2016 Youth Olympic Games, 12-21 Feb

dorispulaski · Aug 31, 2015

http://goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?56049-2015-US-Youth-Olympic-Games-Qualifiers

It looks like the 2 dance teams from the US will be Chloe Lewis & Logan Bye and Eliana Gropman & Ian Somerville, from.the Lake Placid qualifier.

It looks like Carreira and Ponomarenko did not try out, because Ponomarenko is just barely too young to compete.

http://goldenskate.com/forum/showth...s-Qualifiers&p=1210846&viewfull=1#post1210846

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014977.htm

Only one pair team eligible for YOG competed at Cranberry Open, which had the YOG Pairs qualifier, Rose and Goodpaster.

Men and Ladies qualifier is at Golden West, and will be held Sept. 2-6

The Finn · Aug 31, 2015

hanca said:
From Russian pairs there is one more pair - Vygalova/Parkman are also the right age.

Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin are also age eligible.

By the way are Elena Ivanova / Tagir Khakimov really listed as age eligible by the Russia fed because Elena was born in 1997 and therefor they are not age eligible. Unless there has been some rule change that I don't know about.

AlexRus · Aug 31, 2015

Russia. Candidates to Youth Olympics-2016 Team.
http://olympic.ru/upload/documents/...hamer-2016/candidate-list-lillehamer-2016.pdf

Ladies - Medvedeva, Sakhanovich, Sotskova, Proklova, Tsurskaya.
Men - Aliev, Bernadiner, Petrov, Samoilov
Pairs - Ekaterina BORISOVA / Dmitry SOPOT, Elena IVANOVA / Tagir KHAKIMOV
Dance - Sofia POLISHCHUK / Alexander VAKHNOV, Anastasia SKOPTCOVA / Kirill ALESHIN, Sofia SHEVCHENKO / Igor EREMENKO, Dolgikh/Mikhailov, Daria SHIROKHOVA / Nikita NAZAROV, Ksenia KONKINA / Georgy REVIYA, Anastasia SHPILEVAYA / Grigory SMIRNOV

The Finn · Aug 31, 2015

AlexRus said:
Elena IVANOVA / Tagir KHAKIMOV

Do you know what year she is born? According to their ISU page she is born in 1997 and as far as I know they can't be age eligible for the youth olympics if that Date of birth is right. This season is their first season and it is possible that her Date of birth in ISU is wrong and they are eligible for the youth olympics.

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054682.htm

hanca · Aug 31, 2015

The Finn said:
Do you know what year she is born? According to their ISU page she is born in 1997 and as far as I know they can't be age eligible for the youth olympics if that Date of birth is right. This season is their first season and it is possible that her Date of birth in ISU is wrong and they are eligible for the youth olympics.

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054682.htm

It seems that is is born 18.12.2001

http://www.fskate.ru/skaters/4173.html

The Finn · Aug 31, 2015

hanca said:
It seems that is is born 18.12.2001

http://www.fskate.ru/skaters/4173.html

That makes sense. They would have been quite a late bloomers if they had done their debut JGP season only now at the age of 17.

hanca · Aug 31, 2015

The Finn said:
That makes sense. They would have been quite a late bloomers if they had done their debut JGP season only now at the age of 17.

His DOB is 1997. There is not that many pairs at junior level where the male and female skater would be the same age. Usually there is a few years between them.

AlexRus · Aug 31, 2015

The Finn said:
Do you know what year she is born?

Elena IVANOVA / Tagir KHAKIMOV - she 18 Dec 2001, he 31 Dec 1997.

Mistake at ISU site, it will be corrected.

dorispulaski · Aug 31, 2015

Some info about the US skaters who should be going, due to their placings in the qualifiers.

Gropman & Somerville icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/team/gropman_somerville

Interview with Gropman & Somerville
http://icemusings.com/blog/gropman-and-somerville-have-big-goals-in-their-sights/

jan 2014

Lewis & Bye icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/team/lewis_bye

Rose & Goodpaster icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/team/rose_goodpaster

hanca · Sep 2, 2015

dorispulaski said:
Some info about the US skaters who should be going, due to their placings in the qualifiers.

Gropman & Somerville icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/team/gropman_somerville

Interview with Gropman & Somerville
http://icemusings.com/blog/gropman-and-somerville-have-big-goals-in-their-sights/

jan 2014

Lewis & Bye icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/team/lewis_bye

Rose & Goodpaster icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/team/rose_goodpaster

It is weird that the qualifiers are so far ahead. A lot can happen in the next 5 months

dorispulaski · Sep 2, 2015

Yes, that's true. But also, LPIDC is the biggest US dance competition, other than nationals, so all the top coaches will tend to be there, international judges and specialists, and top US judges and specialists. So you have everything you could possibly want, either as a coach or a skater, in a venue for a dance qualifier.

Louli · Sep 28, 2015

Do you know if Canada will send skaters this time ? They didn't in 2012.

AlexRus · Oct 5, 2015

xiangfuzi said:
ISU has updated The Provisional Quota Places of 2016 YOG
So @sorenkay are right. Only medal placements at junior worlds receive 2 entries to Youth Olympics, not the top 3 NOCs placements.
(...)
PAIRS Total 7
China 2
Canada 2
Russia 2
USA 1

And on results of JGP Events in Pairs:

Ukraine 1
Czech Republic 1
Republic of Korea 1
(Norway probably has no Pairs, so does not pretend to Host Place)

Substitutes:
Great Britain
Germany
Italy

nam57 · Oct 5, 2015

Vanna Giang now on USFS ISP list.

ice coverage · Oct 16, 2015

New ISU documents today:

YOG Entries/participation and the judges draw by number

16 Oct 2015 - Lausanne, Switzerland

Entries/participation and the judges draw by number for Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance for the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) which will take place in Lillehammer/ Norway on February 12-21, 2016 are now available in ISU Communication 1971 and 1972.
http://www.isu.org/en/single-and-pa...laces-and-judges-by-number-for-figure-skating

The link above has links to the PDFs for ISU Communications 1971 and 1972.

Louli said:
Do you know if Canada will send skaters this time ? They didn't in 2012.

Skate Canada will send one Pair. (Canada qualified for two pair slots.)

USFS will send one Ice Dance couple. (USA qualified for two dance slots.)

As the host country, Norway has the right to one slot per discipline -- if it did not earn a slot via normal qualifications.
Norway did earn one Ladies spot via the JGP.
Norway will use only its right to send one Lady.

Source: Page 3 of ISU Communication 1971.

As mentioned in the USFS YOG thread, the USFS assignments page now shows the following YOG entries:

Lewis/Bye
Rose/Goodpaster
Giang
Pulkinen

http://goldenskate.com/forum/showth...s-Qualifiers&p=1244427&viewfull=1#post1244427

Too bad that Gropman/Somerville do not get to use the second dance slot.

Ice Dance · Oct 16, 2015

golden411 said:
Too bad that Gropman/Somerville do not get to use the second dance slot.

I do not understand at all. They are a wonderful young team with tons of potential. (OK, Ian has issues with his twizzles). But they went through the qualification process with the understanding that there were two spots available. Why would they not be selected to compete?

skaterfan2501 · Oct 26, 2015

Why is there such limited spots ? Many good skaters will miss out. Dont they have more than 24 skaters in olympics abd worlds??

skaterfan2501 · Oct 30, 2015

Sweden, Canada, Australia all missed out. Needs to be more spots as its too exclusive

nam57 · Nov 19, 2015

Story about US skater Vanna Giang
http://www.westminstericerink.com/files/Vanessa.pdf

The Finn · Dec 15, 2015

According to Wikipedia.

Team Japan
Sota Yamamoto
Koshiro Shimada

Yuna Shiraiwa
Kaori Sakamoto

Apparently Higuchi wasn't interested in going and Honda didn't make it since she lost to Sakamoto at the Japanese Junior Championships. Honda was only 6th at the Japanese Junior Championships.

Anyway, are there other teams that has been announced recently?

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