Following a successful junior career, Evelyn Walsh/Trennt Michaud of Canada made the jump to the senior ranks this year. After some ups and downs at their fall events, the young Canadian team earned the silver medal at Canadian Nationals and berths to Four Continents and Worlds. The duo is focused on learning and growing as …
Continue reading Walsh/Michaud: “Our partnership has grown a lot this year” (2019)
Recently I traveled to Anaheim, CA, to cover the ISU 2019 Four Continents Championship for Figure Skaters Online. While I was there, I had the great pleasure of chatting with pairs coach Richard Gauthier of Canada. As most pairs fans know, Gauthier has been among the world's top pairs coaches for 15 years or longer, …
Last weekend, I attended Skate Canada in Laval, Quebec, to cover the event for Two for the Ice, a pairs/dance web site. You can find my articles about the pairs short program and long program over at the Two for the Ice web site!
So the new figure skating season has already started this week, with the first Junior Grand Prix … and I realized I still hadn’t finished my end-of-year wrap-up for last season!! Here it is finally. Because it’s so late, I’ve tried to keep this edition a bit shorter than usual. Hope you enjoy this look …
Cranberry Open is a U.S. club competition that takes place every summer in the town of Hyannis, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. I usually try to make it down there for one day each summer to see some early-season skating. The competitors at Cranberry are mostly local New England skaters. However, the event sometimes draws …
When Deanna Stellato and Nate Bartholomay announced their new partnership in 2016, many in the skating world were taken by surprise. Bartholomay was a U.S. National medalist and Olympian; but at 27, his skating career was in doubt after partner Felicia Zhang retired in 2014 and a subsequent partnership did not work out. Stellato, for …
Continue reading Interview with Stellato/Bartholomay (June 2018)
The Olympics are so big. So many countries participating, so many people watching. For two weeks, we see figure skating on the biggest stage in the world. Well, I'm happy to say that the pairs skaters did not disappoint when it was their turn to take the stage in Pyeongchang. It was a great pairs …
Last week, I had my Olympic pairs predictions all ready to go up on my web site. Then, the Olympic team event started, and everything changed! The pairs discipline in the team event was exciting and unpredictable. It gave us a preview of about half the pairs who will compete in the individual pairs event …
Last week at Four Continents, U.S. pairs fans saw a sight we haven't enjoyed for a quite a long time: A U.S. pairs team standing atop the podium at an international competition. Tarah Kayne/Danny O'Shea of the United States won the title at Four Continents, with their U.S. teammates Cain/LeDuc right behind them. It was …
Last year, the pairs event at Europeans was one of the highlights of the entire season. Unfortunately, this year's event didn't quite live up to that standard. The competition lost a big star when Savchenko/Massot withdrew a few days beforehand, citing a desire to focus on the Olympics (plus an injury to Massot's back). For …
