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I'm definitely anticipating this year's JGP more than usual.
And good for the ISU to have a contingency plan ready to go.
And good for the ISU to have a contingency plan ready to go.
I think it's okay. France will manage somehow. And possibly find some additional entries for its new additional host spots!As a Canadian, I apologize for my government dragging its feet in reopening. It's almost embarrassing that France had to take on one of our events.
Don't apologise. Your country is being responsible in the middle of a crisis that is nowhere near over. That's more important than any sports competition in the world.As a Canadian, I apologize for my government dragging its feet in reopening. It's almost embarrassing that France had to take on one of our events.
I don't think America's normal is something to aspire to.This seems to be a rather drastic knee-jerk measure. After all,things are back to normal south of the border.
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Frankly, they never should have offered to host one last fall/winter when the ISU was discussing hosts for this coming season's JGP. Of all the countries that were announced, Canada was the one that I expected would cancel because of their strict lockdowns and travel restrictions. I'm a bit surprised this didn't happen a month or two ago.Don't apologise. Your country is being responsible in the middle of a crisis that is nowhere near over. That's more important than any sports competition in the world.
lets see how things go. fortunately the vaccination rates in Europe are going up by the day with more and more people getting Pfizer / Moderna and people Astrajunk.I'm not that optimistic about the French JGPs going ahead sadly.
If they were happening in July, I'd put money on them happening.
The reason the stats are significant is that they show the rate at which this variant has spread. In a matter of weeks it has become the dominant variant in the UK and Russia. This is bad news as it is much more infectious than the variants it is replacing, which can be seen by the rapidly increasing numbers of new cases in the UK and Russia where is it dominant.If you have 100 positive tests, and 99 are the Delta variant, 99% of tests will be the Delta variant. If you have 100,000 positive tests and 99,999 are the Delta variant, 99% will be the Delta variant. There will always be some variant that makes up the highest proportion of tests. It doesn't strike me as a very meaningful stat. Before the "Delta" variant, some other variant made up the majority of tests. After the Delta variant, there will most likely be another.
As a Canadian, I apologize for my government dragging its feet in reopening. It's almost embarrassing that France had to take on one of our events.
Only if you don't factor in the vaccination rate. If 70% of the population is vaccinated and 10-20% have natural immunity, that only leaves 10-20% who can even get CoVd. Even if there is a varient that natural immunity works for, that's still only 30% of the population that is vulnerable.So from this we can conclude that when the Delta variant becomes the dominant strain in France, the number of new cases will also rise dramatically.
The data is showing that both breakthrough infections and hospitalizations is under 1%. That is not enough to overwhelm anything.30% of a vulnerable population, especially one that has been vaccinated with AZ, which has lower efficacy against the Delta variant, can still overwhelm hospitals, especially if there are concentrations of people who have not been vaccinated.
The data is showing that both breakthrough infections and hospitalizations is under 1%. That is not enough to overwhelm anything.
The people in hospitals now and who are dying now are 99% the unvaccinated. At least in the US.
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As of today, the Announcement for JGP #3 in Košice, Slovakia has yet to be linked from the event page: https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/...grand-prix-of-figure-skating?templateParam=11Announcements are published for JGP #1, #2 & #4 with preliminary event schedules included at the end of each document.
Entries are up for the first event: http://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00110953.htm
The JSF isn’t sending anybody to the first three events.No Japanese? Korea “tbd” but the country’s spots listed, unlike Japan (***** related?).
Way more important is RUS#2 and the long awaited comeback of Anna TsarevaAnd right off the bat...Russia roars with Sofia Samodelkina. KABOOM!
As of July 20:Entries are up for the first event: http://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00110953.htm