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COVID Clouds Canadian Championships

January 4, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Vanessa James and Eric Radford are not at all certain they will compete at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships after testing positive – and recovering – from COVID. The pairs short program is on Friday, Jan. 7 while the long is on Saturday, Jan. 8. The pair, who got together this season, will […]

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A Star is Born

October 31, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Those hot pink gloves of Kamila Valieva: You couldn’t miss them in her Bolero free skate. They were the commas to every move. To the throbbing sounds of “Bolero,” the gloves skimmed the air, in and out and away as her hands moved, too. When she did a jump – any jump – the gloves […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alena Kostornaia, Bolero, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Kamila Valieva, Madeline Schizas, Skate Canada

Nathan Chen Finds his Feet

October 31, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Nathan Chen crushed them. Just crushed them. If ever there was a wobble in your thinking about Chen’s prowess on the men’s figure skating scene after Skate America, then straighten yourself in your seat, find a crutch, get a new pair of Birkenstocks, anything, and get ready to marvel again. After he finished third at […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen, Skate Canada

The Long and Winding Road

October 31, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

The long and winding road isn’t quite finished yet for world bronze medalists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier. But this year they are celebrating it. And skating to it. Using the Beatles music to it, they won a gold medal at Skate Canada on Saturday. It’s an important gold medal: it’s their first Grand Prix […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, Govardoeill, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Sinitsina and Katsalapov, Skate Canada

The Newest Face of Russian Women

October 30, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Before any talk of triple Axels or quads or such, 15-year-old Kamila Valieva stepped out onto the ice at the start of her short program at Skate Canada and did something seemingly quite simple. But astonishing nonetheless. Dressed in rose froth, the 15-year-old Russian stretched out a leg far, far up and behind her, up […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alena Kostornaia, Alysa Liu, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Kamila Valieva, Skate Canada

Gilles and Poirier: Another Breakthrough

October 30, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

What do you do for an encore, after you’ve won a bronze medal at the world figure skating championships after years of toiling in the shadows? When you’re Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, you go out and nail the highest score of the season for the rhythm dance at Skate Canada in Vancouver, in front […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Skate Canada

Moore-Towers, Marinaro: Taking the Next Big Step

September 18, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Yes, this is the start of the next quadrennial. And it has turned Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro into the senior members of the national pair team heading out to Grand Prix events this season. They had a quick lesson in leading the pair show at the world championships last March in Milan when […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Autumn Classic, Kirsten Moore-Towers, Leona Lewis, Michael Marinaro, Richard Gauthier, Skate Canada

Ilyushechkina and Moscovitch: skating for the Maple Leaf

October 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

Lubov Ilyushechkina is glowing. Positively glowing. She and her pair partner Dylan Moscovitch will go to Skate Canada next week as a completely Canadian duo. On Sept. 21, she became a Canadian citizen. “It was definitely a big day for me,” Ilyushechkina said. “Being Canadian means being warm and friendly. And I also associate Canadians […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Dubreuil, Dylan Moscovitch, Finlandia Trophy, Lubov Ilyushechkina, Sandra Bezic, Skate Canada

Javier Fernandez has been there, done that, bought the t-shirt

October 29, 2014 By 6 Comments

Javier Fernandez has good memories of Skate Canada. His first one, in Mississauga, Ont., during the 2011-2012 season, was also his first with coach Brian Orser. He left a lasting impression, throwing the technical book at his opponents, turning from afterthought into world beater. What, a skater from Spain, defeating world record holder Patrick Chan […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Black Betty, Javier Fernandez, Skate Canada

Skating in the family for Eric Liu

June 6, 2014 By 4 Comments

Read here a story I’ve done for the Skate Canada website about a promising young Canadian skater:      

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Eric Liu, figure skating, Skate Canada

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