Off-season news 2021: Retirements, coaching changes, music selections, and more!

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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