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Walsh and Michaud: Stepping it Up

August 31, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Walsh Michaud pair

The next quadrennial of figure skating begins with a young pair team pushing limits. Yes, a raft of top Canadian pair teams has left the scene, but Evelyn Walsh and Trennt Michaud will be carried forward by what the others have left behind. It’s all very highly motivating. Walsh and Michaud will compete at their […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alison Purkiss, Duhamel and Radford, Evelyn Walsh, figure skating, Trennt Michaud, Virtue and Moir

Alaine Chartrand on the rise

January 8, 2015 By Leave a Comment

This is a story I did for the Skate Canada website, which appeared today:   http://www.skatecanada.ca/2015/01/kingston-to-feel-like-home-territory-for-alaine-chartrand/

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Skating in the family for Eric Liu

June 6, 2014 By 4 Comments

Read here a story I’ve done for the Skate Canada website about a promising young Canadian skater:      

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Eric Liu, figure skating, Skate Canada

Kevin Reynolds: finding his feet

May 14, 2014 By 1 Comment

It seems as if Kevin Reynolds has finally found his magic slippers. Here’s hoping. He’s optimistic. New custom boots arrived recently from Italy and Reynolds says right now, he’s trying to relax. “I’m at the peak of the off-season,” he said. He’s spent the first part of it in search of new brogues, after the […]

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Seguin, Bilodeau face tough life lessons

May 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Please follow my story for Skate Canada at their website:     http://www.skatecanada.ca/AboutUs/NewsDetails/tabid/2157/sni%5B2797%5D/3503/language/en-US/Default.aspx

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Moore-Towers takes a bold risk

May 6, 2014 By 1 Comment

In the days following the world championships, Kirsten Moore-Towers began to think about her future. She dug deep for the answers. She and pair partner Dylan Moscovitch had spoken about committing to another four years, for one more Olympics. But Moore-Towers, still only 21, began to feel that she wanted to do two more, when […]

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Moscovitch moves on

May 6, 2014 By 2 Comments

Canadian pair champion Dylan Moscovitch admits he was taken a bit by surprise when his partnership with Kirsten Moore-Towers dissolved last month, after the charismatic twosome finished fourth at the world championships, and third in the free skate. “I guess we were wanting different things,” he said by phone this week. “I guess we are […]

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What's next for Patrick Chan

May 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment

We may not have seen the last of Patrick Chan on the Olympic-eligible circuit. But for now, the three-time world champion and double Olympic silver medalist needs a break. During the Stars On Ice tour stop in Toronto, he said he plans to take the coming season off and then perhaps, if he’s healthy and […]

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Johnny Weir: "One hoof out the door"

April 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Honestly, the Kentucky Derby will never be the same, not after Johnny Weir and his sidekick Tara Lipinski are through with it. The skating twosome have been called in to comment on fashion at the 140th running of the iconic race in Louisville, Ky., shown on NBC from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. EST on […]

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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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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: figure skating, Moore-Towers, Moscovitch, worlds2014

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