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2025 Worlds: Info and pre-game chat
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I just ran across someone who had this thought about this picture... this is the first year since 2008 - seventeen years - that none of these men will be at Worlds. A new order indeed...
Will we be able to say the same of this year's stars in 2042?
Will we be able to say the same of this year's stars in 2042?
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It is a pretty amazing pic....
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BTW, If you have Peacock without commercials, which I get for the skating season, They are running all 10 episodes (4 on line now) of "The Americas" Narated by Tom Hanks, a nature series about various parts of the Americas like "The Wild west" The Atlantic, Patigonia, Mexico, the Amazon, etc. Sans commercials. The photography is way beyond excellent. A new one is added every week. I record them on NBC rabbit ears also and edit out the commercials there.
www.nbc.com
The Americas: Your Guide to the Remaining Episodes of NBC's Nature Docuseries
What episodes are left in NBC's The Americas? Here's your The Americas Episode Guide, so you don't miss any of the amazing nature docuseries with Tom Hanks.
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Great picture. If you count the number of medals at worlds between all these men, and the longevity of all of them, it is a unique group. I don't think we will see this ever again, and I'm not even mentioning skating skills
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Right outside TD Garden is very safe, even at night, with all the bars/clubs right there, and I have never not felt safe coming home at midnight ever by T/Uber. Although it will cost more due to surge pricing, I'd feel safer with all the people right there.Does anyone know if theres a safer spot around the arena to get an Uber late at night? My volunteer shifts don't end until midnight and I may be traveling alone, so wanted to ask some advice.
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At any event I have gone to, there are so many people about that I have never felt uneasy. Even at Cleveland nats, where you litteraally had to step over street people, there were police everywhere. But when in doubt, dont be afraid to ask a police or security person. I asked my hotel desk person at Cleveland about walking about and around and he said no worries but what ever you do, dont walk in THAT direction 6 blocks.
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Boston is very safe for a major city and the area around the arena is not a bad one, especially since the renovation where they added Hub Hall a while ago. I live in Boston and I’ll be taking the T home after the events, I’d be more concerned about late nights in some of the farther out train stations than around North Station.
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One word of warning and this is in all seriousness. Drivers tend to ...to.....how to say this diplomatically? to take pedestrians rights not quite as seriously as they might in other areas. I have been there for nats and for worlds...I walked around....just be careful crossing the street in a legal manner or otherwise.... just sayin'
It depends. If a country comes in with three spots, but ends up with two, that adds an extra spot to be qualified at Beijing and 23 spots would be qualified at Worlds for singles. But they'll have 24 spots available to be qualified with 24 qualifying for the free, so at least one spot will be qualified for a country if they qualify for the free there.
Dance has 19 spots to be qualified with 20 qualifying for the free and Pairs has 16 spots to be qualified with 20 qualifying for the free. So in those cases more teams will be qualifying for the free than there are Olympic spots available to be qualified at Worlds.
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Also: the Olympic spots earned at Worlds belong to each federation, not to the individual skaters who competed at Worlds.
Each federation is entitled to choose its own procedure for how to assign skaters to its Olympic spots.
For example, if a federation has two men who qualified for the free skate at Worlds and who together earned two Olympic spots for the federation, there is no ISU rule or IOC rule that the federation must assign either of those two men to an Olympic spot.
The federation would be free to assign any two men (who have the tech minimums for Olympics) -- in accordance with whatever decision-making process the federation chooses. Might or might not be the same two men who earned the spots at Worlds.
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In dance, Paulina RAMANAUSKAITE / Deividas KIZALA LTU appear to have withdrawn.
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Just came across this article elsewhere on the internet: https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/sporta...os-zaidynese-iki-paskutines-sekundes-tikejome
He fractured his leg while jogging, and he hasn't recovered enough to skate in Boston.
In addition to what other posters have said, not necessarily. For example, if a country has two singles skaters (both in same category) who come in 20th and 22nd, the country would only have one spot (for Worlds and Olympics), even though two skaters qualified for the free.
In singles, the number of Olympic spots earned by a federation is the minimum of (number of worlds spots, number of skaters qualifying for the free). If that's less than the number of Worlds spots, then the fed can send one skater (who didn't qualify for the free at Worlds) to the last-ditch Olympic qualifying event (used to be Nebelhorn). But those opportunities do not count in determining the number of Olympic spots awarded at Worlds. They're not really spots, they're just qualifying opportunities.
If a federation has only one skater in a singles event, then qualifying for the free does qualify a spot, since the number of skaters qualifying for the free is the same as the total Olympic spots awarded at Worlds.
It's the same in pairs and dance, with the added complication that the total number of Olympic spots awarded at Worlds is less than the number of skaters in the free.
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