*Update* World Junior Figure Skating Championships now assigned to Tallinn

[text_skate]

I think Tallinn deserves a permanent Grand Prix starting next year if they want it.

Great idea !

 

[MacMadame]

So am I which doesn't negate that these kids, and they are kids, had nothing to do with their government's actions and they are victims of Putin too.

Which we have seen may even be supported by some of the skaters and their families.

It was in 2020 yes. (And during the p-demic I believe they re-uploaded some previous years, hopefully they're still there.) Fingers crossed no music blocks.

Public service announcement. It is now okay to type out pandemic, virus, coronavirus, and covid.

 

[Hedwig]

Which we have seen may even be supported by some of the skaters and their families.

yes, but I don't think it is in anyone's interest right now to further the gap even wider. There is already enough against Russian sentiment everywhere and we must be careful - also in our own interest not to lose the ones that are against Putin but most of all because it is the decent thing to do.
There is no way that Junior skaters from Russia should in any way be hold accountable for what Putin and his henchmen are doing and if there are despicable people like Larionov who support this war, this has still nothing to do with these children.

I am sad as well that we will be deprived of Russian skating but of course it is the only and the right way to act. Does not mean it is not sad.

 

[Lanie]

MAGIC now you can predict everything and we know you'll be right?!

 

[Frau Muller]

Since we don’t yet have a Jr Worlds segment and Entries subsegment in our Kiss and Cry…

Hungary is sending peppy Vivien Papp to Jr Worlds, as per her FB, twitter, instagram sites. Whee! She was one of the great discoveries of the ‘21 JGP season…for her energetic & musical performances, if not top finishes yet. She turned 14 on Feb 20 ‘22.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1669712596716694&id=100010339082410&m_entstream_source=timeline

 

[SkateFanBerlin]

Whee! She was one of the great discoveries of the ‘21 JGP season…for her energetic & musical performances, if not top finishes yet. She turned 14 on Feb 20 ‘22.

In Kosice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V1_PA8ZTbQ

Wow, a lovely skater. Good jump technique.

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks to @IDC a.k.a. Ritti for tweeting this Estonian article link:

Arm: me ei tahtnud MM-i korraldada, aga ärajäämine oleks spordile halvim

Rahvusvaheline uisuliit (ISU) määras tänavuste iluuisutamise juunioride maailmameistrivõistluste korraldajaks Tallinna.

sport.err.ee

Machine translated excerpt:

"We didn't really want to take it, because we have had two big competitions," Maire Arm, the president of the Estonian Ice Skating Association, told ERR. "People are tired, the work was huge and the tension was great. There were plans to do [the World Junior Championships] elsewhere, but no agreements were reached. Because of that, we thought it would be worst for the sport if there was no such competition and we agreed."

"ISU confirmed such a schedule that there will be no gala and there will be less training before the competition," Arm explained. "Our team of athletes is strong, we have two young men Mikhail Selevko and Arlet Levandi, girls Niina Petrõkina and dance couple Tatiana Bunina - Ivan Kuznetsov."

The Estonian Ice Skating Union has just organized the European Championships and the championships of four continents in the ice rink of Tondiraba. According to Armi, it will take time to deal with the financial side, but the guests were satisfied with the big competitions here. "Everyone has thanked us, other countries have sent us letters of thanks. Everyone has been very pleased," Arm said.

 

[Spikefan]

Estonia will be going on my travel list thanks to the way they saved skating this season. I do think I will go in the summer though as the Euro/4CC temps were not for me.

 

[Karen-W]

Estonia will be going on my travel list thanks to the way they saved skating this season. I do think I will go in the summer though as the Euro/4CC temps were not for me.

Well, mid-April might be a lovely time to travel.

 

[Sylvia]

https://www.uisuliit.ee/Sekretariaat-2

Estonian Figure Skating Federation’s general email if anyone would like to thank them for hosting their THIRD ISU Championships in one season: [email protected]

 

[Lara111]

Isabeau Levito for gold!!!

Ilia & Lucas for podium - gold and silver!!!

Sweep of ice dance!!!

U.S. Figure Skating Announces Selections for 2022 World Junior Team | U.S. Figure Skating

www.usfigureskating.org

Good opportunity to get gold in ice dance for Americans since no Russians will be there.

 

[MacMadame]

Good opportunity to get gold in ice dance for Americans since no Russians will be there.

Only if PapCiz also don't show up.

 

[tony]

Only if PapCiz also don't show up.

They won't go to Junior Worlds

 

[MacMadame]

They won't go to Junior Worlds

Oh, wrong thread!

 

[Sally1214]

Excited to see the 2022 World Jrs. rescheduled. Now, hoping big time that the ISU YouTube channel will stream it and keep videos of the events up on the site for awhile. I was just marking the dates in my calendar and see that April 14th is my son & daughter-in-law's anniversary (I promised to babysit so they can go out and celebrate). Then, April 15-17th is Easter weekend which means I'll be prerparing a big dinner for the family. So ... I'm going to need those videos to watch after all the (family) celebrations are over. Fingers crossed.

 

[skatingguy]

Excited to see the 2022 World Jrs. rescheduled. Now, hoping big time that the ISU YouTube channel will stream it and keep videos of the events up on the site for awhile. I was just marking the dates in my calendar and see that April 14th is my son & daughter-in-law's anniversary (I promised to babysit so they can go out and celebrate). Then, April 15-17th is Easter weekend which means I'll be prerparing a big dinner for the family. So ... I'm going to need those videos to watch after all the (family) celebrations are over. Fingers crossed.

The 2020 World Junior Championships are still available, so I'm sure the videos for this year's event will be around for awhile.

 

[Sally1214]

The 2020 World Junior Championships are still available, so I'm sure the videos for this year's event will be around for awhile.

Oh, thanks for that. I feel better about it now. I'll miss not being here to chat during live streaming with all of you for parts of it because I really enjoy doing that. But, I'll be able to see "some" of it live. I'll take it! As the song says, "You Can't Always Get What You Want." But .. the secret is to make the very best of what you DO have.

 

[Carolla5501]

Estonia will be going on my travel list thanks to the way they saved skating this season. I do think I will go in the summer though as the Euro/4CC temps were not for me.

Tallin is a wonderful place to visit. I loved it

 

[kalamalka]

Tallin is a wonderful place to visit. I loved it

Me too. I had hoped to go to 4CC, but Omicron... And WJC is now the week I will be volunteering in an English language program in Spain, so I won't even be able to watch any of the stream live.

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

I bet that dual-purpose logo designed for Europeans and Four Continents will be getting quite the work-out next month in Tallinn!

 

[4rkidz]

OMG

I love you Tallinn!

Almost in your backyard again!

 

[Sylvia]

Announcement for Junior Worlds in Tallinn is published (preliminary event schedule - Wednesday, April 13 to Easter Sunday, April 17 - is on page 9): https://www.isu.org/docman-document...ng-championships-2022-announcement-final/file

Entries by name are due “not later than Wednesday, March 23, 2022 – 20:00 h, local time Tallinn / EST.”

 

[Sylvia]

Entries announced so far by federations:

Machine translated excerpt:
"… Arm explained. "Our team of [Estonian] athletes is strong, we have two young men Mikhail Selevko and Arlet Levandi, girls Niina Petrõkina and dance couple Tatiana Bunina - Ivan Kuznetsov."

Team USA
Ilia Malinin (S2), Liam Kapeikis (S7), Lucas Broussard;
Isabeau Levito (S3), Lindsay Thorngren (S5), Clare Seo (J1);
Anastasiia Smirnova/Danil (Danylo) Siianytsia, Isabelle Martins/Ryan Bedard (J2);
Katarina Wolfkostin/Jeffrey Chen (S6), Oona Brown/Gage Brown, Angela Ling/Caleb Wein (J2).

Team Canada
Wesley Chiu (S3), Stephen Gogolev;
Lia Pereira (S10), Justine Miclette (J1);
Brooke McIntosh/Benjamin Mimar (J1), Chloe Panetta/Kieran Thrasher (J4);
Natalie D’Alessandro/Bruce Waddell (J1), Nadiia Bashynska/Peter Beaumont (J2).

Team Japan
Kao Miura (J1/S4), Shun Sato (S7), Tatsuya Tsuboi (J2/S9);
Rinka Watanabe (S6), Rion Sumiyoshi (J2/S8);
Nao Kida/Masaya Morita (J1) - in ice dance.

Team South Korea
Jia SHIN (S4), Seoyeong WI (S5), Ahsun YUN (S6);
Younghyun CHA (S3);
Hannah LIM/Ye QUAN (J1).

ETA:

Team France as of (March 5): https://www.instagram.com/p/CauefOzI7j7/

Corentin SPINAR (J1), François PITOT (J2);
Lorine SCHILD (J2);
Oxana VOUILLAMOZ / Flavien GINIAUX (J1);
Célina FRADJI / Jean-Hans FOURNEAUX (J1)
Eva BERNARD / Tom JOCHUM (J2).

 

[Belsornia]

Team GB
BIS announcement
Edward Appleby (J1)
Elena Komova (J1)
Phebe Bekker / James Hernandez (J1)

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks @Belsornia! Ed Appleby and Elena Komova also are scheduled to represent GBR at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) junior singles competition in Finland later this month - link to the competition thread in Kiss & Cry: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...festival-march-23-24-vuokatti-finland.109527/

ETA that the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has appealed to CAS re. their exclusion from EYOF - info is linked in the Other Sports thread here:

Impact of Russia-Ukraine War on sports worldwide

FIG will be suspending all participation of RUS and BLR as of March 7 until further notice. https://twitter.com/gymnastics/status/1499749945867390984?s=21 And their last appearance was impressive Ivan Kuliak and letter Z. Is it legal at all? https://www.instagram.com/p/Cau5lLytWs1/

www.fsuniverse.net

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks, @Sera!

German nominations for Junior Worlds:

Olesya Ray
Louis Weissert
Letizia Roscher/Luis Schuster
Darya Grimm/Michail Savitskiy

https://eislauf-union.de/media1/news/789-junioren-weltmeisterschaften-2022-nach-tallinn-verschoben

 

[Gris]

Entry list is out

https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00111050.htm

 

[once_upon]

Dumb question can Malinin compete at Jr Worlds if he is competing at Sr Worlds this week?

 

[Karen-W]

Dumb question can Malinin compete at Jr Worlds if he is competing at Sr Worlds this week?

Yes. He has the Jr TES mins and is age-eligible. Same with Safina/Berulava.

ETA - and Niina Petrokina, Aleksandr Vlasenko, & Adam Hagara too.

 

[barbk]

I hope Kovar is in good shape to go. I suspect Malinin will be giving this a pass.