2026 Olympic Team Event Qualification

[SmileHappy34]

It is my understanding that those countries confirm . The other countries didn't.
They are countries that qualified ahead of Poland, but didn't have at 3 least 3 entries so Poland became the 10th.

Why could not the other teams who qualified with 2 members use the alternative rule to get the 3rd team member to confirm qualify for Olympic Team Event ahead of Poland.
Like Germany, Switzerland, Isreal, Hungary eyc
Add alternative to give them 3 teams members
Honestly I don't know how calculated with juniors and all.

 

[SmileHappy34]

I would revaluation based on team members listed and see score

 

[Karoltyna]

It looks like the Team Event will be:

Number of Skaters Qualified to Olympics by countries qualified for the team event.

Countries Qualified:

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What do you think will be the team's strategy for the event?

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Country​	Points To Qualify	Men​	Women​	Pairs​	Ice Dance​
USA​	7,069	​  Malinin​ Torgashev Naumov​	Glenn Liu Levito​	Kam/O'Shea Chan/Howe​	Chock/Bates Zingas/Kolesnik Carreira/Ponomarenko​
Japan​	6,027	Yuma Kagiyama Shun Sato Kai Miura​	Kaori Sakamoto Amy Nakai Mone Chiba​	Miura/Kihara Nagaoka/Moriguchi​	0​
Italy​	4,606	Rizzo Grassl​	Gutmann​	Ghilardi/Ambrosini Conti/Macii​	Guignard/Fabbri​
Canada​	4,231	Gogolev​	Schizas​	Pereira/Michaud Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps​	Gilles/Poirier Lajoie/Lagha Lauriault/Le Gac​
Georgia​	4,106	Egadze​	Gubanova​	Metalkina/Berulava​	Davis/Smolkin​
France​		Aymoz Siao Him Fa​	Schild​	Kovalevs*​	Fournier-Beaudry/Cizeron Lopareva/Brissaud​
Great Britain​		0​	Spours​	Vaipan-Law/Digby​	Fear/Gibson Hernandez/Bekker​
China​		Boyang Jin​	Ruiyang Zhang​	Sui/Han​	Wang/Lui​
Korea​		Junhwan Cha Hyungyeom Kim​	Haein Lee Jia Shin​	0​	Lim/Quan​
Poland​		? Samoilov​	? Kurakova​	? Chtchetinina / Wozniak​	0​

* The Uzbek pair split; French Team 1 is the first alternate, probably the Kovalevs
?Poland has not yet announced its team

" · There were a total of five additional athlete quota places available for teams that have qualified in three disciplines to complete their team, attributed in the order of ranking
· Japan gets an Ice Dance team (two athletes), France can take a Pair Skating couple (two athletes) and Great Britain can add a man (one athlete)
· These additional athletes can only compete in the Team Event
· If unused quota places are returned and/or Japan, France or Great Britain do not use the additional athlete spot, first Korea, then Poland get a chance to fill up their team"

Japan will likely pick Utana Yoshida & Masaya Morita in dance
Great Britain will likely pick Edward Appleby in men's
Since Uzbekistan's pair team, which qualified for the non-team event Olympics has split, it is likely Uzbekistan will not fill that slot. France is the first alternate for that spot, and will likely fill it with the Kovalev's, and will.have no longer have a Team event spot that needs filling. Since Korea has no pair team, Poland will get to fill up their team.
Poland will likely pick Sofiia Dovhal / Wiktor Kulesza, for dance, if it comes to that

Poland announced the team after 4 Nationals - ice dance is still waiting for confiramtion that Uzbeks are out, but it should be Dovhal/Kulesza, though Grzegorzeska/Muratov also have minimums. Ed is also confirmed by British fed.

 

[Karoltyna]

It is my understanding that those countries confirm . The other countries didn't.
They are countries that qualified ahead of Poland, but didn't have at 3 least 3 entries so Poland became the 10th.

Why could not the other teams who qualified with 2 members use the alternative rule to get the 3rd team member to confirm qualify for Olympic Team Event ahead of Poland.
Like Germany, Switzerland, Isreal, Hungary eyc
Add alternative to give them 3 teams members
Honestly I don't know how calculated with juniors and all.

Because you need to qualify in 3 in solo events to participate in team event, so countries with only 2 qualified solo events can't participate at all.

 

[Karoltyna]

A friend asked the Kovalevs and Dovhal/Kulesza if they already know more about the team event and they have no idea what is going to happen, which is a shame, really. So Uzbekistan has apparently not communicated what will happen to their pairs spot.

I find it quite shitty on Uzbek's side. It's not like they have a chance to get the minimum for Olympics before the deadline because I don't think there are any competitions for pairs before the deadline and there isn't a way for them to list a team without the minimums. Dovhal/Kulesza aside, Kovalevs deserve to know if they are also in solo event because if they are, they need to adjust their preparations.

 

[FlossieH]

Japan will likely pick Utana Yoshida & Masaya Morita in dance
Great Britain will likely pick Edward Appleby in men's
Since Uzbekistan's pair team, which qualified for the non-team event Olympics has split, it is likely Uzbekistan will not fill that slot. France is the first alternate for that spot, and will likely fill it with the Kovalev's, and will.have no longer have a Team event spot that needs filling. Since Korea has no pair team, Poland will get to fill up their team.
Poland will likely pick Sofiia Dovhal / Wiktor Kulesza, for dance, if it comes to that

BIS announced our team after nationals, and confirmed Ed Appleby as our selection for the team event. Should something happen between now and the official entry, Lucas Fitterer is the only other skater with the technical minimums.

 

[pearly]

I find it quite shitty on Uzbek's side. It's not like they have a chance to get the minimum for Olympics before the deadline because I don't think there are any competitions for pairs before the deadline and there isn't a way for them to list a team without the minimums. Dovhal/Kulesza aside, Kovalevs deserve to know if they are also in solo event because if they are, they need to adjust their preparations.

Some national organizations are terribly incompetent. The ISU should get involved and keep them in check.

 

[4everchan]

Some national organizations are terribly incompetent. The ISU should get involved and keep them in check.

If only the ISU were indeed... what's the word, competent

 

[Karoltyna]

Some national organizations are terribly incompetent. The ISU should get involved and keep them in check.

there was a rumor they were delaying trying to see if they can recruit some russian pair - but even if they did, it's too late to get minimums, so either they are that incompetent or they are deliberately making things harder for other teams...

 

[4everchan]

there was a rumor they were delaying trying to see if they can recruit some russian pair - but even if they did, it's too late to get minimums, so either they are that incompetent or they are deliberately making things harder for other teams...

for years, I have been unsupportive of how Olympic/world spots are decided for figure skating. This is just another argument.
If the skaters earned their own spot, and it didn't belong to a federation, then that would be it. They split, their spot is gone. Next in line please.

It's very upsetting to me that these games are played because the ISU is... again, incompetent, about how qualification processes work. It is so archaic. I get that it may have worked fine 60 years ago but it doesn't anymore. There are a lot of fluctuations from season to season with the higher tech and physical demands.... and often, skaters who have earned spots for their countries are injured or retire or whatever, and just cannot use those spots while other skaters who are perfectly fit have to stay home.

Just allow skaters to qualify themselves with achieving reasonable tech minimums with a maximum of two per country. That's all. I know, people would be upset with the third spot lost but it would also mean that many 2nd best skaters from a country can compete and it would make the field much tighter. There could even be a system where a third spot is granted if it does meet some ranking criteria to avoid a top 12 skater who would be third spot, out of the field. Anyways, it's a bit off topic to discuss revamping qualification but at the same time, it isn't because it would solve so many issues.

In the end, it would also give the power back to the skaters. Right now, the nebulous body of work term is often used by federations to select skaters and some games are sometimes played there. It would be eliminated completely if the skaters earned their own spot.

 

[pearly]

Hopefully the Polish (right?) Fed is aware their team is quite possibly next in line and is ready. At least they won't need visas.

 

[Karoltyna]

Hopefully the Polish (right?) Fed is aware their team is quite possibly next in line and is ready. At least they won't need visas.

Yup, they are, both countries are in EU - no visas needed.

 

[FlossieH]

there was a rumor they were delaying trying to see if they can recruit some russian pair - but even if they did, it's too late to get minimums, so either they are that incompetent or they are deliberately making things harder for other teams...

It is too late for a Russian pair who have not been recruiting internationally. I have been trying to work out, though, whether there is a pair with the minimums who have 'disappeared' and could suddenly appear with Uzbek citizenship and a release from their previous country.

 

[Ziotic]

It is too late for a Russian pair who have not been recruiting internationally. I have been trying to work out, though, whether there is a pair with the minimums who have 'disappeared' and could suddenly appear with Uzbek citizenship and a release from their previous country.

They would also have to not have competed in the past 12 months

 

[FlossieH]

They would also have to not have competed in the past 12 months

I know. That is why I was trying to work out whether there was a pair which hadn't been seen for a while.

 

[SmileHappy34]

Deanne and Maxime out of team .

 

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When will we know the skaters for the team event?

 

[Iskatgal]

When will we know the skaters for the team event?

U.S entries for the Team Events will be announced at the following date and time. (eastern Time)
• Feb. 5 at ~ 5 a.m.: women's short program, rhythm dance and pairs short program entries
• Feb. 6 at ~ 4 a.m.: men's short program entry
• Feb. 7 at ~ 4 p.m.: free dance entry
• Feb. 7 at ~ 6 p.m.: women's, men's and pairs free skate entries
(source: usfigureskating)