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Nicholas McCarvel

Sans Meryl Davis and Charlie White, Americans go fifth, sixth.
Hanyu celebrates alone in Kiss and Cry; first time since 2011 U.S. has earned three Worlds spots.
Yuna Kim’s Vancouver short program no longer the best ever.
Neither of the two American teams finish inside the top 10.
A month after compatriot Yuzuru Hanyu won Japan its first-ever Olympic men’s gold, Tatsuki Machida wows the home crowd in the short program at Worlds.
The last American women to stand on the podium at the World Championships? Kimmie Meissner and Sasha Cohen - in 2006.
With no Meryl Davis and Charlie White or Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the ice dancing field is wide open in Saitama, Japan.
The Japanese teen tries to become the first man to win the Olympics and Worlds in the same year since 2002.
The pairs competition at the World Figure Skating Championships is without reigning Olympic champions Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov.
Will the biggest names in Sochi be back in four years?
“Every four years it’s amazing to be able to come back and be able to be a part of the Olympic movement.”
“Olympic pressure is not easy to skate under and they all put out good performances.”
Italian skater was 9th in Torino, 16th in Vancouver.
Event starts Wednesday and continues into Thursday.
“He is the most extraordinary coach of our generation.”
“I have two talented – extremely talented – teams and I just do my job properly. It’s not hard.”
“This is my story. And I’m proud of it.”
Family members say “We might be watching through our fingers.”
“He was doing things that no one had really seen before.”
“If everyone skates their best, it would come down to Hanyu and Chan,” Evan Lysacek says.”
“We’ve never had an audience like this in our lives.”