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All the talk about the upcoming Winter Youth Olympics made me curious about which skaters had competed in it so I looked up the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics via Google, which led me to Wikipedia.
What surprised me wasn't the success of the singles skaters but the fact I hardly knew any of the pairs or dance medalists. Out of 12 names, the only one I recognized right away was Jin Yang. So I figured I'd list all of them and people here could tell me what became of them. I am willing to risk being shamed for my ignorance because I'm curious about the shelf life of skaters. However please forgive me if I misspell the names. It seemed to make more sense to transcribe them than to figure out a way of cutting and pasting them via the Wikipedia listing.
Yu Xiaoyu/Jin Yang
Lina Fedorova/Maxim Miroshkin
Anastasia Dolidze/Vadim Ivanov
Anna Yanovskaya/Sergey Mozgov
Okeksandra Nazarova/Maxim Nikitin
Maria Simonova/Dimitri Dragun
Eugenia Tkachenka and Yuri Hulitski took team gold in ice dance and I don't remember hearing of them either.
Thanks in advance for letting me know if these are skaters who are still making their way up through the ranks of international skating (2012 feels like a century ago but it really has been only 8 years) or if they peaked in their Junior years.
ETA to thank Sylvia (looking at the results didn't add a lot of Oh, I know who they are names) and to say that the age requirements certainly limited who could compete (for a once every four year event it doesn't seem fair they had to be born within a two year stretch):
To be eligible for the 2012 Youth Olympic Games, athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1997.
Exception: Male skaters in pairs and ice dance may have been born between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1997.
What surprised me wasn't the success of the singles skaters but the fact I hardly knew any of the pairs or dance medalists. Out of 12 names, the only one I recognized right away was Jin Yang. So I figured I'd list all of them and people here could tell me what became of them. I am willing to risk being shamed for my ignorance because I'm curious about the shelf life of skaters. However please forgive me if I misspell the names. It seemed to make more sense to transcribe them than to figure out a way of cutting and pasting them via the Wikipedia listing.
Yu Xiaoyu/Jin Yang
Lina Fedorova/Maxim Miroshkin
Anastasia Dolidze/Vadim Ivanov
Anna Yanovskaya/Sergey Mozgov
Okeksandra Nazarova/Maxim Nikitin
Maria Simonova/Dimitri Dragun
Eugenia Tkachenka and Yuri Hulitski took team gold in ice dance and I don't remember hearing of them either.
Thanks in advance for letting me know if these are skaters who are still making their way up through the ranks of international skating (2012 feels like a century ago but it really has been only 8 years) or if they peaked in their Junior years.
ETA to thank Sylvia (looking at the results didn't add a lot of Oh, I know who they are names) and to say that the age requirements certainly limited who could compete (for a once every four year event it doesn't seem fair they had to be born within a two year stretch):
To be eligible for the 2012 Youth Olympic Games, athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1997.
Exception: Male skaters in pairs and ice dance may have been born between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1997.
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