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Patrick Chan fell, get over it
Did you hear? Patrick Chan fell four times at the Japan Open earlier this month and placed last. Blog upon blog have dumped on Chan since his result, and Twitter wasn’t too kind either. With Chan going...
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And then along comes Osmond…
Whenever I interview 16-year-old Kaetlyn Osmond, there’s something I notice about her – besides her triple-triple combination. It’s her smile. It never leave her face. And right now, Osmond has a lot...
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The Sectionals are coming!
Move over pucks and hockey sticks, you’re being replaced by toe picks and triple jumps. Tomorrow and over the weekend at the Terwillegar Recreation Centre, Edmonton figure skaters will duel with...
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Stolen skate won’t stop promising skater
When a vehicle is broken into, usually the items stolen are easily replaced. Unless if one of those items were an $1800 pair of figure skates. On Oct. 22, Kayla Harrison, an 18-year-old figure skater,...
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And then there was Challenge
There’s slightly less than 25 sleeps until the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Mississauga. However, before skaters glide into the Hershey Centre, they needed to snow plow in Regina at the...
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A Conversation with Lisa Sargeant-Driscoll
The first Canadian championship I ever watched was the 1989 Canadians from Chicoutimi, Quebec. My older sister and I were at my grandparents for the weekend, and we nibbled on Baba’s puffed wheat cake...
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Kaetlyn Osmond, on comeback trail, captures gold in Germany
A new-and-improved Kaetlyn Osmond won the Nebelhorn Trophy in Obertsdorf, Germany, on the weekend for the second time in four years. The first time, Osmond started to make a name for herself in her...
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Nightmarish outing shocks Osmond at Skate Canada International
Kaetlyn Osmond’s scary Halloween experience required only her usual competition costume and a bizarre set of circumstances. The two-time Canadian women’s figure skating champion and Olympic silver...
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Reigning Skate Canada Challenge champ returns with eyes on nationals
Edmonton figure skater Triena Robinson used last year’s Skate Canada Challenge — where she won the junior women’s category — as a springboard onto the national stage. This year, she wants to use it to...
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Purich takes a break from pairs skating, opts for singles this year
Natasha Purich is taking a different approach to her 2015/16 skating season. After three different skating partners the past three years, the Edmonton product decided to step away this year from pairs...
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Sherwood Park skater Keegan Messing lives his all-Canadian dream
Even though Keegan Messing was born in Alaska, he always felt like a Canadian at heart. “My original plan was always to compete for Canada. It took much longer than I ever hoped, but now that I finally...
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Ice Palace figure skater Eric Liu an up-and-coming star despite taking year off
Ravi Walia, the director of skating and head coach at the Ice Palace Figure Skating Club, already has one shining star under his watch in two-time Canadian senior women’s champion Kaetlyn Osmond. He...
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Dan Barnes: Skater Kaetlyn Osmond wards off fears, aims at national title
It was August and figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond’s body was strong, her long and short programs impeccably well trained, the new competition season stretching out in front of her chock full of promise....
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