Figure skating: ISU reveals Grand Prix Series assignments

Figure skating news in June?! Yes, we have that.

The International Skating Union released its Grand Prix Series assignments for the 2023-24 season on Wednesday (28 June), with reigning world champions Uno Shoma, Sakamoto Kaori, Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi as well as Madison Chock and Evan Bates all set to feature.

Also on the list is Kagiyama Yuma, the Beijing 2022 silver medallist after an injury-interrupted 2022-23 campaign.

Skate America will kick off the series in Allen, Texas, on 20 October, with subsequent events held in Canada, France, China, Finland and Japan. The Grand Prix Final - featuring the best six skaters or teams in each discipline - will return to the Olympic city of Beijing on 7-10 December.

You can see a full schedule below.

Sakamoto will start her season at Skate Canada in Vancouver, before heading to the Grand Prix of Espoo in Finland. Uno, meanwhile, will debut at Cup of China before skating in front of home fans in Osaka for NHK Trohpy.

Russian and Belarusian athletes remain ineligbile for internationally-sanctioned skating events.

The ISU's Grand Prix Series are the six biggest events of the first half of the figure skating season, with the Grand Prix Final serving as its culmination.