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A little over a month before the opening ceremony, it is appropriate to take stock of the artistic couple who will take part in the Olympic Games.
Sunday 29 December 2013 9 minutes reading time
UPDATED SITUATION AT THE END OF 2013
The policy promoted by suitably'''' International Skating Union in the last decade has led to the emergence of numerous pairs formed by athletes of different nationalities. However, if on the one hand for ISU Championships and races level B there are no particular problems with the passport of the skaters (except that one or both of the athletes have not competed for another country in the previous twelve months), from ' 'else to get the'' Olympic eligibility is required to be in possession of the nationality of the country that you want to represent.
Basically, there are four requirements to be met:
A) Having completed 15 years of age by June 31, 2013 (rule also applies to senior ISU Championships) B) Be in possession of the nationality of the country to which you gareggerà C) have not taken part in international competitions recognized by ISU'' a country other than in the thirty-month period preceding the short-Olympic program, except derogaD) Having reached during the current season or the previous technical limitations established by'' ISU. In the case of the pairs of Art, it is 20 points for the short program and 36 for the free program.
This paves the regulations, it is appropriate to illustrate the current situation country by country trying also to indicate what most athletes are suspected of taking part in the XXII edition of the Olympic Games.
There will be twenty pairs of art that will be able to participate in the race. To assign the first sixteen places available, were taken into account in the ranking of ulitmi World Championships, while the four remaining places have been allocated as a reference predendo the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, final round of Olympic qualifying.
NATIONS QUALIFYING
RUSSIA (3 posts)
01) VOLOSOZHAR / TRANKOV 99% 02) Bazarova / LARIONOV 99% 03) Stolbova / Klimov 99% ALTER. - Kavaguti / Smirnov 2%, Antipova / Maisuradze 1%
CANADA (3 posts)
04) DUHAMEL / RADFORD 95% 05) MOORE-TOWE RS / Moscovitch 95% 06) LAWRENCE / ALTER SWIEGERS 40%. - Purich / Tran 40%, Purdy / Marinaro 30%
Couples who take part in the Olympic Games will be announced at the end of the program to national championships in Ottawa between 9 and January 15
GERMANY (2 posts)
07) SAVCHENKO / SZOLKOWY 99% 08) HAUSCH / WENDE 99% ALTERN-Vartmann / Van Cleave 2% (Van Cleave is currently not in possession of German citizenship)
'' Because of the age of Annabelle Prölss, the couple Prölss / Blommaert is not eligible
CHINA (2 posts)
09) PANG / TONG 99% 10) PENG / ZHANG ALTERN 41%. - ON / 39% HAN, WANG / WANG 11%, YU / JIN 10%
FRANCE (2 posts)
11) JAMES / CYPRES 99% 12) POPOVA / MASSOT 50% (Daria Popova has not yet obtained French citizenship) ALTERN. - Alternatives are not in possession of the technical limitations
UNITED STATES (2 posts)
13) Denney / COUGHLIN 60% 14) SCIMECA / ALTER Knierim 30%. - CASTLES / SHNAPIR 30% Danney / FRAZIER 25%, Zhang / Bartholomay 10%, DAVIS / BRUBAKER 10%, Donlan / SPEROFF 10%, KAYNE / O'' SHEA 10%, Calalang / SIDHU 10%, LENG / LEDUC 5 %
No couple is struggling with issues of citizenship, but to determine who will take part in the Olympic Games will be determining the outcome of the national championships in sightseeing program in Boston between 5 and 12 January
ITALY (2 posts)
15) BERTON / Hotárek 99% 16) OF MONICA / Guarise 99% ALTERN. - Cernuschi / AMBROSINI 2%
GREAT BRITAIN (1 post)
17) KEMP / KING ALTERN 99%. - Tweedale / ADCOCK 1%
UKRAINE (1 post)
18) USMANTSEVA / TALAN 90% ALTERN. - LAVRENTIEVA / Rudyk 10%
ESTONIA (1 post)
19) ZABIJAKO / ZABOEV 0% (Alexander Zaboev Russian Ekaterinburg yes has been denied citizenship Estonia) ALTERN. - There is no alternative
ISRAEL (1 post)
20) Davidovich / Krasnopolski 99% (the couple has complied with the eligibility'' and the Israel Football Association should not create any problems in allowing participation) ALTERN. - There is no alternative
KEY - A no pair has been assigned a 100% chance to compete in the Olympic Games'' because the injury can always be just around the corner for all''.
RESERVES
JAPAN - TAKAHASHI / Kihara (in compliance with minimum technical and Citizenship)
AUSTRIA - ZIEGLER / KIEFER (in compliance with minimum technical and Citizenship)
NORTH KOREA - PAK / SONG (in compliance with minimum technical and Citizenship)
BELARUS - PALIAKOVA / Bochkov (in compliance with the minimum technical, but does not have citizenship Bochkov Belarus)
POLAND - klatka / CHRUSCHINSKI (in compliance with minimum technical and Citizenship)
BULGARIA - MAKAROVA / KENCHADZE (in compliance with the minimum technical, but Makarova has Bulgarian citizenship)
SWEDEN - ROLL / Forsgren (in compliance with minimum technical and Citizenship)
SPAIN - Grigorieva / Maestu (who do not comply with minimum technical and Citizenship)
TURKEY - BESTANDIGOVA / Mansız (who do not comply with minimum technical and Citizenship)
in case of cancellations, will take over immediately from the reserves taking as reference the list of recent Nebelhorn Trophy.
However, any transfer of quota from one country to another'' there will be time until January 27, the date by which every nation must state the names of the athletes who exactly will take part in the Olympic Games.
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