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Patrick Chan Reborn

May 9, 2023 By Beverley 2 Comments

For the past couple of years, Patrick Chan has done no skating. None. None at all. Nada. It’s hard to believe that a skater so highly revered by others, with unmatchable edges and speed and flow and power and glide, has put those skates on in recent years only to do a bit of coaching […]

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Kurt Browning Farewell

May 9, 2023 By Beverley 3 Comments

KITCHENER, Ont. The rain fell in torrents on Kitchener, Ont., and two hours away in Orillia, Ont., too, on May 7. A soggy Sunday for the ages. It was a time for final curtain calls, all on the same day: one a visitation for songbird Gordon Lightfoot, who died May 1 at age 84, and […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alissa Czisny, Elvis Stojko, Gordon Lightfoot, Keegan Messing, Kurt Browning, Patrick Chan, Stars On Ice

Patrick Chan’s Hallelujah Tour

May 8, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Patrick Chan

Listen easy. You can hear Patrick Chan take a nonchalant breath. His time is his time now. Hallelujah. The 27-year-old skater, a 10-time Canadian champion and three-time world champion if you want to work the abacus, is hot-stepping his way across the country on the Stars On Ice tour. Toss that maddening abacus. The wild […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Hallelujah, Liz Putnam, Patrick Chan, Stars On Ice

Stars On Ice Becomes Hot Ticket

May 6, 2018 By Beverley 2 Comments

Outside the Air Canada Centre, there was sturm. Inside there was drama. A post-Olympic Stars On Ice had come to Toronto. But it wasn’t like any Stars On Ice we’d seen in years. The Air Canada Centre was packed. Stuffed right to the rafters. That means 17,000 seats sold. A sell-out in Canada’s largest city. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Eric Radford, Kaitlyn Osmond, Meagan Duhamel, Patrick Chan, Scott Moir, Stars On Ice, Tessa Virtue

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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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Nathan Chen, Patrick Chan, Yuzuru Hanyu

The men's short program in Vancouver

January 13, 2018 By Leave a Comment

VANCOUVER From the mists of Vancouver finally emerged Patrick Chan. And he is shedding some rust. “It’s slippery,” he said, after he fell on his opening quad toe loop, then sliding unceremoniously on his side. Thinking on his feet, he added a triple toe loop to his triple Lutz, but then stepped out of a […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Keegan Messing, Liam Firus, Nicolas Nadeau, Patrick Chan, Roman Sadovsky

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

Hallelujah, Chan finally arrives at Skate Canada

October 26, 2017 By Leave a Comment

REGINA What a day (or two) Patrick Chan has had. He missed the first men’s practice on Thursday at Skate Canada International. And he arrived just in time to take the ice for the second men’s practice. Without a suitcase. Which means, at the moment, he has no clothes, just practice clothes. And thankfully, his […]

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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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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Nathan Chen, Olympics, Patrick Chan, Yuzuru Hanyu

Patrick Chan: Dust in the Wind

August 31, 2017 By 5 Comments

Three-time world champion Patrick Chan is searching for perspective this Olympic season. Patrick Chan has come a long way since he posed for this family photo.   Experience has taught him that he must pick his way thoughtfully about his tasks in a season that could be overwhelming and intense. He’s been there, done that. […]

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