Fred's, (Used to be Barb's), Board

This week's event, the 5th of the 6 GP events, takes place in Grenoble, FRA from Nov. 16-19.

The entries, by discipline, can be found here: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111475.htm

The time and practice schedule is here: http://www.isuresults.com/schedules/gpf ... hedule.pdf

The CBC Sports live streaming schedule (all EST) from: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... /broadcast

Fri Nov 17

• 9:00 AM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Ladies Short Program
• 10:55 AM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Ice Dance Short Dance
• 12:35 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Pairs Short Program
• 2:05 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Men Short Program

Sat Nov 18

• 7:15 AM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Ladies Free Program
• 9:30 AM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Ice Dance Free Dance
• 1:00 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Pairs Free Program
• 2:45 PM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Men Free Program
• 3:30 PM - Road to the Olympic Games | Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Ladies Free Program [also on TV]

Sun Nov 19

• 8:30 AM - Championship Figure Skating: Grand Prix of France - Gala

Note that with Zijun Li and Chafik Besseghier now removed from the ladies & mens line-ups, there will only be 11 competitors in each of these discipline.

Skate Canada article on the team going to France: https://skatecanada.ca/2017/11/canadian ... continues/

Here's Danielle Earl's time conversion FYI:

The men's field came very close to being reduced to 10 - Misha Ge had a lot of difficulties getting a visa to travel to France. It was within 4 hours of his flight departure before it was "sorted" after a number of refusals! He represents Uzbekistan but travels a lot, training, coaching, doing choreography for others, etc. Visa issues have plagued him before, sometimes causing him to withdraw from competitions.

Reports from those already "on the ground" in France indicate that he too has arrived

The Schedule/Entries/Results page is now up: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/gpfra2017/

According to planned program content, four of the men plan two quads in their short programs and between three and five quads in their free skates. Who will deliver on their plans?

The links to the live stream on CBC can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figureskating

An update from Weaver & Poje via Twitter after the short dance:

A displaced rib from KW nearly had us withdrawing from #idf2017 ... and now AP is feeling it after a hard crash into the boards on warm up. Skating can be tough sometimes! But we are fighting, as always. Thank you for your encouragement.

Luba & Dylan were left skating around and around on the ice before they could skate. The computer scoring system went down and the marks, from pencil notes, had to be manually entered for the Italian team who skated before them. A loooooong delay

Good luck to Katlyn and Andrew, and Lubov and Dylan as they say, sometimes (if not always) it is a tough sport.

For those who wish to avoid seeing spoilers when going to the CBC site, here are links to watch each of the events earlier today in their entirety:

• Ladies Short - Part 1: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 8119747609
• Ladies Short - Part 2: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 8546755562
• Ice Dance Short Dance: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 8326083991
• Pairs Short: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 8485315918
• Men's Short: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 8411075850

I wish I had time for those. Thanks, Elizabeth.

For those who wish to avoid seeing spoilers when going to the CBC site, here are links to watch each of the events earlier today in their entirety:

• Ladies free skate: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 8913859664
• Ice dance free dance: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 8977347856
• Pairs free skate: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 9020867935
• Men's free skate: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 9063875917

The gala will be live streamed at 8:30 a.m. ET tomorrow.

Warning - spoilers if you don't know the results yet

The ISU report on Day One of the competition: http://isu.org/press-releases/2017/1544 ... -day1/file

The ISU report on Day Two of the competition: http://isu.org/press-releases/2017/1544 ... -day2/file

For anyone who missed the CBC TV coverage where skating was mixed in with other Olympic sports a bit, here's a link to the video: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winte ... 9074627811

Commentary is from Kurt Browning, Carol Lane & Andy Petrillo.

I believe that the final group in the men's free skate was shown live.

This YouTube channel has a number of videos from the competition and the Gala up: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfq5p ... E_MwCV_DXg