• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Bev Smith Writes

An Insider's Look at Figure Skating by Beverley Smith

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Archives for world figure skating championships

world figure skating championships

Gilles and Poirier: At Last

March 28, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Sweet dreams are made of these. In ice dancing on Saturday, it was everything that led up to the bronze medal – only .36 points away from a silver – won by Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier at the world figure skating championships. Although they won the bronze medal, they finished second in the free […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ice dancingHock and, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Viktoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, world figure skating championships

Nathan Chen’s Epic Adventure

March 27, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Nathan Chen is ever thus: calmer than a pool. And focused like a laser beam, although he doesn’t look it. He won his third consecutive world title with explosive point totals on Saturday. He had come to Stockholm, grateful to be there. He had shaken off his woolly lockdown curls, shrugged off a hiccup in […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Boyang Jim, Jason Brown, Mikhail Kolyada, Nathan Chen, world figure skating championships, Yuma Kagiyama, Yuzuru Hanyu

The Empress Does What Empresses Do

March 27, 2021 By Beverley 2 Comments

There were the teenyboppers. And then there was the Empress. Together, they tell the story of what you will see in the women’s event at the Olympics in Beijing next year: quads, triple Axels and youth – except for that upstart Empress. The Empress is Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia, who hadn’t even made it out […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alexandra Trusova, Anna Shcherbakova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Madeline Schizas, Rika Kihara, world figure skating championships

Pairs Short Program: Getting the Rust Out

March 24, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Hold a world championship for the first time in two years, during a pandemic (with rising numbers in many places), with all sorts of training interruptions and stay-at-home orders and what could go wrong? It all came to roost in the pairs short program Wednesday at the world figure skating championships in Stockholm. Is […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Aleksandra Boikova and Dmirtri Kozlovskii, cae y, Galliamov, Kirsten Moore-Towers, Michael Marinaro, Mishina, Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara, Stockholmm, Wenjing Sui and Cong Han, world figure skating championships

Jitters Hit Women in World Short Program

March 24, 2021 By Beverley 1 Comment

Jitters ruled the day. So many women had not skated in such a long time, and here they were at the world figure skating championships in Stockholm that some weren’t sure would happen at all. None of it went as scripted, except that Anna Shcherbakova ended up in the lead with a healthy 81.00 points […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Anna Shcherbakova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Kaori Sakamoto, Madeline Schizas, Rika Kihara, Stockholms T, world figure skating championships

Gilles and Poirier: on a Quest for the Sun

March 18, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  “Now they only block the sun. They rain and snow on everyone. So many things I would have done, But clouds got in my way.”   Indeed. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier will skate to these Joni Mitchell words next week at the world figure skating championships in Stockholm, Sweden. No doubt, for them […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Both Sides Now, Joni Michell, Paul Poirier, Piper Gilles, world figure skating championships

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 […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: chainsaws, Keegan Messing, Lane, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky, world figure skating championships

Moore-Towers, Marinaro Head into the Unknown

March 16, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Canadian pair champions Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro did not believe there would be a world figure skating championship this season, so hunkered down were they because of a pandemic that doesn’t quit. They thought their virtual performances earlier this year at Skate Canada Challenge were going to be it this season, and everybody […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: COVID, Kirsten Moore-Towers, Michael Marinaro, Stockholm, Sweden, world figure skating championships

World Figure Skating Championships: Cancelled

March 11, 2020 By Beverley 2 Comments

    At last, the hammer came down. There will be no world figure skating championships this year, for the first time in 59 years when a plane crash killed the U.S. team and scuttled the most important event of the year. The Quebec health ministry decided to spare spectators and competitors and officials and […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Kirsten Moore-Towers, Lorenzo Magri, Montreal, Nam Nguyen, Nathan Chen, world figure skating championships, Yuzuru Hanyu

Inside the heart of Moore-Towers and Marinaro

March 23, 2018 By Beverley 1 Comment

It was telling: Kirsten Moore-Towers burst into an ugly cry against the chest of her partner, Michael Marinaro, as soon as they took their final pose after the short program at the world championships in Milan on Wednesday. Surely they were tears of joy? They had just nailed it, big time: triple twist, whopper of […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Kirsten Moore-Towers, Michael Marinaro, world figure skating championships

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Your Support is Appreciated!

You can encourage me to write more and to maintain this website with a donation in any amount.
Thanks in advance!

Recent Comments

  • Sonja on Karen Magnussen passes the torch
  • Amelia on Yuzuru Hanyu: Higher and Higher
  • Kho Bee Maiy on Yuzuru Hanyu: Higher and Higher
  • From +3/-3 to +5/-5 | sportlandia on Scoring changes afoot because of Hanyu
  • Racille North on A Proposal, Alaska Style
  • Sally Rehorick on Keegan Messing: Canadian Champion.
  • Lori Nichol on Keegan Messing’s Odyssey

Archives

Copyright BevSmithWrites.com 2014-2018