MONTREAL Pair skating came to life on Wednesday at the world figure skating championships. It started with a breath. You could hear it right at the beginning of the short program – skated to the Montreal song “Oxygene” – of Canadian champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps. They delivered. The improbable Canadians – she 40 […]
Riku Muira
Japanese Pair Back and Confident
MONTREAL Riku Muira and Ryuichi Kihara have had a largely silent, troubled season since they became the first Japanese pair team to win a world figure skating championship title last year – at home in Japan. Much loved because of their engaging personalities on ice, Muira and Kihara left a cheery little hole on […]