{"id":520542,"date":"2026-11-06T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520542\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:56:09","slug":"chiba-leads-figure-skating-cup-of-china-as-ignatova-returns-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520542\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiba leads figure skating Cup of China as Ignatova returns | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHENZHEN, China (AP) \u2014 World silver medalist Mone Chiba led the way in the women&#8217;s short program at the Cup of China as Russian Alexandra Ignatova made a long-awaited return to the figure skating Grand Prix series Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Chiba took the lead on 76.08 points with her James Bond-themed program, despite an error on a double axel, in her first skate since the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/figure-skating-worlds-sakamoto-33f53f05a77f57bcbf3062f6e87d1761\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world championships<\/a> in March following an offseason ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>kAmxE H2D ;FDE 6?@F89 E@ &lt;66A r9:32 29625 @7 p?2DE2D::2 vF32?@G2 @7 v6@C8:2[ H9@ 46=63C2E65 2 A6CD@?2=\\36DE fd]_d H:E9 2 5@F3=6 7:DE AF&gt;A 2D 96C D4@C6 H2D 2??@F?465]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAmx8?2E@G2[ D&lt;2E:?8 2D 2 ?6FEC2= 2E9=6E6[ H2D E9:C5 @? fa]bf \ud83d\ude15 96C 3:886DE :?E6C?2E:@?2= 6G6?E D:?46 E96 a_aa ~=J&gt;A:4D] %96 `f\\J62C\\@=5 p=6I2?5C2 %CFD@G2 H9@ k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^2CE:4=6^H:?E6C\\@=J&gt;A:4D\\7:8FC6\\D&lt;2E:?8\\CFDD:2?\\7FEFC6\\6fgf`a5f422d_6f7hdgf56hfd4c34a4gQmC2865 C:?&lt;56k d:=&#8221;G6C&#8221;\/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&amp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHENZHEN, China (AP) \u2014 World silver medalist Mone Chiba led the way in the women&#8217;s short program at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10116,151,153,152,199296,42151,77509,32235,31020,127],"class_list":["post-520542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cup-of-china-grand-prix-figure-skating","tag-figure-skating","tag-ice-dancing","tag-olympic-games","tag-skating","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}