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As usually happens at the end of each four-year Olympic, retreats and sabbaticals are all'' order of the day for skaters to top discipline.
Saturday 3 May 2014 8 minutes reading time
In the next season, it will not be the game the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, who, however, wanted to take time to decide whether to officially retire from racing back in the race or in the future.
Among the major players of the last decade'' abundant, lacking even the French Brian Joubert, the Czech Tomas Verner and Japanese Nobunari Oda. Also, expect news from the Canadian Patrick Chan.
While waiting for the end of May to have a picture almost final of the situation, interesting to report on the status of athletes who currently occupy the top positions in the World Standing percent.
IN BUSINESS ' 01) JPN - Yuzuru Hanyu 03) JPN - Tatsuki MACHIDA 04) SPA - Javier FERNANDEZ 05) KAZ - Denis TEN 07) CZE - Michal BREZINA 08) JPN - Takahito MURA 09) RUS - Maxim Kovtun 10) JPN - Takahiko Kozuka 12) CHN - YAN Han 13) RUS - Konstantin Menshov 14) USA - AARON Max 15) USA - Richard Dornbush 16) USA - Ross MINER 17) RUS - Sergei Voronov 18) FRA - Florent AMODIO 19) SWE - Majorov Alexander 21) GER - Peter LIEBERS 22) USA - Jason BROWN 23) USA - Joshua FARRIS 24) USA - Adam RIPPON 26) CHN - SONG Nan 28) CAN - REYNDOLS Kevind 29) RUS - Artur GACHINSKI 30) FRA - BESSEGHIER Chafik 31) PHI - Michael Christian MARTINEZ 32) CHN - JIN Boyang 33) RUS - Michael Kolyada 34) UZB - GE Misha 35) JPN - A Shoma 36) JPN - HINO Ryuju 37) BEL - HENDRICKX Jorik 38) RUS - Alexander Petrov 39) JPN - Keiji TANAKA 40) CAN - Nam Nguyen 41) GER - Rappe Martin 42) RUS - PITKEEV Adian 43) ISR - Alexei Bychenko 44) - BLR Pavel Ignatenko 45) KOR - LEE Hyoung June 46) USA - CHEN Nathan 47) CZE - Petr COUFAL 48) PHI - Christopher CALUZA 49) KAZ - RAKIMGALIEV Abzal 51) CHN - GUAN Jinlin52) CHN - ZHANG He 53) ITA - Ivan RIGHINI 54) SUI - WALKER Stephane 56) DEN - Justus STRID 57) JPN - OMORI Shotaro 58) KOR - KIM Jin Seo 59) CAN - BALDE Elladj 61) RUS - Zhan BUSH 62) GER - Paul FENTZ 63) GER - Franz Streubel 64) ITA - Paul BACCHINI 65) MON - Kim Lucine 66) CAN - Andrei ROGOZINE 68) RUS - Alexander Samarin 69) ITA - Maurizio ZANDRON 70) POL - Maciej CIEPLUCHA 71) - AUS Brendan KERRY 72) USA - RAZZANO Douglas 73) FRA - Ponsart Romain 74) TPE - CHAO Chih-I 75) RUS - Vladislav SEZGANOV 76) USA - CAREERS Stephane 78) UKR - Ivan Pavlov 79) FRA - Charles Tetar 80) EST - Viktor ROMANENKOV 81) CHN - WANG Yi 82) USA - Keegan MESSING 83) - AUS David Kranjec 84) JPN - Yoji Tsuboi 85) USA - Timothy Dolensky 86) CAN - Roman Sadovsky 87) RUS - Artur DMITRIEV 88) ISR - Daniel SAMOHIN 89) JPN - 90 Shu NAKAMURA) JPN - Are Kawahara 91) UKR - Yakov GODOROZHA 92) KOR - LEE Dong Won 95) GER - Christopher BERNECK 96) FRA - HOCQUACX Simon97) USA - MOELLER Jordan 98) LAT - VASILJEVS Deniss (not eligible senior) 100) HKG - LAM Ronald
WITHDRAWAL FROM COMPETITION
20) JPN - ODA Nobunari 25) FRA - Brian JOUBERT 27) CZE - Tomas VERNER 93) GER - WIECZOREK Denis (past couples of Art) 94) USA - CHOATE Harrison JPN - Kento NAKAMURA
Sabbatical
02) CAN - Patrick CHAN 06) JPN - Daisuke TAKAHASHI
EXPECT THE NEWS ABOUT
11) USA - Jeremy ABBOTT 50) AUT - Viktor Peiffer 55) JPN - Daisuke MURAKAMI 60) ROU - Zoltan KELEMEN 67) RUS - PLUSHENKO Evgeni 77) CAN - TEN Jeremy99) RUS - Artem Borodulin
THE POINT ON GRAND PRIX (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.
 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 07) CZE - BREZINA 08) JPN - WALLS 13) RUS - Menshov 15) USA - Dornbush 16) USA - MINER 17) RUS - Voronov 18) FRA - AMODIO 19) SWE - Majorov 21) GER - LIEBERS 22) USA - BROWN 23) USA - FARRIS 24) USA - RIPPON
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 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.
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THE SITUATION IN FEMALE
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