Probably in the same way that "extra" Junior Pairs team was eligible to go to Junior Worlds a few years ago. Their Federation put their names forward and no one except for a few skating fans has noticed.
Thanks ANLove. I always thought Polina could have been a top competitor, but I guess an injury and other priorities (college) have changed her situation. Shame, I thought she had real potential.
He's unlikely to medal, but unworthy to be there? He's at least as good as other lower rung guys, and he has a 3A so it's not like he's an embarrassment to men.
The bigger issue, though, is whether host federations should be expected to favor obskur foreign skaters at the expense of even more obskur domestic skaters. While misskarne cited a skater who trains part of the year in Los Angeles, she could have cited a skater who trains in South Korea, for example. And round-trip airfares between Seoul and Montreal are a heck of a lot more expensive than round trips between Vancouver and Montreal.
Peng/Jin and You/Zhang qualified because at least one partner placed 1-12 at Worlds the prior season. (That's in the linked 2.2.b for 7-12. 1-6 has been left out entirely.) There has been no rule to make them eligible based on SB it WS since split couple rules were implemented. However, the 2018-19 rules may differ.
The Finnish is counting money already, they made ISU assigning both Hanyu and Zagitova to them...*FIN only using 1 spot!!This is their best discipline and a huge opportunity wasted.
Yeah, choosing Yuzu as the host pick is a no-brainer for the organizers. They need those Japanese fans to fill the seats. And given Yuzu's competitive history in Finland, I'm sure his camp was okay with him getting assigned to Helsinki, too.
Full translation from Finnish to English here: https://twitter.com/quadrittberger/status/1012423790385561601
But Finland got 3 host picks like everyone, right? And they chose to use only 1 of them for a Finnish TBD skater, which means they could use 2 host spots to pick non-Finnish skaters of their choosing, right? And because Yuzu skipped Worlds, he was guaranteed only 1 GP assignment outright, based on his SB/WS, and had to get an invitation for the other assignment, right? So why is it unbelievable to you that Finland simply used their host pick option to invite Yuzu because 1) that was the smart thing to do and 2) the normal GP pick procedures allowed that? And isn't every skater in the GP announcement technically "assigned by ISU" because they co-ordinate the thing and make the official announcement? So... Why theorize some elaborate ISU scheme instead of just assuming the Finnish organizers wanted Yuzu and got him because they made him a priority? (I can't seem to remember exactly how the selection procedure goes, no matter how many times it is explained to me, but doesn't it start with the host picks?)
I do not understand what you are trying to say. Yuzuru brings money to the event. Why would Finnish Fed not want him? They say ISU assigned Yuzuru and Alina to Helsinki. What is wrong with that? They are a new GP and they need big names to attract people. What I was saying is that originally Yuzuru was not sent to CoC. His supposed events were different. But CoC was canceled. so Yuzuru was moved to Finland.
I guess we're just talking at cross-purposes here. You writing about how the Finnish Fed "made" ISU assign Yuzuru to them just made it sound as if you're seeing some out-of-the-ordinary maneuvering here and Finnish Fed strong-arming ISU or whatever (instead of the Fed just making use of their host privileges to try and invite the skaters they want to invite, like any organizing Fed would) but you probably didn't intend that with your phrazing? Hard to parse intent, sometimes.
Uh... Where did you get this info? I mean, is there some reliable source, or was there just somebody on twitter speculating about Yuzu's future assignments at some point and people then treating that as a hard fact?
