2018 Olympics - Qualification rules for singles, pairs, dance & Team event

[Marco]

Has Misha officially announced his retirement? I must have missed it. There were chatters about it at Worlds...

 

[Sylvia]

Has Misha officially announced his retirement?

No he hasn't, AFAIK.

 

[kwanfan1818]

He made a post on social media -- Instagram? -- in which it wasn't clear if he was going to be at Worlds due to chronic injury, hence speculation about retirement.

 

[Marco]

He has had two rather stunning breakthrough performances this season, once at GP and once at Worlds. I hope this isn't real.

(If he is injured) I hope he recovers from his injury in time to enjoy training and skating, and at least make a respectable outing past next season. He pretty much guaranteed himself a ticket to PC already.

 

[hoptoad]

Worst case scenario for Korea is if they only qualify Ladies or Ladies and Men, and the TE participants use seven of the ten. Which would leave out either Dance or Pairs.

For Sochi, originally three were going to be used, GBR Man and JPN Pairs, but Takahashi/Mihara got into the individual event off the alternates list.

Among the likely or possibly to qualify beyond those who've qualified in all four -- RUS, CAN, USA, FRA, CHN, these countries are still working on qualification:

Japan: Pairs and Dance
*Italy: Men
Australia: Ladies, Pairs, Dance
*Germany: Dance
Spain: Ladies, Pairs
Israel: Ladies, Pairs

Korea: Men, Pairs, Dance

*Could compete with three or use the Additional Athletes Quota, if their NOC's agree

Wow, will there be ten members who qualify three?

The worst-case scenario for Korea would be not to qualify three, and for the five remaining teams to use nine, not seven, Additional Athletes Quota spots, leaving one for Korea, and Korea needing two for a team in the individual events.

Although if Righini skates for Italy, I think they'll qualify in Men, Australia will qualify in Pairs, and, hopefully, Ladies, and Japan will qualify in Dance at Nebelhorn, and maybe Pairs as well, so that it won't be as rough for Korea, if the don't qualify in three.

It looks like pairs is the limiting factor in qualifying for the team event.

Seven countries qualified a pair at Worlds and there will be four more from Nebelhorn. That's only 11 countries that even qualify a pair while there are 10 team spots.

The Olympics needs a bigger pairs field!

 

[Chemistry66]

It looks like pairs is the limiting factor in qualifying for the team event.

Seven countries qualified a pair at Worlds and there will be four more from Nebelhorn. That's only 11 countries that even qualify a pair while there are 10 team spots.

The Olympics needs a bigger pairs field!

I agree that the Olympics needs to figure out a way to have a bigger Pairs field.

However, I just want to remind you that as long as they qualify points-wise, countries could qualify Men/Ladies/Dance entries and then use available spots from the 10 Additional Athletes Quota spots to enter a Pairs entry in the team event. That does make the Team Event qualification process slightly less frustrating.

 

[Sylvia]

Entries/Participation for Olympic Winter Games 2018 (23 May 2017): http://www.isu.org/en/single-and-pa...s-2018-pyeongchang-owg-fs-id-before-qual-comp

ISU Communication no. 2093 (4-page PDF): http://static.isu.org/media/516026/2093-entries-2018-owg-fsid-before-qual-comp.pdf
"ISU Members who have earned entries under the provisions of Rule 400 A., paragraphs 2 and 3, should, after consultation with their NOC (National Olympic Committee), inform the ISU Secretariat not later than 15 September 2017 if they intend to use their full quota of entries."

MEN
Japan 3
USA 3
Canada 2
China 2
Israel 2
Russia 2
Spain 2
Australia 1
Czech Republic 1
France 1
Germany 1
Georgia 1
Kazakhstan 1
Latvia 1
Uzbekistan 1
Total: 24
6 spots available for other countries at Nebelhorn Trophy, Sept. 27-30, 2017

LADIES
Canada 3
Russia 3
USA 3
Italy 2
Japan 2
Kazakhstan 2
Korea 2
Belgium 1
China 1
France 1
Germany 1
Hungary 1
Latvia 1
Slovak Republic 1
Total: 24
6 spots available for other countries at Nebelhorn

PAIRS
Canada 3
China 3
Russia 3
France 2
Germany 2
Italy 2
USA 1
Total: 16
4 spots available for other countries at Nebelhorn

ICE DANCE
Canada 3
USA 3
France 2
Italy 2
Russia 2
China 1
Denmark 1
Israel 1
Poland 1
Spain 1
Turkey 1
Ukraine 1
Total: 15
5 spots available for other countries at Nebelhorn

 

[Braulio]

It seems that Korea will qualify in Ice Dance and Men at Nebelhorn, but what about pairs? if they end up out of the top 4 that qualify for the last spots available in pairs, as a host country can still get an extra quota?

Could we have 21 couples for the pairs competition? or in this case, are there only 3 spots up to take in Nebelhorn (plus the 1 host country)?

I mean, does Korea have a guarantee spot in pairs no matter they don't get it via the Olympic qualifying process?

For example in Synchro Diving, in Rio 2016, 8 teams qualify for every event (4 in total) but Brazil got an automatic berth in each of the four categories hence there were only 7 spots (in each event) for the rest of the world to take part at the Olympics

 

[Chemistry66]

It seems that Korea will qualify in Ice Dance and Men at Nebelhorn, but what about pairs? if they end up out of the top 4 that qualify for the last spots available in pairs, as a host country can still get an extra quota?

Could we have 21 couples for the pairs competition? or in this case, are there only 3 spots up to take in Nebelhorn (plus the 1 host country)?

I mean, does Korea have a guarantee spot in pairs no matter they don't get it via the Olympic qualifying process?

For example in Synchro Diving, in Rio 2016, 8 teams qualify for every event (4 in total) but Brazil got an automatic berth in each of the four categories hence there were only 7 spots (in each event) for the rest of the world to take part at the Olympics

If Korea doesn't earn an entry in a discipline (whether Worlds or Nebelhorn) they're allowed to take a Host Spot entry. That entry would be the 31st in Men, 25th in Dance, or 21st in Pairs.

 

[skatingguy]

The previous communications from the ISU have been contradictory but the more recent one said that the Koreans will get an entry in every discipline regardless of what happens at Nebelhorn and those entries would not affect the additional athlete quota that countries can access for the team event. I guess we'll see what happens in September after the qualifying competition.

 

[seabm7]

It is most likely that Korea will get a man's ticket and an ice dance ticket. Then

Either

1) They can qualify for the team event and add a pair for that discipline. This pair cannot be participate in the individual competition.

2) There is the reservation of extra 10 athletes for the team event. The priority is given for the team event. If there are some space left after team competition participants are decided, then the host country can use it. In such a case, the Korean pair can participate in the individual competition, but not in the team event.

It's not clear to me what ISU will do when both 1) and 2) are possible. The decision for the team event participants should come earlier. So my guess is 1).

 

[Chemistry66]

It is most likely that Korea will get a man's ticket and an ice dance ticket. Then

Either

1) They can qualify for the team event and add a pair for that discipline. This pair cannot be participate in the individual competition.

2) There is the reservation of extra 10 athletes for the team event. The priority is given for the team event. If there are some space left after team competition participants are decided, then the host country can use it. In such a case, the Korean pair can participate in the individual competition, but not in the team event.

It's not clear to me what ISU will do when both 1) and 2) are possible. The decision for the team event participants should come earlier. So my guess is 1).

You need to consider that the latest update (from the April press release after Worlds) makes no mention of the Additional Athletes quota spots detail previously mentioned in this document, so your second point may not hold true.

 

[seabm7]

You need to consider that the latest update (from the April press release after Worlds) makes no mention of the Additional Athletes quota spots detail previously mentioned in this document, so your second point may not hold true.

Yes, there have been debates among the Korean figure skating fans about this document. My take is that ISU made a mistake when they printed out the communication. What may have happened is that they simply copied the old version from the 2016 Sochi Olympics, where the host country quota was granted without any strings attached. (But Russians did not need the quota.)

ETD: The rule which limits the number of extra athletes limited up to 10 is set by IOC, not by ISU. To remove this condition for the host country ticket, they need the agreement from IOC. But there has been no such statement from either IOC or ISU yet.

 

[Sylvia]

2017 Nebelhorn Trophy Announcement is published: http://static.isu.org/media/508473/owg-qualifying-competition-nebelhorn-trophy-2017-announcement.pdf

Re-posting @kwanfan1818's summary of this year's entry rules:

Quotas*:

• Singles:30
• Pairs: 16
• Dance: 25

*Quotas don't apply if there are more entries from members who need to qualify

First priority: members who need to qualify
Second priority if there are spots still left: members who placed 1-10 at 2016 Nebelhorn and earned OWG spots in Helsinki:

• Ladies: JPN, RUS, CAN, KOR, USA, BEL, GER
• Men: RUS, USA, CAN, GER
• Pairs: GER, CAN, USA
• Dance: ITA, USA, CAN, FRA

Third priority if there are still spots left: everyone else.

Men (20th was the cutoff at Worlds 2017) - finish order by country after that:
BEL MAS SWE PHI UKR KOR SUI POL ITA GBR TPE FIN CRO ARM AZE (...)
Could not compete in Helsinki: Righini for ITA (injured), Cha for KOR (too young)

Ladies (22nd was the cutoff at Worlds 2017) - finish order by country after that:
ARM AUS SGP SWE EST TPE FIN BRA AUT GBR SUI NOR UKR SLO CZE (...)

Pairs (13th was the cutoff at Worlds 2017) - finish order by country after that:
CZE PRK AUS JPN AUT CRO LTU BLR HUN FIN GBR SUI (...)

Dance (18 was the cutoff at Worlds 2017) - finish order by country after that:
GER KOR GBR JPN FIN ARM CZE BLR LAT LTU AZE GEO (...)
Could not compete in Helsinki: Coomes/Buckland for GBR

 

[kwanfan1818]

ETD: The rule which limits the number of extra athletes limited up to 10 is set by IOC, not by ISU. To remove this condition for the host country ticket, they need the agreement from IOC. But there has been no such statement from either IOC or ISU yet.

In the past, there have been additional host spots as well as Games where the host spot would have to come out of the qualifying quota.

Since this is the ISU and documentation, it's possible it's a cut-and-paste/ copyediting issue. It's also possible that the IOC allowed the change to allow KOR to compete without otherwise qualifying. If KOR qualifies none at Nebelhorn, that could be five additional host spots, or three above the Additional Athletes Quota, originally designated for thee TE, assuming the current and unreachable top seven -- RUS, CAN, USA, CHN, JPN, ITA, and FRA -- compete, and the worst-case scenario is that JPN and the three last qualifiers need to appoint a Pair or Dance team.

However, only one was used in Sochi GBR Men) after Takahashi/Kihara moved off the alternates list in the individual event.

 

[levineismine]

Pairs and ice dance look like the more predictable disciplines (of course, 'predictable' in figure skating terms). For the men, looks like at least 2-3 very decent contenders will be left home.

I'm wondering whether the other countries that have qualified already will send entries if they are allowed, or whether it's best to avoid the drama and competition of the Olympic qualifier.

 

[Seerek]

It still isn't clear how some countries will determine their Nebelhorn entrant if there are at least 2 competitors of reasonably equal level from which to choose (For example, Ivan Pavlov gives the impression on his gofundme page that he's definitely going to Nebelhorn).

 

[kre56]

What about Yaroslav Paniot? I would think he would be a better choice for Ukraine?

 

[misskarne]

I'm wondering whether the other countries that have qualified already will send entries if they are allowed, or whether it's best to avoid the drama and competition of the Olympic qualifier.

They'll still send them. I think Oda won the 2013 edition, and Jason was there too.

 

[Sylvia]

Bumping this thread back up to use as we wait for the entries for the Nebelhorn Trophy Olympic qualifier to be finalized... (ETA: entries are due by Friday, August 25, 2017 20:00 local time).

I posted in the OES thread today that Stephane Walker and Alexia Paganini (released by USFS earlier this year) have been selected to represent Switzerland at Nebelhorn Trophy - more info: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/oes-news-2017-2018.101536/#post-5111481

Ukraine is holding a test skate on August 23-24 in Kiev to determine who will go to Nebelhorn: Ivan Pavlov and Yaroslav Paniot are the leading men's candidates and Anastasia Gozhva and Anna Khnychenkova are the likely top 2 ladies.

@Jeschke recently asked:

Someone knows how Italian Fed decidedes which men to send to Nebelhorn?

I just looked on the Italian federation's website but couldn't find anything...

 

[Sylvia]

Likely entries for the Nebelhorn Olympic qualifier (I included the 2017 Worlds competitor below unless otherwise noted):

Men:
BEL (Hendrickx), MAS (Yee), SWE (Majorov), PHI (Martinez), UKR (Pavlov or Paniot, depending on the test skate mentioned above), KOR (June Hyoung Lee won the Korea Challenge over an injured Jun Hwan Cha & World competitor Jinseo Kim), SUI (Walker), POL (Reznichenko), ITA (Righini, I assume?), GBR (Graham Newberry won IJS Sheffield over Phillip Harris), TPE (Tsao), FIN (Virtanen, I assume), CRO (Vrdoljak), ARM (Hayrapetyan), AZE (Loupolover)...
Not at Worlds: Sondre Oddvoll Boe for Norway; GSD thread on India's Nishchay Luthra: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...-luthra-has-big-figure-skating-dreams.101485/

Ladies:
ARM (Galustyan), AUS (Craine based on her recent Asian Open Trophy scores & bronze), SGP (Shuran Yu or Chloe Ing depending on who has " the highest Total TES Score (Short and Free) achieved at the 2017 SEA Games, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" on Aug. 26-27), SWE (J. Helgesson), EST (Halvin), TPE (Amy Lin), FIN (Peltonen?), BRA (Isadora Williams), AUT (Kerstin Frank), GBR (Karly Robertson or Kristen Spours? They went 1-2 at IJS Sheffield with Danielle Harrison 3rd & World competitor Natasha McKay 4th), SUI (Alexia Paganini, released by USA), NOR (Anne Line Gjersem), UKR (Gozhva or Khnychenkova, depending on the test skate mentioned above), SLO (Grm), CZE (Hanzlikova)...
August 9th article on UAE's Zahra Lari: http://gulfnews.com/xpress/news/emirati-figure-skater-eyes-maiden-olympic-triumph-1.2071410

She is currently undergoing training in Italy and Estonia with the qualifying rounds set to take place from September 27 to 30 in Obersdorf, Germany.
Though she sustained a small injury in her ankle recently ... <snip>
“If I qualify for the Olympics, it will be a dream come true. But even if I don’t, I will continue to train and be ready for the next one,” said Zahra, who is pursuing a degree in Environmental Health and Safety at Abu Dhabi University.
“I want to have a career away from sports but also coach the next generation figure skaters in the UAE so that they don’t have to face the struggles I went through,” she said.

ETA - not at Worlds: Aimee Buchanan was the highest finisher of the 3 ISR ladies at the recent Philadelphia International comp. (Katarina Kulgeyko was the 4th entered but she withdrew from Philly). Spain will send Sonia Lafuente (see my post below this one).

Pairs:
CZE (Duskova/Bidar), PRK (Ryom/Kim), AUS (Alexandrovskaya/Windsor), JPN (Suto/Boudreau-Audet or Suzaki/Kihara who placed just ahead of Takahashi/Shibata at Asian Open Trophy), AUT (Ziegler/Kiefer), CRO (?), LTU (Butkute/Ermolaev), BLR (Danilova/Kamianchuk), HUN (Beklemisheva/Magyar), FIN (new team of Liubov Efimenko/Matthew Penasse?), GBR (Jones/Boyadji), SUI (Herbrikova/Roulet since the Worlds pair have split).
Not at Worlds - KOR (Kim/Kim who won the Asian Open Trophy or Kim/Kam?), the new ISR team of Paige Conners/Evgeni Krasnopolski...

Dance (the Danes are unable to use their spot which means there will be 6 Olympic spots open at Nebelhorn):
GER (Lorenz/Polizoakis or Mueller/Dieck? refer to the current discussion in the German Skating News thread), KOR (Min/Gamelin), GBR (Coomes/Buckland won IJS Sheffield over L. Fear/Gibson), JPN (Muramoto/Reed), FIN (Torn/Partenen), ARM (Garabedian/Proulx-Senecal), CZE (Kuzmichova/Sinicyn), BLR (Kavaliova/Bieliaiev), LAT (Jakushina/Nevskiy), LTU (new team of Allison Reed/Ambrulevicius), AZE (Galyeta/Brown), GEO (Kozmava/Shumski)...
Not at Worlds: Lucie Mysliveckova / Lukas Csolley SVK (16th at Euros)

 

[fan]

Israel will probably compete in ladies too - Buchanan has had the highest scores this season, so they'll probably send her

 

[Sylvia]

From the end of the Javier Fernandez article just posted in GSD (re. Nebelhorn Trophy):

"Sonia Lafuente will be looking for a place for women and newcomers Laura Barquero & Aritz Maestu, which will do the same in the category of couple. Lafuente will replace the initially designated Valentina Matos, who is recovering from an injury."

 

[Seerek]

As per Ritti's tweet, it appears it's Viveca Lindfors for Finland at Nebelhorn unless Peltonen can recover from illness and demonstrate fitness by next month.

Same goes for Maisy Ma for Hong Kong (she withdrew from Asian Open Trophy a couple weeks ago).

 

[misskarne]

ISA international assignments have been updated and as @Sylvia speculated Kailani is listed as the entry and Brooklee the sub.

Matilda and William are listed as the dance team with Kimberly and Timothy the sub.

Katia and Harley are listed with Paris and Matthew as the sub.

No man listed (obviously).

 

[IDC a.k.a. Ritti]

Thanks Seerek for posting this for me, and Sylvia for bumping up this thread! As a non-paying lurker I'm unable to post to the Finnish skaters thread, let alone the K&C forum.

The Finnish federation announced yesterday that the Finnish skaters to compete at Nebelhorn Trophy are Viveca Lindfors, Valtter Virtanen and Törn/Partanen (alternate: Turkkila/Versluis).

No alternates were yet nominated for ladies and men. Emmi Peltonen got ill during the Finnish national team camp early August where the test skates and SP+LP monitoring took place. She may be named as an alternate later. Virtanen was the only man healthy enough to skate his programs at the test skate.

Here are articles in Swedish and Finnish (the Swedish one may make more sense with Google Translate than the Finnish one ):
https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2017...avling-finska-mastaren-peltonen-stannar-hemma
https://yle.fi/urheilu/3-9780856

Finland also has a senior pairs team again. Liuba Efimenko and Matthew Penasse took part in the test skate, but obviously they aren't in the national team yet, and will not compete at Nebelhorn Trophy. It would be impossible for him to get the Finnish citizenship for the Olympics anyway.

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks for the AUS and FIN updates, @misskarne and @IDC a.k.a. Ritti (maybe we can get @Hanna to start a new Finnish skating news thread in GSD?).

Dance...
Not at Worlds: Lucie Mysliveckova / Lukas Csolley SVK (16th at Euros)

Re-posting @platniumangel's training update on the SVK team from the German news thread to here:

She [Lucie] appears healthy and is training programs with Lukas. Coached by Barbara-Fusar-Poli and Stefano Caruso. Currently in the US doing some summer training/choreography in Charlotte, NC with Mathew Gates. Does she have citizenship for Slovakia? I believe Lucie is Czech.

Yes, Lucie is Czech by birth (ETA) but it sounds like from this July article published on the SVK federation website that she could be eligible to represent SVK at the Olympics IF they get a place at Nebelhorn? The article also mentions their coaching change from Roberto Pelizzolla to Fusar-Poli: http://www.kraso.sk/2017/07/slovenski-tanecnici-do-olympijskej-sezony-s-velkou-novinkou/
Google translated excerpt:

"Our situation has not been and is not ideal, but the chance to make it there is not impossible," Lukáš thinks. The Slovak dance couple had to prematurely end the previous season because the partner's health condition required a shoulder operation.
Lukáš's decision with Lucia, which will fight for the Olympic camp at the end of September in Oberstdorf, Germany, was not easy to breed at all. "Especially because of the long-term cooperation with Robert and his great work. Roberto did everything to keep us in the best of conditions, but that was not enough. I can tell you that we are both enthusiastic about the training in the new team, " said Lukáš Csölley directly from Milan, Italy.

 

[Vagabond]

Yes, Lucie is Czech by birth.

She was born in 1989 and therefore had Czechoslovakian citizenship at the time of birth.

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101669.htm

http://www.mic.iom.sk/en/citizenshi...245-ways-of-acquiring-slovak-citizenship.html
http://www.slovak-republic.org/citizenship/

It isn't clear to me from these websites if she can easily acquire Slovak citizenship now, a quarter of a century after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, but I would be surprised if there weren't some of way for her to do it without living in Slovakia for eight years, which seems to be necessary for citizenship to be granted to most foreigners.

 

[drfj]

Likely entries for the Nebelhorn Olympic qualifier (I included the 2017 Worlds competitor below unless otherwise noted):

Men:
BEL (Hendrickx), MAS (Yee), SWE (Majorov), PHI (Martinez), UKR (Pavlov or Paniot, depending on the test skate mentioned above), KOR (June Hyoung Lee won the Korea Challenge over an injured Jun Hwan Cha & World competitor Jinseo Kim), SUI (Walker), POL (Reznichenko), ITA (Righini, I assume?), GBR (Graham Newberry won IJS Sheffield over Phillip Harris), TPE (Tsao), FIN (Virtanen, I assume), CRO (Vrdoljak), ARM (Hayrapetyan), AZE (Loupolover)...
Not at Worlds: Sondre Oddvoll Boe for Norway; GSD thread on India's Nishchay Luthra: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...-luthra-has-big-figure-skating-dreams.101485/

Ladies:
ARM (Galustyan), AUS (Craine based on her recent Asian Open Trophy scores & bronze), SGP (Shuran Yu or Chloe Ing depending on who has " the highest Total TES Score (Short and Free) achieved at the 2017 SEA Games, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" on Aug. 26-27), SWE (J. Helgesson), EST (Halvin), TPE (Amy Lin), FIN (Peltonen?), BRA (Isadora Williams), AUT (Kerstin Frank), GBR (Karly Robertson or Kristen Spours? They went 1-2 at IJS Sheffield with Danielle Harrison 3rd & World competitor Natasha McKay 4th), SUI (Alexia Paganini, released by USA), NOR (Anne Line Gjersem), UKR (Gozhva or Khnychenkova, depending on the test skate mentioned above), SLO (Grm), CZE (Hanzlikova)...
August 9th article on UAE's Zahra Lari: http://gulfnews.com/xpress/news/emirati-figure-skater-eyes-maiden-olympic-triumph-1.2071410

ETA - not at Worlds: Aimee Buchanan was the highest finisher of the 3 ISR ladies at the recent Philadelphia International comp. (Katarina Kulgeyko was the 4th entered but she withdrew from Philly). Spain will send Sonia Lafuente (see my post below this one).

Pairs:
CZE (Duskova/Bidar), PRK (Ryom/Kim), AUS (Alexandrovskaya/Windsor), JPN (Suto/Boudreau-Audet or Suzaki/Kihara who placed just ahead of Takahashi/Shibata at Asian Open Trophy), AUT (Ziegler/Kiefer), CRO (?), LTU (Butkute/Ermolaev), BLR (Danilova/Kamianchuk), HUN (Beklemisheva/Magyar), FIN (new team of Liubov Efimenko/Matthew Penasse?), GBR (Jones/Boyadji), SUI (Herbrikova/Roulet since the Worlds pair have split).
Not at Worlds - KOR (Kim/Kim who won the Asian Open Trophy or Kim/Kam?), the new ISR team of Paige Conners/Evgeni Krasnopolski...

Dance (the Danes are unable to use their spot which means there will be 6 Olympic spots open at Nebelhorn):
GER (Lorenz/Polizoakis or Mueller/Dieck? refer to the current discussion in the German Skating News thread), KOR (Min/Gamelin), GBR (Coomes/Buckland won IJS Sheffield over L. Fear/Gibson), JPN (Muramoto/Reed), FIN (Torn/Partenen), ARM (Garabedian/Proulx-Senecal), CZE (Kuzmichova/Sinicyn), BLR (Kavaliova/Bieliaiev), LAT (Jakushina/Nevskiy), LTU (new team of Allison Reed/Ambrulevicius), AZE (Galyeta/Brown), GEO (Kozmava/Shumski)...
Not at Worlds: Lucie Mysliveckova / Lukas Csolley SVK (16th at Euros)

and HUN Yanovskaia/Lukacs

 

[Sylvia]

and HUN Yanovskaia/Lukacs

Thanks. This article on the HUN federation website says Anna Yanovskaya's citizenship process is underway and that Daria Beklemisheva has been granted Hungarian citizenship: http://moksz.hu/mukorcsolya/letette-magyar-allampolgari-eskut-beklemisheva-daria
Beklemisheva/Magyar will compete at Lombardia Trophy and Yanovskaya/Lukacs at Ondrei Nepela before Nebelhorn Trophy.

ETA:

It isn't clear to me from these websites if she [Lucie M.] can easily acquire Slovak citizenship now, a quarter of a century after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, but I would be surprised if there weren't some of way for her to do it without living in Slovakia for eight years, which seems to be necessary for citizenship to be granted to most foreigners.

http://www.slovak-republic.org/citizenship/

Citizenship of the Slovak Republic can be granted to an applicant, who is allowed to stay in Slovakia, without the condition of continuous permanent residence in the territory of Slovakia for at least 8 years, if he/she:

• is a person who has significantly contributed to the benefit for the Slovak Republic on economic, scientific, technical, cultural, social or sport sphere, or it is in other interest of Slovak Republic