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Olympic selection criteria Single and Pairs For European Championships, World University games, Olympics (See Article 35 of the Rules), YOG the ranking is calculated by summing the total score of the Italian Senior elite Championships with the 2 highest total scores obtained in Type A or B...

Vote on having a secret vote asked by Luxembourg Yes 29 No 81 Abstentions 13 Requirement to get a secret vote was 1/10 of the vote. So the vote on the new constitution was a secret vote Breakdown of the vote https://i.ibb.co/2mXXgpX/Screenshot-2025-07-06-alle-10-17-51.png Then they had the...

Athletes summoned for the Junior GP selection camp (26-30 June) Elena Agostinelli Emily Boscaro Lea Marie Castlunger Nicole De Rosa Amanda Ghezzo Noemi Joos Sarina Joos Ornella Messena Chiara Minighini Zoe Mosca Barberis Martina Santià Beatrice Soldati Ginevra Volante Matteo Marchionni ** I...

Communication No. 2715 announces the full calendar of International Single & Pair Skating, Ice Dance and Synchronized Skating Competitions for 2025/26 season...

Marina Piredda enrolled in the Air Force as solider athlete. There are more calls out at the moment: enrollment in the Police for Figure Skating - Woman. I suppose it will be Anna Pezzetta (Gutmann is already in the police) enrollment in the Air Force for Figure Skating - Pairs, female athlete...

Last summer the ISU Council didn't meet in August. They went from the June meetings to the September meeting. This year so far they have scheduled meetings in early July. At their 2025 Nationals, Safonova scored 201.86 points. Sidorenko was 4th with 156.44 https://skatingscores.com/2425/natblr/

Updated today with a new reccomendations attempting to limit internal monitoring by Feds/coaching groups done by judges https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.azurefd.net/isudamcontainer/CMS/Corporate-Site/Governance/Transparency/ISU-Communications/2702-ISU-Code-of-Ethics-2025-1745826008-9286.pdf...

I haven't expected them to get one of final 4 Olympic spots in September. However, they were young enough to do another quad. They announced split at the beginning of March. He is looking for a new partner.

Some Federation and/or Olympic Committee have been publishing their own selection criteria including ad-hoc requirements (above the ISU/IOC ones). - Belgium...

Swiss team for 2025/26 season https://www.swissiceskating.ch/1_kunstlauf/4_leistungssport/2_kader-und-aktivitten/2025-26-national.pdf Elite Lukas Britschgi (category Mastery) Livia Kaiser (category Elite 2) Kimmy Repond (category Elite 2) Naoki Rossi (category Elite 1) Oaxana Vouillamoz/Tom...

Looks like Dutch Olympic Commitee has set a minimum score they are asking to Danilova/Tsiba. https://cdn.nocnsf.nl/media/zm1ftror/kwalificatiedocument-os-milano-cortina-2026-kunstschaatsen-v1.pdf It is the average of the scores of places 10th to 18th at Worlds. So 173.89 points. It is doable...

Lucrezia Gennaro has switched from Italy to Greece. Last seen in some internal Italian event in 2021. She is competing at Triglav Trophy this week.

I guess here the problem is neither of them is a citizen of the Netherlands and so the requirement for the residency must be followed by at least one of them. If one partner of the couple is a citizen of the country they represent, the residency requirement is not needed.

If needed, I would still expect citizenship by government decree for sport merits for the Junior World Champion. They did it for Guignard in August 2013. They also did it in 2023 for a triple jumper and a volleyball player.

This output have partly determined the panel of judges for Olympic Games. Men 13 countries will be drawn among the following 17 countries: USA, JPN, FRA, ITA, LAT, KAZ, KOR, GEO, AZE, CAN, CHN, ESP, EST, POL, SUI, SVK, SWE Women 13 countries will be drawn among the following 18 countries: USA...