NASHVILLE, TN — U.S. Figure Skating announced that Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier and Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc will represent Team USA in the pairs event and Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue and Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker will represent Team USA in the ice dance event at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China next month.<\/p>\n
Cain-Gribble and LeDuc won their second U.S. title Saturday at the 2022 U.S. Championships. 2021 U.S. Champions Knierim and Frazier, who were forced out of the competition due to Frazier testing positive for COVID-19, petitioned for a spot on the Olympic team. With the exception of Knierim, who competed at the 2018 Olympics with her husband, Chris Knierim, this will be the first Olympics for Cain-Gribble, LeDuc and Frazier.<\/p>\n
Alternates for the Olympic team are Jessica Calalang and Brian Johnson (first alternate), Audrey Lu and Misha Mitrofanov (second alternate) have been second alternate, and Emily Chan and Spencer Howe\u00a0(third alternate).<\/p>\n
In the dance event, Chock and Bates won their third U.S. title Saturday. This will be Chock and Bates’ third Olympics together. Bates did compete at the 2010 Olympics with his former partner Emily Samuelson. He is the first U.S. figure skater to compete in four Olympics. Training mates Hubbell and Donohue, who took home the silver medal in Nashville, will compete in their second Olympic games. Hawayek and Baker, who won their fourth U.S. bronze medal this weekend, will compete in their first Olympic games.<\/p>\n
Alternates for the 2022 Olympic Team for pairs are Jessica Calalang and Brian Johnson, Audrey Lu and Misha Mitrofanov and Emily Chan and Spencer Howe. For dance, the alternates are Caroline Green and Michael Parsons,<\/p>\n
The 2022 Olympic Winter Games are scheduled to take place Feb. 4-20, in Beijing, China.<\/p>\n
U.S. Figure Skating also announced its pairs and dance selections to the 2022 ISU World Figure Skating Championships scheduled for Montpellier, France, March 21-27; the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships scheduled for Tallinn, Estonia, Jan. 18-23 and the 2022 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships scheduled for Sofia, Bulgaria, March 7-13.<\/p>\n
2022 World Championships Alternate 1 – Jessica Calalang and Brian Johnson 2022 Four Continents Championships<\/strong> No alternates Alternate 1 \u2013 Catherine Rivers and Timothy Chapman* * Pending achieving minimum technical score.<\/p>\n 2022 World Championships<\/b> Alternate 1 \u2013 Caroline Green and Michael Parsons 2022 Four Continents Championships Alternate 1 \u2013 Eva Pate and Logan Bye 2022 World Junior Championships<\/strong> Alternate 1 \u2013 Leah Neset and Artem Markelov U.S. Figure Skating will announce its men\u2019s athletes selected to compete at the Olympic Winter Games, along with the United States\u2019 World, World Junior and Four\u00a0<\/strong>Continents teams for those disciplines later in the day on Sunday, January 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASHVILLE, TN — U.S. Figure Skating announced that Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier and Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc will represent Team USA in the pairs event and Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue and Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker will represent Team USA in the ice dance event at the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25485,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions\/25485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc
\nAlexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier<\/p>\n
\nAlternate 2 \u2013 Audrey Lu and Misha Mitrofanov
\nAlternate 3 \u2013 Emily Chan and Spencer Howe<\/p>\n
\nEmily Chan and Spencer Howe
\nAudrey Lu and Misha Mitrofanov
\nKatie McBeath and Nathan Bartholomay<\/p>\n
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\n2022 World Junior Championships<\/strong>
\nIsabelle Martins and Ryan Bedard
\nAnastasiia Smirnova and Danil Siianytsia<\/p>\n
\nAlternate 2 \u2013 Cate Fleming and Chase Finster<\/p>\n
\nMadison Chock and Evan Bates
\nMadison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue
\nKaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker<\/p>\n
\nAlternate 2 \u2013 Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville
\nAlternate 3 \u2013 Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville
\nChristina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko
\nCaroline Green and Michael Parsons<\/p>\n
\nAlternate 2 \u2013 Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spiridonov
\nAlternate 3 – Molly Cesanek and Yehor Yehorov<\/p>\n
\nOona Brown and Gage Brown
\nAngela Ling and Caleb Wein
\nKatarina Wolfkostin and Jeffrey Chen<\/p>\n
\nAlternate 2 \u2013 Helena Carhart and Volodymyr Horovyi<\/p>\n