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Indiana Jones has Nothing on Keegan Messing

January 6, 2023 By Beverley Leave a Comment

The story of Keegan Messing reads like a book. A best-selling book. He’s the Indiana Jones of the skating set, pushing his way through temples of doom in his quest for the holy Sankara Stones, except that Messing’s high adventures are hair-raising in other ways: skates that don’t arrive, flights that are cancelled, a pandemic […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Keegan Messing

The Men’s Short Program: A Slippery Slope

October 29, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Okay, it’s early in the season. We get that. The Olympics took the starch out of a lot of athletes last season and it’s so hard to pull up the bootstraps after that. But the men’s short program at Skate Canada International Grand Prix was….a learning experience for most. It was hard. Really hard. For […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canad, Conrad Orzel, Kao Miura, Keegan Messing, Matteo Rizzo, Shoma Uno, Skate Canada, Stephen Gogolev

Keegan Messing: A Fond Farewell

October 20, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Keegs

It’s going to be hard to say goodbye, says Keegan Messing as it became clear this week that this season will be his last as a competitive figure skater. He’s 30 and has other irons in the fire. During a pre-Skate Canada conference call, Messing sat beside his toddler son, Wyatt, at a breakfast of […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Grace Kelly, Keegan Messing, Lance Vipond. MIKA, Skate Canada

Tough Decisions

January 9, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

The tough part: Canada has only two Olympic pair skating spots. The even more tough part: Canada had three teams that wanted those two spots. This decision was the most difficult to make for Skate Canada about the 13 skaters that would make up the Olympic team, and also the most controversial. Dance, singles: easy. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Evelyn Walsh and Trennt Michaud, Keegan Messing, Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro, Olympics, Vanessa James and Eric Radford

Keegan Messing: Canadian Champion.

January 9, 2022 By Beverley 1 Comment

Keegan Messing finally did it. After nine seasons skating for Canada, Keegs won his first national title, doing it the hardest way possible: in a pandemic, with skates that didn’t arrive (at first), with his best friend suffering from COVID, with a trip from hell to get to the national skating championships in Ottawa. Somehow, […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky, Wesley Chiu

Keegan Messing: Keeping the Butterflies in Check

January 8, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

In the annals of Canadian figure skating, there never has been such a buffalo-checked, adventure-seeking, resourceful, colourful, candid patineur of the north as Keegan Messing. The 29-year-old skater proved it this week after a 33-hour trip to the Canadian skating championships from Alaska with his wife and child, only to find that his skates didn’t […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Joseph Phan, Keegan Messing, Wesley Chiu

Keegan Messing’s Odyssey

January 5, 2022 By Beverley 4 Comments

It was ever thus: Keegan Messing, taking to the airwaves from Alaska to anywhere in the world, always faced the prospect of a long and winding road. But his latest odyssey – to compete at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in Ottawa this week – takes the cake. With weather delays and COVID-related cancellations, […]

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Nathan Chen Finds his Feet

October 31, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Nathan Chen crushed them. Just crushed them. If ever there was a wobble in your thinking about Chen’s prowess on the men’s figure skating scene after Skate America, then straighten yourself in your seat, find a crutch, get a new pair of Birkenstocks, anything, and get ready to marvel again. After he finished third at […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen, Skate Canada

Nathan Chen Finds Redemption

October 30, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

So Nathan Chen had a couple of bad days at Skate America last week. He wasn’t about to hit the panic button, he said. His long winning streak, back to the 2018 Olympics, was bound to end sometime, he said. However, the three-time world champion got back into the saddle at Skate Canada on Friday, […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen, Skate Canada brow

Keegan Messing: Of Chainsaws and Car Batteries

March 17, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  It’s true, these are different times, but nobody on the planet prepares for a world figure skating championship the way Keegan Messing does. Nobody. The rope-climbing, ladder-ascending, pole-clinging, Lazy Boy-toting, Husky-loving, old car-tinkerer and iceberg paddler of a mountain man from Alaska had to resort to new tricks during a pandemic. The gym was […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: chainsaws, Keegan Messing, Lane, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky, world figure skating championships

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