Chatting with Karen Chen

I recap the top 3 in all disciplines + all Team USA athletes at the 2024 Junior World Championships!

I interview Olympian and French National champion Mae Berenice Meite on her inspiring career. We chat about her early beginnings in skating and getting to the Olympics, how she dealt with her injuries in her recovery process, growing into adulthood while navigating what skating meant to her, finding purpose and clarity while taking a break, and transforming her life with her new vision of skating and future.

I recap the top skaters at the 2024 Four Continents Championships in Shanghai, China.

I recap the 2024 U.S. Championships in the Junior and Senior categories!

I recap the 2024 European Championships:
Loena Hendrickx (BEL)
Anastasiia Gibanova (GEO)
Nina Pinzarrone (BEL)
Livia Kaiser (SUI)
Alexandra Feign (BUL)
Kimmy Repond (SUI)
Olga Mikutina (AUT)
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Adam Saio Him Fa (FRA)
Aleksandr Selevko (EST)
Matteo Rizzo (ITA)
Lukas Britschgi (SUI)
+
Lucrezia Beccari/Matteo Guarise (ITA)
Anastasia Metelkina/Luka Berulava (GEO)
Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini (ITA)
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Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri (ITA)
Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson (GBR)
Allison Reed /Saulius Ambrulevicius (LTU)
Natalie Taschlerova/Filip Taschler (CZE)
Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis (FIN)

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I chat with Rory O'Brien, member of the champion Hayden Select Synchronized Skating Team for Team USA about all things synchro!

Topics covered:
-synchro skating general rules
-the levels of synchro and moving up competitively
-team tryout process
-the key elements of a synchro program
-the judging system for synchro
-what the synchro competition season looks like
-international competitions for synchro
-training systems for synchro
-what skating skills are most important for synchro
-the elite 12 division and why it was created
-the barriers for getting synchro into the Olympics
-the best part of skating synchro

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Mao SHIMADA (JPN)

Jia Shin (KOR)

Rena Uezono (JPN)

Rio Nakata (JPN)

Daniel Martynov (USA)

Leah Neset/Artem Markelo (USA)

Yahli Pederson/Jeffrey Chen (USA)

Olivia Flores/Luke Wang (USA)

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I recap the 2023 Grand Prix Final:

Kaori Sakamoto (JPN)

Loena Hendrickx (BEL)

Hana Yoshida (JPN)

Nina Pinzarrone (BEL)

Isabeau Levito (USA)

Rion Sumiyoshi (JPN)

Ilia Malinin (USA)

Shoma Uno (JPN)

Yuma Kagiyama (JPN)
Adam Saio Him Fa (FRA)

Kao Miura (JPN)

Kevin Aymoz (FRA)

My thoughts on the Dance and Pairs events!

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-her skating origin story

-the start of her integration career

-skating with Adrian Diaz and switching from GBR to Spain

-the close rivalry and journey to get to represent at the Olympics

-how it felt the her partner announced retirement

-taking the year off competition skating and her mentality

-Dancing on Ice experience

-how it felt to be away from competition and do some soul searching

-the decision to compete again with a new partner

-the ongoing journey

-her advice to skaters

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Ava Zeigler (USA)

Lindsay Thorngren (USA)

Nina Pinzarrone (BEL)

Yuna Aoki (JPN)

Yuma Kagiyama (JPN)

Shoma Uno (JPN)

Camden Pulkinen (USA)

Anastasia GOLUBEVA/Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE (AUS)

Chelsea Liu/Balazs Nagy (USA)

Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson (GBR)

Lorraine McNamara/Anton Spiridonov (USA)

Emily Bratti/Ian Somerville (USA)

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