Figure Skating ISU World Championships 2025 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[vovanA 185]

  On 3/28/2025 at 11:19 PM, copravolley said:

Does anyone remember why in 1994 there was no Russian woman in the top? After all, it was always a great power...

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My theory is that there were not enough ice rinks for all figure skaters and ice hockey players in USSR, so only those who had a bigger chance for medals could properly train. Since there were good pairs and dancers (and ice hockey teams), why bother about women? 

[Kerkun 31]

  On 3/29/2025 at 1:56 AM, Topicmaster1010 said:

Women's Quotas:

 

3 quotas:

 

2 quotas:

 

1 quota:

 

 are able to send another skater to the final qualifier.

 

One quota from these world championships will be reallocated to the final qualifier because Switzerland wasn't able to fulfill the requirements for two skaters.

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 got the 2 quotas because a skater can't get more than 16 points in the free skating even if they finish lower than that. With the other one being in the 12th position, Switzerland got exactly 28 points needed to qualify 2 skaters via the World Championships.

[Adriano 593]

  On 3/28/2025 at 11:47 PM, Biathlonfan said:

i personally do not care but there are obviously historical reasons for that and plenty of poles don't like us either,which i don't know,feels like in our partnership they were the ones who got everything,it was their empire,they had all the power,people here have reasons to be bitter at poles if they want to be,why poles don't like us exactly,not sure.  

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To be honest? Polish People nowadays like Lithuania. The main bad feelings are for Ukraine, Russia, Germany. Rest neighbours we are cool. I was in the Lithuania and have nice chats there,  they react nicely when I told them I am Polish. If we speak about Lithuania it was a Little hard moment when Lithuania has a problem with polish language  and schools and treat badly polish minority. If we speak about short Polish-Lithuanian war after I world or our Republic before it is not sth harmful and shameful for both nation. Vilnus was strongely connected with Poland. 

[Adriano 593]

  On 3/28/2025 at 11:51 PM, copravolley said:

Poles usually don`t like Germans and Russians the most for historical reasons. In the case of Lithuania it`s probably the same as with Ukraine, that there are some local misunderstandings. Certainly all these countries: Poland, Baltic countries, Ukraine etc. have a common enemy - imperial Russia and they have to stick together. 

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No anti Russian and German vibe is really strong, but half of nation could admire German change after 2 world. We respect that they try to be over the past and not letting this happened again.  Anti Ukraine feelings are really strong now, because they have a Bandera as a Hero, and not let for exhumation in Volhynia. This hits for our relations so strong. We are really cool with Belarussian. Really neutral  with Czech and Slovakia. Lithuania too. I think even Polish People are into Baltics country more.

[Adriano 593]

  On 3/28/2025 at 11:59 PM, Biathlonfan said:

hiliarously in modern times it was poland who we had a war with for our capital and yeah i would not call that a ''missunderstanding''  it was THE SOVIETS who gave it back to us[obviously they were in our land afterwards and they were just using us  but still it's what happened] again i have no hatred for poles but some of them,especially their football fans who arrive here are insuffarable,i certainly won't bother talking anyone out of their hatred for them if they have such a thing,that's their right to do so,i don't think it's a big part of the population anyway,we have a significant polish political party so it's hardly a big issue here.

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You know that we could get back Vilnus and for example not have this "German" lands. The people who decided about Europe and World there have different plans for this. Believe me 99% has no problems with Vilnus being Lithuanian and Lvov in Ukraine Do not judge Poland by "football fans", most of Polish did not like this hooligans too. They can devastate even things in Poland and create many dangerous situation... Fortunately mostly in league matches

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[Biathlonfan 690]

  On 3/29/2025 at 10:09 AM, Adriano said:

You know that we could get back Vilnus and for example not have this "German" lands. The people who decided about Europe and World there have different plans for this. Believe me 99% has problems with Vilnus being Lithuanian and Lvov in Ukraine Do not judge Poland by "football fans", most of Polish did not like this hooligans too. They can devastate even things in Poland and create many dangerous situation... Fortunately mostly in league matches

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I have no clue who these ''99'' procent are and it's actually this annoying  superiorioty complex attitude that actually gets poles disliked here.Vilnius is OUR CAPITAL,it has been so forever,poland has no basis to have it,the fact we were once in a commenwealth does not mean you just get to declare another city yours.i don't know how you wrote this comment and expected me to have a good reacton to it.

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[Adriano 593]

  On 3/29/2025 at 10:57 AM, Biathlonfan said:

I have no clue who these ''99'' procent are and it's actually this annoying  superiorioty complex attitude that actually gets poles disliked here.Vilnius is OUR CAPITAL,it has been so forever,poland has no basis to have it,the fact we were once in a commenwealth doesn't mean you just get to declare another city yours.i don't know how you wrote this comment and expected me to have a good reacton to it.

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Sory  my mistake "99% has no problems" should be.  Apologize for this mistake. Nobody in Poland even talk about this kind of issue.

Edited Saturday at 11:07 AM by Adriano

[Kerkun 31]

It comes down to what is taught in Poland about the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Union of Lublin isn't shown as unfavorable for Lithuania as it really was. A lot of the southern territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was "given" to Poland but it was actually stolen by Poles, the Polish language overpowered the Lithuanian one among the elites, the common coin was Polish-based. At one point, the PLC starts to get treated like one big country, with Vilnus as one of the major cities of Poland. The Vilnius University shown as an important Polish university, Mickiewicz calling Lithuania his home while writing in Polish, etc. The whole stuff after the World War One is barely touched in the high school when barely anyone cares about history anyway, I guess most people don't even know it. With this lack of the knowledge, Vilnus is one of the lost Polish cities, just like Lviv.

The current animosities are down to the early 2010s and Grybauskaitė being the president of Lithuania - when there was the increase of the Lithuanian subjects taught in the Polish schools, troubles with Polish surnames, places' and streets' names. The Polish hooligans were also quick to pick it up. To be honest, Lithuania isn't looked down at but people don't understand why Lithuania has the right not to like Poland.

[Adriano 593]

Good sum up thanks.

[Bearas 542]

Come on, it's 2025! Why are we still debating the Commonwealth that ended over 200 years ago or World War I? Lighten up and enjoy some figure skating!