2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games - Jan. 9-22 - Lausanne, SWI

[Elizabeth]

The official website: https://www.lausanne2020.sport/en

Read more on the Olympics website: https://www.olympic.org/lausanne-2020

These Youth Olympics will include figure skating. The figure skating places, per country/per discipline have now been determined:

[Elizabeth]

Various countries have been announcing their teams for this event over the past few days.

The official announcement of the Canadian team has not yet been made but the following skaters do not appear on the start orders for the Canadian championships which makes it likely that they will be competing overseas: Aleksa Rakic; Catherine Carle; Brooke McIntosh/Brandon Toste; the 2 ice dance teams of Natalie D'Alessandro/Bruce Waddell & Miku Makita/Tyler Gunara

Natalie & Bruce have also posted about their assignment and preparations.

[Elizabeth]

The schedule for the figure skating (Jan. 7-16) has been posted: https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/ ... edule/file

There is supposed to be a live stream of the competition (beginning on Jan. 10) but I am not sure of the link yet. It will probably be here: https://www.youtube.com/user/SkatingISU

[Elizabeth]

The ISU posted an article about previous skating competitors at the Youth Olympic Games: https://www.isu.org/isu-news/news/128-y ... teParam=15

Among the athlete role models participating this year will be Patrick Chan and Natalie Pechalat. An article about Patrick: https://www.olympic.org/news/from-teena ... experience

The Olympic Channel broadcast schedule showing all of the events: https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/event ... /schedule/

[Elizabeth]

I see the Canadian flag among those displayed at the village...

[Elizabeth]

The FS entry lists have now been published: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111951.htm

[Elizabeth]

CBC Sports will be live streaming the Youth Olympic Games beginning with the Opening Ceremony at 2 p.m. tomorrow - see: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/yout ... -1.5418667

Their overall sports streaming schedule is here: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/broadcast

They plan to have some TV coverage of the games on Saturday, January 25th (after the games close).

The CDN figure skaters have arrived - this photo was on the last leg of the lo-o-o-ng journey, between Geneva & Lausanne.

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada has finally posted something about our skaters participating in this event!!

https://skatecanada.ca/2020/01/canadian ... ter-games/

The full Team Canada ready for the Opening Ceremony:

[Elizabeth]

Figure skating mentors, Patrick Chan & Nathalie Pechalat can be seen among the particpants at the end of the opening ceremonies.


The mascot


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The Entries/Start Orders/Results link for figure skating: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1920/wyog2020/

[Elizabeth]

Competition is underway and the pairs short program is now completed. Commentary on the live stream is from Chris Howarth.

The full schedule for the Youth Olympics, listed by sport, provides links to results: https://www.lausanne2020.sport/results/nh

An alternative link for the figure skating Entries/Start Orders/Results: https://www.lausanne2020.sport/results/ ... dAll=False

CBC Sports is providing live stream as posted above - see: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/yout ... -1.5418667
There is also live stream on the Olympic Channel YouTube. Here is the link for the next figure skating event, the mens SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4EBWZDrIc

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada's report after day 1 of the figure skating competition: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/01/rakic-in ... -olympics/

Skate Canada's report after day 2: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/01/canadian ... formances/

Skate Canada's report after day 3: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/01/two-four ... ter-games/

Competition continues Monday with the free dance and women’s free skate.

Results from the events already completed see a certain "consistency" of placement for the CDN skaters:






The ladies FS is still underway but I believe it will break the pattern.

The final figure skating component of the YOG will be the team event - these aren't national teams but apparently teams of the top skaters from all the national teams put together in some sort of draw.

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada's report on the final day of the non-team competition: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/01/dalessan ... he-podium/

Will any Canadian skaters get assigned to the teams for the free skate team event on Wednesday? Late yesterday that question was answered - almost all of the CDN skaters will participate; the only exception appears to be Aleksa Rakic who participated in the Junior Men events.

The eight multi-national teams are listed here (and in the image below): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... ntTeam.pdf



This means that, in the team free dance event, the two CDN couples will be competing against each other - one skating for Team Hope and one for Team Vision.

[happyheini]

Wow, what great results for the Canadian team. There is obviously no shortage of promising new talents. Great, just great.

[Elizabeth]

Wow, what great results for the Canadian team. There is obviously no shortage of promising new talents. Great, just great.

Liz Manley & Josee Chouinard are both talking with Ted Barton about the depth of talent at the novice level in Canada, not just the junior level. Building from the bottom up for the future is a very good thing

[Elizabeth]

The Team event took place earlier today - the results by discipline and overall. (Team members for each team are listed in an earlier post.)

[Elizabeth]

The CDN skaters on Team Vision show off their bronze medals for the team event

[Elizabeth]

CBC Sports will have coverage of the YOG beginning at noon ET tomorrow (Saturday, Jan. 25)