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A hair-raising experience

January 18, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Think you’ve had a bad hair day? That somebody took the last Timbit? That you missed the last bus to Barbados in a snowstorm? That the television cable went out in the middle of the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships? So you think YOU have had a bad hair day? Just ask Piper Gilles. She […]

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Keegan Messing: Perfect. Well, Almost

January 18, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

His wedding day back in August up in Alaska doesn’t grow old for Keegan Messing. He’s still celebrating it. He won the men’s short program at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships with a routine dedicated to his wife, Lane, using the music from their first dance: “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran. The one thought on […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championshipse, Joseph Phan, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky

Messing’s Hard Journey

January 16, 2020 By Beverley 1 Comment

Keegan Messing lived the best of times and the worst of times, all within a couple of months; married in a charming Alaska-style wedding in August, then stunned by the loss of his younger brother, Paxon, in a motorcycle accident in September. Life seemed to stop. In his heart, you could hear a moth pass. […]

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Corey Circelli, Artist and Meniscus Manager

January 16, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Corey Circelli isn’t the norm. He’s a junior skater who stands 6-foot-1 in his socks. And he seems to be an overachiever, energetic enough to compete in both dance and men’s singles at high levels. Throw all of that into the mix with a bum knee, and it’s astonishing that the 17-year-old skater was […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: abBaC, Alec Guinzbourg, Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Corey Circelli, Gabriel Blumenthal, La Scala, Matthew Newnham, Moonlight Sonata, Wesley Chiu

Remember the name: Kaiya Ruiter

January 16, 2020 By Beverley 2 Comments

Kaiya Ruiter bounces into a room and beams like a spring sun, with eyes bigger than loonies. She seems delighted with life. And why not? Ruiter (rhymes with writer) just won the junior women’s title at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in Mississauga, Ont., in her first crack at it. And not only did […]

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Fast rise to success: junior dance champions

January 15, 2020 By Beverley 1 Comment

(Photos to come) Flash of lightning: that was Emmy Bronsard and Aissa Bouaraguia waking up the sparse crowd in their rhythm dance at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships on Jan. 6, upending Carol Lane proteges Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont, the elegant red head. There seems to be a bit of a rivalry emerging […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Aissa Bouaraguia, Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Emily Bronsard, junior dance, Marie-France Dubreuili

Gabby Daleman: Bumpy Times

January 11, 2020 By Beverley 2 Comments

  For two years, Gabby Daleman has been treading the quaking edge of a bog, trying to find her way out of it, sliding back in. Two steps forward, three steps back. Or is it three steps backward and one step forward, fortified by spirit alone? Always, no matter what happens, Daleman has no intention […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Celine Dion, Gabby Daleman, Kaetlyn Osmond

“Keegs”

October 18, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

What a night. Keegan Messing finished third in the men’s short program at Skate America. But he won much more than a placing. About a month ago, his younger brother, Paxon, a father of three little ones, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Alaska. I heard the news by text in the waiting room […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Charles Aznavour, Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen

Moore-Towers and Marinaro Seek New Milestones

October 17, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

What a difference five years makes. The first time Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro competed at Skate Canada International in Kelowna, B.C., it was their first Grand Prix event together, they had just formed a partnership and they had no idea just how difficult that would be. It was a rough start for the pair. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, Kirsten Moore-Towers, Michael Marinaro, Skate Canada International

Lubov and Charlie: Dreamy Future

October 17, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

    It was dreamy, the way Lubov Ilyushechkina and Charlie Bilodeau swept about the Espoo ice, her hair back in a whiff, picked up by the wind, his body movement curving around a French Canadian tune. Together seven months, they could not stop smiling. There was shine on Ilyushechkina’s costumes, but more on her […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Charlie Bilodeau, Cirque du Soleil, Guillaume Cizeron, Lubov Ilyushechkina, Marie-France Dubreuil, Richard Gauthier

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