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Retirements
Sondre Oddvoll Bøe NOR
Alaine Chartrand CAN
Anna Duskova CZE
Matilda Friend/William Badaoui AUS
Ryuju Hino JPN
Taichi Honda JPN
Rika Hongo JPN
Alex Krasnozhon USA
June Hyoung Lee KOR
Viveca Lindfors FIN
Justyna Plutowska/Jeremie Flemin
Sean Rabbitt USA
Camille Ruest/Drew Wolfe CAN
Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot GER
Maria Sotskova RUS
Anastasia Tarakanova RUS
Elizabet Tursynbaeva KAZ
Sergei Voronov RUS
Philip Warren FRA
Xiaoyu Yu/Hao Zhang CHN
Splits
Kate Finster/Balasz Nagy USA
Isabella Gamez/David-Alexandre Paradis PHI
Tarah Kayne/Daniel O’Shea USA
Avonley Nguyen/Vadym Kolesnik USA
Lana Petranovic/Antonio Souza-Kordeiru CRO
Anastasia Shpilevaya/Grigory Smirnov RUS
Utana Yoshida/Shingo Nishiyama JPN
New partnerships
Maria Chernyshova/Harley Windsor AUS
Kate Finster/Matej Silecky USA
Isabelle Gamez/Alexander Korovin PHI
Vanessa James/Eric Radford CAN
Chelsea Liu/Danny O’Shea USA
Avonley Nguyen/Grigory Smirnov USA
Maria Pavlova/Balazs Nagy HUN
Emmanuelle Proft/Nicolas Nadeau CAN
Ayumi Takanami/Shingo Nishiyama JPN
Minu Yunoki/Shoya Ichihashi JPN
Coaching changes
Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko CAN - to Scott Moir (from Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Carmerlengo)
Rika Kihira JPN - to Brian Orser, Mie Hamada (from Stephane Lambiel, Mie Hamada)
Ekaterina Kurakova POL - to Lorenzo Magri, Angelina Turenko (from Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson, Lorenzo Magri)
Alexia Paganini SUI - to Gheorghe Chiper (from Stephane Lambiel)
Haley Sales/Nikolas Wamsteeker CAN - to Scott Moir (from Aaron Lowe, Megan Wing)
Dinh Tran USA - to Todd Eldredge (from Jeremy Abbott)
Other news
Anastasiia Gubanova to represent Georgia
Marie-Jade Lauriault/Romain Le Gac to represent Canada starting next season (previously France)
Aljona Savchenko to represent the United States (previously Germany)
Music announcements (* indicates program competed in a previous season)
LADIES
Mariah Bell USA - SP: Chromatica (choreo Zuckerman, Rippon); FS: Both Sides Now (choreo Bourne)
Karen Chen USA - FS*: Butterfly Lovers
Amber Glenn USA - SP: Circle, Experience; FS*: Rain, in your Black Eyes (choreo Ge)
Wakaba Higuchi JPN - SP: Primavera (choreo Buttle); FS: Lion King (choreo Bourne)
Marin Honda JPN - SP: Ave Maria (choreo Ge)
Rika Kihira JPN - SP*: The Fire Within (choreo Richaud); FS: Titanic
Mana Kawabe JPN - SP: Winter / Four Seasons (choreo Nichol); FS: Miracle (choreo Nichol)
Satoko Miyahara JPN - SP: Lyra Angelica (choreo Buttle); FS*: Tosca (choreo Nichol)
Madeline Schizas CAN - SP: My Sweet and Tender Beast (choreo Hill)
Audrey Shin USA - SP*: The Giving (choreo Meekins); FS: Moonlight Sonata (choreo Meekins)
Bradie Tennell USA - SP: Restrictus (choreo Richaud); FS: Nuvole Bianche (choreo Richaud)
MEN
Jason Brown USA - SP*: Sinnerman (choreo Ward); FS*: Schindler’s List (choreo Wilson)
Donovan Carrillo MEX - FS*: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, Sway
Artur Danielian RUS - FS: Scheherazade
Yuzuru Hanyu JPN - FS*: Heaven and Earth (choreo Bourne)
Tomoki Hiwatashi USA - SP: Standards (choreo Pillay); FS: The Artist (choreo Pillay)
Yuma Kagiyama JPN - SP: Vocussion (choreo Nicole); FS*: Avatar (choreo Nichol)
Mikhail Kolyada RUS - SP: The Nutcracker; FS: Schindler’s List
Nam Nguyen CAN - SP*: That’s Life (choreo Robertson); FS*: Mi Mancherai
Yaroslav Paniot USA - SP: Saturday Night Fever (choreo Ge); FS*: Elvis medley (choreo Ge)
Adam Siao Him Fa FRA - FS: Daft Punk medley (choreo Richaud)
Kazuki Tomono JPN - SP*: Cinema Paradiso
Shoma Uno JPN - FS: Bolero IV - New Breath (choreo Lambiel)
Vincent Zhou USA - SP*: Vincent; FS*: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (choreo Nichol)
DANCE
Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier CAN - RD: Elton John medley
Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri ITA - FD: Atonement
Misato Komatsubara/Tim Koleto JPN RD: Le Freak; FD: Memoirs of a Geisha
Kana Muramoto/Daisuke Takahashi JPN - RD: Soran Bushi, Koto; FD*: La Bayadere
PAIRS
Ashley Cain-Gribble/Timothy LeDuc USA - SP: The White Crow (choreo Ge)
Katie McBeath/Nathan Bartholomay USA - FS: The Blower’s Daughter (choreo Stuart)
Kirsten Moore-Towers/Michael Marinaro CAN - FS*: Carry You (choreo Marcotte)
Daria Pavliuchenko/Denis Khodykin RUS - FS: The Black Swan