Figure Skating 2021 - 2022 Discussion Thread

[Olympian1010 7,975]

6 minutes ago, intoronto said:

She could have also competed for  if she wanted.

She would have had to establish a national federation though, as  isn’t associated with the ISU.

[dcro 10,210]

2 hours ago, NearPup said:

AFAIK Stellato-Dudek does not have Canadian citizenship

That's too bad... I thought anyone could get Canadian citizenship.

 

No Olympics for Deanna Stellato-Dudek, the fanciest of the fancy names.

[Monzanator 4,502]

12 minutes ago, dcro said:

That's too bad... I thought anyone could get Canadian citizenship.

 

No Olympics for Deanna Stellato-Dudek, the fanciest of the fancy names.

It seems like her husband must be of Polish descent - Illinois where she comes from is full of Polish immigrants.

[NearPup 3,050]

57 minutes ago, dcro said:

That's too bad... I thought anyone could get Canadian citizenship.

 

No Olympics for Deanna Stellato-Dudek, the fanciest of the fancy names.

She is aiming for the 2026 Olympics, where she would be... 42.

[NearPup 3,050]

Canadian National Championships, final results

 

Men's Single (2 quotas available)

1. Keegan Messing
2. Roman Sadovsky
3. Wesley Chiu

Women's Single (1 quota available)

1. Madeline Schizas
2. Véronik Mallet
3. Gabrielle Daleman

Pairs (2 quotas available)

1. Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro
2. Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud
3. Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps

Ice Dance (3 quotas available)

1. Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
2. Laurence Fournier-Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
3. Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

 

The Olympic team will be announced tomorrow, but with one exception it's almost certainly already decided. Keegan Messing and Roman Sadovsky will likely get the men's spots, Madeline Schizas will likely get the women's spot, Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro will likely get one of the pairs spots and Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, Laurence Fournier-Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen and Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha will likely get the ice dance spots.

 

The only remaining question is the second pairs spot. Vanessa James and Eric Radford withdrew before the long program and are petitioning for a spot.

[dcro 10,210]

This will fly under the radar, but Artur Dmitriev made a valiant attempt at quad axel at the U.S. Nationals.

 

Would have been so random had he succeeded and become the very first person to do it in competition.

 

 

[NearPup 3,050]

2 hours ago, dcro said:

This will fly under the radar, but Artur Dmitriev made a valiant attempt at quad axel at the U.S. Nationals.

 

Would have been so random had he succeeded and become the very first person to do it in competition.

 

 

It actually got called as a 4A<, so this is technically the first landed quad Axel landed in competition.

[dcro 10,210]

Big drama in the men's singles. 17 year old Ilia Malinin finished ahead of two selection favorites - Jason Brown and Vincent Zhou.

 

There is a chance however that he gets dismissed by the selection committee in favor of those two, what would of course cause a big controversy. Perhaps big enough for him to immediately switch nationalities to Uzbekistan (he is the son of one Tatiana Malinina)?

[Illya 511]

Ilia (oh , he is my namesake) was too confident , too solid . Such a good performance , but stupid USA-counsil may reject him , it will be a shame

[dcro 10,210]

Europeans are coming up this week... And if they are any indication, we will witness a huge wave of withdrawals as athletes prepare to leave for Beijing.

 

Timeline since Friday (January 7th)

• McAllister positive and out
• Entire Israeli team out due to a positive test (6 athletes in total)
• Sauter positive and out
• Jones / Boyadji positive and out
• Pfund / Santillan positive and out
• Polibina / Golovishnikov positive and out

 

Papadakis / Cizeron have withdrawn earlier as a precaution.