2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, January 9-22 in Lausanne, Switzerland

[Sylvia]

YOG event schedule: https://yog2020.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/files/5051/L2020_PublicSchedule_02.pdf

January 9: Opening Ceremony
Jan. 10: Pairs & Men SP
Jan. 11: Rhythm Dance, Women SP
Jan. 12: Pairs & Men FS
Jan. 13: FD & Women FS
Jan. 15: Mixed NOC Team Event
Jan. 22: Closing Ceremony

2020 Canadians dates are January 13-19; U.S. Nationals (senior/junior) is January 20-26.

 

[Colonel Green]

4 more countries for men/women & 3 more countries for pairs/dance will be added after the results of the 2019 JGP series are known.

With the pairs events officially over, the highest placements for non-automatic countries are:

JGP Lake Placid: Canada (5th)
JGP Chelyabinsk: North Korea (5th), Canada (6th)
JGP Gdansk: Germany (3rd), Georgia (8th)
JGP Croatia: Georgia (6th)

The North Korean pair isn't eligible, who knows if they have another? Hocke/Kunkel obviously aren't eligible either, but I'd guess Germany has somebody.

 

[Colonel Green]

With the JGP Italy results in, the dance spots are as follows:

Canada (2)
Russia (2)
United States (1)
Georgia (1)
France (1)
Ukraine (1)
Italy (1)
Switzerland (1)
Czech Republic (1)
Japan (1)

In line to take any vacant spots:

Estonia
United Kingdom
Israel

Switzerland had no teams at all on the JGP this season, and Georgia had only Kazakova/Reviya, who aren't eligible, so there's reason to believe some of these alternates may be given a shot. Fingers crossed for Nosovitskaya/Nosovitsky that things work out somehow.

 

[RoseRed]

With the JGP Italy results in, the dance spots are as follows:

Canada (2)
Russia (2)
United States (1)
Georgia (1)
France (1)
Ukraine (1)
Italy (1)
Switzerland (1)
Czech Republic (1)
Japan (1)

In line to take any vacant spots:

Estonia
United Kingdom
Israel

Switzerland had no teams at all on the JGP this season, and Georgia had only Kazakova/Reviya, who aren't eligible, so there's reason to believe some of these alternates may be given a shot. Fingers crossed for Nosovitskaya/Nosovitsky that things work out somehow.

Estonia does have a couple teams that would be eligible, but none of the British teams on the JGP are.

 

[Ida]

With the pairs events officially over, the highest placements for non-automatic countries are:

JGP Lake Placid: Canada (5th)
JGP Chelyabinsk: North Korea (5th), Canada (6th)
JGP Gdansk: Germany (3rd), Georgia (8th)
JGP Croatia: Georgia (6th)

The North Korean pair isn't eligible, who knows if they have another? Hocke/Kunkel obviously aren't eligible either, but I'd guess Germany has somebody.

Hocke Kunkel are too old. But I think, Roscher/Schuster are eligible? He is born in may 2001 and she is born in october 2004

 

[RoseRed]

Hocke Kunkel are too old. But I think, Roscher/Schuster are eligible? He is born in may 2001 and she is born in october 2004

Yes, they should be eligible.

 

[RoseRed]

For pairs, the spots from JW were:

• Russia (2)
• China (1)
• USA (1)
• Israel (1)
• Ukraine (1)
• France (1)

And the final 3 spots from the JGP should be Germany, Canada and Switzerland (host automatically gets the last spot if they don't qualify it another way). Next in line for pairs should be Georgia and North Korea.

In terms of who actually has age-eligible teams, looking just at the JGP, Russia has several (Panfilova/Rylov, Artemeva/Nazarychev, Mukhametzianova/Mironov and Vislovobova/Bryukhanov), China has Wang/Huang, Ukraine has
Nesterova/Darenskiy, Germany has Roscher/Schuster and Canada has McIntosh/Toste (also Perreault/St-Louis). Canada and Russia also have eligible teams who didn't do the JGP.

None of the US teams on the JGP are eligible (Balasz Nagy and Danylo Siianytsia are too old, and Isabelle Martins is too young). They may have an eligible team at home though. I also don't know of any teams for Israel, France or Switzerland. I expect at least 1 or 2 spots will be given back. Georgia does have an eligible team, Butaeva/Berulava.

There are 10 spots total in the pairs event here, not sure we'll see a full event.

 

[Colonel Green]

There are 10 spots total in the pairs event here, not sure we'll see a full event.

It'd be a shame, since fewer pairs means fewer teams in the Mixed NOC event.

 

[Colonel Green]

Estonia does have a couple teams that would be eligible, but none of the British teams on the JGP are.

On further , there is a (seemingly? no idea about citizenship) YOG-eligible British team scheduled to skate at the Halloween Cup, Phillips/Panesar.

 

[hanca]

On further , there is a (seemingly? no idea about citizenship) YOG-eligible British team scheduled to skate at the Halloween Cup, Phillips/Panesar.

Pairs or ice dancers?

 

[Colonel Green]

Pairs or ice dancers?

Ice dance. The UK doesn't have any prospect of a pairs spot at the Youth Olympics.

 

[Colonel Green]

Team Japan:

Yuma Kagiyama
Mana Kawabe
Utana Yoshida & Shingo Nishiyama

 

[sammyf]

List of counties qualified here https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/rules/fsk-communications/22362-isu-communication-2284/file

 

[Sasha'sSpins]

Olympic Channel using Alysa Liu and Stephen Gogolev to promote YOG (but will either even be there?).

https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1150400716042907649

I wish Alysa could compete at the Youth Olympics. It'd be great experience and she'll be an Olympian! Hopefully she'll make the 2022 Olympics but going to the Youth Games would be a great lead up to the main event! And she could make a little history if she lands both quads and triple Axels in the same FS there!

 

[Colonel Green]

Team Russia:

Andrei Mozalev
Daniil Samsonov

Kseniia Sinitsyna
Victoria Vasilieva

Apollinariia Panfilova & Dmitry Rylov
Diana Mukhametzianova & Ilya Mironov

Sofya Tyutyunina & Alexander Shustitskiy
Irina Khavronina & Dario Chirizano

 

[Karen-W]

Olympic Channel using Alysa Liu and Stephen Gogolev to promote YOG (but will either even be there?).

https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1150400716042907649

I wish Alysa could compete at the Youth Olympics. It'd be great experience and she'll be an Olympian! Hopefully she'll make the 2022 Olympics but going to the Youth Games would be a great lead up to the main event! And she could make a little history if she lands both quads and triple Axels in the same FS there!

Per the YOG schedule, Womens SP is Jan 11, FS is Jan 13. US Nationals Womens SP is Jan 23. I don't see why she couldn't compete in both, even with the much longer travel time, there is still 10 days between the completion of one event and the start of the other.

 

[Colonel Green]

I believe Alysa has since said she won’t be going.

Skate Canada has seemingly decided to not announce the team (or else just forgot about it), since they initially said that would happen on November 26.

 

[Sylvia]

I believe Alysa has since said she won’t be going.

I believe this is true but I can't find a link that confirms? Entries were due yesterday so hopefully USFS will announce their YOG nominations soon.

Schedule version 31.10.2019 (Tuesday January 7 to Wednesday, January 15, 2020): https://www.isu.org/docman-document...lympic-games-lausanne-2020-time-schedule/file

Team Korea for the 2020 Youth Olympic Games, based on the YOG selection competition back in October (Korean article): http://www.gukjenews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1183954
Young YOU (her DOB is May 27, 2004): http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00102446.htm
Younghyun CHA (his DOB is Sept. 24, 2003): http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00102439.htm

 

[Sasha'sSpins]

I think it's sad if Alysa's not going to the Youth Olympics. As I said in my previous post, it would've been great experience - and she'd be an Olympian! She might've made a little Youth Olympic history by landing quads and triple Axels in the same FS! ❤

And the elephant in the room that I didn't want to bring up - there are no guarantees as to making it to the 2022 Olympic Games. Sadly, sometimes life is cruel in sports. Knock wood Alysa WILL make it though!

 

[Gris]

Team USA

Liam Kapeikis
Ilia Malinin

Hanna Harrell
Audrey Shin

Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell

Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen

 

[Colonel Green]

As expected, Natalie D'Alessandro & Bruce Waddell are taking one of Canada's two dance spots.

 

[Sylvia]

Team Ukraine:

П’ятеро українських фігуристів виступлять на ЮОІ

www.ufsf.com.ua

Andrey Kokura: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00104629.htm
Sofiia Nesterova / Artem Darenskyi (pair): http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00104636.htm
Anna Cherniavska / Oleg Muratov (dance): http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00107825.htm

Team Estonia: https://www.uisuliit.ee/Iluuisutajad-Noorte-Olumpiamangudel-YOG
Eva Lotta Kiibus: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00102060.htm
Arlet Levandi (1984 & 1988 Olympian Anna Kondrashova's son): http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00102829.htm

Newly crowned Finnish Junior ladies champion Nella Pelkonen, 14, will compete at YOG:

Nella Pelkonen nuorten talviolympialaisiin - SkatingFinland

Tuore junioreiden Suomen mestari Nella Pelkonen on valittu taitoluistelun edustajaksi nuorten talviolympialaisiin Lausanneen.

www.skatingfinland.fi

 

[Colonel Green]

I’ll be interested to see how many pairs we end up with, since that governs how many teams there will be.

 

[Sylvia]

Posted in the German news thread last week:

Roscher/Schuster are officially nominated for the youth olympic games (source: DOSB)

Source link:

90 junge Athleten*innen für Lausanne 2020

Der Deutsche Olympische Sportbund hat heute das Jugend Team Deutschland für die dritten Olympischen Jugend-Winterspielen in Lausanne komplettiert.

www.dosb.de

[Pairs] Figure skating (2 - 1/1): Letizia Roscher (Chemnitz Ice Skating Club), Luis Jürgen Schuster (Chemnitz Ice Skating Club): http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00106011.htm

 

[concorde]

Team USA

Liam Kapeikis
Ilia Malinin

Hanna Harrell
Audrey Shin

Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell

Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen

Yeah Ilia!

 

[Sylvia]

Team Switzerland announced: https://www.swissiceskating.ch/fr/news/yog-selektionen
Noah Bodenstein, 15 (men): http://isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101821.htm
Anaïs Coraducci, 16 (ladies): http://isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101819.htm
Gina Zehnder & Beda Leon Sieber (ice dance team as of January 2019 according to their website):

Achtung:

Es ist uns eine grosse Freude, euch offiziell mitteilen zu können, dass Swiss Olympic am 17. Dezember den Antrag der Selektionskommission von Swiss Ice Skating für die YOG 2020 in Lausanne bestätigt hat. Gina und Beda nehmen definitiv an den YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES in Lausanne teil! Wir sind alle...

beda-leon.jimdofree.com

 

[sammyf]

Entries so far should be these, one of the countries gave back a ladies spot to first alternate Finland, but I don't know which one.

MEN
Liam Kapeikis USA
Ilia Malinin USA
Andrei Mozalev RUS
Daniil Samsonov RUS
Cha Younghyun KOR
Nikita Kovalenko ISR
Yuma Kagiyama JPN
Andrey Kokura UKR
Arlet Levandi EST
Noah Bodenstein SUI
Matteo Nalbone ITA
Nikolaj Memola ITA
CAN
FRA
GEO
CZE

LADIES
Victoria Vasilieva RUS
Kseniia Sinitsyna RUS
Hanna Harrell USA
Audrey Shin USA
Mana Kawabe JPN
Eva-Lotta Kiibus EST
Anaïs Coraducci SUI
Nella Pelkonen FIN
Alessia Tornagh ITA
You Young KOR
CAN
GEO
AZE
HUN
FRA
POL
BUL

DANCE
Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell CAN
Sofya Tyutyunina / Alexander Shustitskiy RUS
Irina Khavronina / Dario Chirizano RUS
Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen USA
Anna Cherniavska / Oleg Muratov UKR
Gina Zehnder / Beda Leon Sieber SUI
Utana Yoshida / Shingo Nishiyama JPN
Giulia Tuba/Andrea Tuba ITA
CAN
GEO
FRA
CZE

PAIRS
Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov RUS
Diana Mukhametzianova / Ilya Mironov RUS
Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell USA
Sofiia Nesterova / Artem Darenskyi UKR
Letizia Roscher/Luis Schuster GER
CHN
CAN
GEO
PRK
SVK

 

[Theatregirl1122]

I think it's sad if Alysa's not going to the Youth Olympics. As I said in my previous post, it would've been great experience - and she'd be an Olympian!

Nope. No, she wouldn’t.

 

[Sylvia]

MEN
Matteo Nalbone ITA, Nikolaj Memola ITA
LADIES
Alessia Tornaghi ITA
DANCE
Giulia Tuba/Andrea Tuba ITA

Thanks for compiling! Here's yesterday's Team Italy YOG announcement:

Elisa Confortola sarà la portabandiera dell’Italia ai Giochi Olimpici Giovanili Invernali di Losanna

Dopo Arianna Fontana nel 2018 a Pyeongchang, nel 2020 sarà ancora un’azzurra del ghiaccio a portare alto il...

www.fisg.it

At Italian Nationals this past week, Tornaghi won Sr. Ladies gold, Memola won silver & Nalbone bronze in Jr. Men, and Tuba/Tuba were 4th in Jr. Dance.

 

[Colonel Green]

PAIRS
Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov RUS
Diana Mukhametzianova / Ilya Mironov RUS
Cate Fleming / Jedidiah Isbell USA
Sofiia Nesterova / Artem Darenskyi UKR
Letizia Roscher/Luis Schuster GER
CHN
CAN
GEO
PRK
SVK

China and Canada both have somebody to send. None of the other countries had an eligible pair on the JGP, but then, the US pair wasn't on the JGP, and with North Korea especially who knows what's going on with them; they could easily have a team in the pipeline that we've never heard a whisper about until they show up.