OTTAWA, ON: Although she is back training, Kaetlyn Osmond, 17, Sherwood Park, Alta., has withdrawn from her second ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series assignment. She had been scheduled to compete at the Rostelecom Cup which takes place November 21-24, 2013, in Moscow, Russia. In October, the native of Marystown, Nfld., withdrew from Skate […]
OTTAWA, ON: Single event tickets for the 2014 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in Ottawa, Ont., will go on sale Thursday, November 14 at 10:00 (ET). The 100th anniversary of the event will take place from January 9-15, 2014 at the Canadian Tire Centre. Senior competition prices range from $10-$60, plus applicable surcharges. Junior/novice competition […]
OTTAWA, ON: Six Canadian figure skating coaches received the 2013 Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Award over the weekend. The awards were presented Friday, November 8th by the Coaching Association of Canada at the annual Sport Leadership Awards ceremony, during the Petro-Canada Sport Leadership conference in Calgary, Alta. The Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards recognize coaches whose athletes […]
OTTAWA, ON: Continuing issues with breaking in skating boots will keep Kevin Reynolds, 23, Coquitlam, B.C., out of his second assignment on the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Circuit. The event will run from November 22-24, 2013, in Moscow, Russia. Skate Canada’s High Performance Director, Mike Slipchuk outlined the reason behind the decision. “It […]
David Youle still remembers the first time he put on skates – “those double runner skates you strap on, they were awful.” It was 1930 and Youle was skating at a downtown Ottawa arena, when an older skater grabbed hold of him and helped him glide along. As he felt the air pass him by, […]
TOKYO – Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier brought the house down with a spectacular new long program to place fifth in their season debut on Sunday at the NHK Trophy ISU Grand Prix figure skating competition. World champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the gold medal with 186.65 points well ahead […]
TOKYO – Paige Lawrence of Kennedy, Sask., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask., took sixth spot on Saturday in pairs at the NHK Trophy ISU Grand Prix figure skating competition. Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the gold medal with 236.49 points. Cheng Peng and Hao Zhang of China were second at 182.18 […]
A lot has changed since Elladj Baldé was a young boy, hiding his skates in a closet so that his mother wouldn’t press him to go skating. Now it appears that the 22-year-old skater, born in Russia ( he came to Canada when he was two), has become a contender for one of the three […]
OTTAWA, ON: Canada will send four athletes to the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. The 2013 NHK Trophy will take place from November 8-10, 2013, at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. The event will feature all four disciplines, and Canada will have two entries: one in pair, and […]
OTTAWA, ON: Olympic Bronze Medalist and six-time Canadian Champion Joannie Rochette has been named the Athlete Ambassador for the upcoming 2014 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in Ottawa, Ontario. The event will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Championships at the Canadian Tire Centre from January 9-15, 2014. The very first event was also […]
DORTMUND, Germany – Ice dancers Kharis Ralph of Toronto, Ont., and Asher Hill of Pickering, Ont., won bronze over the weekend at the NRW Trophy, a senior international ice dance competition in Dortmund, Germany. Ralph and Hill sat in fourth following a short dance of 50.35 points but managed to climb on the podium with […]
Dan Thompson once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, with a storied peak or two known to have felled many an intrepid mountaineer. Now he’s climbing another. “I like challenges,” he said. He’s the new chief executive officer of Skate Canada, charged with bringing the organization into the new world, through at least the next couple of quadrennials. […]