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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 […]

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

Nathan Chen Toiling in a COVID World

January 7, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Finally, hearts are pumping: There is a real figure skating competition coming up. Who knows how many more there will be? Nathan Chen hopes to become a five-time U.S. figure skating championship next week, in a bubble at a Las Vegas rink. He’s competed sparsely this season, winning Skate America with 299.15 points, far short […]

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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 […]

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

Yuzuru Hanyu: Higher and Higher

September 13, 2019 By Beverley 7 Comments

For eight years, Brian Orser and Yuzuru Hanyu have danced a merry pas de deux as they fashioned the teacher-student relationship, spanning cultures, continents, and time zones. After guiding Hanyu to two Olympic and world championship gold medals, Orser thinks he has finally figured it out: less is sometimes more. Whatever they have already done […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Autumn Classic International, Brian Orser, Yuzuru Hanyu

Jun-Hwan Cha Comes of Age

September 23, 2018 By Beverley 5 Comments

  OAKVILLE, Ont. This weekend Jun-Hwan Cha, he a dreamy child not so long ago, grew into something else. A dreamy-eyed young man with a presence. The 16-year-old South Korean skater has been around, for sure, the dark locks of his bob flying out in all directions on a spin. At first sight of a […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Autumn Classic, Brian Orser, Jason Brown, Jun-Hwan Cha, Tracy Wilson, Yuzuru Hanyu

Hanyu: Not Perfect. But Calm.

September 22, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

OAKVILLE, Ont. There’s so much to drink in when you watch two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu steam about the ice on well-oiled springs. Perhaps that’s what inspires so many fans to make the long trip from Japan and snap up tickets. Some camped out all night outside the front doors of the Sixteen Mile Sports […]

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Daisuke Takahashi: Heartfelt Comeback

July 25, 2018 By Beverley 4 Comments

Daisuke Takahashi

Daisuke Takahashi will be the spice that warms your cocoa this season. The mulled wine. The Kobe beef. The autumn leaves kicked up into a new eddy in the sun. The jack of hearts. At 32, he has done the unexpected after a four-year absence, hobbled by a knee injury and an onslaught of competition […]

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Patrick Chan, a Farewell Look

February 17, 2018 By Barb 5 Comments

When I first met Patrick Chan, he was peering over the Hershey Centre rink boards from the ice with only his eyes in sight. He was 10 years old but looked eight, maybe less, at the Canadian national junior championships. As a juvenile, the category on the lowest rung, he took a bronze medal. His […]

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Patrick Chan deletes a quad – for now

October 20, 2017 By 1 Comment

You have to feel for these guys. These single men’s skaters who are going to war this season to out-power all who lie in their paths. They will rotate like spinning tops. They will try to defy gravity, shrug at it, taunt it like fiends. They are coming close to Cirque de Soleil performers who […]

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The quad fest at Four Continents

February 19, 2017 By 1 Comment

Is Nathan Chen for real? Has he been bundled onto earth somehow by a shiny space ship bearing gifts? Is he the lottery ticket somebody lost, then pulled triumphantly out of a drawer?  Is this all a fairy tale? Injured after last year’s U.S. nationals, Chen was competing at only his second major international event […]

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