# This Week in Skating / Special Weekly Episode (May 15, 2024)

An episode of [This Week in Skating Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1621874792), 15 May 2024, 35 min.

Audio: https://audio2.redcircle.com/episodes/c3a9db42-b557-4dae-b300-c5ecbf710a1a/stream.mp3

This Week in Skating is hosted by Gina Capellazzi, Daphne Backman and Matteo Morelli is a cooperative project between Figure Skaters Online and Ice-dance.com. New episodes are available every Tuesday. Website: http://www.thisweekinskating.com Email: thisweekinskating@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisweekinskating Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thiswkinskating Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinskating Thread: https://www.threads.net/@thisweekinskating Patreon: patreon.com/ThisWeekinSkating ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 15, 2024 General Skating News • Shoma Uno announced his retirement: Instagram/Press Conference/Olympics.com article • U.S. Figure Skating announced the 2024-25 U.S. Qualifying Season and International Events Schedule. • Halifax, Nova Scotia to host 2024 Skate Canada International. • Grenoble will host the 2024 Grand Prix and Junior Grand Prix Final • A new location is needed for the 2025 European Championships • The first Junior Grand Prix iin France has been moved to become the 7th & final event in Wuxi, China. • Eric Radford, who is the Athletes Commission member of the ISU Council, has temporarily stepped down as a Council member for the period during which the appeal against the ISU in which he is named as an appellant is pending at CAS.” https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/33778-isu-communication-2634/file • The ISU released its list of proposals for the upcoming Congress in Las Vegas from June 8-14. • U.S. Figure Skating released its 2023-24 Combined Report of Action, which was published after last month’s Governing Council. Retirements/End of Partnerships/New Partnerships • Japan’s Misato Komatsubara has announced the end of her competitive career. • Adrienne Carhart has announced the end of her competitive career • Team USA’s Helena Carhart announced that Volodymyr Horovi has decided to his competitive career and will now focus on coaching. • Georgia’s Maria Kazakova announced the end of her partnership with Georgy Reviya. • Team USA’s Kristina Bland announced that she is stepping away from skating; Matthew Sperry will continue skating. • Chloe Panetta and Flavien Giniaux are announced as a new pairs team for France • Oxana Vouillamoz and Tom Bouvart, who both previously represented France, announced they are a new pairs team for Switzerland Other News • Congress okays Filipino citizenship for figure skater Alexander Korovin. • Figure skating coach Slava Uchitel shared that a brick block has been added to the entrance of Philadelphia Skating Club & Humane Society in memory of Joshua Soto, a figure skater/ice dancer who was killed in November 2021 during a robbery. • Three men were convicted in 2021 fatal shooting of 18-year-old figure skater Joshua Soto. • 1964 Olympic Champion, three-time ISU World Champion and five-time ISU European Champion Sjoukje Dijkstra of the Netherlands passed away at age 82 on May 2, 2024. Safe Sport Topics & Online Resources for skaters, parents and the figure skating community: • Three-time Olympian Brendan Kerry of Australia has been sanctioned with permanent ineligibility (subject to appeal) by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for sexual misconduct involving a minor. • Gymnasts for Change (Canada) will now be known as Athletes Empowered, and is advocating against abuse in all sports, at all levels. Event Recap • Nation’s Cup Theatre on Ice international competition: Replay videos/ • ISU International Adult Figure Skating Competition in Oberstdorf, Germany, May 12-17, 2024: Event info/schedule link, results page, free live streams by day (+ replays). Midori Ito won the Masters Elite Women III + IV Artistic Free Skating event, skating to “Aqua” by Ryuichi Sakamoto: • Mexico Cup is May 16-18, 2024, in Queretaro, Mexico. • Oceania International Figure Skating Competition, May 29-31, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia. Recent Interviews: • Golden…

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