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On 1/9/2021 at 9:57 AM, Melodie said:

 

More Nats cancelled :( 

There's enough figure skaters in Ireland to hold a national championships? I'm not trying to slag Ireland here, but I do know it's a nation with less than a handful of skating rinks so how many skaters could there be? 

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3 hours ago, rockstaryuzu said:

There's enough figure skaters in Ireland to hold a national championships? I'm not trying to slag Ireland here, but I do know it's a nation with less than a handful of skating rinks so how many skaters could there be? 

By the look of it, there're definitely enough for a Nats. But well :( 

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4 hours ago, Melodie said:

Dunno if this will give any indication but wouldn't it be weird for just one national team to not be sent? Granted, short track speed skating is not as highly prioritized as FS, still... 

We know about it since early December.:dontknow:

After super spreader short track(?) event many of their skaters either were sick or quarantined, so they had to cancel their nats.

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1 hour ago, Paskud said:

We know about it since early December.:dontknow:

After super spreader short track(?) event many of their skaters either were sick or quarantined, so they had to cancel their nats.

Ahhhhh really? I know about the super spreader events but not sending nat team to WC is new to me. Sorry for posting old news :(

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https://isu.org/isu-news/news/145-news/13411-decisions-of-the-council-update-on-isu-event-calendar?templateParam=15

 

Some announcements for the rest of this season and schedules for next season:


ISU Events 2021

The ISU World Figure Skating Championships remain scheduled as planned, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden on March 22-28, 2021. Since these Championships serve as a Qualification Competition for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, the Council will review the Olympic Qualification status at its next meeting. Depending on the actual entries received by the deadline of March 1, 2021, the ISU Council will evaluate and decide at that time whether and which changes to the Olympic qualification system could be necessary.


ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Calendar season 2021/22
The Council approved the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Calendar for the season 2021/22 as follows:

  • Skate America: October 22-24, 2021 TBA, USA

  • Skate Canada International: October 29-31, 2021 Vancouver, BC, CAN

  • Cup of China November: 5-7, 2021 Chongqing, CHN

  • NHK Trophy November: 12-14, 2021 TBA, JPN

  • Internationaux de France: November 19-21, 2021 Grenoble, FRA

  • Rostelecom Cup: November 26-28, 2021 Moscow, RUS

  • ISU Grand Prix Final: December 9-12, 2021 Osaka, JPN


Test Events for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, Beijing

Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy - October 13-17, 2021


ISU Congress 2021
A decision about a possible cancellation of the ISU Congress 2021 will be taken at the next Council meeting in early March. In case the 2021 Congress would have to be cancelled, the Council would also decide at that time on whether a mail vote on certain motions would be arranged and/or whether a virtual Congress would be held.


ISU Council meetings
The next online Council meeting is scheduled for March 2, 2021.

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57 minutes ago, Melodie said:

Re: Schedule

 

NHK is not the last event in the GP series???

The order of events can change every year.

 

By the way, yesterday a "journalist" was claiming that no one is forcing athletes to compete. (As if there weren't any pressure in a pre-olympic season :facepalm:). Today JSF chairman says they "have to" send their skaters because of Olympic spots. This is blackmail at this point. Only feds who don't have any chance to get more than 1 spot will dare to WD :banginghead:

 

 

And it sounds like they won't reconsider unless they get massive WD by March? 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Veveco said:

The order of events can change every year.

 

By the way, yesterday a "journalist" was claiming that no one is forcing athletes to compete. (As if there weren't any pressure in a pre-olympic season :facepalm:). Today JSF chairman says they "have to" send their skaters because of Olympic spots. This is blackmail at this point. Only feds who don't have any chance to get more than 1 spot will dare to WD :banginghead:

 

 

And it sounds like they won't reconsider unless they get massive WD by March? 

 

 

Yep! It is basically blackmail. Can they be any more blatant???

 

But also, yep, only two scenarios can lead to the cancellation of WC: Sweden has the ball to cancel it (hah!) or all the feds have the ball to not send their athletes altogether (big hah!) 

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