JUNIOR GRAND PRIX FINAL In their second JGP Final, ice dancers Al-
exandra Aldridge and Daniel Eaton came back from a disappointing fourth place fi nish in the short dance to win their fi rst JGP Final medal, the bronze, with 136.19 points. “Having the opportunity to compete at
Jason Brown skates his short program
to “The Question of U” by Prince at the 2012 Junior Grand Prix Final.
Keiser, who trains alongside reigning U.S. champion Ashley Wagner in Aliso Viejo, Calif., qualifi ed for the Final in her very fi rst season on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. Finishing the week with 137.44 points, Keiser said the opportunity means more than her placement. “It’s a good learning experience for me,”
Keiser said. “It is my fi rst big international com- petition. It defi nitely did not go the way I wanted it to, but it gives me a lot of things to work on for the next season, even for the U.S. Champion- ships.”
T e ladies title went to Elena Radionova
of Russia, who received an impressive 179.40 points.
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these events prepares us for the future,” Aldridge said. “It’s not so much the placement we’re wor- ried about right now, but growing as a team and the way that we perform.” Aldridge and Eaton’s free dance, set to mu- sic from Fiddler on the Roof featured three level 4
Alexandra Aldridge and Daniel Eaton perform their swing/blues short dance on their way to the bronze medal.
lifts, a level 4 spin and positive grades of execu- tion on each of their eight elements. “It’s an awesome, once-in-a-lifetime oppor- tunity to compete with the best, especially here in the Olympic arena,” Eaton said. “T e per- formance was strong; we skated clean. We are both happy with the way we performed. All the elements were strong. We maintained speed and connection.” T e ice dancing title went to Alexandra Ste-
panova and Ivan Bukin of Russia, who earned 149.57 points.
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