Us figure skaters could win the most gold medals at Skate America, the premier annual international competition held in the states, for the first time since 2003.
live coverage from nbc sports and peacock air on fridays, saturdays and sundays. Peacock also has a practice chamber on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
emerging american talent, combined with the absence of olympic medalists from other nations and the ban on russia, means that the us. uu. he should be on the entire podium at the first event of the grand prix series that signals the start of the season.
The Americans are medal contenders in all four disciplines and the headliners in the men’s, pairs and ice dance fields.
the last time that ee. he won at least three of the four events a single skate america was in 2003 (not counting 2020, when the event was overwhelmingly red, white, and blue due to pandemic travel restrictions).
skate america broadcast schedule all television coverage also airs on nbcsports.com/live and the nbc sports app for subscribers.
in ice dancing, madison chock and evan bates are the favorites to extend the united states’ 13-year winning streak at skate america. Chock and Bates, who won Skate America in 2014 and 2015 (their last Grand Prix title), placed fourth at the Olympics in February and took bronze at the World Championships in March.
They are the world’s best comeback dance couple.
Olympic champions gabriella papadakis and guillaume cizeron of france will take at least this season off. Olympic silver medalists viktoria sinitsina and nikita katsalapov are unable to compete as all russians are banned indefinitely due to the war in ukraine. Olympic bronze medalists madison hubbell and zachary donohue, who have won the last four skate americas, have retired.
“It’s true that a lot has changed in the last eight months since the Olympics, but nothing really changed for us,” said Bates, who at 33 is trying to become the oldest ice dancer to win a skate america title. “I think with that kind of rotation, there’s a certain amount of acceptance that we’ve done.”
in march, alexa knierim and brandon frazier handed over the us. uu. their first world pairs title since 1979. none of the top five olympic finalists were in that field: the three russian teams were banned due to war, and china sent no skaters to worlds. neither of them are on skate america, which paves the way for knierim and frazier to possibly become the first american couple to win a grand prix since 2006 skate america (again, not counting 2020).
the talk of the competition will likely be the reigning usa junior world champion. uu. making their debut in the grand prix series.
ilia malinin, the 17-year-old son of Uzbek Olympic figure skaters, became the men’s clear favorite after world and Olympic silver medalist yuma kagiyamafrom japan will withdraw due to injury. Malinin, who last month became the first skater to land a quadruple axis in competition, may become the youngest male champion in skate america history.
Like Malinin, 15-year-old Isabeau Levito achieved a podium finish at last January’s United States Senior Championships. championships by winning the junior world title in April. Levitus may become the youngest in America uu. woman to stand on the skate america podium since 2007 (caroline zhang), but the Japanese kaori sakamoto is the favorite for the top step. she is the best figure skater in the world in the absence of the banned Russians after taking Olympic bronze and gold at the world championships last season.
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