2024/25 OES News

[Sylvia]

Norwegian Nationals results from this past weekend in Oslo: https://kunstlopresultater.no/2024-2025/2024_12_OI/index.htm

1. Mia Risa Gomez 167.78 (3x Senior Champion)
2. Linnea Kilsand 146.79
3. Oda Havgar 140.84

Junior women:
1. Pernille With 134.48
2. Therese Kristine Håvåg 115.43
3. Celin Beate Ellingsen 110.95

Junior men:
1. Daniil Valanov 137.70

I´m pretty sure Mia has grabbed the Euros spot now. Selection will be done this week along with Winter University Game and EYOF. It wasn´t given Mia would end up with Euros this season, despite her strong ending at Worlds last year. Nationals was going to play a big role this year since both Linnea and Mia had even results throughout the first competitions. Both of them had some rough competitions. Mias best score before Nationals was 124, and the last international competition 119. She did two clean skates and produced her 2nd highest score in her career. I don´t know what has been bothering her before this season but she looked so much better now - confident and solid jumps.

Originally published on Dec. 12, 2024:

Uttak EM, WUG og Nordics

Uttakskomiteen og dommerkomiteen har gjort uttak

www.skoyteforbundet.no

World University Games, 15-19 January - Turin, Italy
Linnea Kilsand

European Championships, January 28 - February 2 - Tallinn, Estonia
Mia Risa Gomez

Nordics Open / Nordics, February 6-9 - Asker, Norway
Senior (3 places)
Mia Risa Gomez
Linnea Kilsand
Oda Havgar

21.12: The following runner has been given a place due to extra quota for Norway
Kaia Kleven

Junior (3 places) Withdrawal to EYOF may affect participation in Nordics
Pernille With
Amalie Nordbø
Elea Rustgaard

21.12: The following runners have been given a place due to extra quota for Norway
Celin Ellingsen
Emma Maevski
Hannah Christensen
Therese Håvåg

Adv.Novice (4 places)
Thea Marie Ullereng
Margarita Course site
Ella Risa Gomez
Linnea Henriksen
Katrine Berstad - reserve

EYOF, Georgia February 9-16 (pre-camp January 27 at OLT)
Junior Men: Daniil Valanov
Any selection for junior women will be made on January 20th.

 

[Sylvia]

Danish Nationals results this past weekend (Dec. 7-8) in Hørsholm: https://resultater.danskate.dk/DM24/
Videos are available to watch on the DSU's YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@danskate1912
Senior Women's gold: Anna-Flora Colmor JEPSEN 131.55
Senior Ice Dance (1 team): Elisabetta INCARDONA / Rafael Marc Drozd MUSIL 154.05
Junior Women's gold: Camilla Vinther POULSEN 139.39
Junior Men's gold: Wendell Niels E. HANSSON-ØSTERGAARD 129.77

Dec. 14th:

Udtagelser til Nordiske Mesterskaber 2025

Traditionen tro har Eliteudvalget udtaget truppen til de nordiske mesterskaber 2025 herefter det nyligt afviklede DM i Hørsholm. Følgende er udtaget til at repræsentere Danmark til konkurrencerne, der løber af stablen i Asker i Norge den 5.–9. februar 2025: Senior Damer: Anna-Flora Col

www.danskate.dk

True to tradition, the Elite Committee has selected the squad for the 2025 Nordic Championships following the recently held Danish Championships in Hørsholm.

The following have been selected to represent Denmark at the competitions to be held in Asker, Norway, February 5–9, 2025:

Senior Women: Anna-Flora Colmor Jepsen, HIKU

Junior Women:
Camilla Poulsen, FSF
Emilia Due Borch, HKF
Fie Egan Magnussen, HIKU

Junior Men: Wendell Hansson-Østergaard, SOS Nord

Novice Girls:
Nikoline Ida Kristensen, ESK
Camilla Ungermann, RSIK
Esther Høeg Brask Hermann, SKK
Eva Maria Milea, HSF
1st reserve: Selma Agnete Willemoe Wang, HKF

 

[Wyliefan]

Good interview with Ireland's Sophia Tkacheva, now going by Sophia Tkacheva Tracey, who's now training in Italy and enjoying having so much more ice time.

Sophia Tkacheva Tracey making up for lost rink time with Italian move

Tkacheva was born in Ireland to a Russian dad and a mother from Belarus.

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks @Wyliefan! I wasn't able to read the article at first but found a way and here are some key excerpts:

The focus for this 19-year- old is the [Bergamo] IceLab è Centro di Eccellenza, an academy run by the international ice skating union for athletes from all over the world who need regular access to a rink and harbour professional ambitions. This is where she runs through a blizzard of work on and off the ice from Monday through to Friday. [...]
Tkacheva Tracey was born in Ireland to a Russian dad and a mother from Belarus. She was five when the family moved to Moscow for work reasons and her parents brought her to an ice rink. There were three rinks within a 20-minute drive radius. On their doorstep. Little did they know then how spoiled they were.

Tkacheva Tracey is a two-time junior national champion. She has competed in a myriad of countries and has spent time training and competing in the US and Europe, but Ireland’s lack of any suitable facilities has been a handbrake on her ambitions. That she is still sticking at it, 14 years after what was even then deemed to be a ‘late’ start aged five, is nothing short of miraculous.
And she knows it.
“Every day that crosses my mind, At least once a day. Most of my friends have had to retire but I’m still here and I’m really glad that I am because I would like to think that I still have potential that I can unlock in this sport. It has been such an incredible journey and one that I can’t imagine not going through. I am so grateful that I was able to stick with it because it has brought me so many opportunities and I can’t imagine my life without skating.”
Bergamo is basically the last roll of this dice. Her exam results were enough to be offered biomedical life and health sciences in UCD but skating’s pull prompted her to defer that and a similar course in Queen’s University. Why Queen’s? Well, she liked the college. And Dundonald is less than half an hour away.
Skating will frame her life, until it can’t any longer.
Italy gives her the time to make a more informed choice. The plan is to stay on for the academic year, and maybe into the summer, to see if she can make up for all that lost time on the ice at home in Ireland. And, boy, does she have time to make up.
Bergamo makes for three hours a day on the ice. That was as much as she managed in a week here at home.

“Honestly, I don’t know what I was doing before I came here. What you really need for ice skating is consistency and focus on the ice. It has massively improved my skating skills. I’m training for almost three hours a day compared to three hours a week.
“I feel a lot more confident on the ice, so much more confident, so much more comfortable in my own skin. I can do better skills. Honestly, I am just a lot happier where I am at the moment. It has really benefited me here.”
Christmas brings almost two weeks home in Gorey and a remove from a rink for the first time since she first left. Belfast is not on her radar while home but the ongoing lack of any winter sports facility in this country continues to gnaw away.
Efforts by the various Irish winter sports bodies to build one that would be fully financed by private investment and add millions to the local economy have fallen on deaf ears despite some whispers of interest from local authorities in a few counties in recent years.

Tkacheva Treacy talks passionately but lucidly and logically about it. About the fact that Ireland is one of only four countries in Europe without such a facility. About how beneficial it would be to the economy and the social fabric of society here. And about the demand for places on ‘learn to skate’ lessons in places like Dundrum that are loaded down with waiting lists.
She has seen first-hand how the absence of a rink has scuppered dreams. Her own sister Justina has had to quit skating at just 14 years of age because of it. Winter sports may be seen as exotic in Ireland, she says, but that’s not the case anywhere else. So Tchakeva Tracey, like the rest of our skaters, has had to pack her bags and find a home abroad.
“It’s a really difficult situation to be in,” she admits. “I would love to stay there, I would love to pursue my education there. I received 620 points in the Leaving Cert and I would love to get an Irish education in UCD, that has the perfect course for me. But I have to look into European colleges and places outside of Ireland because I can’t train at home.”

 

[Wyliefan]

It came right up for me, but thanks, @Sylvia, for posting excerpts for those who are having trouble!

 

[Sylvia]

This past weekend Casper Johansson, 18, "took home the first SM [senior national] gold of his career and entered the history books as the first Swede to compete in two different quadruple jumps in the same competition program" (landed 4T & 4S in his 155-point FS):

Casper Johansson historisk när han tog karriärens första SM-guld

Under lördagen avgjordes SM-finalen i konståkning för herrar i Västerås. Casper Johansson, Tibro KK, tog hem karriärens första SM-guld och skrev in sig i historieböckerna som förste svensk att på tävling klara två olika kvadrupelhopp i samma tävlingsprogram. Silvret gick till Andreas Nordebäck...

www.skatesweden.se

Casper's photos & 4T clip:

Casper on Instagram: "SM 2025 Tack"

468 likes, 40 comments - casperjohansson2006 on December 15, 2024: "SM 2025 Tack".

www.instagram.com

He has the CTES (97.81) for Euros, as well as Junior Worlds, but not for Worlds (104).

Senior Men's medalists (6 competed):
1 Casper JOHANSSON Tibro KK SWE 231.13 2 1
2 Andreas NORDEBÄCK Föreningen Skating o Dance Academy SWE 206.77 1 3 (115.66 Worlds CTES)
3 Gabriel FOLKESSON Trelleborgs KK SWE 191.25 3 2 (108.48 Worlds CTES)

Casper Johansson's 1st place FS (155.00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XYJHnzBj_4
Johansson's 2nd place SP with 4T (76.13): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMgGX15gmbk
Andreas Nordeback's 1st place SP (84.00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-N0BQvQQZ0

Senior Women's recap: https://www.skatesweden.se/nyheter/nyheter/2024-12-14-sm-guld-till-josefin-taljegard

Josefin’s photos with her sisters & coaches:

Josefin Taljegård on Instagram: "One more year, one more gold. I’m so grateful to still be able to skate, to have the support that I have and for all the experiences we face along the way. Tack till @ifkvasteraskk och @skatesweden.se för detta SM!

1,219 likes, 29 comments - josefintaljegard on December 15, 2024: "One more year, one more gold. I’m so grateful to still be able to skate, to have the support that I have and for all the experiences we face along the way. Tack till @ifkvasteraskk och @skatesweden.se för detta SM! 👏".

www.instagram.com

Top 4 (of 17):
1 Josefin TALJEGÅRD Västra Frölunda KK SWE 164.97 1 1
2 Julia BROVALL Tibro KK SWE 140.53 2 3
3 Olivia PHILIPS Kalmar KK SWE 135.34 5 2 (5th in Junior last year; trains at SC of Boston)
4 Josefin BROVALL Tibro KK SWE 130.93 3 4

Josefin Taljegard's 1st place SP (61.09): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNtXbLZd3Vg

Final day recap: https://www.skatesweden.se/nyheter/...pa-sm-sista-tavlingsdagen-och-avslutande-show

Senior Ice Dance: https://www.skatesweden.se/nyheter/...ld-till-milla-ruud-reitan-och-nikolaj-majorov
1 Milla RUUD REITAN / Nikolaj MAJOROV Norrköpings KK/Norrköpings KK 167.82 1 1
2 Emma KIVIOJA / Erik PELLNOR Mörrums KK/Mörrums KK 144.78 2 2

Ruud Reitan/Majorov's RD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQK1GnHenwU

Senior Pair:
Greta CRAFOORD / John CRAFOORD Föreningen Ytterby-Kungälv Konståkare/Föreningen Ytterby-Kungälv Konståkare 157.11

Crafoords' SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtJGPPBbQ9Q

Junior winners:
Hugo BOSTEDT Norrköpings KK 190.00 1 1
Lilly ALMGREN-LIDMAN Föreningen Skating o Dance Academy 157.45 1 1
Anna MACKENZIE / Wesley LOCKWOOD Norrköpings KK/Norrköpings KK 116.36 1 1

Hugo Bostedt's 1st place Junior SP (64.56): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghP5mOSp6gA
Elias Sayed's 2nd place SP (61.09): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tbDVKbIBIw
Alvin Samuelsson's 3rd place SP (58.14): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FrGK9x3mGs
Almgren-Lidman's 1st place SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqsCiifkyrQ

 

[Sylvia]

Skate Austria's recap (Dec. 15):

Österreichische Staatsmeisterschaften 2025: Glanzleistungen in Dornbirn - Skate Austria

Olga Mikutina meistert den Spagat zwischen intensivem Eiskunstlauftraining und ihrem Studium in den USA. Nach ihrem Olympiadebüt 2022 tritt sie bei den ISU Grand Prix Bewerben, darunter Skate America, an und vertritt Österreich auf internationaler Bühne. Erfahren Sie, wie sie sportlichen Erfolg...

skateaustria.at

Highlights of the weekend:
Olga Mikutina impressed with a new season best of 188.47 points, won the national championship title and confidently qualified for the European Championships. "I wish the national championships were in Vorarlberg every year," said the Vorarlberg native, who was enthusiastic about the atmosphere in her home country.
In pair skating, Sophia Schaller & Livio Mayr and Gabriella Izzo & Luc Maierhofer delivered a thrilling duel. Schaller & Mayr defended their title, while Izzo & Maierhofer secured their place in the European Championships with a razor-thin lead in the entry criteria.
In the men’s competition, Maurizio Zandron triumphed again and underlined his role as the top skater in Austrian figure skating.

Results: https://results.skateaustria.at/competition/saison2425/040/index.htm

Olga Mikutina's FS (120.59): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbFJq5ZThw
Maurizio Zandron's FS (136.36): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQccV7pPx40
Schaller/Mayr's FS (109.88): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVQ8iASTedQ
Izzo/Maierhofer's FS (111.57): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dkL3CB2IdM

 

[Sylvia]

More selections for Team Sweden - Winter Universiade and The Nordics (both announced on Jan. 3rd):

The Winter Universiade – the competition organized every two years for athletes who combine their elite sports pursuits with university studies – will take place this year in Turin, Italy, from January 13-23 [figure skating is Jan. 16-18]. Selected to represent Sweden are Lovisa Aav, Gabriel Folkesson, Jonathan Egyptson and the ice dance couple Emma Kivioja and Erik Pellnor.
The Universiade, which is one of the world's largest multi-sport competitions, will last 11 days with athletes from 57 different countries competing in 13 different sports. What the competitors have in common is that they combine elite sports with university studies.

Uttagna till Vinteruniversiaden: Lovisa Aav, Gabriel Folkesson, Jonathan Egyptson samt Emma Kivioja och Erik Pellnor

Vinteruniversiaden – tävlingen som anordnas vartannat år för idrottare som kombinerar sin elitidrottsatsning med universitetsstudier – går i år av stapeln i Turin, Italien, 13-23 januari. Uttagna att representera Sverige är Lovisa Aav, Gabriel Folkesson, Jonathan Egyptson samt isdansparet Emma...

www.skatesweden.se

"The Swedish squad for the Nordic Championships (The Nordics/Nordics Open) 2025 has now been selected. A total of 22 skiers, from youth to seniors, will go to Aasker, Norway, on February 6-9".

Här är truppen till Nordics och Nordics Open

Den svenska truppen till Nordiska Mästerskapen (The Nordics/Nordics Open) 2025, är nu uttagen. Sammanlagt 22 åkare, från ungdomar till seniorer, åker till Aasker, Norge, den 6-9 februari.

www.skatesweden.se

Seniors Messrs.
Jonathan Egyptson, Andreas Nordebäck, Casper Johansson

Senior ladies
Julia Brovall, Josefin Taljegård, Olivia Philips, Josefin Brovall, Lovisa Aav

Juniors Mr.
Hugo Bostedt, Albin Samuelsson, Elias Sayed, Tim Nordin

Junior ladies
Lilly Almgren Lidman, Alexandra Ödman, Alice Westling, Nora Coopens, Lyra Lundquister, Ellinor Nordquist

Youth girls
Hanne Trulsson, Maria Fiedosiejewa, Isabelle Norman, Hedda Hedström

 

[farahfan]

Are the entries for Bavarian Open out yet? I’m wondering if will attract some of the lesser known skaters since Europeans is the weekend after.

 

[Sylvia]

Are the entries for Bavarian Open out yet?

I haven't seen a link yet. There's a Time Schedule (Jan. 20-26, 2025) as of Jan. 2nd on the Bavarian Ice Sports Association's event page: https://bev-eissport.de/eiskunstlauf/bavarian-open-bayerische-meisterschaften-eiskunstlauf/

ETA: 5 groups of both Junior Pairs and Ice Dance teams are listed on the schedule (some trying to get the Junior Worlds CTES); also listed are 3 groups of Senior Ice Dance teams and 2 groups of Senior Pairs.

 

[Karen-W]

Are the entries for Bavarian Open out yet? I’m wondering if will attract some of the lesser known skaters since Europeans is the weekend after.

Nope. Nothing that I can find on the German fed site.

 

[Karen-W]

We already knew that SVK's Sitkova/Kubacak split, but there were some questions (maybe in the Pairs Gen Discussion thread) about the status of Hungary's Roethenbuehler/Berei and today's Bavarian Open entries confirm they split sometime after the JGP. He is entered in Bavarian Open with Lily Wilberforce, obviously representing Hungary.

She is Canadian and was on ISP last spring per this post from last season's Canadian Pairs thread - it doesn't look like she's ever competed internationally and the last time she competed domestically was July 2023. https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/2023-24-canadian-pairs-news-updates.110746/post-6586696

 

[Sylvia]

Oct. 8, 2024:

Like Alysa Liu, Niki Wories (NED) announced her retirement in 2022 and is returning to competition this week at CS Budapest Trophy (she won a small club international in Dordrecht last month), coached by Thomas Kennes - here's an article in Dutch

Niki Wories is competing at Sofia Trophy in Bulgaria tomorrow & Saturday (looking for the 90 Worlds CTES; currently 86.38 from Nebelhorn Trophy) before Euros in Tallinn - Google translated excerpts from today's article:

Niki Wories waagt zich vlak voor EK aan nieuwe korte kür

<p data-block-key="rjgbt">Kunstschaatsster Niki Wories wacht een spannend weekend in Bulgarije, waar ze meedoet aan de Sofia Trophy. De reden: De Almeerse probeert er voor het eerst een net ontworpen korte kür uit die haar op het EK (vanaf 29 januari) in Tallinn aan een topresultaat moet helpen...

www.schaatsen.nl

Who would throw a months-long program overboard just before a major tournament to start something new? "Nobody," says Wories very firmly. "But I can't do anything else. The text and music of my short program (Who I am by Alan Walker, ed.) no longer suit me. Yes, they fitted in perfectly with the period of my comeback. At that time, I was very much at one with the music that meant something to me. The mood I had at the time, a bit gloomy, has disappeared. I'm an emotional person. As soon as something doesn't feel right anymore, I start looking for solutions. In the meantime, I've taken a step further after relaunching my sports career. It's time to create more impact with the short program."

... "Yes, but if you don't take risks, you won't get anywhere. I really enjoy it, I even enjoy it. My point is that I've always done it in a certain way, but I haven't achieved what I wanted to achieve. That's why I no longer wanted to stick to what I've always done. Thomas and I heard the music that another skater was skating to at one of the previous competitions. It was from Titanic, the love story of Rose and Jack. A well-known fragment with which we want to trigger the jury a bit more."

 

[Sylvia]

Niki Wories did not get the Worlds CTES in Sofia - (ETA) she will try again in Oberstdorf at the Bavarian Open on Jan. 22-23.

Unfortunately, Olga Mikutina has WD from both this week’s Universiade in Torino and Europeans “due to health problems” and Anton Skoficz has WD from the Universiade due to injury - Skate Austria’s post today: https://www.instagram.com/p/DExPRvHIRDe/

ETA - Euros entries as of Jan. 2nd:
Olga MIKUTINA AUT
Stefanie PESENDORFER AUT
Sub: Flora Marie SCHALLER AUT

ETA 2: Flora Schaller has replaced Mikutina in the updated ISU entries as of today, Jan. 13.

 

[Sylvia]

New Pair Alert! Italy's Anna Valesi and Martin Bidar will represent Czechia:

Anna Valesi on Instagram: "We are excited to announce the start of our new partnership representing Czechia!🎉 A big thank you to everyone who helped us make this possible!🙏 Let’s gooo!🔥💪🏼 🇨🇿 Konečně můžeme oznámit novou spolupráci! Budeme repreze

1,037 likes, 41 comments - _annavalesi_ on January 13, 2025: "We are excited to announce the start of our new partnership representing Czechia!🎉 A big thank you to everyone who helped us make this possible!🙏 Let’s gooo!🔥💪🏼 🇨🇿 Konečně můžeme oznámit novou spolupráci! Budeme reprezentovat...

www.instagram.com

ETA that Anna is 22: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00112113.htm (her previous partner, Manuel Piazza, will represent Iceland with Julia Sylvia Gunnarsdottir at Euros: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00121148.htm)

 

[Vagabond]

People here used to say that Martin Bidař reminded them of Michal Březina, but these days, he reminds me more of Evgeni Krasnopolski.

 

[Amy L]

At least Anna Valesi isn't a 15 year old girl. Krasnapolski still "wins" at the dubious partnership game.

 

[Sylvia]

Belgian Nationals is this Friday & Saturday - neither Loena nor Nina Pinzarrone is competing - link to the results page: https://www.kbkfwedstrijden.be/Belgischkampioenschap/2025/index.htm

Livestreams (Jan. 17-18): https://www.youtube.com/@figureskatingonlinebelgium/streams

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

neither Loena nor Nina Pinzarrone is competing - link to the results page:

Nor Jade. Lol.

 

[Karen-W]

Just saw this -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1879269798779179177

I was wondering why Scotti/Quesada weren't entered at Bavarian Open to try & get the Jr Worlds CTES mins along with the other two Spanish jr teams - this explains it.

 

[Vagabond]

Hamlet without the Prince, King, Ghost, or indeed any other characters.

 

[Wyliefan]

Some very lucky young Belgian woman who never even imagined being a national champion (at least not this season) is about to be one.

 

[Vagabond]

Belgian Championships 2025

Event results for Belgian Championships 2025

www.kbkfwedstrijden.be

Oh, wow! There are two other women entered for the Senior Women's event at Belgian Nationals! Everyone gets a medal and maybe a pony too!

 

[Seerek]

Belgian Championships 2025

Event results for Belgian Championships 2025

www.kbkfwedstrijden.be

Oh, wow! There are two other women entered for the Senior Women's event at Belgian Nationals! Everyone gets a medal and maybe a pony too!

Indeed. All the pages do say:

Qualification rule: The best 24 skaters after Short Program will advance to the next segment

 

[Karen-W]

So, this is a little wild... Nina Pinzarrone is the 2025 Belgian champ despite not competing at Belgian Nationals.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1881054014487548402

 

[Karen-W]

Annnnnnd Loena's out of Euros -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1881756767132221661

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Annnnnnd Loena's out of Euros -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1881756767132221661

OMG

OK well there was a big possibility for this to happen, as well Isabeau from US nationals. Is this something that was new if it was sustained in December

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Some translation

It is gradually becoming a season to forget for Loena Hendrickx. The Belgian figure skater will also not be able to defend her European title in Tallinn (Estonia). Her ankle appears to be too unstable after the injury she sustained during training. "The bad luck just keeps following me," she shares.
Not the season Loena Hendrickx had hoped for.

She opened at the beginning of October with a third place in the Shanghai Trophy, but afterwards she had to pass for the Grand Prix de France in Angers, the Finlandia Cup in Helsinki and the Golden Spin meeting in Zagreb.

In December she injured her ankle during training. That also threw a spanner in the works of her European Championship preparation. A tournament that she will now not be able to start as title defender.

"After further examination, her ankle appears to be too unstable to be able to bear full weight and therefore compete. She will have to miss the European Championships - which start on January 29," her team said.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Who wants to start the poll for European women’s champion, with Anastasiia not having a great season. All three medals are up in the air.

I’m hoping for someone from team Italy

I’ll say now the podium will be somebody from Italy, Pinnzy and Kimmy, with Anastasiia as wildcard

 

[Karen-W]

Who wants to start the poll for European women’s champion, with Anastasiia not having a great season. All three medals are up in the air.

I’m hoping for someone from team Italy

LOL - let's wait until the end of this week to start any Euros polls. Who knows how many more withdrawals there will be.