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Update of situation in virtue New World Standing issued by the International Federation on 21 May.
Thursday 22 May 2014 15 minutes reading time
By the end of May each national federation must communicate ISU (International Skating Union) the names of the skaters available to take part in the twentieth edition of the Grand Prix skating figura.I countries that will host the six stages of qualification must also disclose whether each specialty the appointment of house will devote three places to local athletes.
The open circuit its doors on October 24 and will conclude with Skate America between 11 and December 14 with the final act in the program for the first time in the history of Barcelona.
In the absence of communication on the part of the international federation, is likely that, as regards the criteria for admission to the qualifying stages, there will be no rule changes compared to last season. So, to determine the seedings and athletes called "second-tier" will be held still consider the ranking of the last World Championships.
STAGES OF QUALIFICATION
24/10-26/10 - Skate America, Hoffman Estates (Illinois) 31/10-02/11 - Skate Canada, Kelowna (British Columbia) 07/11-09/11 - Cup of China, Shanghai 14/11-16 / 11 - Rostelecon Cup, Moscow 21/11-23/11 - Trophée Eric Bompard (Bordeaux) 28/11-30/11 - NHK Trophy, Osaka (Osaka)
FINAL 11/12-14/12 - Grand Prix Final, Barcelona
 In light of retreats, separations, sabbatical years and especially the last version of the World Standing, is interesting to see which athletes have the right to participate. Among the defending champions, the only Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu (pictured) will present at the starting line. Obviously, the situation is be considered as provisional as it is not except that between the pairs of art can get news of further withdrawals or separations.
FEMALE FIELD (total 60 seats)
It is assumed that for various reasons there will be no Asada, Kostner, Suzuki and Kim. Compared with the previous World Standing, Korpi and Zawadzki lose leg of law, that it will be Lacoste if it decides to continue the activity competitive.
 HEADS SERIES (2 stages insured)
1) RUS - LIPNITSKAIA 2) RUS - POGORILAYA 3) USA - GOLD 4) USA - WAGNER 5) USA - EDMUNDS 6) KOR - PARK
SECOND BAND (2 stages insured)
1) JPN - MURAKAMI 2) CAN - OSMOND 3) GER - Weinzierl 4) CAN - DALEMAN 5) SWE - J. Helgesson 6) FRA - MEITE
TOP 24 WORLD STANDING (at least a step in the right)
03) RUS - Sotnikova 08) RUS - RADIONOVA 12) JPN - MIYAHARA 13) ITA - marchei 14) RUS - TUKTAMYSHEVA 15) SWE - Helgesson V. 17) JPN - IMAI18) USA - HICKS19) USA - GAO 20) CHN - LI 22) CAN - LACOSTE 24) USA - NAGASU
TOP 24 BEST SEASON (at least a step in the right)
01) RUS - Sotnikova 10) RUS - RADIONOVA 13) JPN - MIYAHARA 15) CHN - LI 19) RUS - Leonova 20) RUS - TUKTAMYSHEVA 22) JPN - 23 IMAI) USA - NAGASU
 The fact of being both between the first 24 of the World Standing that have obtained one of the best 24 Season Best not give automatically entitled to two stages, but the odds are, however, very high.
COUPLE OF ART (48 total posts)
Situation in the light of the separation of Savchenko / Szolkowy, Bazarova / Larionov, Popova / Massot, Davankova / Deputat, Moore-Towers/Moscovitch, Purdy / Marinaro, Lawrence / Swiegers, Castles / Shnapir and Davidovich / Krasnopolski, not to mention the withdrawal of Pang / Tong. We await further news on the future of Berton / Hotarek and the formalization of the separation between Denney / Coughlin.
Compared with the previous World Standing, Russians Tarasova / Norozov enter among the best 24 couples.
HEADS SERIES (2 stages insured)
1) RUS - Stolbova / Klimov 2) CAN - DUHAMEL / RADFORD 3) CHN - PENG / ZHANG 4) CHN - SUI / HAN 5) RUS - ANTIPOVA/MAISURADZE6) ITA - BERTON / Hotárek
SECOND BAND (2 stages insured)
1) FRA - JAMES / CYPRES 2) GER - HAUSCH / WENDE 3) USA - Zhang / Bartholomay 4) ITA - THE MONICA / Guarise 5) JPN - TAKAHASHI / Kihara 6) GBR - FANCY / BOJADI
COME BACK PAIRS (2 stages insured)
RUS - KAVAGUTI / SMIRNOV
TOP 24 WORLD STANDING (at least a step in the right)
01) RUS - VOLOSOZHAR / TRANKOV 11) USA - SCIMECA / Knierim 14) USA - Denney / FRAZIER 16) CHN - YU / JIN 18) GER - VARTMANN / VAN CLEAVE 20) RUS - Fedorova / MIROSHKIN (if senior pass) 24) RUS - Tarasova / MOROZOV
TOP 24 BEST SEASON (at least a step in the right)
01) RUS - VOLOSOZHAR / TRANKOV 15) USA - KAYNE / O'SHEA 17) CHN - YU / JIN 18) USA - SCIMECA / Knierim 19) CHN - WANG / WANG 22) RUS - Tarasova / MOROZOV 23) RUS - VIGALOVA / ZAKROEV (if senior pass) 24) USA - Denney / FRAZIER
RETURN OF A COUPLE SPLIT (selectable from the event at home and possibly for another stage or vice versa)
RUS - Bazarova / Deputat
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNIOR GRAND PRIX and (as a rule is assigned at least one stage to the person making the jump in class)
CHN - YU / RUS JIN - Tarasova / RUS MOROZOV - VIGALOVA / ZAKROEV (if senior pass)
 The fact of being both between the first 24 pairs of the World Standing that have obtained one of the best 24 Season Best not give automatically entitled to two stages, but the odds are, however, very high. The same goes for couples returning from the season junior appearing in more of a category selection.
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FIELD MEN (total 60 seats)
It is assumed that, surely, will not be the game Verner, Takahahsi, Oda and Joubert, which should be added Patrick Chan, who wanted to desert the circuit.
Compared with the previous World Standing, Miner loses leg of law, which is, however, maintained by Rippon thanks to the Best Season.
 HEADS SERIES (two stages insured)
1) JPN - Hanyu 2) MACHIDA JPN-3) SPA - FERNANDEZ 4) RUS - Kovtun 5) USA - ABBOTT 6) JPN - Kozuka
SECOND BAND (two stages insured)
1) CHN - YAN 2) USA - AARON 3) FRA - BESSEGHIER 4) CAN - REYNOLDS 5) CAN - Ngyuen 6) ITA - RIGHINI
TOP 24 WORLD STANDING (at least a step in the right)
05) KAZ - TEN 08) JPN - WALLS 09) CZE - BREZINA 11) USA - Dornbush 14) RUS - Menshov 15) GER - LIEBERS 17) USA - BROWN 18) RUS - Voronov 19) SWE - MAJOROV21) USA - FARRIS 22) FRA - AMODIO 23) CHN - SONG
TOP 24 BEST SEASON (at least a step in the right)
07) KAZ - TEN 08) RUS - Voronov 12) USA - BROWN 13) JPN - WALLS 14) USA - RIPPON 15) GER - LIEBERS 18) RUS - Menshov 19) CZE - BREZINA 20) CHN - SONG 23) SWE - Majorov 24) USA - Dornbush
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNIOR GRAND PRIX and (as a rule is assigned at least one stage to the person making the jump in class)
RUS - PITKEEV (if senior pass) USA - CHEN (if senior pass) CHN - JIN (if senior pass)
 The fact of being both among the first 24 of the World Standing that have obtained one of the best 24 Season Best not give automatically entitled to two stages, but the odds are, however, very high.
DANCE (total 48 seats)
Situation in the light of the separation of Ilinykh / Katsalapov, Sinitsina / Zhiganshin, Riazanova / Tkachenko and Tobias / Stagniunas, not to mention the withdrawal of Pechalat / Bourzat and the almost absence some of Davis / White and Virtue / Moir.
Compared with the previous World Standing, Stepanova / Bukin lose the right leg of which is earned by Kolbe / Caruso.
HEADS SERIES (two stages insured)
1) ITA - CAPS / LANOTTE 2) CAN - WEAVER / Poje 3) USA - CHOCK / BATES 4) USA - Shibutani / Shibutani 5) CAN - GILLES / POIRIER 6) GBR - COOMES / BUCKLAND
SECOND BAND (two stages insured)
1) CAN - PAUL / ISLAM 2) GER - ZHIGANSHINA / Gazsi 3) AZE - Zlobina / Sitnikov 4) FRA - PAPADAKIS / CIZERON 5) ITA - GUIGANRD / FABBRI 6) SPA - HURTADO / DIAZ
TOP 24 WORLD STANDING (at least one stage)
03) RUS - Bobrova / Soloviev 09) GER - ZHIGANSHINA / Gazsi 10) USA - HUBBELL / DONOHUE 18) FRA - CARRON / JONES 19) CAN - ORFORD / WILLIAMS 21) USA - ALDRIDGE/EATON22) USA - HAWAYEK / BAKER 23) JPN - REED / REED 24) GER - Kolbe / CARUSO
TOP 24 BEST SEASON (at least one stage)
07) RUS - Bobrova / Soloviev 11) USA - HUBBELL / DONOHUE 12) USA - HAWAYEK / BAKER 13) RUS - Yanovskaya / Mozgov (if senior pass) 17) GER - ZHIGANSHINA / Gazsi 21) RUS - Monko / KHALIAVIN 22) USA - ALDRIDGE / EATON
RETURN OF A COUPLE SPLIT (selectable from the event at home, and possibly even to another stage or vice versa)
RUS - Sinitsina / RUS KATSALAPOV - Ilinykh / ZHIGANSHIN
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNIOR GRAND PRIX and (as a rule is assigned at least one stage to the person making the jump in class)
USA - HAWAYEK / RUS BAKER - YANKOVSKAYA / Mozgov (if senior pass) CAN - EDWARDS / PANG (if senior pass)
 The fact of being both between the first 24 pairs of the World Standing that have obtained one of the best 24 Season Best not give automatically entitled to two stages, but the odds are, however, very high. The same goes for couples who have had a junior season appearing in more of a category selection.
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