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Vincent Zhou speaks, All Should Listen

September 25, 2023 By Beverley Leave a Comment

U.S. Olympian Vincent Zhou has been moved to speak out against the handling of the Russian doping practices that led to a hearing regarding Kamila Valieva, who tested positive for a substance at her nationals – but we didn’t find out about it until after the Olympics. Almost two years has passed before the international […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: medals, Olympics, Russia, Valieva, Vincent Zhou

Keegan Messing, Climbing Every Mountain

May 9, 2023 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  KITCHENER, Ont. Keegan Messing hasn’t plopped himself down on a rinkside seat for two minutes before he pulls out the cell phone and up pops a photo of his three-month old daughter, Mia. She has so much hair. Dark, of course, like his. And then another one of son Wyatt in a snowsuit, with […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Keegan Messing, Kurt Browning, Lance Vipond, Stars On Ice

Patrick Chan Reborn

May 9, 2023 By Beverley 2 Comments

For the past couple of years, Patrick Chan has done no skating. None. None at all. Nada. It’s hard to believe that a skater so highly revered by others, with unmatchable edges and speed and flow and power and glide, has put those skates on in recent years only to do a bit of coaching […]

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Kurt Browning Farewell

May 9, 2023 By Beverley 3 Comments

KITCHENER, Ont. The rain fell in torrents on Kitchener, Ont., and two hours away in Orillia, Ont., too, on May 7. A soggy Sunday for the ages. It was a time for final curtain calls, all on the same day: one a visitation for songbird Gordon Lightfoot, who died May 1 at age 84, and […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alissa Czisny, Elvis Stojko, Gordon Lightfoot, Keegan Messing, Kurt Browning, Patrick Chan, Stars On Ice

Indiana Jones has Nothing on Keegan Messing

January 6, 2023 By Beverley Leave a Comment

The story of Keegan Messing reads like a book. A best-selling book. He’s the Indiana Jones of the skating set, pushing his way through temples of doom in his quest for the holy Sankara Stones, except that Messing’s high adventures are hair-raising in other ways: skates that don’t arrive, flights that are cancelled, a pandemic […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Keegan Messing

Virus hobbles pair team

January 6, 2023 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Early in the season, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps seemed to have the world in their grip. After finishing second at Skate America and winning their first Grand Prix gold, in France, and thus qualifying for the Grand Prix Final for the first time, they appeared a lock to win their first national title […]

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Don’t Cry for Gilles and Poirier: “Evita”

October 30, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Finally, after 11 years, it was time to do “Evita.” It just happened. The stars were aligned. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier wanted to do “Evita” 11 years ago when they first teamed up, but the time was never right. It’s so right, they used it to win the Skate Canada International on Saturday with […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: EvitaG, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Skate Canada

They Never Walk Alone

October 29, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara seemed atop the world last season, as they rumbled to a silver medal at the world championships and a seventh at the Olympics, the first Japanese skaters in 10 years to win world and Grand Prix medals. Over the summer, they lost their mojo. Miura suffered a shoulder injury that […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Brooke McIntosh and Benjamin Mimar, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, Skate Canada Miur

Too Sexy for Their Shirts

October 29, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

It was a new look: Paul Poirier stepping onto the ice with a muscle shirt, no sleeves, showing his deltoids, sparking the spark. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, the 2021 world bronze medalists in ice dancing, do quirky and iconic. Now they’re bringing sexy to the mix. Coach Carol Lane found the music in a […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Lajoie and Lagha, Lauriault and LeGac, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Skate Canada

The Men’s Short Program: A Slippery Slope

October 29, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Okay, it’s early in the season. We get that. The Olympics took the starch out of a lot of athletes last season and it’s so hard to pull up the bootstraps after that. But the men’s short program at Skate Canada International Grand Prix was….a learning experience for most. It was hard. Really hard. For […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canad, Conrad Orzel, Kao Miura, Keegan Messing, Matteo Rizzo, Shoma Uno, Skate Canada, Stephen Gogolev

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