A new male champion for Italy?

Good news for Italian figure skating fans! After Samuel Contesti's decision to turn professional last year, the field losing the best Italian male skater of the last five seasons, leaving us fans to cheer for the lovely Paolo Bacchini and the new entry of the team - and current Italian champion - Paul Bonifacio Parkinson, be prepared to welcome another skater and great champion in the family.

Indeed, it seems that world champion Dario Betti is assessing if he has any chance to move succesfully from roller skating to ice skating, with a trial at Stadio del Ghiaccio Agorà, Milan, with Lucia Civardi, who helped Matteo Guarise to do the same. The test seems to have been satisfactory.

While waiting to see him on ice, let's watch the FP with wich he won last Worlds, in Auckland.

Source: Doppio Axel

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2013 Junior World Championships - Entries, tickets & Schedule

The 2013 World Junior Figure Skating Championships will be held at Stadio del Ghiaccio Agorà in Milan, Italy from 25 February to 3 March 2013.

The competition will be open to skaters from ISU member nations who are at least 13 years old but not 19 – or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers – before July 1, 2012 in their place of birth. Based on the results of the 2012 World Junior Championships, each country is allowed between one and three entries per discipline.

Entries are as follows.

Country	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
Armenia	Slavik Hayrapetyan
Australia	David Kranjec	Brooklee Han
Austria		Sabrina Schulz		Christine Smith / Simon Eisenbauer
Belarus	Pavel Ignatenko	Kristina Zakharanka		Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev
Belgium				Laura Abts / Maarten Buckens
Brazil	Luis Manella	Isadora Williams
Bulgaria	Iassen Petkov	Anna Afonkina		Slavyana Tsenova / Egor Zaytsev
Canada	Mitchell Gordon Nam Nguyen	Alaine Chartrand Gabrielle Daleman	Hayleigh Bell / Alistair Sylvester Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro	Mackenzie Bent / Garrett MacKeen Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang
China	Jin Boyang Yan Han Zhang He	Guo Xiaowen Zhao Ziquan	Li Meiyi / Jiang Bo Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	Zhang Yiyi / Wu Nan
Chinese Taipei	Chih-I Tsao
Czech Republic	Petr Coufal	Elizaveta Ukolova		Karolina Prochazkova / Michal Ceska
Denmark		Pernille Sorensen
Estonia		Gerli Liinamäe		Johanna Allik / Paul Bellantuono
Finland	Matthias Versluis	Jenni Saarinen		Sara Aghai / Jussiville Partanen
France	Simon Hocquaux	Laurine Lecavelier		Estelle Elizabeth / Romain Le Gac Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
Germany	Martin Rappe	Nathalie Weinzierl	Annabelle Prölss / Ruben Blommaert	Shari Koch / Christian Nüchtern Ria Schiffner / Julian Salatzki
Greece				Carina Glastris / Nicholas Lettner
Hungary	Kristof Forgo	Ivett Toth
Israel		Netta Schreiber		Anna Bolshem / Ronald Zilberberg
Italy	Antonio Panfili	Sara Casella	Giulia Foresti / Leo Luca Sforza	Alessia Busi / Andrea Fabbri Sofia Sforza / Francesco Fioretti
Japan	Ryuju Hino Keiji Tanaka	Rika Hongo Satoko Miyahara
Latvia		Angelina Kuchvalska		Olga Jakushina / Aleksandrs Grishins
Lithuania		Aleksandra Golovkina
Malaysia	Julian Zhi Jie Yee
Netherlands			Rachel Epstein / Dmitry Epstein
Norway	Sondre Oddvoll Boe	Anne Line Gjersem
Philippines	Michael Christian Martinez	Alisson Krystle Perticheto
Poland	Kamil Dymowski	Agata Kryger	Marcelina Lech / Jakub Tyc	Joanna Zajac / Cezary Zawadski
Romania	Catalin Dimitrescu
Russia	Mikhail Kolyada Alexander Samarin	Julia Lipnitskaia Anna Pogorilaya Elena Radionova	Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin Kamilla Gainetdinova / Ivan Bich Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin
Slovakia	Marco Klepoch	Nicole Rajicova
Slovenia		Patricia Glescic
South Korea	Lee June-Hyoung	Kim Hae-Jin Park So-Youn		Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov
Spain	Victor Bustamante	Marta Garcia		Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero
Sweden	Ondrej Spiegl	Rebecka Emanuelsson Josefine Taljegard
Switzerland	Nicola Todeschini	Laure Nicodet
Turkey	Giray Senol	Melisa Sema Atik		Cagla Demirsal / Berk Akalin
Ukraine	Ivan Pavlov	Anna Khnychenkova	Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk	Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin Lolita Yermak / Alexei Khimich
United Kingdom	Jamie Whiteman	Amani Fancy		Olivia Smart / Joseph Buckland
United States	Jason Brown Joshua Farris Shotaro Omori	Samantha Cesario Courtney Hicks Yasmin Siraj	Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier Britney Simpson / Matthew Blackmer	Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter
Uzbekistan				Anna Nagornyuk / Viktor Kovalenko

Where Stadio del Ghiaccio Agorà is?

Via Dei Ciclamini, 23

Milano - Italy
TEL. 02/48.300.946
FAX 02/41.21.821

If you want to buy tickets, prices are as follow.

COMPETITIONS
SEATSTicket: € 29,00; Reduced ticket: € 22,00;
STEPS Ticket: € 15,00; Reduced Ticket: € 10,00;

GALA
SEATS Ticket: € 40,00; Reduced Ticket: € 30,00;
STEPS Ticket: € 25,00; Reduced Ticket: € 15,00;

Tickets are available at:

• Mon - Fri from 15:00 to 19:00

• Sat from 09:30 to 12:30.

• For the competions: www.vivaticket.it/evento_1036874

• For the gala: www.vivaticket.it/evento_1036878

The event schedule is as follows. Remember that times are GMT+1.


Wednesday, February 27
11:30–17:10 – Short dance
17:30–17:50 – Opening ceremony
18:15–21:15 – Pairs' short

Thursday, February 28
11:30–17:40 – Men's short
19:00–21:50 – Pairs' free

Friday, March 1
10:45–17:45 – Ladies' short
18:45–21:55 – Free dance

Saturday, March 2
13:00–16:50 – Men's free
18:30–22:15 – Ladies' free

Sunday, March 3
14:30–17:00 – Gala


The TV schedule SHOULD be as follow. Remember that times are GMT+1 and in this time zone now it is 

Wednesday, February 27
15:30 - 17:00  17:00 - 18:00 Short Dance on Eurosport International 2 
20:00 - 22:45  19:00 - 20:45 Pairs SP on Eurosport International 2 

Thursday, February 28
15:30 - 17:45 Men SP on Eurosport International 2 
20:00 - 22:15 Pairs FP on Eurosport International 2 

Friday, March 1
15:30 - 17:45 Ladies SP Eurosport International 2 
20:00 - 22:15 Free Dance Eurosport International 2 

Saturday, March 2
17:00 - 18:30 Men FP  Eurosport International 2 
18:30 - 22:15 Ladies FP Eurosport International 2 

Sunday, March 3
18:00 - 20:00 Gala Exhibitions  Eurosport International 2 

For those having problems watching the competition (stream not loading, broadcasters that changed their schedule...) try

- here

- here

Please note: live streams will be available approximately 30/60 minutes before start time. You can change the time zone to see changing the times of the streams.

Keep an eye on HBHP Facebook Page and Twitter for any news, changes or new links, I'll keep you updated there.

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