Alexia Paganini

[eurodance2001]

She qualified a spot for Switzerland in the Olympics at Nebelhorn and now she finishes top 10 at europeans, I would think that surely the Swiss Olympic Committee would send her to Pyongchang. Sure she could use better presentation and work in that area but I thought she did great overall. Is there established criteria from the SOC stipulating if she needed any exact point total or result in order to be sent?

 

[Coco]

She was delightful, skated with a lot of courage / attack.

 

[Sylvia]

Alexia was named to the Swiss Olympic team after Nationals last month (I've been posting updates on her all season in the OES News thread ): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/oes-news-2017-2018.101536/page-4#post-5220362

ETA that my first post about her switch to Switzerland was on August 10: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/oes-news-2017-2018.101536/#post-5109510

 

[eurodance2001]

Alexia was named to the Swiss Olympic team after Nationals last month (I've been posting updates on her all season in the OES News thread ): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/oes-news-2017-2018.101536/page-4#post-5220362

ETA that my first post about her switch to Switzerland was on August 10: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/oes-news-2017-2018.101536/#post-5109510

Oh geez! I totally missed that one. Thanks for the news

 

[skatingguy]

Here's the list of skaters who have been named to the Olympic teams of various countries. Some spots left, though mostly China & Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_2018_Winter_Olympics

 

[Dr.Siouxs]

I like her style and presentation. Add lutz and she can crack top 6 next year

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Im just ecstatic to see skaters with potential from Europe that come from other places in addition to Russia. Loena was great too!

 

[Jammers]

Was she a dual citizen because i can't see how she can skate at the Olympics if she wasn't unless the Swiss hand out citizenship's like candy.

 

[Sylvia]

Was she a dual citizen

Yes, she IS a dual citizen via her father.

http://www.swissiceskating.ch/de/ku...-paganini-vertritt-die-schweiz-in-pyeongchang
Swiss Olympic Committee's press release (22 December 2017):
https://nema.swissolympic.ch/home/preview.aspx?i=w4Zqkibm&z=hoxdu8un
Google translated excerpt:

Alexia Paganini will represent Switzerland at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang (South Korea) in figure skating. The selection commission of Swiss Olympic has selected the 16-year-old at the request of the Swiss Ice Skating Association. With third place at the traditional Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf (Germany), Paganini won the Swiss quota slot for the Olympic Games in September 2017 and at the same time fulfilled the selection criteria for the Olympic Games of Swiss Olympic. Last weekend, Alexia Paganini took her first title at the Swiss Championships by a wide margin. In September she also won the competition at the Slovenian Open.

Alexia Paganini lives with her parents and two brothers in the state of New York, in the USA. Thanks to her father, who comes from Brusio (Graubünden), she has since birth next to the US and the Swiss citizenship. Several years ago, the family had considered whether the young figure skater should start for Switzerland in the future. After several positive discussions with the responsible persons of Swiss Ice Skating and in agreement with the skating federation of the USA this change came about this year, and Alexia Paganini found at the Winterthurer SC a new sportive home. After the selection of Alexia Paganini at the Olympic Games in PyeongChang, Switzerland will thus be back in figure skating after no Swiss figure skaters participated in the 2014 games in Sochi (Russia).

 

[Seerek]

Congrats to Ice House of New Jersey in Hackensack getting 6th and 7th in the women's event at Europeans.

Doesn't that mean 3 berths for 2019?

 

[Vagabond]

Congrats to Ice House of New Jersey in Hackensack getting 6th and 7th in the women's event at Europeans.

Doesn't that mean 3 berths for 2019?

Eys. And the second string will be assigned to U.S. Nationals.