Ouch. Ice is slippery. A third Canadian title slipped from Madeline Schizas’s hands in the blink of an eye at Canadian National Skating Championships after the women’s free on Saturday. And surprises awaited. Not only did the two-time Canadian champ not win the free skate, she finished third in it, behind a Calgary champ-in-waiting Kaiya […]
Kaiya Ruiter
Schizas Rules with Frosty Intent
At these frigid Canadian National Skating Championships in frozen Calgary, Madeline Schizas is in a class by herself. While temperatures hovered around -38 degrees C (felt like 42 apparently), Schizas opined that it was warmer inside than outside. The ice was frozen, as usual. And she felt okay with what happened on that slippery surface […]
Light in a Dark Place: Seniors
Reigning Canadian champion Roman Sadovsky found it hard to watch himself, remotely, at home in front of a screen, competing at the Skate Canada Challenge – which being that the national championships have been cancelled due to COVID-19 – remains the closest thing to it. When Sadovsky performed his virtual routines about six weeks […]
Remember the name: Kaiya Ruiter
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 […]