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The world's best figure skaters gather at the Grand Prix Final in a preview of the Milan Cortina Olympic competition.
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Olympic, Paralympic sports weekend preview: Grand Prix Final to sort figure skating favorites
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Published December 3, 2025 09:52 AM
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This week in Olympic and Paralympic sports features the Grand Prix Final — the top figure skating competition before the Milan Cortina Games — as well as the return of The Snow League.
The Grand Prix Final from Thursday through Saturday in Nagoya, Japan, includes the top six per discipline from the six-event Grand Prix Series in October and November, making it a mini preview of the Olympic competition. For the first time, the Grand Prix Final features every reigning World Championships medalist.
Ilia Malinin is the biggest favorite at the Final. He puts a two-year, 12-event win streak on the line against a field that includes 2022 Olympic silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan. In three starts this season, the “Quadgod” posted the world’s top three scores by a wide margin.
Alysa Liu, the 2025 World champion, and Amber Glenn, the 2024 Grand Prix Final champion, will see where they stack up against the world’s highest-scoring skaters this season, all from Japan: three-time world champ Kaori Sakamoto, Ami Nakai and Mone Chiba.
Madison Chock and Evan Bates can add their third consecutive Final ice dance title to their three consecutive world titles. The married couple faces a new challenge in Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France, who are in their first season together. Like Chock and Bates, the French won their two Grand Prix regular season starts. The two couples who train under the same coaches in Montreal go head-to-head for the first time.
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