Well, basically yes to everything. And it's a fact that Loboda/Drozd stay junior. Not sure about the other two.
But anyway, is it up to Fed to forbid Sinitsina/Katsalapov to choose Rostelecom? I'm not very good at this stuff, but as I understood it's up to a couple and their coach to decide what event to take? Nikita said that he wants to skate home, so I can feel some kind of debate about this matter
They didn't finish high enough at Worlds to get a say. Only top 3 seeded skaters can pick afaik, maybe the 4th to 6th as well, but not the 9th place finishers. But the Feds have 1st say for host picks anyway, even before the seeded skaters. So if they said "We want to leave all our host picks open" at the initial assignment, S/K must be assigned elsewhere, because they are guaranteed 2 in the initial selection, but the empty CoR spots would be held for Russia & you can't have more than 3 teams from one country at any event.
And I can see other parties debating S/K's "right" to have any influence, anyway - yes they were highest at Worlds, but 9th is nothing to shout about really, B/S beat them every time they were face to face and barring disaster would have done the same again at Worlds if they could have been there. The situation is so fluid and none of the teams have done anything to merit special treatment from the Fed.
The other thing for the Federation to think about is which seeded skaters they want to have at their event - no Russians in the equation, so I guess it's whoever they think would be the weakest competition for whoever does get the host spots. I suppose probably C/B and then either C/L or H/D?
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