2017 GP Final Predictions

The rapid-fire timing of these competitive events is definitely getting to me.

Skate America ended over Thanksgiving weekend, and my plans for posting about that sometimes bizarre event fell to the wayside when all the writing I postponed over Thanksgiving weekend snapped its fingers at me (if writing had fingers, that is… don’t take it too literally… I’ll move on now).

Then last week there was continued catching up to do (spoiler alert: I’m a slow writer). So still… no SkAM recap. There was some pretty big news about Russia and the upcoming Olympics, but no SkAM recap.

As I turned something in today I thought Hey, now I can finally get that SkAM recap done just before I do predictions for the GP Final! Until I was flipping through my list of upcoming recordings and found that the GP Final starts at 4:30 AM (Eastern Time) on THURSDAY, not FRIDAY. Whoopsie.

So now we launch into Plan B, or maybe Plan C: No SkAM recap for now… jump straight to GPF predictions… AND, because time is tight, no explanations on why I’ve set my predictions as I have. At least not yet.

PAIRS

1^st: Sui/Han (CHN)

2^nd Tarasova/Morozov (RUS)

3^rd Savchenko/Massot (GER)

4^th Duhamel/Radford (CAN)

5^th Stolbova/Klimov (RUS)

6^th Yu/Zhang (CHN)

MEN

1^st Nathan Chen (USA)

2^nd Shoma Uno (JPN)

3^rd Sergei Voronov (RUS)

4^th Mikhail Kolyada (RUS)

5^th Adam Rippon (USA)

6^th Jason Brown (USA)

DANCE

1^st Papdakis/Cizeron (FRA)

2^nd Virtue/Moir (CAN)

3^rd Hubbell/Donohue (USA)

4^th Shibutanis (USA)

5^th Chock/Bates (USA)

6^th Cappellini/Lanotte (ITA)

LADIES

1^st Wakaba Higuchi (JPN)

2^nd Alina Zagitova (RUS)

3^rd Maria Sotskova (RUS)

4^th Kaetlyn Osmond (CAN)

5^th Satoko Miyahara (JPN)

6^th Carolina Kostner (ITA)