A Figure Skating Blog
With compulsory figures still on my mind from my last post, I came across this fascinating TV clip from the 1988 Winter Olympics with highlights from the women’s compulsory figure event in Calgary. There are two especially interesting moments in this 10-minute clip, narrated by American figure skating bigwigs, Dick Button and Peggy Flemming.
First, starting […]
Ack, I’m late! Pardon the very late post on World. I’ve been moving house from Morocco back to British Columbia so it’s been wild around here and Internet access has been spotty.
I was chuffed with how Canadians performed in Sweden. I may be wishful thinking, but I believe that if Joanne Rochette would have put […]
If you live in Victoria, British Columbia, love figure skating, and are looking for some weekend entertainment, you could do worse than “Peter Pan on Ice” at the Racquet Club this weekend.
Olympian and World Professional Champion, Gary Beacom, and 2008 Canadian bronze medalist, Shawn Sawyer, perform in the production.
March 22, 2 PM & 7 PM
March […]
I admit it, I’m a homer. I want Canadians to do well at Worlds in Sweden. But, even with lofty hopes for our team I wouldn’t have bet on a podium finish for Dube and Davison. Are they peaking too soon, with 2010 still two years off?
I don’t think so. Yesterday’s bronze at the World […]
As a skater I tried almost everything. I skated singles, pairs and dance (for a while). The only event I didn’t participate in was synchronized skating. In my time it was called precision team skating. I just didn’t get it. Sure, it was fun to get flung around the end of a pinwheel in skating […]
I’ll admit that I haven’t always been Skate Canada’s biggest fan. Back in the day when it was called the Canadian Figure Skating Association and I was a member skater, the organization often seemed disorganized and ineffective.
While it continues to make some odd personnel and administrative decisions, I have to commend Skate Canada on a […]
At Canadians last week I was lucky to be in the audience when Skate Canada honoured Jamie Sale and David Pelletier by inducting them into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
The crowd was in tears watching the emotional Sale and Pelletier re-live their magnificent but controversial career on the big screen.
They are spectacular role models […]
I know, I know, there are lots of reasons to be down on figure skating. There's all that dodgy scoring, diva personalities and crazy costumes. Plus, it's hard to learn how to identify all those jumps. But, the coverage in the Vancouver Sun this weekend has been a real downer.
For starters, they they printed the […]
Salt Lake City gave us the new scoring system–of which I fully approve–but, there’s still plenty of politics in figure skating.
In the women’s short, Cynthia Phaneuf put down a lovely but imperfect program, downgrading her triple flip to a single. She still found herself sitting in fourth place at the end of the event, despite […]
Two days into the senior competition at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver and I dig this competition more than ever. Maybe it's because Canadians was my ultimate goal as a skater, or perhaps it's because most of the skaters at this competition are experiencing their career highs this week. The intensity and excitement […]