Junior Grand Prix Uzbekistan

Tashkent

As reported in Communication 2320, the ISU Council met on April 28, 2020 via an online meeting to replace the cancelled meeting that was scheduled to take place during the 2020 World Championships in Montreal.

The Council confirmed that the health and safety of the participants of international ice skating events remains the number one priority. Mindful of the concern for health and safety related to COVID-19 but also the need to give Skaters the best possible opportunities to compete internationally, the ISU will give its utmost support to ISU Members in order to stage all international competitions that can safely be held during the 2020/21 season.

The ISU has created a five-person working group, which will work out and monitor, in consultation with the concerned, organizing ISU Members and the Athletes Commission, the following:

1. Safety/health protection measures to be implemented at all events;
2. Evaluate any cancellations, which could become necessary due to the sanitary situation in the host city and around the world, travel/meeting restrictions, perceived threat/fear to travel and the necessary ice time for skaters around the World to prepare for the event;
3. Evaluate postponements and/or replacements of cancelled events;
4. Evaluate and decide upon possibly holding certain events without spectators;
5. Evaluate solutions related to consequences of multiple cancellations of events of a series (ISU Junior Grand Prix, ISU (senior) Grand Prix, Challenger Series) and working out options/solutions in order to maintain and/or adapt the respective ranking and allow the holding of the final event;
6. Evaluate the financial consequences of cancellations, postponements and replacements and working out (creative) solutions in order to ensure that all events that can possibly be held are ensured of the necessary ISU support regardless on whether the ranking of the series can be maintained or not.
7. Submit proposals on the above issues to the ISU Council for a final ISU Council decision.

The Council decided on the following time frame/deadline for cancellations:

ISU Junior Grand events: Latest by June 15, 2020 for the first event (CAN August 26-29, 2020), which means latest 10 weeks before the event. This 10-week deadline will also apply for subsequent ISU Junior Grand Prix events.