With every end-of-season comes news of retirements, splits, and new partnerships. With the Olympics coming up next season, you would expect there to be less commotion within the figure skating community, but there has already been a number of announcements from skaters. This page will continue to be updated throughout the end of the 2012-2013 season and the off-season.
Coaching Changes
- Nathalie Pechalat/Fabian Bourzat FRA - New coach Igor Shpilband (5/20/13 Facebook)
- Lynn Kriengkrairut/Logan Giulietti-Schmitt USA - New coach Igor Shpilband (2/25/13 USFS)
Federation Changes
- Ivan Bariev, formerly RUS, will compete for Italy (5/16/13)
- Polina Shelepen, formerly RUS, will compete for Israel. (3/23/13)
New Partnerships
- Becky Bereswill/Joshua Reagan USA (4/29/13 IceNetwork)
- Yura Min/Tim Koleto KOR (4/4/13 IceNetwork)
- Natasha Purich/Mervin Tran CAN (3/12/13 lapresse.ca)
- Lindsay Davis/Rockne Brubaker USA (2/19/13 IceNetwork)
- Narumi Takahashi/Ryuichi Kihara JPN (1/29/13 Examiner)
Retirements
- Tiffany Vise/Don Baldwin USA (4/4/13 IceNetwork)
- Wesley Campbell USA (IceNetwork)
- Jonathan Cassar USA (IceNetwork)
- Jessica Dube/Sebastien Wolfe CAN (IceNetwork)
Splits
- Caitlin Yankowskas/Joshua Reagan USA (2/2013 IceNetwork)
- Lindsay Davis/Mark Ladwig USA
- Narumi Takahashi/Mervin Tran JPN (12/18/12 Examiner)
Miscellaneous
- Rohene Ward USA plans a return to competition this season (5/15/13 IceNetwork)
- Camilla Gainetdinova/Ivan Bich RUS to train with Artur Dmitriev (5/16/13)
- Sergei Voronov RUS to train with Eteri Tutberidze (5/16/13)
- Ashley Wagner USA to continue to train with John Nicks and look for a "traveling" coach, will work with new choreographers for next season (4/26/13 Examiner)
- Patrick Chan CAN moves from Colorado Springs to train in Detroit (4/14/13 AFP)
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