Figure Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[NearPup 4,189]

4 minutes ago, clemsonbeav said:

If they based it on actual points, then  would absolutely win (at least, I think)...the point differential between  and  in ice dance is huge, as is Malinin's potential total score.

Again, my dislike of the format is not due to the results this year (or any other year, I still vocally disliked the format in 2018 :P )

 

Japan should, in fact, not be competitive at all given how weak their ice dance team is.

Edited February 8 by NearPup

[Adriano 839]

12 minutes ago, Faramir said:

Fun fact and mildly related: at the opening ceremony there were at least 10 Italian flagbearers (as in, Italian citizens grew up in Italy).

Fun fact we know about Conyedo, Antropova, Diaz, Chamizo. But yeah in figure skating this is crazy. Georgia was easy road to Russians who wanted practise this sport. They gave them a chance.  They have better athletes than my country unfortunately. We are not good with naturalisation apart Leon. But he is like polish guy and has a life here and famoly (polish wife). 

Edited February 8 by Adriano

[Faramir 520]

7 minutes ago, Adriano said:

Fun fact we know about Conyedo, Antropova, Diaz, Chamizo. But yeah in figure skating this is crazy. Georgia was easy road to Russians who wanted practise this sport. They gave it a chance.  They had better athletes than my country unfortunately. We are not good with naturalisation apart Leon. But he is like polish guy and has a life here and famoly (polish wife). 

Antropova is more Italian than copravolley who said that he grew up in Poland. So either you stop saying Italy naturalized her, or Poland claims copravolley. Your choice. One of the two options would be great for Italian sports.

 

 

Edited February 8 by Faramir

[clemsonbeav 708]

PBs for the men this season:

 181.72

 168

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[copravolley 657]

3 minutes ago, Adriano said:

Fun fact we know about Conyedo, Antropova, Diaz, Chamizo. But yeah in figure skating this is crazy. Georgia was easy road to Russians who wanted practise this sport. They gave it a chance.  They had better athletes than my country unfortunately. We are not good with naturalisation apart Leon. But he is like polish guy and has a life here and famoly (polish wife). 

Of our 40 medals in Paris, only Diaz won one + Antropova, but that was a team effort. What percentage is that? And here you have 90% of the entire Russian figure skating team wearing Georgian colors... That's not just one or two people.

[copravolley 657]

4 minutes ago, Faramir said:

Antropova is more Italian than copravolley who said that he grew up in Poland. So either you stop saying Italy naturalized her, or Poland claims copravolley. Your choice.

Hmm, but surely you're not in yout business of judging who's more Italian and who isn't? And this isn't the right place for that, is it

[avlar 586]

16 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Italy has very little naturalization in winter sports, except perhaps for hockey, where there's no chance of medals anyway. Where else?

The question in figure skating is much more interesting.

 

Russians release a lot of skaters without quarantine. The discussion on this in their media was very clear: those states will earn Olympic sports.

And earining Olympic spot will mean earning... judge.
 

So they clearly discussed getting something back from those states.

 

By the way, it may be one of the resasons Uzbekistan kept its quota so long.

[copravolley 657]

2 minutes ago, avlar said:

The question in figure skating is much more interesting.

 

Russians release a lot of skaters without quarantine. The discussion on this in their media was very clear: those states will earn Olympic sports.

And earining Olympic spot will mean earning... judge.
 

So they clearly discussed getting something back from those states.

 

By the way, it may be one of the resasons Uzbekistan kept its quota so long.

Poland also has 2/3 of its squad from Russia, but they're weak skaters. I don't see the point of taking Kurakova?

Edited February 8 by copravolley

[copravolley 657]

Georgia recruits individuals capable of winning medals: pair, Gubanova. They only know how to train a good man in single.

[Adriano 839]

5 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Poland also has 2/3 of its squad from Russia, but they're weak skaters. I don't see the point of taking Kurakova?

Believe me, me too but Kurakova was in better shape and higher in Europe when they agree to help her.