The skaters/teams who have officially opted out of Worlds or are not listed in the
initial entry lists published on Feb. 28 (among those who competed at Olympics) are:
MEN
Javier Fernandez ESP (no replacement)
Patrick Chan CAN (Nam Nguyen)
Adam Rippon USA (Jason Brown)
Han Yan CHN (no replacement)
Chafik Besseghier FRA (Romain Ponsart)
Jun Hwan Cha KOR (Jinseo Kim)
Yaroslav Paniot UKR (Ivan Pavlov)
ETA: Jorik Hendrickx (no replacement) - credit to
@shah for noticing his name is missing from the entry list
LADIES
Emmi Peltonen FIN (Viveca Lindfors, based on pre-set criteria)
Mae-Berenice Meite FRA (Laurine Lecavelier)
Giada Russo ITA (Elisabetta Leccardi)
Kaori Sakamoto JPN (Wakaba Higuchi - was named originally)
PAIRS
Duhamel/Radford CAN (replaced by Camille RUEST / Andrew WOLFE)
Named originally: Stolbova-injured/Klimov RUS (replaced by Kristina ASTAKHOVA / Alexei ROGONOV)
ICE DANCE
Virtue/Moir CAN (replaced by Carolane SOUCISSE / Shane FIRUS)
Fournier Beaudry/Sorensen DEN (though listed on
http://www.danskate.dk as planning to go)
Named originally/going:
Stepanova/Bukin RUS
Smart/Diaz ESP
ETA:
https://rsport.ria.ru/figure_skating/20180228/1133409060.html -> Bobrova/Soloviev confirmation that they won't be going, it actually came from Zhulin.
Thread in Kiss & Cry section where the entries are linked and copied out:
https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...hips-entry-announcements.103113/#post-5318124