Ahaaaaa... one more item for the "Obsessed w/ Figure Skating" thread?
Pretty much, yes....
*hides face*
Try this thread....
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?35500-Yuzuru-Hanyu&p=955939#post955939
^Its his fan page and people love discussing him there. Join in on the fun.
Or
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?51113-2014-2015-Programs-by-Discipline
^ It's a thread that is designed to discuss new programs but for all skaters
.Lukas' Latvian Heritage is very important to him. He participated in Garezers Latvian youth programs as a youngster, has visited Latvia and strives to keep up the language at home
I have a stupid question.
I have always chosen to use the spelling of a skater's name as it is given in their ISU biography. I have done this believing that the bio is updated by either the skater or their coach, and they should be the ultimate authority on how the skater would like to see their name written. And yet you will see people insisting a girl listed in her bio as Julia Lipnitskaia should have her name written Yulia. Shouldn't the girl get to choose how she wants her name transliterated from Cyrillic? Or should some standard be applied?
Her bio with Julia
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00013146.htm
The Sochi2014 site, using Yulia
http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-julia-lipnitskaia
Recently, Ice Network has chosen to write the name given in the ISU bio as Tuktamysheva as Tuktimysheva.
Her bio
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00010705.htm
The IN article
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2014/06/30/82358418/tuktamisheva-aims-to-return-to-previous-form
Do any of you know if the ISU changes information in the skater's bios from what is input by the skater or coach? They certainly don't fix input errors in listing music, including egregious misspellings, so I have always assumed the bios exist as the skaters or their coaches wrote them, but is this true?
And what convention would you prefer on tranliteration from other alphabets? ISU or some other authority?
Yes, but that is not how team Lipnitskaia submitted her bio to the ISU, and so it is not how her name is spelled on Results files and so forth.
Should we let Lipnitskaia be Julia if that's what she wants to be? And if that is not what she wants to be, why hadn't she changed her bio?
I don't know about Kaugars' particular case, but sometimes countries with a shortage of skaters in one discipline or anothet will have skaters from other countries competing at their nationals.
US skaters Shantel Jordan and Jeremy Barrett ended up French pairs champions this way.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Barrett_(figure_skater)#With_Jordan
The team was unable to compete as either seniors or juniors that year internationally, so their coach arranged for them to compete at French Nationals.
BTW, I believe Kaugars is ethnically Latvian. His twitter says so.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...pPfB1wvHSpq0LW_9Q80L7UA&bvm=bv.70138588,d.aWw
OTOH, he may have decided to try to compete for Latvia.
http://lukaskaugars.com/More_About_Lukas.html
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Quite often skaters with dual citizenship start out competing for one country and change to competing for another.
...The Sochi2014 site, using Yulia
http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-julia-lipnitskaia ...
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Should we let Lipnitskaia be Julia if that's what she wants to be? And if that is not what she wants to be, why hadn't she changed her bio?
But that's how she spells her name verbally. She says 'Юлия', not 'Джулия'. And it's a main indicator for me.Yes, but that is not how team Lipnitskaia submitted her bio to the ISU, and so it is not how her name is spelled on Results files and so forth.
As for the minefield regarding Slavic names, I agree that ideally each skater should determine the official transliteration of her/his name. But I have no idea whether the ISU imposes its own preferred transliterations or not.
In the case of Julia/Yulia, it is not clear which spelling she really wants others to use. What seems to be her own VK page uses "Yulia," contrary to her ISU bio.
The VK link above is cited on her official Sochi bio page. And the VK page has a check mark next to her name. Does the check mark indicate a verified account (as it would for a verified account on Twitter)?
... Yes, it does.
Ok this is my silly question, for anyoone who was following skating during that time:
Why did RUS only had 2 entries in Men for the Nagano Olympics?.
1997 Worlds results were Yagudin 3rd and Kulik 5th. 3+5 = 8 so three should go next year. Don't know when did the "13" rule started to apply but I understand previously to that it was three spots for a country that medals and Yagudin took bronze, so what gives???