2024/25 OES News

[skatingguy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FigureSkating/comments/1joufm4/such_an_adorable_gesture_for_adam_hagara_from_the

 

[Karen-W]

Whoa! Jakucs/Galli's clearance certificate from the ISU to represent the Netherlands has been withdrawn because they do not spend enough time in the Netherlands.

ISU besluit: clearance-certificaat ijsdansers Jakucs en Galli niet meer geldig

<p data-block-key="jyxce">De ISU heeft bepaald dat het <i>clearance</i>-certificaat van de kunstschaatsers Hanna Jakucs en Alessio Galli niet langer geldig is. Hierdoor kan het Hongaars-Italiaanse ijsdansduo Nederland niet meer vertegenwoordigen bij internationale wedstrijden.</p>

www.schaatsen.nl

 

[Aceon6]

So Netherlands is going all in on VerVan? It’s not as if JakGal is a clear choice with a 28th at Euros that would have translated to 37th at worlds assuming similar scoring.

 

[Vagabond]

I wonder whether certain French Ice Dancing couples are paying attention to this.

 

[Andrea82]

I wonder whether certain French Ice Dancing couples are paying attention to this.

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.

 

[Andrea82]

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.

 

[Andrea82]

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 Bouvart (category Elite 1)
Gina Zehnder/Beda Leon Sieber (category Elite 1)


Olympyc selection criteria set by Swiss Olympic Committee were published some months ago:

https://www.swissolympicteam.ch/dam/jcr:82782135-3171-485f-b869-11ac5cde0776/Concept%20de%20s%C3%A9lection%20Eiskunstlauf.pdf

They are asking some minimum total scores to be achieved. Competitions to achieve them: Europeans 2025, Worlds 2025, OWG Test Event, Beijing Olympic Qualifying Competition, Senior GPs 2025/26, Challenger Series events 2025/26, Europeans 2026, Swiss Nationals 2026

The scores are 210 for Men and 185 for Women.
So Britschgi (>210 both at Euros and Worlds 2025) and Repond (>185 at Euros 2025) have already achieved them.
185 is doable for a healthy Kaiser too.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Not that I think that Vouillamoz/Bouvart are going to earn one of the few spots in Beijing or that they'd move up the list enough to earn any spot that would be thrown back into the pool -- even if he does have or gets Swiss citizenship -- but while they only earned 155.X points in Boston, their PB is just over 170, the Pairs score, earned at a 2024-5 CS, Warsaw Cup.