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2004 (Burnaby) to 2016 (Oakville) - I was one of the three, along with Pat and another friend of ours. Thanks for the thread! Pat was a true icon of adult skating and was still skating at 88, just a couple of weeks before she passed. We will miss her so much.

Canadian coverage, with brief comments from Brian Orser near the end... CTV National News: Young figure skaters among the victims https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/01/31/ctv-national-news-young-figure-skaters-among-the-victims/

116 is fine - nothing covered.

Four, including Bolender/Dotzert, who have also split. He is on ice partner search.

We have been waiting many MANY years for team jackets, so we were excited to FINALLY have them!

No, if the skater can differentiate between the two jumps correctly, they are fine and could still get credit for two flips and two lutzes. This would only penalize skaters who don't distinguish and always do either inside or outside edge take-offs.

Valid points, but I think the idea with calling the jump based on the actual take-off edge is that skaters could no longer get away with doing, say, two triple flips and two triple flutzes in a program (or two triple lips and two triple lutzes). In both of those cases, only the first two jumps...

A lot of Canadian clubs use Uplifter: https://www.uplifterinc.com/ There are various licensing tiers including a free one. From what I’ve heard, they do have international customers as well.

This is so so horrible. There is a Gofundme for Mitch and the baby here: https://gofund.me/7d176581

Single-day tickets are going on sale next week: https://skatecanada.ca/2023/08/isu-world-figure-skating-championships-2024-day-tickets-available-shortly/

I agree - he has improved with Ravi and he has been skating well. I thought he did well to still land a quad and 3A, given the unfortunate luck with his boots and blade. That had to throw him off a bit, especially being his first Worlds and not having the experience of some of the more seasoned...

Same. :( My most common falls are forward onto one of my knees. I am thinking this depends a lot on the person.

LOL the people on Instagram threatening to stop watching if Kevin ends up with the wedding singer. Like, they do know that there are only 5 total episodes left in the whole series, right? Pretty sure the producers don't care and aren't going to change anything at this point. ? Put me on Team...

Yes, I have known people who have chosen to compete ISU artistic without the required jump and/or spin and they have just taken the required missing element deduction. Examples are here, if this link works...

Yep. I cringe every time Skate Canada mentions "skate for life", while entirely ignoring adult skating. And even Skate Ontario, which really has made an effort for adult skating, cancelled Adult Provincials again this year, since they couldn't find a club to host it. It was last held in 2019...