You can’t make this stuff up. No Hollywood writer could have conjured up such a load of emotion and tears and effort and heart as the Olympic pair final. It was epic. Bruno Massot looked so apologetic after he had doubled a triple Salchow in the short program the previous night. He felt as if […]
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Duhamel and Radford: another program change
VANCOUVER Timing is everything, isn’t it? If not for a chance few moments on the other side of the world a few weeks ago, Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford may not have found the answer to that question that has niggled at their subconscious levels all season: Just why is that Muse routine – so […]
Muse 2.0 gets a bumpy debut
MONTREAL It’s a shocking ride to go from a beautiful high to a stumbly low. Two-time world pair champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are trying to figure it out, how and why they fell to a troubled third place in the free skate at Autumn Classic on a blistering hot Saturday in a cold […]
Duhamel and Radford always learning
Petite, energy-bunny Meagan Duhamel is 30 years old now, a two-time world pair champion with her elegantly musical partner Eric Radford, now 31. They are elder statesmen in the skating world. They’ve taken their lumps and bumps and they still keep coming, always giving their competitors something to worry about, as they did at the […]
Duhamel and Radford golden
BOSTON, Ma. There is only one thing certain about the pair event. It is unpredictable. Certainties are never certainties here. Banks don’t deal in this currency. The scales of justice are forever tipped in the direction of the fearless and the brave. And apparently, that’s what Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are: mindfully, powerfully adept […]
Pair short, Boston
BOSTON, Ma. “Enough is enough,” said Meagan Duhamel. Both she and her partner Eric Radford had enough of the cloying feelings of frustration this season when they finished a program and looked at each other, regret in the air. Not this time. After the national championships, Duhamel and Radford sat down with choreographer, light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel skatingmeister […]
Duhamel and Radford aim for 5th national title in Halifax
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford will try to win their fifth Canadian pair title next week by giving their throw quad Lutz a rest, at least for the time being and by delivering slick, confident performances, starting off with a re-jigged short program. Yes, they are defending their national title once again, but then Duhamel […]
Pair and dance short, world figure skating championships 2015
So how did the winners win on the first day of the world figure skating championships? Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford seem almost inhumanly consistent (to the point that if they make a mistake at home during training, their clubmates say: “Ahhhhh, you are human!), but they are particularly explosive on the technical side. While […]
Day Three, Four Continents, pairs final
It wasn’t easy for Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, even though they won the Four Continents championship title by 18 points. The week seemed long. By the time they finished the free skate, they felt quite tired. Perhaps that’s why they missed that triple Lutz, with Duhamel stumbling and Radford hopping, something they rarely do […]
Pair skaters: start your engines
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford have really started something, what with that high-flying quad throw of theirs, the envy of their peers at the moment. Right now, they are on top of the world, having thrown down a gauntlet that, so far this season, is leaving the competition in the dust. They are changing the […]