Figure Skating Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

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4 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Based on their final team announcement, it looks like  Finland rejected an ice dance quota.

Finland rejected it because Finland has only one active ice dance pair (Turkkila / Versluis) on the senior level where both skaters are Finnish citizens. Finland's second pair in the World Championships was Yuka Orihara / Juho Pirinen. Orihara is Japanese. She applied for the Finnish citizenship but did not acquire it in time.

[Triplecast 215]

On 12/21/2025 at 3:34 PM, clemsonbeav said:

Japan just had their nationals and announced their team: https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/news/figure-skating-japan-team-announcement-milano-cortina-2026

 

 

As for the women, it was Sakamoto, Chiba, and Nakai who made the cut.  (I was rooting for Nakai...love her Wonderful World routine.)

Yuna Aoki was fantastic and defeats both Chiba and Nakai at 4 Continents. 

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DOUBLE podium for  in Pairs at the 2026 World Junior Figure Skating Championships! !!!!

🥇 Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov
🥈 Jazmine Desrochers / Kieran Thrasher

[Bearas 628]

 Aleksandra Golovkina-Dolinskė (who is number 3 in Lithuania) announced about shifting to represent   I'm sure we won't really going to see her achieving much in international competitions 

[NearPup 4,188]

22 hours ago, Bearas said:

 Aleksandra Golovkina-Dolinskė (who is number 3 in Lithuania) announced about shifting to represent   I'm sure we won't really going to see her achieving much in international competitions 

It's due to a dispute with the federation, not about maximizing opportunities to compete internationally.

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1 hour ago, NearPup said:

It's due to a dispute with the federation, not about maximizing opportunities to compete internationally.

It's hardly a dispute... She simply lost to another 2 younger skaters in every competition and got upset that shes not selected to go to Europeans or Olympics... Its not a dispute, its lack of self-awareness 

[NearPup 4,188]

The person who alleges to have been sexually assaulted by  Nikolaj Sørensen has come forward publicly.

 

https://x.com/cbrennansports/status/2049870813239611595?s=20

 

 

Edited 56 minutes ago by NearPup

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There is an interview where Foy goes into more details, and I find it particularely heartbreaking because her reasons for not coming forward at the time (concerns about professional retaliation and concerns about the effect it would have on Sørensen and his family) remind me a lot of why someone I know who got sexually assaulted (and had bulletproof evidence of it) didn't report it to the police.

Edited 42 minutes ago by NearPup