Another fun fact is that no team that has won Junior Worlds in dance has won Senior Worlds. Annissina & Averbukh won JW together but won Senior Worlds with different partners. Evgeny Platov, Sergey Ponomarenko, Oksana Grishuk & Roman Kostomarov won JW & SW with different partners. Delobel & Schoenfelder won Worlds, but finished second at JW (to Kostomarov & his partner, actually). Belbin & Agosto and Virtue & Moir have come the closest, winning JW and World silver.
Too bad! The TS for Ice Dance at JW is none other than Shae ZUKOWSKI of Canada.
What year did DomShabs win? Was it 2003, or was that the year Belbin/Agosto won?
Why would you think Virtue and Moir would retire if they were going to win the Olympics??. They will be at 20 / 22 years of age, do you think that is the usual retirement age for ice dancers?I think Virtue/Moir will probably be the ones to break this trend. If they don't win in Vancouver (and I'd actually prefer that they don't, so they stick around longer) I really can't see how they would not win Worlds at least once.
Any Singles skater who is at least 13 but no older than 18 by July 1 is eligible to participate in the JGP and JW.
Wait... How were girls like Gedevanishvili and Robertson able to sneak in then? They're 19??
Why would you think Virtue and Moir would retire if they were going to win the Olympics??. They will be at 20 / 22 years of age, do you think that is the usual retirement age for ice dancers?
These are exceptional athletes, who blasted through the rankings of the ice dancing and for a good reason. They have a lot more to give to the world of ice dance than a mere 4 years of competitive career. Unless Tessa's health becomes a chronical condition, i am not expecting them to retire any time soon, but to explore new boundaries of this sport.
I think they said in interviews that they don't plan to have a long career.
I have not heard them saying that, what I have heard is that they make no plans right now beyond the Olympics, and that is a totally different ball game.
Still, it's a lot to ask of young adults to put their lives on hold for another four years so they can stay in the sport through another Olympic cycle.