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Nathan Chen Toiling in a COVID World

January 7, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Finally, hearts are pumping: There is a real figure skating competition coming up. Who knows how many more there will be? Nathan Chen hopes to become a five-time U.S. figure skating championship next week, in a bubble at a Las Vegas rink. He’s competed sparsely this season, winning Skate America with 299.15 points, far short […]

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Skate America: an Oasis of Skating

October 25, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

For a moment, just before Keegan Messing was about to begin his “November Rain” long program at Skate America on Saturday, he thought about others. “This is for you guys in Canada, to everybody who has to stay at home,” thought the Canadian skater, the only competitor from the land of the maple leaf to […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alexa Scimeca Knierim, Bradie Tennell, Brandon Frazier, Keegan Messing, Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue, Mariah Bell, Nathan Chen, Skate America, Vincent Zhou

Skate America Happens!

October 24, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Keegan Messing turned his back to the camera and pointed with both hands to the CANADA emblazoned across the back of his team jacket: the only Canadian figure skater to compete at any of the Grand Prix events this season. He has become the beacon of the Canadian side, through unfortunate circumstance as the […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alexa Scimeca Knierim, Bradie Tennell, Keegan Messing, Mariah Bell, Nathan Chen, Skate America, Vincent Zhou

World Figure Skating Championships: Cancelled

March 11, 2020 By Beverley 2 Comments

    At last, the hammer came down. There will be no world figure skating championships this year, for the first time in 59 years when a plane crash killed the U.S. team and scuttled the most important event of the year. The Quebec health ministry decided to spare spectators and competitors and officials and […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Kirsten Moore-Towers, Lorenzo Magri, Montreal, Nam Nguyen, Nathan Chen, world figure skating championships, Yuzuru Hanyu

“Keegs”

October 18, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

What a night. Keegan Messing finished third in the men’s short program at Skate America. But he won much more than a placing. About a month ago, his younger brother, Paxon, a father of three little ones, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Alaska. I heard the news by text in the waiting room […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Charles Aznavour, Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen

Patrick Chan, a Farewell Look

February 17, 2018 By Barb 5 Comments

When I first met Patrick Chan, he was peering over the Hershey Centre rink boards from the ice with only his eyes in sight. He was 10 years old but looked eight, maybe less, at the Canadian national junior championships. As a juvenile, the category on the lowest rung, he took a bronze medal. His […]

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Patrick Chan, pulling himself to the finish

January 6, 2018 By 5 Comments

So much of what Patrick Chan does is linked to emotion, his inner life, how it feels to do something, what it means to him. It gives him a restless foot. And that’s how he’s found himself in Vancouver for the past couple of months to prepare for the national skating championships and Olympics, thousands […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Marina Zoueva, Nathan Chen, Patrick Chan, Ravi Walia

The wild and woolly men's event at Skate America

November 26, 2017 By 1 Comment

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. Nathan Chen still has a beautific head of hair. Perhaps a little more tousled than usual. Perhaps it’s the least of his worries. At least he is in one piece. Some of his competitors took a physical drubbing in the men’s free skate at Skate America. It was hurtful to watch at […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Rippon, Daniel Samohin, Liam Firus, Nathan Chen, Sergei Voronov

The cast of characters in Skate America's men's short program

November 25, 2017 By Leave a Comment

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. Nathan Chen has a beautific head of hair. Charcoal black curls sproinging out of his scalp like the crazy curves you encounter on a Lake Placid road. And what a ride he takes those curls on: up death-defying quads here, around some new fascinating body movement there. Heavens, even pair skater Eric […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Rippon, Daniel Samohin, Nathan Chen, Sergei Voronov, Skate America

Patrick Chan deletes a quad – for now

October 20, 2017 By 1 Comment

You have to feel for these guys. These single men’s skaters who are going to war this season to out-power all who lie in their paths. They will rotate like spinning tops. They will try to defy gravity, shrug at it, taunt it like fiends. They are coming close to Cirque de Soleil performers who […]

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