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For a nation to be represented in the team event it must have qualified entrants in three of the other four Olympic events. The host (South Korea) can qualify for each event as host if the additional athletes quota for the team event is not used up. However they cannot qualify for the team event by use of 'host' qualifiers. [1]
Club competitions, also known as non-qualifying competitions, organized by a local figure skating club.These events have open entries and typically many age or test level divisions, and are sanctioned by, and conducted using the rules of, the national skating federation in the country where they are held.
Host nation China could not use 'host' qualifiers to qualify for the team event, [1] but was able to earn quotas in all four disciplines through non-host qualifiers. Only the top 20 nations that have scored qualification points are listed above. No nation ranked 21st and lower had enough Olympic quotas to be eligible for the team event.
The 19-year-old is considered the favorite in his event, perhaps unsurprisingly because he has secured a place in the record books. In 2022, Malinin became the first skater to perform a quad axel ...
On April 6, 2011, the International Olympic Committee officially confirmed the approval of a figure skating team event, which was introduced at the 2014 Winter Olympics. [190] The elimination of the compulsory dance segment provided space for the team event. [191] Each team is composed of a men's and women's singles skater, a pair, and an ice ...
The unprecedented turmoil of canceling the medal ceremony at the Olympics has tested the rules of figure skating's team event, which debuted at the 2014 Sochi Games. The Russians and Canadians ...
On 30 January 2024, the ISU, among other actions, subtracted Valieva's points from Russia's score, without changing any other scores, and re-allocated medals in the 2022 Winter Olympics figure skating team event, upgrading the United States and Japan to gold and silver, respectively, while downgrading ROC to bronze. [19]
The special figures contest was won by Russian Nikolai Panin, who gave his country its first ever Olympic gold medal. [4] He remains the event's sole winner, as it was subsequently dropped from the program. Ice dance joined as a medal sport in 1976, after appearing as a demonstration event at Grenoble 1968. [3] A team event debuted at the 2014 ...