Skate America Kicks Off ISU Grand Prix Season
October 26, 2008 by Sandy Mitchell
Filed under Sports Rumors
This weekend, the world’s best figure skaters gathered in Everett Washington (outside of Seattle) for the 2008 Skate America competition, the first ISU Grand Prix event of the 2008/2009 season. Below are the winning performances:
Ice Dancing: the Gold Medal went to Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder (France), whose winning performance is featured below. Taking the Silver Medal were Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto of the United States. Sinead Kerr and John Kerr of the United States finished in third place.
The mens individual Gold went to Takahiko Kozuka of Japan. Johnny Weir of the United States won the Silver and Evan Lysacek, also of the United States, won the Bronze Medal.
The Pairs Gold went to Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany. The Silver was awarded to Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker of the United States and the Bronze went to Maria Mukhortova and Maxim Trankov of Russia.
The womens individual competition is still underway as I write this. We will have the results of that competition tomorrow.
Bless you, youtube. One of the things I miss about tv is being able to watch these competitions. Go, USA! :D
I love watching these competitions! Skaters are truly amazing!
It’s definitely pretty to watch!