Proposals to ISU Congress 2018-2019 Season
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Not keen on this, hope when the working group proposes it it will have lots of details.
Fair enough.
Yeah I remember reading this one and thinking it wasn't a great idea.
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But suppose the nr 2 skater is someone unexpected? Perhaps someone has a surprising development, and comes, as it's said, "out of nowhere" during the Olympic season? That skater then wouldn't be able to go no matter how good they were, because nobody thought of them that early in the season?
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ETA - By "qualifying competition" I just assumed Nebelhorn. I just realised I may have been mistaken?
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But we could make an argument that these ones would have less chance of being biased, couldn't we?
If their problem is Giada Russo, Mambekova and Felipe Montoya making to the Olympics, instead of creating another difficult system, wouldn't it be simpler to raise the minimum TES for Olympics? They usually set it at Euros/4CCs level. Set it at the same level of Worlds and Montoya and Mambekova wouldn't have made it
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This seems fair.
At the moment one of the ISU people is explaining that if one strong skater earns two spots for their country at Worlds, they're not taking a spot from anyone, because the Worlds entry isn't fixed. But because the Olympics entries are fixed, to have one strong skater earning two spots potentially takes away a spot from a better skater who could have earned it for their country.
Which is fair. I also think if they want to go down this path then maybe they should also look into the "placeholder" qualifiers, like the Japanese pair. Make a rule that if the non-citizen/non-eligible skater qualifies the spot, their replacement must have the PBs that would have seen them qualify also, so that we don't get situations like that.
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Well, you could equally argue that if they're not seeing that high level of skating themselves, then how are they being trained to that high level?
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Thanks.
So that would mean that they would have to know early on in the season whom they want to send. Or if a country has 2-3 skaters of similar quality, do they send them all? Maybe I'm just tired (I am
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He has a point, but I have some concerns over how well thought-out the proposal is.
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Thanks.
So that would mean that they would have to know early on in the season whom they want to send. Or if a country has 2-3 skaters of similar quality, do they send them all? Maybe I'm just tired (I am
Only 1 to be sent at Nebelhorn.
I think but I am not sure of anything anymore that the skater sent to Nebelhorn would fight for a spot for the ISU member. Then they can change the name sent to Olympics if they confirm the spot at Nebelhorn
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I'm a little surprised, but overall pleased. Though it's not guaranteed, I think it does at least open up the possibility for that limited number of Olympic places to include skaters from a larger number of countries.
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Okay, thanks. That makes a bit of sense.
