5H0

Poor Takahiko! He fell down on a spin...

The ladies short featured a lot of errors at the top as well. Mao popped the second jump on her combo and doubled her lutz. Joannie Rochette missed her combo and Caroline Zhang missed her double axel.

Patrick was awesome today! No problems at all and his jumps looked amazing in the air. Despite the spin problem, Takahiko did well also. I still think he has one of the most enjoyable shorts this season. If Brian was able to do his combo, he'd probably be first but I don't like his program at all.

Swandie. I agree with you!
I think Patrick and Takahiko have the best short programs among men so far, (we haven't seen Dai's one! ), also better then Weir and Lysacek...
They are really elegant.
I fully agree also on Joubert... I don't like his short at all... I find that the initial movements are almost embarrassing ... they should be better in an exhibition program.
BTW I hope Brian can do his best in FP.

glorydave wrote:

I think Patrick and Takahiko have the best short programs among men so far, (we haven't seen Dai's one! ), also better then Weir and Lysacek...
They are really elagant.

Off the record, Dai has the best short but we can't count him until at least NHK. I'm very fond of Takahiko's short because it's a perfect fit for him. I didn't think Patrick and Takahiko would become major contenders this soon but here they are.

glorydave wrote:

I fully agree also on Joubert... I don't like his short at all... I find that the initial movements are almost embarrassing ... they should be better in an exhibition program.
BTW I hope Brian can do his best in FP.

I think Brian's program lacks substance for a competitive program. I do hope though that he can skate a good free.

MEN's results:
1 Patrick CHAN CAN 238.09 1 1
2 Takahiko KOZUKA JPN 230.78 2 2
3 Alban PREAUBERT FRA 222.44 4 3
4 Brian JOUBERT FRA 221.13 3 4
5 Brandon MROZ USA 189.46 6 5
6 Peter LIEBERS GER 176.88 8 6
7 Ryan BRADLEY USA 175.62 5 10
8 Jialiang WU CHN 169.36 7 9
9 Gregor URBAS SLO 167.87 11 7
10 Igor MACYPURA SVK 165.20 9 11
11 Andrei LUTAI RUS 160.10 12 8
12 Yoann DESLOT FRA 156.68 10 12

Congratulations to Chan and Kozuka! Now they're in the GPF!
Chan had the best PCS! I think he deserves it, more than Brian...
Kozuka had the best TES! and it's a great score if we think he fell on a jump...
I haven't seen the programs yet...

glorydave, Takahiko fell on his quad attempt. It got downgraded but he had a lot of level 3s and 4s on his spins and steps. Despite the fall, Takahiko skated wonderfully. Still, Brian got slightly higher PCS than Takahiko. Patrick had a couple of step outs but he was amazing. It was so much better than Skate Canada.

I like Brian's free program better than his short and I'm so glad he tossed that fugly costume he wore at French Masters. His triple loop was downgraded and he fell on it so he only got 0.65 for it. That was most likely the difference. Evan Lysacek might still have a shot at the final. I thought it would be certain by the end of this but it's not. If Brian doesn't place in the top 2 at Cup of Russia, Evan will trump him.

I see a real shake up going on here. Patrick and Takahiko are rising fast and it seems like the other top men can't keep up with them. Jeremy Abbott and Stephen Carriere are also on the rise. It's going to be fun to watch and see how the rest of the season plays out.

swandie wrote:

the other top men can't keep up with them.

I'd say they can't keep up with themselves. The last season's champions should do something with their motivation or nerves, as soon as possible.

Ladies Final Standings:
1. Joannie Rochette
2. Mao Asada
3. Caroline Zhang
4. Candice Didier
5. Bebe Liang
6. Binshu Xu
7. Elene Gedevanishvili
8. Anastasia Gimazetdinova
9. Emily Hughes
10. Gweldoline Didier

Mao struggled quite a bit. She popped both her salchows: one into a double and the other was a half rotation I think. The technique changes may hurt her before they start to help. Joannie did an excellent job today although Skate Canada was better. Caroline did much better than she did at SC and is smiling more than she was then.