# This Week in Skating / Weekly Episode for Aug. 19, 2025 (Calm before the JGP Storm)

An episode of [This Week in Skating Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1621874792), 19 Aug 2025, 10 min.

Audio: https://audio2.redcircle.com/episodes/6631c951-bd60-4e92-b5c4-f21f55607f84/stream.mp3

In this episode, Daphne talks about the news and events that happened in the figure skating world this week. She also looks ahead to the start of the Junior Grand Prix Series. Show Notes: https://www.thisweekinskating.com/2025/08/show-notes-aug-19-2025/ ------ 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: https://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 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

## Transcript

[0:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hi everyone, I'm Vincent Jo.
[0:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hi, I'm Kathy Reed.
[0:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And I'm Allison Reed.
[0:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hi, I'm Ashley.
[0:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hi, I'm Grace.
[0:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We're from the hidden apps.
[0:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hi, I'm Martin Rezzi.
[0:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hi, I'm Tutsi.
[0:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hi, I'm Rebecca Girardy.
[0:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Hey, Philly, Pambrazini.
[0:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Hi, my name is Vincent Nuto.
[0:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This week in Skatey.
[0:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Welcome to this week's Inscading, the weekly podcast bringing you the latest news from the world of figure skating.
[0:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Here are your hosts, Daphne, Gina, and Let's Aia.
[0:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And we're back.
[0:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It's me, Daphne here this week to share the news of the week, as well as any other updates.
[0:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Just a quick overview that the Junior Grand Prix series kicks off this week in Riga, Latvia.
[0:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The U.S.
[0:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: figure skating national qualifying series rolls on with several events taking place this week, including skate Detroit and Atlanta open.
[0:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And Chef Field England is hosting the inaugural Robin Cousins Cup.
[1:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let's jump into the news.
[1:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Congratulations are in order to Team USA's Vadim Kalechnek, who was sworn in as the U.S.
[1:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: citizen yesterday.
[1:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Vadim and his partner, Emily Asingus, are now eligible to represent the United States, had the twenty twenty six Olympics in Milana, Cortina, Italy.
[1:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let's jump into the news.
[1:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The entries for Bolerocop are now released.
[1:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Under Assignments, a Cannery and a Ganesh and Dmitry Chikarev have withdrawn from cover China and happened replaced by Italy's Decresciopacari and Matteo Gorise.
[1:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As of this recording, they are still listed for Skate America on the ISU website.
[1:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Moving on to event results and coverage, Kenosha de Summa Cup took place last week.
[1:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the women's event, I mean a Kai finished in first place followed by Monet Chiba in second and Mai Mahara in third.
[2:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And in the men's event, Yuma Kagiyama took the goal medal.
[2:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: With Sori Yamamoto finishing second and Tatsuya Subway finishing in third.
[2:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The last chance for solo dance, skate, Kalamazoo took place.
[2:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This is the final event of the qualifying series for the solo dance national competition.
[2:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the senior event, the gold went to Chloe Felton.
[2:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Silver went to Jordan, Brenna, and bronze went to Shanley case.
[2:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At the skate Ontario sectional series August, in the men's event, John Kim won gold, a followed by Bruce Wadell in second, and the bronze went to David Steingart.
[2:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the senior women's event, a minsole quant took the gold with Gabrielle Daelman, taking silver, and Kaya Ruder, taking bronze.
[2:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There was only one team in the senior pairs event, and that was Riku Miran Ryuji Kiyara.
[3:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And in senior dance, Gold Medal went to Lily Henson and Nathan Lickers, Silver went to Alyssa Robertson and Jacob Boarts, and Bronze went to Japan's Utana Yoshida and Masaya Marita.
[3:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the twenty twenty five international ice dance door direct, we have Sylvia Val and a soft cosmov of Spain taking gold.
[3:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Carolina and Susie's and Shane Ferris of Ireland took the silver and the bronze went to Victoria Monny and Carlo Rothless Berger of Italy.
[3:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We will have links to additional events in our show notes including the BC Summer Series Summer Skate, Potomac Memorial Open and Vinland's test skates.
[3:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We do have a full slate of events taking place this week, including the start of the Junior Grand Prix.
[3:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The ISU series, this event, will include pairs.
[3:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the men's event, Rio Nacata, Yanhao Lee, who just won the Junior Event at Cranberry Cup, as well as Grace and Long, who finished second to Yanhao at Cranberry Cup, will be there as well as a Lucas Vlaclavic of Slovakia.
[4:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the women's event, Japan's Yo Takagi, who was third at the Winter Youth Olympics, and Mayo Kata, who was third at both of her Junior Grand Prix last season, are on the roster, as well as Korea's Yunsung Kim, who was fifth at last year's Junior Grand Prix final, and Sheri Zhang of the United States, with Angela Shao making her Junior Grand Prix debut.
[4:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In the Paris event, it's had lined by Canada's Ava Camp and Yonatan, El Azorov, as well as China's Joan Kijeng and Wenkeng Feng.
[4:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And the U.S.
[4:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: is sending Naomi Williams and Lachlan Lourer, as well as Addison McDonald and Erin Felderbaum.
[4:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In Ice Dance, Canada's Leyla Veon and Alexander Brandeis lead the roster as well as Francis Daniam Aladdin and Theo Bego.
[5:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And the U.S.
[5:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: is sending Michelle Deish and Ryan Who, as well as Jasmine Robertson and Chase Romner, who are making the Junior Grand Prix debut.
[5:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Other events taking place next week includes skate Detroit, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and the Atlanta Open in coming Georgia, those are two qualifying events for the U.S.
[5:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: National Qualifying Series.
[5:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We have Skate San Francisco, the Silver Skate and QS.
[5:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Tokyo Summer Trophy taking place in Tokyo, Japan, and Robin Cousins Cup in Sheffield, Great Britain.
[5:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Moving on to some online updates, there's a really fun video of Caroline Green and Christina Career performing.
[5:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The opening of Test the Virtua and Scott Moyers rhythm dance to hip hip chin chin.
[5:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I think Christina's even wearing Tessa's dress.
[5:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It's a lot of fun, so we'll share the link in our show notes.
[6:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Also, Christina Carrera and Anthony Ponymerico did a video interview.
[6:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And it's on Instagram, and they discussed this season, as well as changing their original freelance plan, so that is definitely worth a watch.
[6:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: For articles, we have a Q&A with Sonya Helmer that's from the Kingdom of Isolation.
[6:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Homec and Boyle have turned a new page.
[6:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That's a new article on two for the ice.
[6:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: A to Z with Laranaki Gootman is on anything geo-ease and then Golden Skate has an article on Anthony Paradee and how I continue to build in his final junior year.
[6:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This is a short episode of this weekend skating, so we like to shine a lens as usual by looking at what's going on at our respective websites.
[6:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At the This Week in Skating, if you haven't, be sure to check out our new interview with Misha Mitjafanov and Spencer Howe.
[6:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They're talking about the new Always Champions campaign to honor the six members from the Skating Club of Boston that lost their lives on the tragic flight, five, three, four, two crash.
[7:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They shared more about the initiative and also talked about the preparation for the new season.
[7:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We've also got some other interviews that are coming up.
[7:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So stay tuned and watch your feed for those.
[7:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We will let you know when we're going to be posting them.
[7:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But we've got some fun things planned over the next couple of weeks as we head towards September.
[7:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There have been so many music announcements over the past couple of weeks.
[7:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Gina has been working diligently to update our program, music, announcement tracker.
[7:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If we have the choreographer information, we're also including that as well.
[7:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Be sure to join our Patreon if you'd like access to ad-free episodes.
[7:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Over at IDC, I have photos from the Summer Sizzler, which was the show that took place in Norwood, Massachusetts.
[7:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was part of the champs camp experience, but they had a nearly full arena, I believe.
[8:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I've also been really busy updating results and adding information to profiles.
[8:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There are so many program updates that I'm working through as well as there are new teams this season that I'm trying to build up their profiles with information.
[8:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If you are a new team and you'd like to submit that information to me, just head on over to IDC.
[8:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The link is over there and you can submit your info and I will add you to our list.
[8:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This is for Junior and Senior Teams.
[8:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At FSO, Gina has also posted some of her similar photos.
[8:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: She's got an interview with Alexander Celevko of Estonia.
[8:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And she's posting the first in a new series of articles on FSO.
[8:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It's the new pair's team series.
[8:52] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And she's posting that first article.
[8:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Thanks for listening to our episode this week.
[8:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: I know it's a short one.
[8:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Again, we've got some fun stuff planned in the next couple of weeks, so there will be a larger number of longer episodes available.
[9:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Plus, this is kind of the calm before the storm, because once September hits, we are going to be fully in it.
[9:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: and back to our regular episodes, though it should be at least two of us on an episode after that.
[9:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Thanks for being patient with us as we move through the summer with just one of us doing episodes sometimes.
[9:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It really has made it so that we're more rested for the season ahead.
[9:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Until next time!
[9:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Thanks for tuning in to another episode of This Week In Skating.
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[10:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Until next time, have a nice week.

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