can someone start a list of competitors? please
In the past, the U.S. JGP skaters have been told that the entries published on the ISU site after the first several JGP events should be considered as 'placeholder names' and that their official assignments will be confirmed directly to them by USFS. For Japan, the 'placeholders' were Gao, Dornbush, Zahradnicek, Lichtman/Copely & Olson/Cowan. USFS waited for the results from Courchevel, FRA before submitting their final entries for JPN. You can expect to see more 'placeholder' names when the preliminary entries are published for GBR (#5), GER (#6), and CZE (#7).Hmmm. Christina Gao is skating in Graz the week before and then is listed for Japan. Back to back competitions. Significant travel distance and not much time for recovery. Wonder if there is a method to this madness, or if her camp requested this scheduling. As of today, USFS website does not have assignments for this competition posted, but I guess they can switch to a substitute by some pre-determined deadline date.
OVCHAROVA withdrew due to injury :no: