Awesome! And that opens up 2 more additional athlete quota spots for the team event which will be filled by Poland's ice dancers.From Camille Kovalev's Instagram - confirmation of what we've known would happen since early September.
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I'm confused (nothing new). Why does France sending them to pairs open up 2 slots for Poland?
Link to their post within the past hour: https://www.instagram.com/p/DT-q6pFFwKJ/
Katię Kurakową [Katia Kurakova] Wowę Samojłowa [Vladimir Samoilov] Julia Szczecinina and Michał Woźniaka [Ioulia Chtchetinina & Michal Wozniak] Sofiję Dowhal i Wiktora Kuleszę [Sofiia Dovhal (born in UKR) & Wiktor Kulesza]
Because France was using 2 of the additional athlete quota spots for the team event until Uzbekistan officially relinquished the spot that Geynish/Chigirev earned in pairs at Worlds last year. Once Uzbekistan released their spot, it went to France who was 1st alternate for the pairs spot. And once France had the pairs spot, they no longer needed the 2 additional athlete quota spots for the team event. Korea doesn't have a pairs team, so they are unable to use the newly released additional athlete quota spots, but Poland does have a dance team, so they are now using those spots in order to field a complete team for the team event.
France was using 2 additional athlete quota spots solely for the team event. Since the Kovalevs have bumped up to real competitors in the pairs event (and they will also still do the team event), there are now 2 additional quota spots available solely for the team event. Poland was next in line to receive those.
