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Don’t Cry for Gilles and Poirier: “Evita”

October 30, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Finally, after 11 years, it was time to do “Evita.” It just happened. The stars were aligned. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier wanted to do “Evita” 11 years ago when they first teamed up, but the time was never right. It’s so right, they used it to win the Skate Canada International on Saturday with […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: EvitaG, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Skate Canada

Too Sexy for Their Shirts

October 29, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

It was a new look: Paul Poirier stepping onto the ice with a muscle shirt, no sleeves, showing his deltoids, sparking the spark. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, the 2021 world bronze medalists in ice dancing, do quirky and iconic. Now they’re bringing sexy to the mix. Coach Carol Lane found the music in a […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Lajoie and Lagha, Lauriault and LeGac, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Skate Canada

The Men’s Short Program: A Slippery Slope

October 29, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Okay, it’s early in the season. We get that. The Olympics took the starch out of a lot of athletes last season and it’s so hard to pull up the bootstraps after that. But the men’s short program at Skate Canada International Grand Prix was….a learning experience for most. It was hard. Really hard. For […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canad, Conrad Orzel, Kao Miura, Keegan Messing, Matteo Rizzo, Shoma Uno, Skate Canada, Stephen Gogolev

Tea for Two

October 28, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Hard toil has paid off for two Canadian women: Madeline Schizas, righting herself for Skate Canada with hard run-throughs, and Gabby Daleman righting herself from a litany of problems after not having done a Grand Prix in two years. Incredibly, they sit one-two after the women’s short program at the Skate Canada International Grand […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Brian Orser, Gabby Daleman, Madeline Schizas, Rika Kihara, Skate Canada

Keegan Messing: A Fond Farewell

October 20, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

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It’s going to be hard to say goodbye, says Keegan Messing as it became clear this week that this season will be his last as a competitive figure skater. He’s 30 and has other irons in the fire. During a pre-Skate Canada conference call, Messing sat beside his toddler son, Wyatt, at a breakfast of […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Grace Kelly, Keegan Messing, Lance Vipond. MIKA, Skate Canada

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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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Eric Radford, Skate Canada, Vanessa James

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

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