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- Mar 19, 2008
Swedish Dancing on Ice started here last week. Pro skaters are, among other, Swedish male skater Filip Stiller and pair skater Niklas Hogner. Filip doesn't compete nowadays but Niklas is trying to find a new partner since he and Angelika Pylkina split up last year. TV and newspaper are now all over him, giving him the information that he will get a lifetime suspension from ISU competition because he now parts in a competition together with foreign skaters (British Tony Irving and Polish Lukasz Rozycki). A decision is not made yet, and everything is being quite excessively. But it made me think, so I read through Constitution & General Regulations 2008l yesterday night. Rule 102.2 mentions when to become ineligibe but it doesn't mention anything about competing with international skaters. 'Stjärnor på is' is not sanctioned by ISU or SKF so my thought was that that's the problem.
So my question is: Is there a rule telling that the amateur skaters aren't allowed to compete with international pro skaters in non-ISU sanctioned competitions? If so, what's the difference? Are you allowed to compete in non-ISU sanctioned competitions with just skaters from your own country? I couldn't find anything about that.
So my question is: Is there a rule telling that the amateur skaters aren't allowed to compete with international pro skaters in non-ISU sanctioned competitions? If so, what's the difference? Are you allowed to compete in non-ISU sanctioned competitions with just skaters from your own country? I couldn't find anything about that.