2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games, Jan. 19-Feb. 1, Gangwon, South Korea

[coralline]

Yes, if he doesn't need a German passport for this event.

It seems that he got his German Passport！
https://www.dosb.de/sonderseiten/ne...m-d-athleteninnen-fuer-gangwon-2024-nominiert


And China entries confirmed：
Ice Dance：Tong Liu & Quanshuo Ge
Women：Shiqi Gao
Men：Tonghe Tian
https://weibo.com/7774780477/4988963532570850

 

[Karen-W]

So, we're still waiting on confirmation of the following entries -

WOMEN
Cyprus (should be Stefania Yakoleva)
Estonia (too many options to guess)
Israel (likely Sophia Shifrin)

MEN
Estonia (likely Jegor Martsenko)
Slovakia (likely Adam Hagara)

ICE DANCE
Czech Republic (2) (likely Psurna/Novak and either Stanclova/Kostron or Vlckova/Vlcek)

 

[ivagall]

So, we're still waiting on confirmation of the following entries -

MEN
Slovakia (likely Adam Hagara)

Hagara has been nominated right after he won the spot for Slovakia. He is flying to Korea after Europeans. Full list of Slovak participants posted few days ago by Olympic committee.

Na ZOH mládeže aj medailista z EYOF, talentovaný krasokorčuliar, syn olympijskej víťazky či extraligoví hokejisti

Strieborný medailista zo zimného EYOF 2023 Michal Adamov, talentovaný krasokorčuliar Adam Hagara, hokejisti Michal Plančár a Ivan Matta, ktorí už okúsili seniorskú Tipos extraligu, skokanka na lyžiach Tamara Mesíková či syn šesťnásobnej olympijskej medailistky Anastasie Kuzminovej Jelisej sú v...

www.olympic.sk

 

[Karen-W]

Found the Czech Republic entries on their NOC's website -

IV. zimní olympijské hry mládeže | Český olympijský tým

www.olympijskytym.cz

Andrea Psurna/Jachym Novak and Klara Vlckova/Tomas Vlcek

 

[Wyliefan]

Hagara really hit the sweet spot this year -- skating senior and junior and the right age for the Youth Olympics as well!

 

[Andrea82]

So, we're still waiting on confirmation of the following entries -

WOMEN
Cyprus (should be Stefania Yakoleva)
Estonia (too many options to guess)
Israel (likely Sophia Shifrin)

MEN
Estonia (likely Jegor Martsenko)
Slovakia (likely Adam Hagara)

all entries are here

https://olympics.com/gangwon-2024/en/results/all-sports/athletes.htm

Estonian girl is Maria Eliise KALJUVERE.
All other guesses were spot on

 

[danafan]

I found the live stream links on the Olympics Figure Skating youtube channel, not the main Olympics one.

https://www.youtube.com/@OlympicsFigureSkating/streams

 

[skatingguy]

I found the live stream links on the Olympics Figure Skating youtube channel, not the main Olympics one.

https://www.youtube.com/@OlympicsFigureSkating/streams

I don't know why, but that link doesn't work, and I tried posting it myself & it still doesn't work.

 

[danafan]

I don't know why, but that link doesn't work, and I tried posting it myself & it still doesn't work.

That's so bizarre. That's the URL when I go to my youtube subscriptions.

This is the live stream for pairs short - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsitOLxEJ48&ab_channel=OlympicsFigureSkating

 

[Frau Muller]

Nothing on my Peacock TV channel.

…..

This is the live stream for pairs short - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsitOLxEJ48&ab_channel=OlympicsFigureSkating

Thanks! Nothing on my Peacock TV channel for the YOG (yet).

 

[airgelaal]

Maybe it will work here

https://olympics.com/en/gangwon-2024/live-stream

 

[airgelaal]

My girl

https://twitter.com/x/status/1748303528970662122

 

[Winnipeg]

This seems like a low end event for FS? Am disappointed Canada sent KR. Shouldn't she be going to higher end events

 

[shirleyfryeburg]

This seems like a low end event for FS? Am disappointed Canada sent KR. Shouldn't she be going to higher end events

YOG has strict age requirement. So any athlete could participate once in their life time.

 

[airgelaal]

This seems like a low end event for FS? Am disappointed Canada sent KR. Shouldn't she be going to higher end events

So this is a good tournament for Mao and Jia, but not for Kaiya?

 

[Karen-W]

So this is a good tournament for Mao and Jia, but not for Kaiya?

Not a fair comparison since they aren't senior age-eligible.

 

[airgelaal]

Not a fair comparison since they aren't senior age-eligible.

I think top athletes at their age can afford not to compete at low-level competitions.

 

[Alilou]

This seems like a low end event for FS? Am disappointed Canada sent KR. Shouldn't she be going to higher end events

Kaiya had a senior international last season, plus 3 this season, plus the domestic Challenge competition, plus Nationals. Six chances in less than a year and she didn't get the SP min for worlds at any one of them. Not one. She may have won nationals, but even there she didn't get worlds SP min. Why would anyone at this point think that she'd get them at 4CC with the kind of pressure that would have. She may have won nationals but she's just not ready for worlds yet. Plus, perhaps more important than any of this, she wanted to go to YOG.

 

[Frau Muller]

For anyone who cares, here’s the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympics Opening Ceremony on YouTube:

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Three countries’ flags parade in together, e.g., interesting to see Israel next to two other countries (30-min mark, Israel, India, and Japan all together).

At the 1hr-20min point: A Korean male vocalist who seems to be dressed up as the leader of North Korea! LOL!!! I’m sure that wasn’t his point but it looks funny.

I keep mixing this up with that thing in Lake Placid a year ago (World University Fake Olympic Whatever), hosted by PJ Kwong, where one had to pay separately to watch.

 

[Frau Muller]

Only figure skating and hockey will be shown on Peacock in the USA. List of streaming events in this article (FS + medal-winning hockey games…so many sports but only two will be shown live on US Peacock!):

How to watch 2024 Winter Youth Olympics live on Peacock

Peacock airs live coverage of the 2024 Youth Winter Olympics figure skating and hockey medal games.

www.nbcsports.com

We will have to juggle this with US Nationals live viewing, as of late Friday night into Saturday early morning. After the US Women’s LPs, stay up to watch WOG’s Pairs SPs at 11:30pm, EST…then Men’s SPs at 2am EST (Jacob Sanchez).

 

[victorskid]

As I posted in the other thread where all of this seems to be being belaboured:
It's nice that everyone has so many opinions and insights into the choices of others. I presume you would welcome similar feedback on your choices

A reminder that you have no idea who might be reading things that are posted in this public forum.

 

[Karen-W]

As I posted in the other thread where all of this seems to be being belaboured:
It's nice that everyone has so many opinions and insights into the choices of others. I presume you would welcome similar feedback on your choices

A reminder that you have no idea who might be reading things that are posted in this public forum.

You know, I was about to type "oh, do shut up" but then I realized that kind of a remark would be the height of hypocrisy.

If someone reading comments/opinions on a public forum is distressed then perhaps they should stop reading said forum.

 

[Winnipeg]

I hope people are reading these comments. It would be good to get a sense of the reaction from their actions? Opportunity for improved decision-making?

 

[Aceon6]

I hope people are reading these comments. It would be good to get a sense of the reaction from their actions? Opportunity for improved decision-making?

Clearly, you haven’t mentored many 17 yos.

 

[skategal]

I know how much young athletes I know have loved the Canada Games experience so not surprised at all Kaiya would want and choose to do YOG.

 

[Rukia]

As I posted in the other thread where all of this seems to be being belaboured:
It's nice that everyone has so many opinions and insights into the choices of others. I presume you would welcome similar feedback on your choices

A reminder that you have no idea who might be reading things that are posted in this public forum.

ok I have been supportive of her decision but honestly if someone close to a skater is going to come on to this forum and read stuff about them they need to be prepared to see negative stuff. If I had a competitive skating kid I would simply not ever read anything about them on here lol. That's too much. But I wouldn't expect people to be fine with everything they ever did. It's just not realistic.

 

[danafan]

I'm a gymnastics judge for Canada and one of my goals is to judge at a multi sport games. And in gymnastics there are way more of those opportunities than there are in figure skating. So I don't blame Ruiter or any other athlete for for being excited at the chance to compete in one.

I think one of the interesting facets of this is that in skating there is overlap age wise between jr and sr. I remember in 2020 reading a few comments questioning why Young You was competing at YOG when she was already competing senior internationally.

I hope Ruiter and all of the other athletes at YOG have an amazing experience.

 

[Frau Muller]

Cross posting, from Kiss & Cry forum:

US EST timing of Sr US Nationals events vs Gangwon Youth Oly skating events here:

https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/timing-of-sr-us-nationals-events-versus-est-timing-of-gangwon-youth-olympic-skating.111481/

 

[Theatregirl1122]

A reminder that you have no idea who might be reading things that are posted in this public forum.

If skaters families choose to look them up online, I don't think that the worst they will see is "I think she should have picked a different event." Nothing that's been said on this topic is particularly out of line. Just repetitive.

 

[Gris]

I hadn't seen a WYOG competition thread yet so I started one: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...lympic-games-gangwon-kor-jan-26-feb-1.111498/