2025–26 Canadian Men: News and Updates

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Rob Brodie's most recent interview with Wesley Chiu: 'I'm almost back to where I was'

The ankle injury that cut short his previous season back in November is indeed still a thing, but it’s a thing that keeps getting a little bit better with each passing day.

“Yeah, it’s still a thing. It’s not as big of a thing,” he said. “I’m able to train every day (with a ‘reduced load,’ Chiu adds), jump every day, and I’m almost back to where I was pre-injury, but I’m still doing a lot of rehab. It’s still going to be a top priority for this summer, just to really build strength in the ankle and prevent further injury.”

While choreography has been completed on two new programs for Chiu, he suggests there’s a possibility he might keep one or both of last year’s routines (Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” for the short, “Nuvole Bianche” and “Experience” by Ludovico Einaudi for the free) but that’s a decision that’s being kept under wraps for now.

“I’ve been working on new programs, and we have considered keeping old programs, but now I have two (new) programs that are ready to go for next season.,” he said. “I don’t want to specify on whether I’m keeping (last year’s programs) or getting new ones. Want to keep that a surprise.”

 

[danafan]

Chiu had surgery on his ankle. He posted an update on instagram.

WESLEY CHIU on Instagram: "Over the past six months, I’ve been dealing with a sprain and small fracture to my ankle. Although much progress was made, healing was not linear nor predictable. I wasn’t able to train at 100%. I’m glad to share that my

wesleychiu_ on June 2, 2025: "Over the past six months, I’ve been dealing with a sprain and small fracture to my ankle. Although much progress was made, healing was not linear nor predictable. I wasn’t able to train at 100%. I’m glad to share that my surgery went smoothly and hopefully it...

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Over the past six months, I’ve been dealing with a sprain and small fracture to my ankle. Although much progress was made, healing was not linear nor predictable. I wasn’t able to train at 100%.

I’m glad to share that my surgery went smoothly and hopefully it should give us a clearer and quicker path to full recovery.

Special thanks to Dr. Penner and Dr. Gagne for their expertise.

Hope to see you all soon
Wes.

 

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Rob Brodie interview with David Bondar: 'I really want to establish myself'

It also marked the debut of his new free program, skated to the soundtrack from the hugely popular “Game of Thrones” series. Bondar is a fan of the show and the music, and felt Buttle was the perfect choice to craft the program (he is retaining his “Angelica” short program from last season, which was choreographed by Toronto-based ice dance coach Juris Razgulajevs, who is part of the team that guides world silver medallists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier).

Technically, the program will include a quadruple toe jump and two triple Axels, most notably. The quad is something that will get particular attention over the summer months, to gain more consistency in it before the fall season begins. There are also plans to add the quad toe into his short program when he steps up to senior domestically (it isn’t permitted at the junior level internationally).

 

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Let me know if I have missed anyone
2025-26 Scores so far

SENIOR MEN
Matthew Newnham 201- Wild Rose
David Shytengart 195 -Ontario July
John Kim 178 - Ontario July
Bruce Waddell 168- Ontario July

JUNIOR MEN (over 160)
David Bondar 203 - Lake Placid
Grayson Long 195 - NEXT GEN
Edward Vasii 188 NEXT GEN
Anthony Paradis 184 - NEXT GEN
Parker Heiderich 179 - Wild Rose
David Li 175 - NEXT GEN
William Chan 174 - NEXT GEN
Rui Qin 166 - NEXT GEN
Ethan Luo 161 - NEXT GEN

 

[Karen-W]

Here are the Canadian entries for Cranberry Cup Junior & Advanced Novice -

Jr -
David Bondar
William Chan
Grayson Long
Anthony Paradis
Rui Qin
Edward Vasii

Adv Nov -
Justin Jun-Teng Cheung
Matheo Harvey
William Josling
Colton Moness
Art Tyomkin

 

[danafan]

Huge congratulations to Roman Sadovksy for winning the Cranberry Open! Stephen Gogolev was third. Both had issues in the short but were fantastic in the free. I checked his ISU bio and this is Roman's first senior international title (he twice won on the JGP). Fingers crossed this sets the tone for the season. May the best man get the Olympic spot!

 

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Huge congratulations to Roman Sadovksy for winning the Cranberry Open! Stephen Gogolev was third. Both had issues in the short but were fantastic in the free. I checked his ISU bio and this is Roman's first senior international title (he twice won on the JGP). Fingers crossed this sets the tone for the season. May the best man get the Olympic spot!

Check these out before the sound is muted:

There are icicles in Hell and winged pigs are circling Boston Airport.....

 

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SENIOR MEN
Roman Sadovsky 243- Cranberry
Stephen Gogolev 231- Cranberry
John Kim 214- Cranberry
Matthew Newnham 201- Wild Rose
David Shytengart 195 -Ontario July
Bruce Waddell 168- Ontario July

JUNIOR MEN
David Bondar 203 - Lake Placid
Grayson Long 200- Cranberry
Anthony Paradis 200- Cranberry
Edward Vasii 188 NEXT GEN
Parker Heiderich 179 - Wild Rose
David Li 175 - NEXT GEN
William Chan 174 - NEXT GEN
Rui Qin 166 - NEXT GEN
Ethan Luo 161 - NEXT GEN

 

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SENIOR MEN
Roman Sadovsky 243- Cranberry
Stephen Gogolev 231- Cranberry
John Kim 214- Cranberry
Matthew Newnham 207- BC Summer
Shohei Law 207 - BC Summer
Aleksa Rakic 204 - BC Summer
(Anthony Paradis- 200 Cranberry- junior score)
David Shteyngart 195 -Ontario July
Bruce Waddell 194- Ontario August


JUNIOR MEN
David Bondar 203 - Lake Placid
Grayson Long 200- Cranberry
Anthony Paradis 200- Cranberry
Edward Vasii 188 NEXT GEN
Parker Heiderich 179 - Wild Rose
David Li 175 - NEXT GEN
William Chan 174 - NEXT GEN
Rui Qin 166 - NEXT GEN
Ethan Luo 161 - NEXT GEN

 

[angi]

Not sure if it warrants a dedicated thread or not, but Keegan Messing announced his return to competitive skating today. He plans to compete next season, and I would imagine his goal is to qualify for the Olympics.

 

[Aaron MB Fan]

Just saw this announcement on my IG and came running here. Whaaaat? Who had this on their bingo card??

 

[Habs]

I checked the date to make sure it wasn't April 1.

I mean.... good for him, I guess? The Canadian men aren't exactly lighting it up, so why not?

 

[Wyliefan]

I checked the date to make sure it wasn't April 1.

So did I.

 

[luckiest1]

This is fantastic news. I’ve been hoping for this, so good for the Canadian men’s scene.

 

[skategal]

So did I.

Me three.

 

[Habs]

Not sure if it warrants a dedicated thread or not, but Keegan Messing announced his return to competitive skating today. He plans to compete next season, and I would imagine his goal is to qualify for the Olympics.

The Skate Canada announcement says his goal is the Olympics. He's going to the SC High Performance Camp.... which is really soon, no?

The more I think about this, the more I like it.

 

[skategal]

The Skate Canada announcement says his goal is the Olympics. He's going to the SC High Performance Camp.... which is really soon, no?

The more I think about this, the more I like it.

I’d say the impact Covid had on his last experience at Olympics kept him wanting more.

He was gutted not to be able to compete the team event IIRC.

 

[TAHbKA]

Cool! Suddenly the Olympics became a bit more interesting and CAN chances in the team event are now somewhere between Italy and Georgia

 

[Kateri]

Wow. Some people really can't keep their heads down, huh? I guess he saw Xinyu Liu was still competing, and figured nobody cares, so why not?

 

[honey]

It seems a bit disorganized, doesn’t it? Why wait until now instead of earlier in the summer when he probably could have gotten 2 GP assignments? I get maybe he was testing the waters to see if he could actually train the way he wants to, but he’s put himself way behind in terms of getting the season underway by doing this now.

But I also don’t fault a guy for looking at the state of the Canadian men for the last 3 years and being like, yeah I could probably get to the Olympics again on a couple months of training.

Interested to see where this goes. I think he can probably get the skills back on raw physicality alone. The stamina to put it all together in a program isn’t going to be easy to get back though.

 

[PRlady]

Oh great. I’ve missed those hokey programs like I’ve missed poison ivy.

 

[kwanette]

Been out all morning and came home to this news..Okey dokey..

 

[TAHbKA]

It seems a bit disorganized, doesn’t it? Why wait until now instead of earlier in the summer when he probably could have gotten 2 GP assignments? I get maybe he was testing the waters to see if he could actually train the way he wants to, but he’s put himself way behind in terms of getting the season underway by doing this now.

Why would he go to the GP? Frankly, his main competition will be the nationals (or whatever competition CAN uses to decide on the Olympic spot). Assuming he got to the GP as a returning athlete (would he?) and perhaps a CAN host spot. In CAN GP he would be what? 5th at the best case 8th realistically? What's the point going there? Wasting his time and going into the Olympics as a dude who couldn't even medal at his home event?

 

[SkateFanBerlin]

Poor Roman taking it from all sides. Surprised by this. Agree from post above - he definately needs some new type of program. Judges will be bored as we will fom another season of cowboy rock.

 

[4rkidz]

I like this

 

[Aceon6]

I wonder how much Skate Canada had to pay?

 

[Jammers]

Does nobody stay retired anymore? Get's a bit annoying seeing skaters trying to sneak in and get an Olympic spot competing as little as possible compared to the current skaters who've been putting in the work for the whole Olympic cycle.

 

[crzesk8dad]

Alaska figure skater Keegan Messing will return to competition with an eye toward the Olympics

Messing, 33, announced his retirement in spring 2023 but continued to perform on the figure skating show circuit.

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[my little pony]

what's he gonna hold up in the k & c now? a kidney stone?

 

[Carolla5501]

Does nobody stay retired anymore? Get's a bit annoying seeing skaters trying to sneak in and get an Olympic spot competing as little as possible compared to the current skaters who've been putting in the work for the whole Olympic cycle.

Well, if they put in all that work, shouldn’t they actually be better than these people who haven’t been putting in all that work for the last few

Or are you sayingYou don’t get rewarded what you put on the ice, it’s a participation award for being next in line.