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A figure skating web site for pairs, ice dance & more
https://adivinesport.com/
New on our website: Two full photo galleries covering both the senior and junior 2025 ISU Grand Prix Finals! Take a look back at the highlights! 📸: Aoran Liu (@aoran23_) for A Divine Sport Seniors🔗:
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At Skate America, Mikhail Shaidorov spoke with our correspondent, Victoria Burdman, about his season so far and his quest for a 5-quad free skate. Check out our short interview with the World silver medalist! 📷: Moment of Jay for A Divine Sport
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Mikhail Shaidorov: "I want to do five quads in the free program" - A divine sport
2025 World silver medalist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is looking to upgrade his technical content this season, as he prepares for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympic Games.
https://adivinesport.com/2025/12/03/mikhail-shaidorov-i-want-to-do-five-quads-in-the-free-program/
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Anastasiia Metelkina/Luka Berulava will compete at next week's ISU Grand Prix Final in Japan. Our correspondent Victoria Burdman spoke with them at Skate America to learn more about their mindset & preparations for the Olympic season. 📷: Moment of Jay for A Divine Sport 🔗:
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Metelkina/Berulava: Not afraid of Olympic pressure - A divine sport
Pairs skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava look forward to their first Olympics together, competing for Georgia. Reporter Victoria Burdman spoke with the duo at Skate America to learn more a...
http://bit.ly/4itNyp1
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The ISU says they are “undertaking a review following inquiries received about the ice dance event at ... Finlandia Trophy.” This action comes after top ice dancers at Finlandia spoke out against the scoring & overall direction of the discipline.
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Finlandia Trophy is over; the ice dance controversy is not - Anything GOEs
The ISU will be reviewing the ice dance event from Finlandia Trophy after skaters object to tech panel decisions
https://anythinggoe.com/finlandia-trophy-is-over-the-ice-dance-controversy-is-not/
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We have a full gallery of
#SkateAmerica
photos up on our website. Our photographer captured some great highlights from the competition! Take a look 😀 📸: Moment of Jay for A Divine Sport 🔗:
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2025 Skate America Photos - A divine sport
Pairs Women Ice Dance Men Medals
https://adivinesport.com/2025-skate-america-photos/
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Our look back at the highs and lows of
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📸: Moment of Jay for A Divine Sport 🔗:
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2025 Skate America: The Many Faces of Success - A divine sport
2025 Saatva Skate America, the fifth of six events in the 2025 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series, took place November 14-16 in Lake Placid, New York. The last time the event was held in Lake Pl...
https://adivinesport.com/2025/11/20/2025-skate-america-the-many-faces-of-success/
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Our full photo gallery from NHK Trophy is now up on our web site, with pictures of every competitor included. Take a peek! 🙂 📸: Aoran Liu (@aoran23_ ) for A Divine Sport 🔗:
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We have a full gallery of photos from Cup of China on our website. Check out your faves from the event! 📸: Chelsea Chen for A Divine Sport 🔗:
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U.S. pairs champions Alisa Efimova/Misha Mitrofanov announced that Efimova is seeking a waiver of the usual 3-year waiting period for a U.S. passport. The couple revealed that they were married on 2/1/2024 and Efimova received her green card on 7/27/2024.
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📷: Robin Ritoss
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The Olympic season has no shortage of compelling stories, both on and off the ice. Here's our picks for the top 10 storylines we're most interested in this season! 📸: Tina Weltz for A Divine Sport 🔗:
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We have some great photos of the ice dance event at
#CSDenisTen
! Click link below to see our full gallery. ⬇️ 📸: Moment of Jay for A Divine Sport 🔗:
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2025 CS Denis Ten Photos - A divine sport
All photographs by Moment of Jay Ice Dance Women Men Practice
https://adivinesport.com/2025-cs-denis-ten-photos/#ice-dance
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World silver medalist Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ) won the men's event at CS Denis Ten by a comfortable margin, with Nika Egadze (GEO) and Jason Brown (USA) taking silver and bronze. Check out our photo gallery of the men! 📸: Moment of Jay for A Divine Sport 🔗:
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2025 CS Denis Ten Photos - A divine sport
All photographs by Moment of Jay Ice Dance Women Men Practice
https://adivinesport.com/2025-cs-denis-ten-photos/#men
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Check out our gallery of photos from the women's event at Chinese Nebelhorn (#SkatetoMilano)! 📸: Aoran Liu 🔗:
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Chinese Nebelhorn (2025 Skate to Milano) - A divine sport
All photographs by Aoran Liu Pairs Ice Dance Women Men Practice
http://bit.ly/4pQk6Nu
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The ice dance event at
#ChineseNebelhorn
certainly didn't lack for drama. It was a gripping competition to watch (if not without controversy). Our photo gallery from the event is up on our website! 📸: Aoran Liu 🔗:
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Erin McD
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Check out our photo gallery of the pairs event at Chinese Nebelhorn (#skatetomilano)! 📸: Aoran Liu
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Chinese Nebelhorn (2025 Skate to Milano) - A divine sport
All photographs by Aoran Liu Pairs Ice Dance Women Men Practice
https://adivinesport.com/chinese-nebelhorn-2025-skate-to-milano/#pairs-1
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
4 months ago
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
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State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine
Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA
https://www.koat.com/article/state-steps-in-to-ensure-access-to-covid-19-vaccine/65939601
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Euro silver medalists Evgenia Lopareva & Geoffrey Brissaud just started their new season. At Worlds, we spoke with them about their career so far & their relationship with choreographer/competitor Guillaume Cizeron. 📸: Tina Weltz 🔗:
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Fantastic interview! This is such a great team and harding more about their process is so fun!
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Caroline Green/Michael Parsons talk about how creativity is central to their lives both on and off the ice in our new interview with the team. ⬇️ 📸: @tweltz1 🔗:
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Green/Parsons Lean Into Creativity - A divine sport
Last week’s Champs Camp had a different–and positive–vibe for Caroline Green and Michael Parsons, compared to other recent training camps. For the first time in several years, the duo are starting thi...
https://adivinesport.com/2025/08/18/green-parsons-lean-into-creativity/
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The Guardian
5 months ago
Why the US is burning $10m worth of birth control | Moira Donegan
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Why the US is burning $10m worth of birth control | Moira Donegan
With action after action, the Trump administration has made clear it does not value women’s health, their dignity, their aspirations
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/why-the-us-is-burning-10m-worth-of-birth-control?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1754050587
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he new season begins this week for Lia Pereira & Trennt Michaud. We spoke with the Canadian pair at Worlds about how they've grown as a team and their hopes for the Olympic season. ⬇️ 📸: Tina Weltz for
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adivinesport.com/2025/08/01/p...
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Nikolaj Soerensen's suspension from competitive skating has been overturned. The victim will reportedly file an appeal.
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An article about the ISU's Worlds changes & other initiatives. "Next on the agenda: a pivotal ISU Extraordinary Congress on July 3, 2025, which will focus on the further modernization and a full revision of the ISU Constitution, aimed at accelerating the sport’s growth."
www.isu.org/news/a-bold-...
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A Bold New Era for Skating: A Retrospective on the ISU 2024/25 Season Innovationsdown-arrow
As the curtain closes on a successful 2024/25 skating season, the International Skating Union (ISU) celebrates a transformative year - one that opened a bold new chapter for the sport. Throughout the ...
https://www.isu.org/news/a-bold-new-era-for-skating-a-retrospective-on-the-isu-202425-season-innovations/?dm_i=731E,2FLWO,KEPUB,6Q8P2,1
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An in-depth look at Gabriella Papadakis & Madison Hubbell's decision to skate together for Art on Ice, and how it fits into the evolution of their sport:
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Two women are shattering a figure skating taboo by dancing, together
With male participation dwindling amid colliding stereotypes and traditions, Gabriella Papadakis and Madison Hubbell offer bold statement on the sport’s future.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2025/05/24/ice-dancing-gender-gabriella-papadakis-madison-hubbell/
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Stepanova/Bukin attending Putin's annual address to the Russian Federal Assembly.
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ISU Comm 2707 Single and Pair Skating - Scale of Values 2025/26
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"The goal was top 10. A small medal in the free dance? No, we didn't expect that." Olivia Smart & Tim Dieck surprised even themselves with their success at 2025 Worlds. Read about it in our new article! 📸: Tina Weltz
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Athletes approved as Individual Neutral Athletes - decisions are not subject to appeal: RUS Adelia Petrosian Alina Gorbacheva Petr Gummenik Vladislav Dikidzhi BLR Vasil Barakhouski Viktoriya Plaskonnaya Yauheni Puzanau Viktoriia Safonova Nastassia Sidarenka Uladzislau Sytsik
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U.S. Figure Skating announces that Matt Farrell will be its next CEO. Farrell was previously Chief Marketing Officer for USA Swimming for 13 years. More recently, he served as CEO of Bat Around, a software app used in batting cages.
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U.S. Figure Skating Names Matt Farrell CEO
https://mailchi.mp/usfigureskating.org/us-figure-skating-names-matt-farrell-ceo?e=2b18a8a966
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8 months ago
Getting the HPV vaccine is cool. 10/10 recommend, as it's basically a vaccine against cervical cancer.
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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee-schools-lead-poisoning-cdc-denies-help/
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The ISU announces that 2027 Worlds will take place in Tampere, Finland. Also, GP USA and GP France will switch dates next fall, with Skate America now taking place Nov 14-16. The next ISU Congress will be June 10-12, 2026 in Tenerife, Spain.
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jamelle
9 months ago
you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
add a skeleton here at some point
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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the
#HandsOff
march in NYC
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Stephen King
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Oh man, somebody get him out of there. He’s crazy.
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Better Things Are Possible
9 months ago
Feeling like a big dumbass working on my taxes right now. Who am I sending this money to
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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Don’t call them tariffs. Call them import taxes.
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Angry
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Trump is currently blasting the trade deal with Canada and Mexico. You know, the one he negotiated in his first term.
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 months ago
I called my senators today and told them I want Cory Booker to be the senate minority leader. We can’t hold hearings. We don’t have subpoena power. We can’t pass budgets. But we CAN filibuster, and we CAN change party leadership.
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That's a wrap for 2025 Boston Worlds! It was so much fun covering this event! Thanks for following & keep an eye out for more photos & interviews!!
#WorldFigure
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A season of darkest tragedy & brightest triumph for U.S. figure skating. Ilia Malinin brought it all together in a beautiful tribute performance to close 2025 Boston Worlds.
#WorldFigure
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What a thrill last night to see Alysa Liu unexpectedly win the World championships! In case you missed it, here's our interview with Alysa from last month:
adivinesport.com/2025/02/18/a...
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Alysa Liu: On & Off the Ice - A divine sport
Alysa Liu, two-time U.S. National champion, recently returned to competitive figure skating after a two-year break. We chat with Alysa about her life since the Beijing Olympics, her interests and pass...
https://adivinesport.com/2025/02/18/alysa-liu-on-off-the-ice/
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Maia & Alex Shibutani backstage with former coach Marina Zoueva.
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9 months ago
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Lukas Britschgi says his SP is very meaningful to him: "It's about freedom, it's about liberty." He's been a fan of the song for some time but didn't feel mature enough to skate to it until now. He's not 100% following surgery post-Euros but wants to push through at
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Nikolaj Memola said he felt terrible this morning. "I wasn't able to jump, I was extremely stiff ... so I came here very nervous. I'm super happy [now]. I left the rink with a smile." He hopes to help get "at least 2" spots for Italy.
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Jason Brown on trying to qualify for Olympic spots with his teammates: "We're relying on each other, we're here for each other ... no matter what it results in. The next guy has your back. You want to do your best."
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The Selevbros backstage. 😃
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