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06/16 07:22 CDT Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin to return at Skate America as Grand
Prix lineups revealed
Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin to return at Skate America as Grand Prix lineups
revealed
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) --- Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu and
world champion Ilia Malinin are set to make their returns to top-level
competition at Skate America next season.
The International Skating Union published the lineups Tuesday for the new
season's Grand Prix events, listing Skate America in Everett, Washington, on
Nov. 13-15 as the first event on the circuit for Liu, U.S. champion Amber Glenn
and Malinin.
Skaters can take part in two of the six Grand Prix events to qualify for the
finals in Chongqing, China, in December.
Liu and Glenn are set to skate against Ami Nakai, the Olympic bronze medalist
from Japan, and world bronze medalist Nina Pinzarrone of Belgium in a stacked
field at Skate America. Malinin is up against experienced American skater Jason
Brown and Italy's Daniel Grassl.
It's not immediately clear if Liu, Glenn and Malinin plan to skate any
lower-level Challenger Series events before that. Liu hasn't skated
competitively since winning her Olympic gold medal in February. She skipped the
world championships after that as Kaori Sakamoto retired with a fourth title.
Malinin retained his world title in March after missing the medals at the
Olympics with a disastrous free skate.
After Skate America, Liu is listed as competing again one week later in her
second Grand Prix of the season at the Finlandia Trophy. Malinin's second event
is the NHK Trophy in Japan against world bronze medalist Shun Sato.
Olympic gold medalist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is in the Grand Prix
season opener in France from Oct. 23-25 and then skates the Cup of China in
November.
There's no Grand Prix assignment for U.S. ice dance team Madison Chock and Evan
Bates, who have said they're taking a break from competition. Olympic gold
medalists Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron start at their home
Grand Prix de France.
Pairs world champions Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany start their
Grand Prix season at Skate America. Olympic pairs gold medalists Riku Miura and
Ryuichi Kihara of Japan retired in April.
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