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He was at Canadian Challenge with Kaiya Ruiter and Grayson Long - maybe others. Orser looked great and seemed happy in the K&C.

I know it has a lot to do with my previous choices/algorithms but now I am being bombarded with articles complete with dozens and dozens of comments on the current state of ice dance and who was/is better. Just what the sport does not need, especially weeks before an olympic competition. Well...

She has had the most successful return to competition that at least I remember. You go girl!

My husband, who rarely comments although out of necessity he does know quite a bit about skating, really enjoys Isabeau. Best of luck to her for the rest of this important year.

They state that the record of the suspension will be deleted from their data base after the two month suspension is served. That seems nuts to me. If they have enough evidence to impose a punishment surely they have a responsibility to protect future victims by making that information...

This is so great. I love how they state each point they make as being their opinions but then they back it up with real tangible details and then specific clips that clearly illustrate their conclusions. Fantastic!!

A FrenchCanadian neighbour told us of a croissant bakery in St. Boniface (the french area in our city). They are simply out of this world. So much better than anything else that I have ever had that was called a croissant - more like what I had in Paris when there with our daughter. Their...

So we, as fans, are allowed to have our favourites, prefer one style over another, dislike a move or costume, be biased to teams from our country or who train with coaches we admire, and be unwilling to support or cheer for skaters we believe have acted inappropriately. We may be justified in...

I do understand the meaning of the word "whining" and even "whinging" and agree that it is not attractive and rarely productive in the long term. In ice dance though, it seems to me, there have to be better ways incorporated into the sport that allow athletes to have a voice in the direction...

They will go down in history as one of the amazing pairs of all time. I know it shouldn't be only about their age. It is really about belief in yourself, rejecting established barriers and perceived limits, forming new unlikely collaborations, overcoming disappointments and not giving up, and...

I am a big fan of Marjorie and Zach but I think it is unfortunate that they are even mentioned in this conversation. Sometimes the breaks work your way and sometimes they don't. This is about a much larger issue than fans disappointed in the placement of their favourites. I agree with Marta 24.

I know the timing on all of this is terrible and it is easy to criticize the critics but much of this is coming from those who truly love ice dance, including some skaters themselves, and anyone familiar with the sport know how scary it is for them to speak up. It is challenging because...

Not to me. I saw Marjorie as the happy, easy going, fun one and Zach as the serious, classically trained musician, but after their Rio program I threw that thinking out. Perhaps the fact that they have been around longer, were junior world champions, it is harder to have a big impact. Young...

I still see ads for "Own the Podium". I thought there was another corporate group that provided sports experts and funds for Virtue and Moir that paid for physiotherapists and really helpful extras for top Canadian athletes. Does anyone know what is in place now?It might have been called "Road...

As my sweet mother used to often say "I would like to be a fly on the wall..". It must be extra challenging that IAM is the coaching team smack dab in the middle of this, especially if they received specific feedback on elements for one team prior to competition from the technical panel.