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Russians & Americans take most the medals at Junior Worlds
Ponsart, Yan out of Senior Worlds
Updates on injured pairs, Bazarova & Larionov, & Chan
Kriengkrairut & Giulietti-Schmitt change coaches
Artur Gachinski shows preview of new long
Johnny Weir updates about season
Reports on Canadian pairs
Flatt may not compete next season
Withdrawal in Dancing on Ice semifinals
Dorothy Hamill on Dancing With the Stars
World Hall of Fame nominees announced
Hanyu & Asada win at Japanese Nationals
Takahashi & Tran split
Weaver & Pojé confirm injury, concede only Canadian Nationals
2014 Canadian Nationals in Ottawa
Lipnitskaia & Shelepen out of Russian Nationals
ISU leaves minimums for Europeans as they are
Nationals also held in Italy, Germany, China, Hungary, Ukraine, & Austria
Joubert getting new long
Galindo & Nichol into U.S. Hall of Fame
Casts of Japanese Stars on Ice & Dancing on Ice announced
Miki Ando out for season
Lysacek, others out of Grand Prix events
Late music announcements
JGP concludes in Germany
Multiple Regionals in U.S. & Japan
Octoberfest held in Ontario
Tuktamisheva highlights 2nd Cup of St. Petersburg
Mishin, others comment on last week
October 7, 2012 Yeah, it’s over twenty minutes. It was ten when I finished editing, really chopping the final segment down I might add, and I decided being around twenty minutes long was allowed, even if it was technically over, especially on weeks like this, and when I spent the entire extra nine seconds explaining how I’m stopping because we’re going on too long. Am I glad tomorrow’s a federal holiday. I need the rest!
At one point I thought this might be the first of the new audio posts to be delayed until Monday, though it instead proved the first one I had to cut down, since while I’m allowing myself to be more flexible about length, I still want to keep them to under twenty minutes. All this while trying to record and edit around the International Classic, and when as a result, I couldn’t finish scripting until after 9 tonight, after I’d mostly edited together everything that came after my opening accounts of the senior competitions! September 10-16, 2012
I’ll also probably be writing a blog post on Michael Weiss’ show, which I went to see yesterday, and indeed nearly made the newscast, it was only when Speedy and van der Porny showed up at the last minute that it got bumped out. So everything else that happened this week: September 3-9, 2012
I really should’ve done this all last night. But I held out until this morning, hoping to get maybe a little footage of the Canadian free skates, or at least a full list of the 4CC/Junior Worlds team. Though waiting did mean reporting Savchenko & Szolkowy’s withdrawal from Euros, but the only thing that allowed me to finish the editing this morning was expected icy conditions(which didn’t seem to manifest) letting me leave for work and hour and half late, and even then it was still saving(though at least it did so without complications, which really surprised me; I was in such a hurry I almost didn’t try to save to an smaller size and quality sound first), so I could only upload it now. I was dreading it being blocked, but instead it wasn’t claimed at all.
I wanted this one done tonight because the YOG frees start tomorrow morning, though it wasn’t easy, what with Dancing on Ice holding everything up, and the developing story on Savchenko today to boot. At least saving was no problem, though Universal Sports claimed the copyright, so there may be ads.
I actually had a doctor’s appointment yesterday, which meant I didn’t finish the video until very late at night. In fact, I haven’t even done the annotations yet; that should be done after I post this. ETA: Annotations done.
It seems this is continually thinking up ways to plague me; this week after I’d labored a record ten hours on it, the video of course refused to save normally, and this time the sound merely didn’t get garbled; it outright dropped a couple of times! And coming up this week is the first regional results(I originally included a couple short program results this week, but there simply wasn’t room for them). I was way too tired to post this last night, so posting it now instead:
