Grand Prix/Worlds-Some Spoilers

USFSA just posted the US qualifiers and I went on over to the ISU page
to look at the rest. Very interesting lineup.

Ladies:
1. Cohen
2. Liashenko
3. Suguri
4. Arakawa
5. Sebeyten
6. Onda
1A. Kirk
2A. Kostner
3A.Poykio

First, who would have thought Sebeysten would be in this lineup and
Liashenko as well? I find it amazing. I also find it encouraging that
Kostner seemed to pull it together in the Sr.'s as I had read she was
really struggling. Although, the oddness of this lineup may have to do
with the oddities of the new judging system... my final outcome will
be....I also wonder with Kirk as the alternate, what has the history
been that the alternate ends up going in general at the Final and of
this group, anyone stick out as a possible dropout?

Men:
1. Plushy
2 BUTTLE
3. WEISS
4. VAN DER PERREN BEL
5. Timothy GOEBEL
6. GAO
1A JOUBERT
2A  SANDHU
3A LI

Again, who thought Van Der Perren? where did he come from?....and
Gao...he's been hanging on in the Jr.'s.... I'm sad however, to see that
Joubert did not make it... and LI....very surprising...

Pairs:
1. Maria PETROVA / Alexei TIKHONOVR
2.Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO
3.Tatiana TOTMIANINA / Maxim MARININR
4. Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG
5. PANG / Jian TONG
6.Anabelle LANGLOIS / Patrice ARCHETTO
1A Dorota ZAGORSKA / Mariusz SIUDEK
2A  INOUE / John BALDWIN,
3A WAKAMATSU  / Jean-Sebastien FECTEAU

Nothing surprising here...other than Inoue and Balwin qualified as high
as they did....I'm not a fan and had hoped that Scott and Dulebon would
have been in better position.....hmmmm when will we(the USA) have a
competitive pairs team??

Dance:
1.Tatiana NAVKA / Roman KOSTOMAROVR
2.Albena DENKOVA / Maxim STAVISKI
3.Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO
4.Elena GRUSHINA / Ruslan GONCHAROV
5. Marie-France DUBREUIL / Patrice LAUZON
6.DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER
1A CHAIT / Sergei SAKHNOVSKI
2A i WINKLER / Rene LOHSE
3A Melissa GREGORY / Denis PETUKHOV

Oh...this is so fun!.....Chait and Sakhnovski not in the final?
tragic!....i'm no expert but I think that this new scoring system has
finally put them in their place...and deflated the overkill of these
two....Surprised that Gregory and Petukhov placed as high as they did...
Heres my question...how realistic is it to think that A. Belbin and
Agosto could medal above bronze in this event and B. medal at
words?....who is out of commission for the Grand Prix (meaning they
didn't skate at all) that beat them at worlds? could they place at
worlds????

Darby

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