{"id":239928,"date":"2026-01-15T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239928\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:28:07","slug":"nika-egadze-eyeing-first-major-title-after-topping-mens-short-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239928\/","title":{"rendered":"Nika Egadze eyeing first major title after topping men&#8217;s short program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his fourth place on Thursday, Rizzo of Italy has not just put himself in contention for a European podium place, but also took a giant step towards selection for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milano Cortina 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old is battling it out with team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/nikolaj-memola\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolaj Memola<\/a> for the right to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/grassl\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Grassl<\/a> at their home Olympic Winter Games, with a decision to be made based on their result in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>And Rizzo is 10.23 points ahead of Memola, who could only place 10th on his return from a pelvis injury.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there was more European heartbreak for Aymoz, who was 27th out of 29 skaters with a score of 53.95.<\/p>\n<p>It follows respective results of 22nd and 31st at the last two European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely disappointed because what I did in the six minutes (practice) was perfect,\u201d said Aymoz, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\/news\/skate-america-2025-france-s-kevin-aymoz-captures-first-career-grand-prix-gold-at-age-28\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won his first career Grand Prix gold at the 2025 Skate America in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With his fourth place on Thursday, Rizzo of Italy has not just put himself in contention for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-239928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}