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Team Japan: 2020 ISU Championship Assignments

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Ladies: Rika Kihira, Satoko Miyahara, Wakaba Higuchi (alternates: Kaori Sakamoto, Yuhana Yokoi)

  • Men: Yuzuru Hanyu, Keiji Tanaka, Shoma Uno (alternates: Kazuki Tomono, Sota Yamamoto)

  • Pairs: Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara

  • Ice Dance: Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto

FOUR CONTINENT CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Ladies: Rika Kihira, Wakaba Higuchi, Kaori Sakamoto (alternates: Yuhana Yokoi, Marin Honda)

  • Men: Yuzuru Hanyu, Shoma Uno, Yuma Kagiyama (alternates: Kazuki Tomono, Sota Yamamoto)

  • Pairs: Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara

  • Ice Dance: Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto

JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Ladies: Mana Kawabe, Tomoe Kawabata (alternate: Shiika Yoshioka)

  • Men: Shun Sato, Yuma Kagiyama (alternates: Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda, Mitsuki Sumoto)

  • Ice Dance: Utana Yoshida / Shingo Nishiyama (alternate: Ayumi Takanami / Yoshimitsu Ikeda)

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ISU Skating Awards premieres at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2020 in Montreal - International Skating Union

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The International Skating Union, Skate Canada and Art on Ice are proud to announce that the first ever ISU Skating Awards will be held on the occasion of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships® Montreal 2020.

Awards from seven categories will be given to outstanding athletes, Choreographer and Coach. Additionally, an innovative mix of Figure Skating, Dance and Cirque Nouveau will be showcased, featuring captivating music acts and several live performances - involving all 2020 ISU World Figure Skating Champions and medalists.

The ISU Skating Awards is a new format that will take place on Sunday, March 22, 2020 between 16:00 – 18:30 EDT (21:00 – 23:30 GMT) bringing a glamorous finish to the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2020. Guests, VIPs and ISU Skating Awards nominees will arrive on the red carpet at the famous Bell Center in Montreal.

A long list of candidates will be announced on December 1, 2019 and on-line voting will open, allowing the media, public and ISU Members to vote for their favorite candidates through a new on-line voting platform. On-line voting will be possible from December 1, 2019 to February 10, 2020.

Following the on-line vote, three nominees in each category will be selected and officially announced on March 10, 2020.

A star-studded Jury will determine the winner of each category and the winners will be revealed and presented with their Award on the occasion of ISU Skating Awards held on March 22, 2020.

ISU Skating Awards categories

There are 7 Award categories:

  • Most Valuable Skater: Honors the Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple who best managed to increase the level of popularity of Figure Skating related to the fan base involvement, media attention and sponsors appreciation

  • Best Costume: Honors the Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple presenting a costume reflecting creativity, contemporary implementation, fashion, style and originality

  • Most Entertaining Program: Honors the Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple for the music selection, expression, creativity, contemporary implementation, originality and overall performance

  • Best Newcomer: Honors a young talented Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple competing very successfully in ISU Events on the Senior level for the first season

  • Best Choreographer: Honors the choreographic work of a Choreographer who successfully inspired one or several Single Skaters and/or Pairs and/or ice Dance Couples

  • Best Coach: Honors a Coach who delivered professional and efficient work and achieved outstanding results with one or several Single Skaters and/or Pairs and/or ice Dance Couples

  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Honors a Figure Skating legend having achieved great success and popularity and is considered as a role model in the Figure Skating World.

The ISU, Skate Canada and Art on Ice held a press conference on October 26, 2019 to unveil the ISU Skating Awards. The panel included:

  • Patricia St Peter – ISU Representative

  • Benoit Lavoie – ISU Council Member

  • Oliver Höner - ISU Skating Awards Producer & Art on Ice CEO

  • Ari Zakarian - ISU Skating Award Show initiator

  • Leanna Carron – Skate Canada President

The full press conference is available on demand on the Skating ISU YouTube channel.

To receive the latest information on the #ISUSkatingAwards please subscribe to the ISU Newsletter here and for more information please visit www.isu.org and https://montreal2020.com. Click here to buy tickets for this exclusive event.

2018-19 ISU Technical Panel Handbooks

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Technical panel handbooks for the new season have been posted on the ISU website. The latest documents available are listed here and on our Introduction to Skating page. Note that our intro guides have not yet been updated with the new rules; we will update them as soon as possible once new protocols are available.

Singles & pairs skating:

Ice dance:

China will not host any ISU event during 2018-19 season, CSA says | Xinhua News

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BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) – The Chinese Skating Association (CSA) confirmed on Wednesday that China will not host any International Skating Union (ISU) event during the 2018-19 season.

A source from the CSA confirmed that five ISU events during the 2018-19 season in China will not be hosted as planned, including the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating, the Shanghai Trophy, the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, the ISU World Cup Speed Skating and the ISU Short Track World Cup.

“There are two reasons for our quitting hosting events temporarily,” a source with the CSA said. “First of all, every national team in ice sports needs to ‘go out’ more and better integrate themselves into international training and competition systems,” the source said.

“Secondly, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is coming up. A lot of venues will be renovated and cannot be used to host events in the planned time. We tried our best but can’t make it in the end,” the source added.

According to the source, quitting hosting events will give them enough time to be well-prepared for hosting events more effectively in the future.

The Junior Grand Prix event in Harbin has been moved to Vancouver, Canada. Shanghai Trophy has been cancelled, and the location of the senior Grand Prix that will take the place of Cup of China has yet to be determined. (ISU)

57th Ordinary ISU Congress - Day 4 Summary

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Figure Skating Branch Session:

The Technical Rules were voted as a package. For Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance (Proposals 245 to 284) were all accepted with Urgent Proposal No. 15 to 19, amendments were made to Proposals 250, 253, 255, 261.

Following the acceptance of these Technical Rules, Proposal 196 of the Special Regulations Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance could be voted on and was accepted.

Reference: Proposals, Urgent Matters

Summary of important figure skating decisions:

ACCEPTED:

All Technical Rules for Singles and Pairs Skating and Ice Dance (Proposals 245-284) were passed as a package vote, some with amendments. We have summarized some of the most notable proposals here based on information we know. The ISU will publish their new documents with all rule changes accepted at the Congress soon, so this post should only serve as a temporary summary and may not have complete information.

Urgent Proposal 15: Pairs’ free skate qualifiers increased from 16 to 20 at the World Championships, beginning at 2019 Worlds.

Proposal 245: “Men must wear full length trousers and must not wear tights.” Remove phrase specifically banning tights.

Proposal 250: Draws for the short program at Senior Grand Prix events. Amended with minor drafting changes. Long proposal, click here for full text: Part 1, Part 2

Proposal 253: Procedure in case of interruptions to programs. Long proposal, click here for full text: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. (“10 seconds” amended to “20 seconds” in paragraph 2)

Proposal 256: “A jump sequence consists of 2 (two) jumps of any number of revolutions, beginning with any jump, immediately followed by an Axel type jump with a direct step from the landing curve of the first jump to the take-off curve of the Axel jump.” Only axels can be included as the second jump in a jump sequence in singles skating. (Previously, any jumps could be included in a sequence.)

Proposal 257: Certain moves in pairs no longer considered illegal.

Proposal 259: Steps preceding the solo jump in the singles short program are no longer required.

Proposal 261: Repetition of quad jumps in the singles free skate. Amended - “Of all triple and quadruple jumps only two (2) can be executed twice. Of the two repetitions only one (1) can be a quadruple jump.” Only one quad can be repeated in the singles free skate. For example, if a skater performs 2 quad toe loops in a free skate, they cannot perform 2 of any other type of quad.

Proposals 265-266: Amended - Choreographic sequence remains in the pairs’ free skate. Side-by-side spin removed from the pairs’ free skate. One side-by-side spin always required in the pairs’ short program. (Previously, the required spin in the pairs’ SP would alternate between pair spin and SBS spin every season, and both one SBS spin and one pair spin were required in the FS.)

Proposal 267: All lifts in junior and senior pairs’ free skates must be from different groups.

Proposal 269: “The pair spin combination must have a minimum of eight (8) revolutions” in the free skate.

Proposal 275: Certain moves in ice dance no longer considered illegal.

Proposal 278: “After the completion of the last step of the Pattern Dance, the couple must reach its final pose within 20 seconds. If this time limit is exceeded a deduction … shall apply.”

Proposals 280 & 283: In both Short/Rhythm Dance and Free Dance, “After the clock is started with the first movement, the Couple must not remain in one place for more than ten (10) seconds at the beginning and/or end of the program.

Proposals 281 & 284: In both Short/Rhythm Dance and Free Dance, “Kneeling or sliding on two knees, or sitting on the ice is not allowed and it will be considered by the Technical Panel as a Fall unless otherwise announced in an ISU Communication.

57th Ordinary ISU Congress - Day 3 Summary

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Figure Skating Branch Session:

The following were accepted: 204, 206, Urgent Proposal No. 12, 207, 210, 211, 213, 214, 215 (with amendments), 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, Urgent Proposal No. 13, 227, 228, Urgent Proposal No. 14, 229, 230, 231 (with amendments), 232, 236 (with amendments), 238, 240, 241, 242, 243 (with amendments), 244 (with amendments). Three Proposals were rejected (209, 216, 234) while 205 (with a resolution to task the Technical Committee to work on this Proposal), 208, 212, 219, 233, 235, 237, 239 were withdrawn.

Reference: Proposals, Urgent Matters

Summary of important figure skating decisions:

ACCEPTED:

Proposal 204: Create a calculation system for Team Results at international competitions based on a country’s results in each discipline. Team Results will be announced after each international competition.

Proposal 210: Amended - Skaters will be presented in the order of third, second, first at medal ceremonies.

Proposal 211: Modification of qualifying procedure for the Winter Olympics. Countries that earned 2 or 3 spots for the Olympics at Worlds will no longer automatically receive those spots. They will only receive 2 or 3 spots if 2 or 3 of their skaters, respectively, qualified for the free skate at Worlds. For countries that earned 2 or 3 spots but did not have enough skaters qualify for the FS at Worlds, they may send one skater to the Olympic Qualifying Event (Nebelhorn) to fight for Olympic spot(s). This skater cannot have qualified for the free skate at Worlds.

Proposal 236: Amended - Judges must turn off electronic communication devices (such as mobile phones, tablets or smart watches) while at the judges’ stand. Addition - An ISU Official cannot serve both as a team leader and as referee, judge, technical specialist, technical controller or Officials Assessment Commission member in ISU Championships or Olympic Games in the same season.

Proposal 243: “The Officials Assessment Commission members shall prepare a report for each competition including the identification of those anomalies and suspected national bias in the Judges scores.”

REJECTED:

Proposal 234: Amended - Add to duties of judges: “Evaluate each Program Component according to its individual criteria.” Unnecessary to mention, as judges are already supposed to do this.

WITHDRAWN:

Proposal 205: Establish separate World Standing lists for junior and senior skaters. Withdrawn, but the Technical Committee will work on the proposal for possible future inclusion.

Proposal 208: Fixed number of entries at the ISU World Championships (42 singles, 28 pairs, 35 ice dance), effective 2020-21. Withdrawn because it is too far from the implementation date, but the proposal may return in the future.

Proposal 233: “Officials must not bring any other documents to the Judges’ or Technical Panel’s stand except those specified in an ISU Communication.”

Proposal 237: “An official must not post specific comments about the results of ISU events or post pictures/videos of competitive athletes on social media.” Impractical to enforce, withdrawn for further clarification.

57th Ordinary ISU Congress - Day 2 Summary

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Full Congress:

Proposals 23, 25, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 52 (with the recommendation to create a working group regarding this Proposal) 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 81, 84, 86 were withdrawn,

Proposal 22 was rejected while the following Proposals were accepted: 24, Urgent Proposal 2, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, Urgent Matter No. 3, 53, 54, 55, 57, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 75, 78, 80, 82, 83, 85 (with amendments). Urgent Proposal No. 4 was accepted with amendments and finally the Congress accepted a resolution based on Proposal 79 to create a working group to reviewed the Figure Skating Championships format.

Figure Skating Branch Session:

The following were accepted: 189, 190, 192, 195, 198, 200, 202. Three were rejected (191, 194, 197) and four Proposals were withdrawn; 193, 199, 201, 203. Proposal 196 remains pending.

Reference links: Proposals, Urgent Matters.

Summary of important figure skating decisions:

ACCEPTED:

Proposal 190: Add “All programs must be skated to music” as a requirement.

Proposal 198: Singles: Only 1 jumping pass in the SP and 3 in the FS will receive a 10% base value bonus if performed in the second half of the program.

Proposal 200: Ice Dance: “Combination Turns are evaluated as one unit by adding the Base Values of the executed by the Lady and executed by the Man Types of Turns and then applying the GOE. The GOE of the Combination Turns is equal to the sum of the numerical values of the corresponding GOE of these executed Types of Turns.”

Proposal 202: Ice Dance: “-1.0 [deduction] up to every 5 seconds in excess of permitted time after the last prescribed step in the Pattern Dance to the ending movement/pose”

REJECTED:

Proposal 191: Amended - Skaters will provide their music on USB sticks instead of CDs to be played at competitions.

Proposal 194: Split judging panels so that half are responsible for GOE and half are responsible for PCS.

Proposal 197: Singles: Only 2 jumping passes in the SP and 4 in the FS will receive a 10% base value bonus if performed in the second half of the program. (Rejected in favor of Proposal 198, which passed.)

WITHDRAWN:

Proposal 199: Singles: Bonus points given to skaters who successfully land 6 different types of triple or quadruple jumps in their free skate.

Proposal 201: Increase men’s PCS factor to 1.2 in the SP and 2.4 in the FS. Reason: More study required.

Proposal 203: Eliminate fall deductions in all disciplines. Reason: More important issues to focus on first.

57th Ordinary ISU Congress - Day 1 Summary

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“The Congress put forward a motion to remove Urgent Proposal No. 5 from the Netherlands and Council Urgent Proposal No. 6 from the agenda. Neither Urgent Proposal reached the required 4/5 majority to keep them in the Agenda and were consequently removed.”

“The session continued with the full Congress which voted on Proposals 1 to 21 and Urgent Matter No. 1. Proposals 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 21 were withdrawn, Proposals: 2, 14 and 15 were rejected while the following Proposals were accepted: Urgent Matter No. 1, Proposals 3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17 (by secret vote) effective immediately, 18, 19, 20.”

Full list of proposals for reference: Proposals, Urgent Matters

The most pertinent proposals for figure skating, Urgent Proposal 5 (increase age eligibility limit of senior skaters) and Urgent Proposal 6 (presidents of national federations cannot serve as ISU judges/officials) were removed from discussion as they did not gain enough votes to remain in the agenda.