New partnerships
Justine Brasseur/Mark Bardei CAN
Jessica Calalang/Brian Johnson USA (Instagram)
Ksenia Stolbova/Andrei Novoselov RUS
Splits
Angelique Abachkina/Louis Thauron FRA - Abachkina wants to continue skating, Thauron unknown (Instagram)
Lorenza Alessandrini/Pierre Souquet FRA - Alessandrini retired, Souquet unknown (Instagram)
Kristina Astakhova/Alexei Rogonov RUS - Astakhova retired, Rogonov unknown
Jessica Calalang/Zack Sidhu USA
Anna Duskova/Martin Bidar CZE - both to continue skating (Instagram)
Lola Esbrat/Andrei Novoselov FRA
Caitlin Fields/Ernie Utah Stevens USA
Elena Ilinykh/Anton Shibnev RUS (December 2017)
Lubov Ilyushechkina/Dylan Moscovitch CAN - Moscovitch retired, Ilyushechkina to join Cirque du Soleil (Twitter)
Kyueun Kim/Alex Kang Chan Kam KOR
Chelsea Liu/Brian Johnson USA
Kavita Lorenz/Joti Polizoakis GER - Lorenz retired, Polizoakis wants to continue skating (Instagram)
Valentina Marchei/Ondrej Hotarek ITA - Marchei wants to continue skating, Hotarek unknown
Yura Min/Alexander Gamelin KOR (Instagram)
Kana Muramoto/Chris Reed JPN
Elliana Pogrebinsky/Alex Benoit USA - Benoit retired, Pogrebinsky wants to continue skating (Instagram)
Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau CAN
Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov RUS (rsport) - Stolbova to continue skating, Klimov retired
Sumire Suto/Francis Boudreau-Audet JPN - Suto unknown, Boudreau-Audet wants to continue skating (Instagram)
Narumi Takahashi/Ryo Shibata JPN - Takahashi retired, Shibata unknown (Kyodo)
Isabella Tobias/Ilia Tkachenko ISR - Tobias retired, Tkachenko unknown (January 2018)
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Retirements
Max Aaron USA (April 2018)
Alisa Agafonova/Alper Ucar TUR (March 2018)
Lorenza Alessandrini ITA (see Splits)
Kristina Astakhova RUS (see Splits)
Elladj Balde CAN (January 2018)
Alex Benoit USA (see Splits)
Patrick Chan CAN (April 2018)
Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford CAN (February 2018) (Official statement April 2018)
Liam Firus CAN (May 2018)
Misha Ge UZB (March 2018)
Grant Hochstein USA (August 2018)
Anne Line Gjersem NOR (June 2018)
Joshi Helgesson SWE (November 2017)
Haruka Imai JPN (March 2018)
Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov RUS (September 2017)
Fedor Klimov RUS
Zijun Li CHN (February 2018)
Peter Liebers GER (January 2018)
Julia Lipnitskaia RUS (August 2017)
Kavita Lorenz GER (see Splits)
Dylan Moscovitch CAN (see Splits)
Takahito Mura JPN (March 2018)
Daisuke Murakami JPN (June 2018)
Lucie Mysliveckova/Lukas Csolley SVK (April 2018)
Isabelle Olsson SWE (January 2018)
Celia Robledo/Luis Fenero ESP (March 2018)
Isabella Tobias ISR (see Splits)
Coaching changes
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya/Harley Windsor AUS from Nina Mozer to Richard Gauthier
Jason Brown USA from Kori Ade to Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson (USFS)
Madison Chock/Evan Bates USA to Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon (USFS)
Haven Denney/Brandon Frazier USA to Silvia Fontana, John Zimmerman, John Barrett
Gracie Gold USA to Vincent Restencourt, Pavel Filchenkov, Irina Yakovleva
Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker USA to Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon
Marin Honda JPN to Rafael Arutyunyan
Taichi Honda JPN to Rafael Arutyunyan
Tarah Kayne/Danny O'Shea USA to Dalilah Sappenfield
Misato Komatsubara/Tim Koleto JPN to Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer
Alex Krasnozhon USA adds Olga Letov and Alexei Letov to coaching team (Instagram)
Eunsoo Lim KOR to Rafael Arutyunyan
Evgenia Medvedeva RUS from Eteri Tutberidze (sports.ru) to Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson (sports.ru)
Alexa Scimeca Knierim/Chris Knierim USA from Dalilah Sappenfield to Aljona Savchenko and her coaching team (USFS)
Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov RUS from Nina Mozer to Maxim Trankov
Andrew Torgashev USA to Christy Krall
Polina Tsurskaya RUS from Eteri Tutberidze to Elena Buianova
Elizabet Tursynbaeva KAZ from Brian Orser to Eteri Tutberidze (prosports.kz)
Han Yan CHN to Qing Pang and Jian Tong
Other news
Japan Open announcements: Team Europe (Javier Fernandez, Carolina Kostner, Deniss Vasiljevs, Alina Zagitova); Team Japan (Satoko Miyahara, Nobunari Oda, Kaori Sakamoto, Shoma Uno); Team North America (Jeremy Abbott, Nathan Chen, Gabrielle Daleman, Bradie Tennell)
Frank Carroll retires at 80
Javier Fernandez ESP - taking the Grand Prix series off
Laurence Fournier Beaudry/Nikolaj Sorensen CAN - released by Denmark to compete for Canada (Instagram)
Mirai Nagasu USA - taking the Grand Prix series off (NBC Sports)
Kaetlyn Osmond CAN - taking the season off
Anna Pogorilaya RUS - got married to Andrey Nevskiy
Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot GER - taking next season off (ln-online.de)
Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani USA - taking next season off (USFS)
Denis Ten KAZ killed in an attempted robbery
Ashley Wagner USA taking the Grand Prix series off (Instagram)
Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje CAN - taking the Grand Prix series off (Skate Canada)
Music and programs
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya/Harley Windsor AUS - SP: Never Tear Us Apart (choreo Julie Marcotte); FS: Scent of a Woman (choreo Massimo Scali)
Dmitri Aliev RUS - SP: Clouds, The Mind on the (Re)Wind (choreo Ilya Averbukh)
Starr Andrews USA - SP: Summertime; FS: Jungle Music
Jason Brown USA - SP: Love is a Bitch (choreo Rohene Ward)
Ashley Cain/Timothy LeDuc USA - SP: Belle Belle (choreo Pasquale Camerlengo); FS: W.E. (choreo Pasquale Camerlengo)
Jessica Calalang/Brian Johnson USA - SP (choreo Rohene Ward)
Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko USA - RD: Jealousy Tango, Yo Soy Mario (choreo Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo); FD: Tokio Myers versions of Clair de Lune, Bloodstream, Angel (choreo Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo)
Karen Chen USA - SP: Fire Dance (choreo Massimo Scali); FS (choreo Marina Zueva, Rohene Ward)
Nathan Chen USA - SP: Caravan (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne); FS: Land of All (choreo Marie-France Dubreuil and Sam Chouinard)
Dabin Choi KOR - SP: Don’t Cry For Me Argentina; FS: Carmen
Ting Cui USA - SP: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini; FS: Giselle
Gabrielle Daleman CAN - SP: Carmen?
Nicole Della Monica/Matteo Guarise ITA - SP: Never Tear Us Apart (choreo John Kerr); FS: Tristan and Iseult (choreo John Kerr)
Timothy Dolensky USA - SP: Spark by Amber Run; FS: Faux
Amber Glenn USA - SP: Gravity (choreo Daniil Barantsev); FS: Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (choreo Daniil Barantsev)
Gracie Gold USA - SP: I Put A Spell On You; FS: She Used To Be Mine
Yuzuru Hanyu JPN - SP: Otonal; FS: Origin
Wakaba Higuchi JPN - SP: Energia (choreo Benoit Richaud); FS: Hymne a l'amour (choreo Yuka Sato)
Courtney Hicks USA - SP: Lady Caliph; FS: Pas de Deux
Marin Honda JPN - SP: Seven Nation Army (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne); FS: Lovers (choreo Lori Nichol)
Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue USA - RD: Astor Piazzola tango medley; FD: Romeo + Juliet
Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres FRA - SP Uninvited (choreo Guillaume Cizeron); FS Wicked Game (choreo Charlie White)
Tara Kayne/Danny O'Shea USA - SP: That's It (I'm Crazy) (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne, Shae Zukiwsky); FS: Swan Lake (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne, Shae Zukiwsky)
Rika Kihira JPN - SP: Clair de Lune; FS: Mercy in Darkness, Two Steps From Hell
Alexa Knierim/Chris Knierim USA - SP: Castle by Halsey (choreo: Aljona Savchenko, Benoit Richaud); FS: Wicked Game (choreo:Aljona Savchenko, Benoit Richaud)
Mikhail Kolyada RUS - SP: Muse
Misato Komatsubara/Tim Koleto JPN - FD: Love Story
Stanislava Konstantinova RUS - FS: Anna Karenina
Alena Kostornaia RUS - SP: Leftovers (choreo Daniil Gleikhengauz); FS: Romeo and Juliet (Daniil Gleikhengauz)
Maxim Kovtun RUS - SP: LOVE, Sing Sing Sing; FS: Carmen
Alex Krasnozhon USA - SP: Dancing on My Own (choreo Scott Brown); FS: Piano Concerto in A minor (choreo Marina Zueva)
Evgenia Medvedeva RUS - SP: Orange Colored Sky by Natalie Cole (choreo Sandra Bezic, David Wilson); FS: Mumuki, Libertango (choreo David Wilson)
Mai Mihara JPN - SP: It's Magic; FS: Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission
Satoko Miyahara JPN - FS: Astor Piazzola medley
Kirsten Moore-Towers/Michael Marinaro CAN - SP: The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face; FS: Pink Floyd medley
Nam Nguyen CAN - FS: La La Land
Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron FRA - SP (choreo Christopher Dean)
Romain Ponsart FRA - SP (choreo Guillaume Cizeron)
Camden Pulkinen USA - SP: Oblivion (choreo Stephane Lambiel); FS: West Side Story (choreo Tom Dickson)
Elena Radionova RUS - SP: You Know I'm No Good (choreo Peter Tchernyschev); FS: Cinema Paradiso (choreo Peter Tchernyshev)
Kevin Reynolds CAN: Illusionary World (choreo Lance Vipond); FS: Ni no kuni (choreo Lance Vipond)
Kaori Sakamoto JPN - SP: From My First Moment; FS: The Piano
Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau - SP: Groove Is In The Heart; FS: Wicked Game
Maria Sotskova RUS - SP: Santana (choreo Peter Tchernyschev); FS: Summertime (choreo Peter Tchernyschev)
Deanna Stellato/Nathan Bartholomay USA - SP (choreo Anjelika Krylova), FS (choreo Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon)
Daisuke Takahashi JPN - SP: The Sheltering Sky (choreo David Wilson); FS: Pale Green Ghosts(choreo Benoit Richaud)
Keiji Tanaka JPN - SP: Memories (choreo Massimo Scali); FS: William Tell Overture
Bradie Tennell USA - FS: Romeo and Juliet (choreo Benoit Richaud)
Kazuki Tomono JPN - SP: Cinema Paradiso (choreo Misha Ge)
Alexandra Trusova RUS - SP: Kill Bill; FS: The Fifth Element
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva RUS - SP: Assassin's Tango; FS: Catgroove by Parov Stelar
Shoma Uno JPN - SP: Stairway to Heaven (choreo Mihoko Higuchi); FS: Moonlight Sonata
Xuehan Wang/Lei Wang CHN - SP: I Put A Spell On You (choreo Misha Ge, Elena Ilinykh); FS (choreo Misha Ge, Elena Ilinykh)
Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje CAN - RD (choreo Pasquale Camerlengo / Igor Shpilband); FD: SOS D’Un Terrien (choreo Pasquale Camerlengo / Igor Shpilband)
Alina Zagitova RUS - SP: Phantom of the Opera (choreo Daniil Gleikhengauz); FS: Carmen (choreo Daniil Gleikhengauz)
Vincent Zhou USA - SP (choreo Jeff Buttle); FS (choreo Jeff Buttle)
Miriam Ziegler/Severin Kiefer AUT - SP (choreo Mark Pillay); FS (choreo Mark Pillay)