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Daleman, pressing onwards to the free

February 22, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Today, Gabby Daleman will find her rhythm. It’s what she does in times of peril. The national championship proved to be one of those times, when she endured strep throat, that was replaced by pneumonia by the time she whizzed through her free skate to the rapturous “Rhapsody in Blue.” Even so, she took her […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Brian Orser, Gabby Daleman, Javier Fernandez, Lee Barkell, Pyeongchang

Virtue and Moir: on Top of the World

February 20, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

To describe the genius of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir is to require an armful of exclamation points. As one fellow skater put it, they are “beyond.” Way back in 2010, when Virtue and Moir won their first Olympic gold medal in Vancouver in their early twenties, the 1980 Olympic champion Robin Cousins was already […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron, Pyeongchang, Scott Moir, Tessa Virtue

Virtue and Moir: reborn after the Grand Prix Final

January 5, 2018 By 1 Comment

Okay, folks. Listen up. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have no intention of finishing second at the Pyeongchang Olympics, although they finished second at the Grand Prix Final last month. They are not in this race for silver, for second-best, for forgotten footnote. Anybody remember who Sham was? The horse that finished second to Secretariat. […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron, Pyeongchang, Scott Moir, Tessa Virtue

Adam Rippon, making music

December 28, 2017 By 2 Comments

That Adam Rippon. What a card. He heats up the ice when he skates with his patience and confidence and his glorious moves. He’s become an amusing lad. One never knows what he will do. Not that he isn’t serious about his work. He is. And just for fun, we saw him cross off another […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Rippon, Leonard Cohen, Pyeongchang, San Jose

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