ISU has officially announced that the 2021-2022 Grand Prix Finals will be cancelled. The 2021 Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals were originally scheduled to be held in Osaka, Japan, from December 9-12, but due to the new coronavirus variant of the Omiljun virus, Japan announced a lockdown and a ban on the entry of foreigners, and the Grand Prix Finals was postponed.
At that time, ISU had expressed its hope to postpone the Grand Prix Finals and negotiate with the six Grand Prix host countries this season on whether to consider hosting, but it was difficult to reach a relevant solution, and finally decided to cancel.
This is the second consecutive year that the Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals have been cancelled. With the cancellation of the Grand Prix finals, the only two international events of figure skating before the Winter Olympics are the European Championships and the Four Continents Championships. Both competitions will be held in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
The European Championship will be held from 10 to 16 January 2022, and the Four Continents Championship will be held from 18 to 23 January 2022. The Four Continents Championship was originally scheduled to be held in Tianjin, China, but due to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, it was difficult for Tianjin to complete the hosting before the Beijing Winter Olympics, so the Four Continents Championship was also moved to Europe for the first time.
Will any change in these two games due to the uncertainty of the epidemic? It is not known at this time. However, near the end of the year, the domestic championships of various countries, that is, the Olympian selection competition, have also begun to compete. The Olympic trials of the Chinese national team (only the selection of men's singles and women's singles players) has begun today, the All-France Championships are playing today, and the more attention-paid all-day and all-Russian championships will kick off around Christmas next week. Can the player you're looking forward to playing? It may be the hot spot that ice fans pay the most attention to before the New Year.