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New faces, new beginnings for Canadian skaters

August 31, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  For the first time in years, athletes at the national team training camp in Mississauga this week, are bunking up with roommates in the hotels, like in the old days. And having buffets. It seems, well, rather normal. COVID-19 hit Canadian skaters harder than many, as dominos of competitions were cancelled domestically. They hit […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Brooke McIntosh and Benjamin Mimar, Conrad Orzel, Corey Circelli, e, Madeline Schizas, Michael Slipchuk, Roman Sadovsky, Stephen Gogolev

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: 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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A Challenge to the Finish

January 18, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

“Show me a garden that’s bursting into life,” go the words to the song “Chasing Cars,” a hypnotic tune done by the Irish/Scottish rock band Snow Patrol. And so goes Roman Sadovsky, who won the senior men’s event at the Skate Canada Challenge event on Sunday. After winning his first national title last year – […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Corey Circelli, Joni Mitchell, Nam Nguyen, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Roman Sadovsky, Skate Canada Challenge

Light in a Dark Place: Seniors

January 16, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Reigning Canadian champion Roman Sadovsky found it hard to watch himself, remotely, at home in front of a screen, competing at the Skate Canada Challenge – which being that the national championships have been cancelled due to COVID-19 – remains the closest thing to it. When Sadovsky performed his virtual routines about six weeks […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Allison Schumachernlisonaalle, Conrad Orzel, Corey Circelli, Emily Bausback, Joseph Pfan, Kaiya Ruiter, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky, Skate Canada Challenge

Keegan Messing: Perfect. Well, Almost

January 18, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

His wedding day back in August up in Alaska doesn’t grow old for Keegan Messing. He’s still celebrating it. He won the men’s short program at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships with a routine dedicated to his wife, Lane, using the music from their first dance: “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran. The one thought on […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championshipse, Joseph Phan, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky

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

Boys to Men

August 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment

One thing leads to another. Keegan Messing finished fifth at the Canadian championships last season. That landed him on the national team. That meant he got some financial help for training. And it means that this season, he is actually a full-time skater. Skate Canada photo All of these upticks in his personal situation rolled […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Conrad Orzel, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky

The Margaret Garrison show: 2015

May 12, 2015 By 1 Comment

In the early morning light – say 7 a.m –  a battalion of choreographers showed up at the Powerade Centre in Brampton, Ont. Their job? To create moving, arresting, complicated routines for the sixth Margaret Garrison Ice Show. In one day. In all, 29 choreographers lent their talents to this show. This show held extra […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Dylan Moscovitch, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky

Patrick Chan golden at Japan Open

October 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The Japan Open has often been a cruel rite of passage for Patrick Chan. Not this time. Early Saturday, Chan won the men’s free skate with a powerful performance that had teammate Jeff Buttle looking pleasantly delighted and shocked in Team North America’s  kiss and cry. This team included Chan, Buttle, Mirai Nagasu and Ashley […]

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