Grand Prix series 2009

Here's the schedule of the competitions next season:



Brian will participate at Eric Bompard. And maybe his choreographers will be there too

Vania wrote:

And maybe his choreographers will be there too

Would be nice ... ...

I'm starting to count the days till Eric Bompard . I already miss so much the competitions...

Aline, will you go at TEB? Of course, there's so much time till then, but are planning to go ?

The entries for Eric Bompard:

Men:
1. Vaughn CHIPER
2. Chao YANG
3. Tomas VERNER
4. Brian JOUBERT
5. Yannick PONSERO
6. Alban PREAUBERT
7. Peter LIEBERS
8. Nobunari ODA
9. Sergei VORONOV
10. Javier FERNANDEZ
11. Ryan BRADLEY
12. Adam RIPPON

Women:
1. Kiira Korpi
2. Gwendoline Didier
3. Elene Gedevanishvili
4. Carolina Kostner
5. Mao Asada
6. Yukari Nakano
7. Yu-Na Kim
8. Sasha Cohen
9. Alexe Gilles
10. Caroline Zhang
11. ???
12. ???

Very strong company , especially in the women competition.

Pairs:

1. Dube/Davison
2. Dong/Wu
3. Canac/Coia
4. James/Bonheur
5. Savchenko/Szolkowy
6. Mukhortova/Trankov
7. Castelli/Schnapir
8. ???

Ice dance:

1. Virtue/Moir
2. Blanc/Bouquet
3. Pechalat/Bourzat
4. Kerr/Kerr
5. Gorshkova/Butikov
6. Rubleva/Shefer
7. Hubbell/Hubbell
8. Navarro/Bommentre
9. Samuelson/Bates
10. ???

Vania wrote:

Aline, will you go at TEB? Of course, there's so much time till then, but are planning to go ?

Vania,
I don't know yet if i'll go to the TEB it will depend on my schedule but i would love to go there especially because a lot of my firneds will be there !

I put this topic here, in the thread about Albena and Max, you understand why ! Good luck to everyone, especially to Brian , let's hope his FD will be much much better than at Masters.

here are some pics from yesterday practice
http://photography.ice-dance.com/2009GP-TEB/Dance/Practice/Thursday/

The competition is starting at 14:00 local time with the CDs. Here's the starting order:

1 Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES FRA
2 Zoe BLANC / Pierre-Loup BOUQUET FRA
3 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER RUS
4 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA
5 Kimberly NAVARRO / Brent BOMMENTRE USA
6 Kristina GORSHKOVA / Vitali BUTIKOV RUS
7 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN
8 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA
9 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES USA
10 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR

From the TEB 2009 practice :
Brian and Maxim: The giant and the gnome...
Click on the 7th thumb on the top and you will see the pic...

Link: http://web.icenetwork.com/gen/photogallery/year_2009/month_10/day_16/cf7468352.html

TEB 2009 - Men - Results after Short Program

1 Tomas VERNER CZE 81.00
2 Nobunari ODA JPN 79.20
3 Adam RIPPON USA 75.82
4 Sergei VORONOV RUS 72.80
5 Yannick PONSERO FRA 72.50
6 Brian JOUBERT FRA 72.15
7 Alban PREAUBERT FRA 66.49
8 Ryan BRADLEY USA 65.21
9 Chao YANG CHN 60.72
10 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 60.56
11 Peter LIEBERS GER 60.31
12 Vaughn CHIPEUR CAN 51.45

I´m very very glad for Tomas!
But it couldn´t have been worser for Brian again. He´s more than 3 points away from 3rd place after SP, and nearly 9 points away from the place he wanted to have...

Petra wrote:

TEB 2009 - Men - Results after Short Program

1 Tomas VERNER CZE 81.00
2 Nobunari ODA JPN 79.20
3 Adam RIPPON USA 75.82
4 Sergei VORONOV RUS 72.80
5 Yannick PONSERO FRA 72.50
6 Brian JOUBERT FRA 72.15
7 Alban PREAUBERT FRA 66.49
8 Ryan BRADLEY USA 65.21
9 Chao YANG CHN 60.72
10 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 60.56
11 Peter LIEBERS GER 60.31
12 Vaughn CHIPEUR CAN 51.45

I´m very very glad for Tomas!
But it couldn´t have been worser for Brian again. He´s more than 3 points away from 3rd place after SP, and nearly 9 points away from the place he wanted to have...

Petra!!
Albena at kiss & cry..!!! She was not very happy...

Quote :

I´m very very glad for Tomas!

..Me too!!

I didn't see the perfomances yet,but i'm very happy Tomas performed so well And I hope Brian will recover somehow in the FS

Brian Joubert, TEB 2009, SP:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ1-mk7NP2A or:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gku5DqqqYjA (=The same in much better quality.)

Albena in the kiss and cry really looks very unhappy . I only hope Brian will stand at least some of his jumps tomorrow.
Let´s think positive: It can only become better!!

Petra wrote:

Albena in the kiss and cry really looks very unhappy . I only hope Brian will stand at least some of his jumps tomorrow.
Let´s think positive: It can only become better!!

Thanks for the videos, Petra! Yes, Albena was looking unhappy in K&C, but I think Brian was glad form these marks, I think he was expecting lower result . I'll cross my fingers for him today, although it will be very, very hard, 9 points is too much...

The results in Ice dance after the OD:

1 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR 100.32
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT 91.87
3 Sinead KERR / John KERR 90.86
4 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES 77.66
5 Kimberly NAVARRO / Brent BOMMENTRE 77.36
6 Kristina GORSHKOVA / Vitali BUTIKOV 75.14
7 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER 74.24
8 Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES 71.46
9 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL 70.24
10 Zoe BLANC / Pierre-Loup BOUQUET 68.32

Vania wrote:

Petra wrote:

Albena in the kiss and cry really looks very unhappy . I only hope Brian will stand at least some of his jumps tomorrow.
Let´s think positive: It can only become better!!

Thanks for the videos, Petra! Yes, Albena was looking unhappy in K&C, but I think Brian was glad form these marks, I think he was expecting lower result . I'll cross my fingers for him today, although it will be very, very hard, 9 points is too much...

Dear Vania,

I was there and Brian was not happy at all.
Albena and Maks were of course desapointed but the important is this afternoon.

Good luck to Brian today. As Petra said, it can be only better. And I don't think that 9 points is such a big difference, anything can happen.
Hopefully the jumps will work for him today. And not to forget, it was nice to see Albena & Maxim there with him.

Here is one picture of Albena in K&C I came across today.
https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/i/15859521.jpg/

aline wrote:

Dear Vania,

I was there and Brian was not happy at all.
Albena and Maks were of course desapointed but the important is this afternoon.

Yes, he was desappointed, of course, but I wanted to say that after this bad programme he probably expected lower marks , I don't know, it's just my impression... You were there and you know better

Some videos:

Kerrs OD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGlvMdpVxM

Adam Rippon's SP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-8owl_eQjg

Virtue&Moir OD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXxR6Ep53Ss&feature=channel

Savchenko/Szolkowy SP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pKqWfyhvF0&feature=channel

It seems the LP (with the choreography of Albenka and Max ) was a little better for Brian . In the final results he´s on 4th place now!

In the LP Brian made 4th place too... at least better than his 6th place from yesterday ...

Men - TEB 2009 - Final result after LP

1 Nobunari ODA JPN 242.53 2 1
2 Tomas VERNER CZE 229.96 1 2
3 Adam RIPPON USA 219.96 3 3
4 Brian JOUBERT FRA 207.39 6 4
5 Yannick PONSERO FRA 205.74 5 5
6 Sergei VORONOV RUS 204.45 4 6
7 Alban PREAUBERT FRA 189.63 7 7
8 Chao YANG CHN 178.63 9 8
9 Ryan BRADLEY USA 177.65 8 10
10 Peter LIEBERS GER 176.52 11 9
11 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 170.16 10 11
12 Vaughn CHIPEUR CAN 155.43 12 12

Congrats to Oda for his gold medal! And to Tomas and Adam for being in the medals, too!

Brian Joubert, TEB 2009, LP:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LulWSOkrSKk

If I forget the first three jumps and Brians stumbling through the first quarter of the LP, then I think the rest was ok! At least Brian could stand the last six jumps more or less, his steps were ok and the choreography of our two darlings was well done too.
When I read in Brians fan forums they write that he normally has not such problems with the jumps in training. So why during competition? The nerves, or what is it?

Ladies - TEB 2009 - Result after LP:

1 Yu-Na KIM KOR 210.03 1 1
2 Mao ASADA JPN 173.99 3 2
3 Yukari NAKANO JPN 165.70 2 3
4 Caroline ZHANG USA 153.15 5 5
5 Alexe GILLES USA 151.92 4 7
6 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 147.63 7 4
7 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI GEO 143.43 8 6
8 Kiira KORPI FIN 138.83 6 8
9 Gwendoline DIDIER FRA 118.07 10 9
10 Anna JURKIEWICZ POL 115.06 9 10

Pairs - TEB 2009 - Result after LP:

1 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 192.93 2 1
2 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN 180.97 3 2
3 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 174.42 1 4 and
4 Rena INOUE / John BALDWIN USA 158.36 5 3
5 Adeline CANAC / Maximin COIA FRA 150.18 4 6
6 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN 144.45 6 5
7 Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR USA 133.01 7 7
8 Vanessa JAMES / Yannick BONHEUR FRA 118.66 8 8

Ice Dance - TEB 2009 - Result after FD:

1 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 197.71 1 1 1
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 181.64 3 2 2
3 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 177.11 2 3 3
4 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES USA 158.07 4 6 5
5 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER RUS 155.54 8 5 4
6 Kimberly NAVARRO / Brent BOMMENTRE USA 150.29 6 4 7
7 Kristina GORSHKOVA / Vitali BUTIKOV RUS 145.96 5 7 8
8 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 143.28 7 10 6
9 Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES FRA 140.27 9 8 10
10 Zoe BLANC / Pierre-Loup BOUQUET FRA 138.12 10 9 9

Petra wrote:

When I read in Brians fan forums they write that he normally has not such problems with the jumps in training. So why during competition? The nerves, or what is it?

Brian probably was conscious that his skating style was a little monotonous....
and he wanted to change , to get better,
to put a bit of softess and sensuosness in his style.
So he called Albena & Maxim as choreographers..
But this modification it's not easy and needs some time....
Anyway, IMO, his "presentation" today is very good.
We can see already the "hand" of A&M!!