I know this was carefully curated to show only the best moments, but those moments do look good, right? I feel like there's a match to their lines that wasn't there in the early videos.

Auto-translated video caption said "competition simulation", I think that's why we hear their names announced in the beginning.

Yuna Kim and Mao Asada.
Two icons, queens, and legends ❤️

I don't think we've had a predictions thread for SCI yet (unless I missed it). Who do you think will medal? Any other fun predictions?

Mine below:

Women: Shimada – Petrõkina – Samodelkina

Men: Nakata – Aymoz – Gogolev

Pairs: Pereira/Michaud – Efimova/Mitrofanov – Vouillamoz/Bouvart

Dance: Fear/Gibson – Lopareva/Brissaud – Green/Parsons

Edited by me :)

Via the German Figure Skating Union and his instagram, he already has a new partner (Elizabeth Tkachenko)

Unfortunately, this takes them out of the GP series after they already withdrew from Cup of China. Mishina/Galliamov are next up on the alternate list, followed by Mukhortova/Evgenyev and Shin/Howe (Chikmareva/Ianchenkov already being assigned to Finlandia)

This is a question to all of you stats nerds out there.

I'd love to see what is judged to be perfect, does it even exist?

I particularly 💖 this performance of her R & J, and this version of her dress too. Take note of her facial expressions throughout and as the commentator says "it's as if the music was written for her." What a stunning and captivating performance, just perfection.

Super leagues (which I think this sub can and should take full credit for inspiring) are now available for Rocker Skating fantasy!

If you are a league creator you can go to your league page and request to join the Reddit super league. (I didn’t even request mine tbh I just went and checked and it was already added? Jackie you lurker…)

Exciting that we’ll now have our own leaderboard for this sub going forward :) Thanks Mr. Rockerskating!

Holy shit he really wants to do it next to Ilia haha. Also seems fully rotated to me, which is a bit new for him.

He posted this on his Instagram story.

Quad sal, schmod schmal, what is this costume 👀 I'm intrigued.

This might be geoblocked since it’s on CBC sports. Interesting to hear Piper talk about the ice dance results and scoring

Edit: just finished watching this. They talked about thinking that F/C were over scored, especially for the RD, and that cizeron had a lot of two footed skating, and that Cpom should’ve won the RD lol

Simply Iconic, my Vancouver OSM

I will love this image forever. Yuna looks so cute and somehow teacher-esque with her glasses. Also, I thought Rion was 19😭 turns out she’s 23 and if she’d landed her 4T this year she would’ve continued to be the oldest woman to land a quad in competition! Oh and Kao is also there lol.

Since we just saw Rion attempt the quad toe at GP France (unsuccessfully 😭😭, hoping she will land it at GP Finland) and Mao Shimada we will see attempt hers at Skate Canada, I wanted to see how their technique differs, the pros and cons of their technique, why maybe one is more consistent than the other, and if their 4T’s are sustainable. This is not to take anything away from their achievements, they are the only 2 women in Japan attempting the 4T right now and while Rion may have not been so consistent on it, it is a huge achievement for her to be the first Japanese woman to have landed one!

The women's field is STACKED! 🔥 We have not only strong and experienced senior skaters, including Olympians, but also former juniors who have moved up to the senior level this season.

At Skate Canada we could see some ultra-C-elements:

•  Niina Petrokina: Quadruple Salchow
•  Mao Shimada: Triple Axel, quadruple Toe Loop
•  Sofia Samodelkina: Triple Axel
• Yujae Kim: Triple Axel
• Sara-Maude Dupuis: Triple Axel
• Saki Miyake: Triple Axel

The fight for the podium is going to be exciting!

A few facts before we get into details:

• Two Time Olympians: Viktoriia Safonova (AIN2), Madeline Schizas (CAN)
• One Time Olympians: Niina Petrokina (EST), Sofia Smodelkina (KAZ), Jia Shin (KOR), Isabeau Levito (USA)
• Grand Prix debuts: Fee Ann Landry (CAN), Saki Miyake (JPN), Mao Shimada (JPN, Senior GP debut), Yujae Kim (KOR, Senior Grand Prix debut)
• A return to Skate Canada:  Sara-Maude Dupuis (CAN), Madeline Shizas (CAN), Isabeau Levito (USA)
• First Senior Season: Mao Shimada (JPN), Yujae Kim (KOR)

Now for the details! 12 participants, 7 different countries + one neutral athlete

Viktoriia Safonova (AIN1): Competing as an Individual Neutral Athlete, Safonova has already taken part in two competitions this season, finishing 4th at the 2026 Denis Ten Memorial and 5th at the 2026 Trialeti Trophy. At the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, she finished 26th. She also placed 4th at Skate to Milano in 2025.
Before Russian and Belarusian athletes were subject to restrictions on international competition, she competed at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, where she finished 12th, and at the 2022 European Championships, placing 8th. She is a seven-time national champion, having won the title every year from 2020 through 2026. Until 2019, she competed under the Russian flag.

• PB Total Score: 198.80 (2026 Denis Ten Memorial)
• PB SP: 68.42 (2026 Denis Ten Memorial)
• PB FS: 130.28  (2026 Denis Ten Memorial)

Sara-Maude Dupuis (CAN) : Dupuis opened her season at the Budapest Trophy, finishing 8th. Last season, she placed 13th at the Four Continents Championships and won silver at the 2025 Canadian National Championships. This will be her fourth appearance at Skate Canada. She finished 11th in 2023, improved to 10th in 2024, and placed 11th again in 2025. She also made history at the 2025 Warsaw Cup by becoming the first Canadian woman to land a triple Axel in an ISU competition.

• PB Total Score: 185.66 (2025 Warsaw Cup)
• PB SP: 66.23 (2025 Warsaw Cup)
• PB FS: 119.43 (2025 Warsaw Cup)

Fee Ann Landry (CAN): Landry is making her Grand Prix debut at Skate Canada. This is her first time ever at a (Junior/Senior) Grand Pri. She comes into the event after finishing 3rd at the Nebelhorn Trophy this season. Landry has relatively litte international experience.

• PB Total Score: 177.78 (2025 Four Continents)
• PB SP: 57.92 (2025 Four Continents)
• PB FS: 119.26 (2025 Four Continents)

Madeline Shizas (CAN):  Schizas is a two-time Olympian, represented Canada at the Olympic Winter Games in 2022 and 2026. Last season, she finished 25th at the Olympics and 15th at the World Championships. She also reclaimed the Canadian national title in 2026, becoming a four-time Canadian champion. Her season debut was at the Budapest Trophy there she finished 11th.
This will be Schizas's sixth appearance at Skate Canada. Since making her Grand Prix debut in 2021, she has competed at the event every season. Last year, she finished 9th.

• PB Total Score: 192.14 (2021 Rosehorn Cup)
• PB SP: 69.76 (2023 World Team Trophy)
• PB FS: 132.47 (2023 Skate Canada)

Niina Petrokina (EST):  Petrokina had an amazing start to the season, winning gold at all three of her competitions so far: the Tallinn Open, Lombardia Trophy, and Trialeti Trophy.
Last season, she finished 7th at both the Olympic Winter Games and the World Championships. She also made history by winning her second consecutive European title in 2026, having first claimed the gold medal in 2025. Shei s also a four-time Estonian national champion.
This marks Petrokina's fourth Grand Prix season. She is the first Estonian skater to win an ISU Championship title and the first to medal on the ISU Grand Prix circuit, taking bronze at Skate America in 2023. Currently she is working on the quadruple Salchow.

• PB Total Score 216.16 (2026 European Championship=
• PB SP: 77.20 (2026 Lombardia Trophy)
• PB FS:  145.53  (2026 European Championship)

Anna Pezzetta (ITA): Pezzetta opened her season at the Budapest Trophy, finishing 13th. Last season, she placed 8th at the European Championships and finished 8th at both the NHK Trophy and the Cup of China on the Grand Prix circuit. She is the 2025 Italian national champion and a four-time Challenger Series medalist.

• PB Total Score: 192.97 (2025 Nepela Memorial)
• PB SP: 67.14 (2024 JGP Ljubljana Cup)
• PB FS: 126.19 (2025 Nepela Memorial)

Saki Miyake (JPN): Skate Canada will be Miyakes (ISU) season and Grand Prix debut. Last season, she finished 3rd at the Kinoshita Group Cup in what was her first international ISU competition. She competed against a strong field that included Rinka Watanabe, Bradie Tennell, Haelin Lee, and Madeline Schizas, while Mone Chiba and Kaori Sakamoto took the top two places. Miyake also finished 9th at the Japanese National Championships. This season Miyake landet a clean tripe axel at the Kinki Regionals.

• PB Total Score: 196.79 (2025 Kinoshita Group Cup)
• PB SP: 70.29 (2025 Kinoshita Group Cup)
• PB FS: 126.50 (2025 Kinoshita Group Cup)

Mao Shimada (JPN): Shimada is making his senior debut this season after one of the most dominant  junior careeres in figure skating history. As a junior, Shimada won all 19 international competitions she entered, completing the Junior Golden Slam and an unprecedented four consecutive Junior Grand Slams. She is a four-time Junior World Champion and a four-time Junior Grand Prix Final champion, with eight Junior Grand Prix gold medals to her name. She also is is a four-time Japanese junior national champion and has also earned two silver and two bronze medals at the senior Japanese National Championships.
This season, at her international senior debut, she won gold at the Kinoshita Group Cup carrying her success straight into the senior field.

• PB Total Score: 231.31 (2026 Kinoshita Group Cup)
• PB SP: 78.84 (2026 Kinoshita Group Cup)
• PB FS: 156.16 (2025 Junior Worlds)

Sofia Samodelkina (KAZ): Samodelkina has represented Kazakhstan internationally since 2024, having previously competed for Russia until 2021. Last season, she finished 10th at the Olympic Winter Games, 12th at the World Championships, and 9th at the Four Continents Championships. She also made her Grand Prix debut at the NHK Trophy, where she delivered an impressive performance to win silver. This will be her second Grand Prix appearance, giving her another opportunity to build on last season's podium finish. Her season debut was at the Denis Ten Memorial, she finshed 3rd. Samodelkina is also working on the triple Axel.

• PB Total Score:  207.46 (2026 Winter Olympics)
• PB SP:  69.45 (2026 Denis Ten Memorial)
• PB FS: 141.63 (2021 JGP Krasnoyarsk)

Yujae Kim (KOR):  Kim is entering her first senior season and will make her Senior Grand Prix debut at Skate Canada. She is a five time JGP medalist.  She has already made a strong start to the season, winning silver at both the Denis Ten Memorial and the Cranberry Cup. Last season, Kim finished 4th at the Korean National Championships and 4th at the Junior Grand Prix Final. She placed 16th at the World Junior Championships. Kim's twin sister, Yuseong, is also a competitive figure skater. Both sisters began skating at just eight years old.

• PB Total Score:  209.20 (2026 Denis Ten Memorial)
• PB SP:  75.99 (2026 Denis Ten Memorial)
• PB FS:  137.17 (2025 JGP Solidarity Cup)

Jia Shin (KOR): Shin opened the season with a silver medal at the Lombardia Trophy. Last season she  finished 11th at the Olympic Winter Games, 6th at the Four Continents Championships, and 8th at the World Championships. She also won the national title, becoming a three-time national champion. Her junior career was just as remarkable. She won four consecutive silver medals at the World Junior Championships from 2022 to 2025, along with six Junior Grand Prix medals and two silver medals at the Junior Grand Prix FinalNow in her second Grand Prix season, she will be looking to build on last season's success and continue making her mark on the senior circuit! ⛸️✨

• PB Total Score: 212.44 (2024 Junior World Championships)
• PB SP: 74.93 (2026 Lombardia Trophy)
• PB FS: 141.02 (2026 Olympic Winter Games)

Isabeau Levito (USA):  🇺🇸 Isabeau Levito (USA) Levito begins her ISU season at Skate Canada, returning to an event where she won silver last season. Last season, she finished 12th at the Olympic Winter Games, placed 4th at the World Championships, and took bronze at the U.S. National Championships. Levito is the 2024 World silver medalist and also won silver at the 2022–2023 Grand Prix Final. Her international résumé includes a Grand Prix de France title in 2023, six ISU Grand Prix medals, and five ISU Challenger Series medals, including three golds. On the national stage, she became U.S. champion in 2023 and has earned three additional bronze medals at the U.S. National Championships, in 2022, 2024, and 2026.

• PB Total Score: 215.75 (2022 GP MK John Wilson Trophy)
• PB SP: 73.73 (2024 World Championship)
• PB FS: 143.68  (2022 GP MK John Wilson Trophy)