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Nam Nguyen: Growing is Believing

September 23, 2019 By Beverley 2 Comments

Somehow Nam Nguyen has grown to be 5-foot-11, sometime after that bustling childhood, when as a tiny one, he set all sorts of records: youngest to be pre-juvenile, juvenile, novice, and junior champion of Canada. Now he’s 21. At 20, he finally began to find his footing in matters other than physical growth, all of […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Beatles, Blues for Klook, Mary Anglea Larmer, Nam Nguyen, Robert Burk, Stars On Iceue

Moore-Towers and Marinaro: A new beginning

September 22, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Everything is new, at least for Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro, pairs skaters who describe themselves as “definitely mom and dad now.” “We’re old for sure,” said Moore-Towers, who like her partner is 27. “We enjoy our leadership role.” Now Canada’s top pair team, they are surrounded by newness. And it’s working for them. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Brian Shales, Bruno Marcotte, Julie Marcotte, Kaitlyn Weaver, Kirsten Moore-Towers, Michael Marinaro, Richard Gauthier

“Mack and Mabel” Back in Town

September 13, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier have strummed the dance strings of long ago, and what sung loudest to them was a classic: “Mack and Mabel.” “It’s one of our all-time favourites,” Gilles said, beaming after leading the rhythm dance at Autumn Classic International with 79.61 points, just .83 points short of their career best. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Autumn Classic International, Carol Lane, Carolane Soucisse, Christopher Dean, Jayne Torvill, Jeff Dimitriou, Paul Poirier, Piper Gilles, Shane Firus

Yuzuru Hanyu: Higher and Higher

September 13, 2019 By Beverley 5 Comments

For eight years, Brian Orser and Yuzuru Hanyu have danced a merry pas de deux as they fashioned the teacher-student relationship, spanning cultures, continents, and time zones. After guiding Hanyu to two Olympic and world championship gold medals, Orser thinks he has finally figured it out: less is sometimes more. Whatever they have already done […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Autumn Classic International, Brian Orser, Yuzuru Hanyu

Ice Cream Castles in the Air

September 11, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

How wistful it must feel when the loveliness of your signature piece becomes like “chalk marks in a rainstorm.” When you must move on. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier have left behind the outrageously beautiful “Vincent” creation of last season for new discoveries. And they have gone to exquisite places to find just the thing. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Joni Mitchell, Paul Poirier, Piper Gilles, Vincent

Hardly Birds of a Feather

August 26, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

Ever see the internet photos of the cats curled up with canaries, cozy and all? Fawns and owls cavorting happily with dogs? Chimpanzees stroking kittens? Heifers licking up turtles with long tongues, happy as clams? Count Nam Nguyen, the son of Vietnamese boat people and Keegan Messing, man of the north woods, in with those […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alaska, Donald Jackson, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, North York Summer Skate, Robert Burk, Toronto

Keegan Messing: Perfect Duet

August 23, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

The Pink Panther has faded. Singing in the Rain has dried up. Charlie Chaplin has waddled into the sunset. The Keegan Messing of yesterday is not altogether the same as the Keegan Messing of today. He’s all grown up. (Sort of) And he’s in love. The 27-year-old Alaskan took a giant life step on Aug. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alaska, Anchorage, Ed Sheeran, Keegan Messing, Perfect Duet

The Tango Romantica Blues

January 18, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Weaver and Poje

  That Tango Romantica dance? It’s easier said than done. What a twisty, ticklish, gnarly, knotty, exacting, formidable dance it is. It’s no picnic, for sure. It’s been a jaw-breaker for ice dancers all season, and Canada’s best will be giving it a go Friday at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships. None of the […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Hubbell and Donohue, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, Papadakis and Cizeron, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, rhythm dance, Sinitsina and Katsalapov, Tango Romantica

The Road Less Travelled

January 14, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

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  It had to happen this way: Keegan Messing finding an endlessly adventurous way to prepare for a figure skating competition. There are no straight lines in his approach. He has swung up ladders with heavy merchandise on his back, hurled his way up tall poles, Leaped across a mountain peak or two, picked through […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anchorage, Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, earthquake, Keegan Messing, Saint John

Medvedeva’s Journey

November 22, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Medvedeva

Evgenia Medvedeva knew it would be tough, moving away from everything she had known in Russia to come to Canada to train with Brian Orser. Perhaps she didn’t know how tough. It was tough enough, finishing second at the Olympics after appearing unbeatable in previous seasons. But at Skate Canada last month, she faced things […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Brian Orser, Evgenia Medvedeva, Internationaux de France, Rika Kihira

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