Figure skating Grand Prix assignments: Alysa Liu, Chock/Bates headline Skate America
The world's top skaters each compete twice over the six-event regular season in October and November, with the top six per discipline over the series qualifying for December's Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan.
The Final will be the last gathering of the world's top skaters before the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.
Liu and Chock and Bates will be joined by at Skate America in Lake Placid, New York, by two-time U.S. Olympian Jason Brown.
This season, Skate America is the fifth of six Grand Prix stops from Nov. 14-16.
The Grand Prix season starts in France from Oct. 17-19, then moves to China, Canada and Japan before Skate America. After Skate America, the last regular season Grand Prix is in Finland.
Two-time world champion Ilia Malinin is entered in the first and third Grand Prix events in France and Canada.
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