Grand Prix de France

Olympic gold medalist Mikhail Shaidorov’s uneasy start to the new figure skating season continues as an improved performance was only good enough for fifth place at the Cup of China. Another improving skater took the lead as Kao Miura delivered a clean short program featuring two high-scoring quadruple jumps to score 102.90. World silver medalist Mone Chiba leads the way in the women’s short program as Russian Alexandra Ignatova made a long-awaited return to the figure skating Grand Prix series. Britain’s Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson lead the way in ice dance. Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov, Russians competing as neutrals, have big lead in pairs.