US Olympic Team Announced

[ladyjane]

This is what the press release says about JW for singles @Jeanie19 :
Women and men will be named to the 2022 U.S. World Junior Team following the conclusion of the World Junior Singles Camp, Jan. 31-Feb. 1 in Norwood, Massachusetts.

 

[purplecat]

So this is the only discipline so far with the first Olympic alternate traveling to 4CC? I wonder about the logic there.

Hmm, curious. Yeah, the pattern didn't follow. I wonder if either Lindsay or C&J declined 4CC themselves as a precaution?

Edited to add: yes, that makes sense that both ladies and pairs have a COVID positive issue right now so alternate is even more important there.

 

[sailormoon]

Isabeau is not age eligible for Olympics. Alysa should still be picked because she is in group 3. When you say "USFS should re-think this criteria in the future.", do you have a better thought?

Isabeau Levito could have been picked for the Olympic team, if she had not been underage. Her technical score for free skate was very impressive at 71+. It was an easy choice because Alysa's other competitors faltered in free skate.

 

[Ivana]

No surprise with the Olympic selection. I'm surprised though that they have pretty much written off Calalang/Johnson...I feel sorry for them.

 

[ladyjane]

No surprise with the Olympic selection. I'm surprised though that they have pretty much written off Calalang/Johnson...I feel sorry for them.

Not exactly written them off...they are alternates for both the OG and Worlds. There's chances there for them, although probably not for the best of reasons (although one of the two OG pairs might just decide to skip Worlds this year). For good order: I feel sorry for them too. But the choices made, don't surprise me.

 

[Ivana]

Not exactly written them off...they are alternates for both the OG and Worlds. There's chances there for them, although probably not for the best of reasons (although one of the two OG pairs might just decide to skip Worlds this year). For good order: I feel sorry for them too. But the choices made, don't surprise me.

Key word here is "alternates" and at the end of March they may easily end the season with only being alternates for OG and Worlds, no 4CC, none of that is going to bring them any points into the standings and make their position for next GP season easier if they intend to continue. I fully agree with the OG selection they went with the 2 couples with best BOW, but either allowing C/J to do 4CC or naming them to WC would have made sense here, especially if they could easily medal at 4CC this year.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Perhaps both Ash & Tim and Alexa & Brandon said they wanted to do both competitions.

Which is completely fair. It's possible, especially in a post-Olympic Worlds, that they may be able to win 3 spots for US pairs, which would be wonderful.

 

[cathlen]

No surprise with the Olympic selection. I'm surprised though that they have pretty much written off Calalang/Johnson...I feel sorry for them.

Knierim/Frazier aren't even reputation team, since they are pretty short amount of time competing together. I do not understand a decision of writing C/J off

 

[Seven Sisters]

I wonder if they think Green/Parsons stand a really good chance of winning which would set them up well for the next quad (and gain a lot of WS points too) so it's worth the risk?

Is it possible that Green/Parsons asked to be sent to 4CCs? They may want the additional opportunity to prove themselves and/or championship experience, and they otherwise have only alternate assignments.

 

[bigsisjiejie]

Is it possible that Green/Parsons asked to be sent to 4CCs? They may want the additional opportunity to prove themselves and/or championship experience, and they otherwise have only alternate assignments.

Entirely possible.

 

[bigsisjiejie]

You are making assumptions C/J were "written off." I find that highly unlikely. More likely that USFS told them they were Olympic first alternates and also on 4CC team if they wanted to go....and C/J themselves declined 4CC so as not to risk travel/Covid in case they are called up to travel to China. Which I would say right now, is very possible given Brandon's situation.

C/J probably also realize that their predicament is largely their own doing. If they could just land their d@mn jumps consistently, they'd be right up there. They have the rest of the package.

 

[RatedPG]

Also for team event, it is obvious they should send Chock/Bates for the SP and Hubbell/Donohue for the LP

 

[Carolla5501]

Yeah I don’t understand this USFS wrote them off? no they wrote themselves off. I guess USFS should hold them up because maybe you’ll get there and you’ll be able to do the jumps.


Unfortunately the two teams ahead of them have been more consistent.

 

[Weathergal]

Olympics
It's Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou, and Jason Brown according to tweets from Jackie Wong and Phil Hersh.

Alternates
1 Ilia Malinin
2 Camden Pulkinen
3 Jimmy Ma

Worlds
Nathan Chen, Ilia Malinin,* and Vincent Zhou

*Pending minimum tech score

Alternates
1 Jason Brown
2 Camden Pulkinen
3 Jimmy Ma

Four Continents
Tomoki Hiwatashi, Jimmy Ma, and Camden Pulkinen

Alternate
1 Ryan Dunk

 

[kan01]

This better be true!

 

[Near]

Malinin should just go skate for Uzkekistan if this is how the US federation is going to treat him.

 

[Pereiro]

Lol, they really drop Ilya for Brown. USfed is a joke.

 

[cheerknithanson]

Malinin should just go skate for Uzkekistan if this is how the US federation is going to treat him.

Not a good idea. Remember how Misha Ge had so many issues with visas because of him representing it?

 

[bigsisjiejie]

Men's 2022 U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team Nominated | U.S. Figure Skating

www.usfigureskating.org

It is true. Malinin 1st alternate. Pulkinen 2nd and Ma 3rd Alt.

 

[Pereiro]

Malinin should just go skate for Uzkekistan if this is how the US federation is going to treat him.

For Russia actually - he will become our #1 as soon as he come. And we can give him much more than Uzbekistan