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A little over a month before the opening ceremony, it is appropriate to take stock of the athletes who take part in the dancing competition of the Olympic Games.
Saturday 28 December 2013 11 minutes reading time
Archived National Championships Russians, French, Germans and Italians, the situation became clearer. It should be noted that in recent times Piper Gilles has obtained Canadian citizenship by becoming eligible teamed with Paul Poirier.
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 several couples dancing 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 dance, except derogaD) Having reached during the current season or the previous technical limitations established by'' ISU. In the case of the pairs of dance, it is 18 points for the short-dance and 28 for the free dance.
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.
Will be twenty-four pairs of dance that will participate in the race. To assign the first nineteen seats available, were taken into account in the ranking of ulitmi World Championships, while the five remaining places have been allocated as a reference predendo the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, final round of Olympic qualifying.
NATIONS QUALIFYING
UNITED STATES (3 posts)
01) DAVIS / WHITE 99% 02) CHOCK / BATES 70% 03) SHIBUTANTI / Shibutani 70% ALTER. - Hubbell / Donohue 60% Kriengkrairut / Giulietti-Schmidt 1%
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
CANADA (3 posts)
04) VIRTUE / MOIR 99% 05) WEAVER / Poje 99% 06) GILLES / POIRIER 50% (Piper Gilles has recently obtained Canadian citizenship) ALTER. - Paul / Islam 50%, Orford / Williams 1%, Ralph / Hill 1%
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 15 January
RUSSIA (3 posts)
07) Bobrova / Soloviev 99% 08) Ilinykh / KATSALAPOV 99% 09) SINISTISIN A / ALTER ZHIGANSHIN 52%. - Riazanova / Tkachenko 50%
ITALY (2 posts)
10) CAPS / LANOTTE 99% 11) GUIGNARD / FABBRI 99% (the French Charlene Guignard has obtained Italian citizenship performance) ALTER. - Alessandrini / Vaturi 2%
FRANCE (2 posts)
12) PECHALAT / BOURZAT 99% 13) CARRON / JONES 99% (the British Lloyd Jones scored at the end of October, the French citizenship) ALTERN. - Papadakis / Cizeron 2%
GERMANY (2 posts)
14) ZHIGANSHIN A / Gazsi 99% (the Russian Nelli Zhinganshina has virtually acquired German citizenship) 15) Kolbe / CARUSO 99% (the'' Italian Stefano Caruso has obtained German citizenship) ALTERN. - Koch / Nüchtern 2%
GREAT BRITAIN (1 post)
16) COOMES / BUCKLAND 99% ALTERN. - Jones / Sharpe 1%
UKRAINE (1 post)
17) HEEKIN-CAN EDY / DUN 99% (the U.S. Heekin-Canedy in possession of the Ukrainian citizenship) ALTER. - Frolenkova / Nikiforov 1% (there would be too junior Nazarova / Nikitin, but it is unlikely at the time of their promotion in a major category in the light of the different short-program)
LITHUANIA (1 post)
18) TOBIAS / STAGNIUNAS 99% (the American Isabella Tobias has obtained Lithuanian citizenship) ALTERN. - There are alternatives
AZERBAIJAN (1 post)
19) Zlobina / Sitnikov 99% (both skaters, Russian by birth, have obtained the citizenship of Azerbaijan) ALTERN. - There are alternatives
CHINA (1 post)
20) HUANG / ZHENG ALTERN 70%. - Yu / Wang 25%, Zhang / Wu 5%
TURKEY (1 post)
21) Agafonova / UCAR 99% (the'' Ukrainian Alisa Agafonova got Turkish citizenship) ALTERN. - There are alternatives
AUSTRALIA (1 post)
22) O'' BRIEN / MERRIMAN 99% ALTERN. - There is no alternative in possession of the technical limitations
JAPAN (1 post)
23) REED / REED 99% ALTERN. - Hirai / De La Asuncion are not in compliance with the general public, there are no other alternatives possess the technical liiti
SPAIN (1 post)
24) HURTADO / DIAZ 99% ALTERN. - Robledo / Fenero 1%
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
SLOVAKIA - HEAD / CSOLLEY (in compliance with the technical limits, the'' Italian Federica Testa got the Slovak nationality)
POLAND - PLUTOWSKA / GERBER (in compliance with technical limitations and Citizenship)
GEORGIA - Telegina / JAPARDIZE (in compliance with the technical limits,'' the Ukrainian Angelina Telegina is not yet in possession of the Georgian citizenship)
FINLAND - LINDHOLM / KANERVO (in compliance with technical limitations and Citizenship)
SWITZERLAND - ELSENER / ROOST (in compliance with the limits tecnci and Citizenship)
CZECH REPUBLIC - Kubová / NOVAK (in compliance with technical limitations and Citizenship)
HUNGARY - TUROCZI / MAJOR (in compliance with technical limitations and Citizenship)
ISRAEL - REED / Rogov (in compliance with the technical limitations, Allison Reed does not hold Israeli citizenship)
ESTONIA - SHORTK / RAND (in compliance with technical limitations and Citizenship)
AUSTRIA - GEIL / EISENBAUER (in compliance with technical limitations and Citizenship)
BELARUS - VOLODENKOVA / VAKUNOV (in compliance with technical limitations and Citizenship)
MEXICO - MAEKAWA-MORENO/MAEKAWA-MORENO (in compliance with technical limitations and Citizenship)
In case of cancellations, will take over immediately from the reserves taking as reference the list at the Nebelhorn Trophy in September. 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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