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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
From celebrating some of this nation’s most prominent country music stars and female athletes to recognizing significant moments in our history, Canada Post’s 2014 stamp program will demonstrate the diverse combination of achievement, progress, culture and tragedy that helps define Canada. In a new series to be issued in July, country music stars Tommy Hunter, […]
SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Even Patrick Chan gets nervous. On Saturday night, Patrick Chan competed against nine other men, but mostly he competed against himself. Luckily for him, he won. “I was nervous, honestly,” he said after earning 173.93 points for his free skate, (187.96 is his best) and 262.03 in total, well behind his […]
SAINT JOHN, N.B. – It was emotional for sure. With their elegant routine to concertos by Russian composer Alexander Glazunov (with a little help from Alexander Scriabin), Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir wrapped up their fifth Skate Canada title in their storied career. They brought an audience to its feet in the Harbour Station arena, […]
SAINT JOHN, N.B. – The 2010 Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are in first place after the short dance with a score of 73.15 at the Skate Canada International Grand Prix. Their lead is just 2.80 points ahead of compatriots Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, who expressed pleasant surprise at their personal best […]