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Short dance: dancing to a new tune, thankfully

March 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I’ve never seen anything like it. What a free-for-all this ice dancing event at the world championships has become. There’s no predictability about it (at least so far. We still have the free dance to come and we’ll see how that unfolds.) Isn’t it fun? Results from the Sochi Olympics have been turned upside down […]

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Goosebump time in Japan

March 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Oh Mao Asada. This is your moment, your time. If you had won the Olympics in Sochi, it may not have been as memorable as your having lost it, having dropped to the netherlands, having picked yourself up again, going for that nasty nemesis of yours, the triple Axel, having landed it and having shone […]

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Duhamel and Radford find their feet in pair short program

March 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford were on a mission. Mission accomplished, at least part one. The script was right. They skated last [strains of Chariots of Fire in the background – or maybe Tribute!], and rose to the occasion, in a zone that they’d tried to find all season. And now they are in second […]

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Men's short program scramble

March 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tough day for some at the world figure skating championships in Saitama. There was poor Kevin Reynolds, trying to hold the world up on his narrow shoulders like Atlas, after a season of boot problems that still aren’t solved. Last year, with boots that fit like heaven, he was third in the short program. On […]

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A few of my favourite things at world junior championships

March 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Nam Nguyen The new world junior men’s champ. He was gutted at his 16th place finish at a Junior Grand Prix event in Poland earlier this season, but hey, he was in the process of growing about half a foot. But six months later, he turned it around. He wanted to win. It’s his reaction […]

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Moore-Towers, Moscovitch ready to rumble

March 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment

    There’s always something. No matter. Nothing seems to stop the drive of 2011 Canadian pair champions Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch, primed for anything at the world championships next week in Saitama, Japan. They finished fifth in Sochi, gritty, determined, she fighting off the fallout from twisting her back at a practice earlier, […]

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Weaver and Poje: music to my ears

March 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It’s been a long hard winter here in Canada. Howling winds. Towering snowbanks that won’t melt. Boots springing leaks. Snow shovels falling apart. An alarming shortage of snow melter and/or salt. Friendly neighbours that I can no longer find behind the dirty snow. Rumpled fenders. Rising gas bills. Cripes. Thank god for Kaitlyn Weaver and […]

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Kaetlyn Osmond ups the ante for worlds

March 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Kaetlyn Osmond will be a different skater, come the world championships in Saitama, Japan. After a troubled year of injury upon injury, she’s back to what she intended to be when she started this intense season. She’s doing what she always set out to do. And that means that she’s throwing down the gauntlet in […]

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Kevin Reynolds, bad boots, big heart

March 19, 2014 By 2 Comments

Damn those figure skating boots. Poorly fitting boots have trailed Kevin Reynolds all season. They scuttled his Grand Prix season, tough on a guy who could really use the prize money to finance his skating. It made his first competition of the season the Canadian championships, which were also the Olympic trials, so he had […]

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Duhamel-Radford rally for world championships

March 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It seemed to take a lifetime for both Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford to finally get their Olympic experience – and they’re still barely over it. But they have to be, to prepare for the world championships in Saitama, Japan, where they hope to finally deliver the “Alice in Wonderland” free skate they had always […]

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