In this episode of In The Loop, Niamh (@rivrdance), Evie (@doubleflutz) and Yogeeta (@liliorum) discuss the final event of the 2018/19 season, World Team Trophy 2019, and the issues with the IJS, judging, and subjectivity!

Full transcript available here: https://www.inthelopodcast.com/news/2019/04/20/episode-30-transcript

The issues with the IJS 5:01

Pairs 32:16

Ladies 47:16

Ice Dance 1:00:05

Men 1:10:09

News mentioned in this episode

Pairs team Miu Suzaki/Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) split (article in Japanese)

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190408-00000051-dal-spo

Pairs team Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Nathan Bartholomay (USA) split https://www.instagram.com/natebartholomay/p/Bv-WoQ6HYWQ/

Dance team Rachel Parsons/Michael Parsons (USA) split

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvxcTRanrp4/

Anastasia Tarakanova (RUS) left coach Evgeni Plushenko’s training camp, returned to former coach Svetlana Panova (article in Russian) https://rsport.ria.ru/20190415/1552708270.html

World Synchro Championships results

http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1819/wcsys2019/index.htm

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Audio Production by Evie (@doubleflutz)

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