Overview

Looks like Fabbri/Ayer are in track to be the first team to miss the free dance meaning they would have to qualify at the final qualifier of the top two pairs get enough placement points to earn 3 quotas

Gold for Eliot Grondin in men’s snowboard cross at the World Championships!

World championships gold for Grondin!

2, but still sad

There is still another team to go

Third pair spot missed by one spot

Yikes… well, at least in the long we don’t need to wonder why the scores are low L/E seem like nice enough kids and it would be nice for them to go, but if we don’t get a 3rd spot I don’t think it will effect their ceiling

Pereira and (especially) Michaud not having a good outing, really looking dire for a third spot in pairs. Edit: they will finish no lower than 11th, which means a third spot is still possible but it requires other teams to implode and/or for Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps to climb way, way up.

Nope, Keegan not having an Olympic medal is criminal

Is it wrong that I still hope they can talk Messing out of retirement for next year?!

Yes, I'm sure we all had complete faith in Sadovsky /s Credit to him though, that was a really good state with only one major error.

Great skate by Sadovsky! Never doubted him! 🤞🤦‍♂️🙏

Roman Sandovsky has a great short program and guarantees Canada a quota in men’s figure skating.

The ISU is allergic to writing a good qualification document.

Thank you, the thing I read was wrong then (or worded weirdly)

Oh wow okay

The good news: All 3 pairs qualified for the free skate meaning that we would qualify 3 pairs outright if they met the performance requirements tomorrow in the free skate. The bad news: Going to be tough to meet those requirements. To qualify 3 pairs, we would need our top two pairs teams to have a combined placement score of 13 or lower. Currently, our top two pairs have a combined placement score of 17.

In CBC's defense, the ISU has arguably the most poorly worded qualification systems of any sports federation

Gonna be tough to qualify three pairs teams the way this is going…

Brenda Irving has also said if you don’t qualify a man, you can’t get a team Sometimes they’re just wrong Let’s just put it this way, if she’s not top ten we only get one

But I thought if you only have one entry at worlds and they finish top ten you automatically get two at the Olympics ? that’s what the cbc sports article is saying as well

It’s just an extra step to make sure the countries with spots have that many capable entries. Sadovsky had to do that to go to Beijing 2022. They used to do it at Nebelhorn in conjunction with that, but now I guess they’re having a specific qualifier As long as our nominee skates reasonably, I don’t think it will be an issue

Not quite. You can only earn two quotas if you have two or three skaters in the free program. Canada only has one so they'll get the chance to qualify another through the final qualifier.

No, but it would give Canada the chance to earn a second quota at the final qualifying competition. To get two or three quotas from Worlds you need two or three skaters / pairs to qualify for the free skate.

I thought Canada qualifies two athletes if she finishes in top 10?