Men
Wow, Team Japan is going in strong here.
Yuzuru Hanyu
Daisuke Takahashi
Takahiko Kozuka
Tatsuki Machida
And the non-Japanese…
Patrick Chan
Javier Fernandez
Alternates: Jeremy Abbott, Florent Amodio, Takahito Mura
Ladies
Akiko Suzuki
Mao Asada
Julia Lipnitskaia (out due to injury)
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
Ashley Wagner
Kiira Korpi
*Christina Gao (taking Lipnitskaia’s place)
Alternates: Mirai Nagasu, Kanako Murakami
Pairs
*sob* No Aliona & Robin
And note that Mother Russia wants her gold back in pairs.
Tatiana Volosozhar & Maxim Trankov
Yuko Kavaguti & Alexander Smirnov
Vera Bazarova & Yuri Larionov
The only somewhat plausible threat to a Russian sweep of the medals?
Qing Pang & Jian Tong
Though I’m sure PJ Kwong will have to talk about how fabulous these guys will be and how they could be a threat for silver or bronze:
Meaghan Duhamel & Eric Radford
Kirsten Moore-Towers & Dylan Moscovitch
Alternates: Caydee Denney & John Coughlin, Stefania Berton & Ondrej Hotarek, Ksenia Stolbova & Fedor Klimov
Ice Dance
The epic battle continues between
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
Meryl Davis & Charlie White
Mother Russia will make an attack for the bronze with
Elena Ilinykh & Nikita Katsalapov (and their craptastic Ghost program)
Ekaterina Bobrova & Dmitri Sloviev
Though the rest of Europe will try to take bronze from the Russians through
Nathalie Pechalat & Fabian Bourzat
Anna Cappellini & Luca Lanotte
Alternates: Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje, Ekaterina Riazanova & Ilia Tkachenko, Maia & Alex Shibutani
Not too bad a roster for the GPF this year. What do you think?
~The Rinkside Cafe
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