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I can’t imagine hearing your kid who wants to switch to pairs is an easy conversation, especially if you were hoping she would not make skating her focus. I say this as a Josee fan who can’t believe she has an adult kid.

Sigh. Well. I guess that’s a definitive answer to Bombardier doing pairs full time. I’ll miss her in singles although she’s likely making the right decision. (Although I did see an interview where her mother very adamantly wanted Fiona to pursue interests outside of skating and go to university...

https://x.com/skatecanada/status/1778487962394628111?s=46&t=2Sb5VRaIGAxZ2z3ClTcPnA Deanna daring to wear bright blue in a sea of black and navy. Breaking the mould, on and off the ice.

I wonder how they feel when they see new teams join the Montreal main campus. Christina is from Montreal, I would have thought this was their first choice to be close to family and friends. Were they offered a spot in Montreal before other new teams joined? But it seems it has worked out for...

Wondering how the other I.AM skaters will feel when Eteri starts showing up at the rink to resolve “everyday” issues.

I think Schizas’s best chance at getting top 10 was in Montreal at a home worlds due to home inflation and I thought she’d skate more consistently being buoyed by the crowd and without the pressure of being national champion. I used to think she’d maybe have a chance at top 10 if other people...

This is the third time I’ve seen her live and I had opposite impression, maybe because I saw her in contrast to the other world competitors. I felt like I was seeing a promising junior skater who had to really work on her hunched shoulders and who looked cautious. Her pick of slow music almost...

As much as I agree that a person is not their parent, this is not any parent. As others have pointed out, Eteri’s school is part of the reason some of the ice dancers from I.AM don’t have their medals. Also, do they not expect Eteri to visit her daughter? Or ask to visit I.AM? She does politic...

I meant with transfers, takes almost 24 hours…. Optimistic, 15-18 hours. Still, basically a day, and Asia is quite a few hours ahead, so they’ll be arriving in Asia “Monday”. Forgot to mention, after the men’s ceremony, all members of the pairs podium teams were taking photos with large flags...

Also it takes almost 24 hours to get to Asia from the east coast. They’ll only get there tomorrow. They could maybe predict some, but some of the disciplines, like pairs, were a bit more open. Imagine having to look up scores for multiple parts in multiple languages. What a job.

Questions about this choir. Where did they find these people? How many anthems did they have to learn? Are they annoyed they only got to sing 3 anthems (Canadian, American and Japanese) after putting so much work into learning anthems in other languages?

Thanks! I do have a ticket for myself, but was looking to buy another for someone else or even upgrade mine. I was surprised to get the Sold Out message, as I had been reading that tickets were not selling that well. Washrooms will be full!! I was able to bring my Starbucks paper coffee cup...

The one who seems to slip up? Lol Ticketmaster tells me the event is sold out and no tickets are available. This can’t be true, can it?

I saw it at the end of the Radio-Canada broadcast: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/sports/diffusions/18-861080/mondiaux-patinage-artistique-programme-court-couples For the article about them that mentions Deanna’s unbroken Duolingo streak since June 2019, see here...

So it definitely wasn’t there right after the event. As usual, so hard to find on CBC. The French broadcast was, however, immediately available on Radio-Canada: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/sports/diffusions/18-861161/mondiaux-patinage-artistique-femmes-programme-libre Alain Goldberg is one of...