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So will we have plastic coasters or plastic stars as medals?
Well as long as they're not plastic straws...
So will we have plastic coasters or plastic stars as medals?
Forgive for going off-topic (and the stupid question), but how do Juniors even get picked for the GPs? Say you're a new Junior but you're in a teeny tiny country with no skaters and you're the only person at nationals, but you meet the requirements, how does ISU even know to invite you? Do they go through a list of some sort or
So then, you probably know what the likely venue will be. Read: will we have proper seats this time?
The "Iceberg" ice rink was built in 2005 and the local ice hockey club plays at the first level in french hockey since this period.
There's the possibility to have between 1200 and 2400 seats.
I dont know why ISU keeps giving events for France when they have such an atrocious organizing committee. Their GP last year was so laughably bad. The medal ceremony was like it was from a school competition. I hope they pick up their standards although I wont be surprised if they give out medals cut out from laminated paper attached to a string this year
This is a good question! I'm usually on the ice there, not on the seats
The "Iceberg" ice rink was built in 2005 and the local ice hockey club plays at the first level in french hockey since this period.
There's the possibility to have between 1200 and 2400 seats.
There's an olympic-sized rink (1830m²) and one other rink (1500m²).
Here's more informations : http://www.archi-wiki.org/Adresse:Patinoire_l'Iceberg_(Strasbourg)
And the official website of the Iceberg : https://www.strasbourg.eu/patinoire-iceberg
Just a "problem" to mention in Strasbourg in december : There's the Christmas Markt So the hotels are quick full booked.
So will we have plastic coasters or plastic stars as medals?
Thank you for this information! I definitely want to go, and a family member is also thinking of it. Given the lovely but serious complication of the Christmas Market, could you venture even a rough estimate of the latest time of year by which we should book a room? I would like a realistic time by which we should act--to spur her on if she is undecided, and to act on my own if need be. Were it not for the Market, I would book a room by early Spring, but do you think that is too late?
According to a friend who's working in a hotel : better to book as earlier as possible Some rooms are already booked for next year's december. I hope the location in Strasbourg will be quickly confirmed, for the moment it's still TBA/FRA on ISU calendar.
The good new is that there will be no EU-parliamentary session on this week (5 to 8 december), which usually make impossible to find a hotel
But there's a huge hotel and b&b choice in Strasbourg and all the possible locations (Iceberg icerink, Zenith arena, Hall Rhenus) are easily and quickly accessible with public transport (between 10 and 20 minutes from city center).
The German figure skating magazine Pirouette wrote that Didier already confirmed at the IdF that the finale is not in Strasbourg. Possible places are now Grenoble, Paris and Metz.
Why not in Strasbourg?
If it's for safety reasons it's a non-sense. Strasbourg doesn't cancel the parliamentary sessions, the football matches in december or the music shows at the Zenith.
I'm curious to know if the decision was taken before or after the attack from last week (which wasn't held at the Christmas market, but that's another debate).
Junior and Senior Grand Prix Final
December 5-8, 2019 Strasbourg, France (to be confirmed)