Canadian Pairs 2017/2018 Season News and Updates

[MamaS]

When traveling from Cda to Europe on a non direct flight your luggage is checked in at the cdn airport and transferred through to your connecting flight (hopefully the correct one). You do not get your checked bag back again so there’s no way to add skates into it once you’re in Europe. These athletes must put them in checked bags if they are making any sort of connecting flight in Europe.

 

[Sylvia]

Their r a few novice pairs being sent out this spring to an int'l competition

Do you know which pairs and competition, @barbarafan? Did you see this on FB or ??

 

[barbarafan]

Do you know which pairs and competition, @barbarafan? Did you see this on FB or ??

Well..I did see it on one of the teams fb or their training fb site and I believe the other team was mentioned. Then on the isu site....It is something like Egna or similiar I think in April. I will try to find it

 

[Sylvia]

Must be Egna (formerly Gardena) Spring Trophy in Italy... I haven't seen entries published online yet.

 

[barbarafan]

Must be Egna (formerly Gardena) Spring Trophy in Italy... I haven't seen entries published online yet.

Here is the announcement that they were being sent but this one just says them..Another one I saw said the 2. Are Mcintoshe and Toste still novice and were they 1st at cdns?
https://cimtchau.ca/nouvelles/une-premiere-competition-internationale-pour-alexandre-simard/

 

[Rafter]

Is KMT injured? Anyone know? She seemed to be favouring her leg/ankle at the end of their SP.

 

[supergirl573]

Is KMT injured? Anyone know? She seemed to be favouring her leg/ankle at the end of their SP.

Well she needs not to be, seeing as Julianne and Charlie aren't making the free.

 

[jmtfti]

Can't say two of three Canadian pairs likely missing the free at Worlds was on my radar at the outset of this season.

 

[caseyedwards]

It’s so shocking! It’s a cataclysm

 

[barbarafan]

Can't say two of three Canadian pairs likely missing the free at Worlds was on my radar at the outset of this season.

Up to nationals I would have been surprised.. After...it was anyone's guess.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Wow, so KMT/M and SK/S are both fighting for a top 10 spot to have more than one spot for Canadian and US Pairs. Yowza.

 

[danafan]

Wow, so KMT/M and SK/S are both fighting for a top 10 spot to have more than one spot for Canadian and US Pairs. Yowza.

Somewhat OT but it was clarified on twitter than the Knierims can finish 11th and keep two spots because the second US pair finished 17th, and 11+17 is the magic number 28.

https://twitter.com/rockerskating/status/976569316505038848

 

[honey]

Is KMT injured? Anyone know? She seemed to be favouring her leg/ankle at the end of their SP.

Apparently, yes.

“It was difficult today,’’ said Moore-Towers, who is battling an ankle injury. ‘’We haven’t done a full program since the Olympics. But we were successful in staying present in each moment and finished strong.’’

Quote at the end of this article.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/2018...ay-of-figure-skating-world-championships.html

Keeping two spots looking more precarious now.

 

[coppertop1]

It’s so shocking! It’s a cataclysm

No. Just a bad competition but I'm pretty sure we'll survive. What happened to S/B?

 

[kwanfan1818]

Somewhat OT but it was clarified on twitter than the Knierims can finish 11th and keep two spots because the second US pair finished 17th, and 11+17 is the magic number 28.

https://twitter.com/rockerskating/status/976569316505038848

Oh, I always forget about 17th place in Pairs vs. not making the FS for 18 points in every other discipline. Ideally, given the competition ahead of them, MT/M will come in 10th, and SK/K will come in 11th, and both the US and Canada will earn two spots for next year.

 

[clairecloutier]

Somewhat OT but it was clarified on twitter than the Knierims can finish 11th and keep two spots because the second US pair finished 17th, and 11+17 is the magic number 28.

https://twitter.com/rockerskating/status/976569316505038848

This doesn’t seem consistent with the ISU document that @Sylvia linked to here: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...wo-skating-as-one.101317/page-20#post-5329608

Unless I am confused (quite possible )

The text seems to say if the SP placement is lower than 18 (S/B’s placement is 17), still, 18 points are awarded.

 

[ChiquitaBanana]

I think mag’s kid was an international competitor, so she knows a lot about travel with skates...

Then she should know a little more about the support team surrounding the athletes.
Mag sure can tell us which competitions her daughter took part in abroad.
She wouldn’t be the sole poster on this forum to have had such experience. You never know the background behind our screen name...

 

[ChiquitaBanana]

(Alert : this post might hurt some’s sensibility)

You remember, I wanted to match Moore-Towers and Massot?
Abort the project, I have a better idea... Kirsten and Charlie Bilodeau. That would be such a fantasy coming true!

(Please, make my day, don’t dismantle my high hopes and dreams... )

 

[mag]

@ChiquitaBanana I have worked in the airline industry and I know for a fact figure skates have been carried on through Frankfurt. The European Union regulations around carry on baggage do not specifically forbid figure skates. The TSA regulations specifically say that figure skates are permitted in carry on.

Now, having spent many years also as a skating parent, I can also assure you that coaches and federation official vary greatly in their competence. I would never, ever, accept what one told me about anything (other than specific technical coaching stuff) without thoroughly checking it out myself first. Once burned, twice shy.

 

[Rock2]

No. Just a bad competition but I'm pretty sure we'll survive. What happened to S/B?

3 mistakes, two of them falls

 

[ChiquitaBanana]

@ChiquitaBanana I have worked in the airline industry and I know for a fact figure skates have been carried on through Frankfurt. The European Union regulations around carry on baggage do not specifically forbid figure skates. The TSA regulations specifically say that figure skates are permitted in carry on.

Now, having spent many years also as a skating parent, I can also assure you that coaches and federation official vary greatly in their competence. I would never, ever, accept what one told me about anything (other than specific technical coaching stuff) without thoroughly checking it out myself first. Once burned, twice shy.

I doubt Richard Gauthier, Bruno Marcotte and Michael Slipchuk are like the wannabe coaches you see along the roads...

 

[DimaToe]

So even if small, there seems to be a chance that Canada could go from 3 spots to 1. Has such a thing ever happened before?

 

[shutterbug]

Here is the announcement that they were being sent but this one just says them..Another one I saw said the 2. Are Mcintoshe and Toste still novice and were they 1st at cdns?
https://cimtchau.ca/nouvelles/une-premiere-competition-internationale-pour-alexandre-simard/

The other team going to Egna may be McIntosh/Toste as per coach Andrew Evan's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BfT7LxsAyOx/?taken-by=coachandrewevans

 

[WanderlustTO]

just watched julianne and charlie's skate. wow, what a shock. i wasn't expecting that one. i'd thought (perhaps "hoped" is a better word) they'd be in striking distance of a medal.

 

[dramagrrl]

Abort the project, I have a better idea... Kirsten and Charlie Bilodeau. That would be such a fantasy coming true!

TERRIBLE IDEA.

 

[Rafter]

(Alert : this post might hurt some’s sensibility)

You remember, I wanted to match Moore-Towers and Massot?
Abort the project, I have a better idea... Kirsten and Charlie Bilodeau. That would be such a fantasy coming true!

(Please, make my day, don’t dismantle my high hopes and dreams... )

I like this idea but I doubt it will ever happen.

I see KMT as Canada no 1 next year.

 

[barbarafan]

The other team going to Egna may be McIntosh/Toste as per coach Andrew Evan's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BfT7LxsAyOx/?taken-by=coachandrewevans

Thanks.....I still can't find where I saw it but I knew it was whoever came 1st at Nationals in novice pairs but it is the 2.
They also sent 2 novice dance teams (1st and second in novice) to Egna earlier this yr for dance and they both did very well there. This is the sort of things our skaters need.

 

[barbarafan]

just watched julianne and charlie's skate. wow, what a shock. i wasn't expecting that one. i'd thought (perhaps "hoped" is a better word) they'd be in striking distance of a medal.

I had been thinking just off the podium. Julianne did not look well. I hope she is ok

 

[barbarafan]

TERRIBLE IDEA.

That would be horrible...I do not see Charlie as a partner jumper. They are both terrific and they will rise again.

 

[Catherine M]

I like this idea but I doubt it will ever happen.

I see KMT as Canada no 1 next year.

And me to the list that would love to see KMT and Charlie together. And agree it probably would never happen but as painful it would be for their existing partners, sometimes you need to think of the big picture as what do you want as an athlete???