this is the problem with going by body of work critieria for one discipline.
They could have used body of work for ashley wagner again & didn't for the women discipline.
if it hold true the nathan, vincent, adam--i feel sorry for ross. and adam
people (not figure skating insiders-fans) will state what difference between ashley's body of work , & adams' so adam been to the olympics in 2010-
adam has finished behind ross at nationals before. adam did decent and went to gp final 2 straight years 2016/2017, 2017/2018
ashley went 4 straight years-- 2012/2013, 2013/14 2014/2015 medal each of those years and 2015/2016-where she didn't medal.
adam went twice didn't medal. so if body of work ashley should have been named and sorry but she was national champ when she did that. ashley won 4cc-
karen chen, mirai- national champ-didn't go.
mirai- went 3 -4 times didn't win-medal yes, but not win with who going. karen chen didn't medal 2 times where did she finish.
so they chose nationals and worlds to keep ashley off time according to certain articles and kept body of work out of it. because mirai, karen, even bradie didn't beat ashley body of work
nathan body of work did.
adam-
ross-
vincent
jason
max -they all had their chance to beat nathan and show their stuff and body of work, adam, jason didn't do it.
vincent just jumped up to seniors like bradie.
the talk won't be nice and in favor of the sport of figure skating -in fact it will be the same old, same old, they will put and place, favor the skaters they want on the team in each competition they skate in.
i can see justifying nathan, vincent, ross- with a quad inconsistent, sorry but adam inconsistent- the one fact he does have over ross is olympics he went and finished 6th his 1st time out in 2010.
nathan and vincent hasn't but both was in juniors at the time- i think ross was vying for a spot on the olympic team in 2010 also , didn't quallify- so that is possible the difference he is around the same age.