2021 Canadian championships to return to Vancouver

[victorskid]

Vancouver to host 2021 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships

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skatecanada.ca

Back to the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre January 11-17, 2021.

 

[JasperBoy]

well, that would be tempting.

 

[made_in_canada]

That is tempting. I’ll have to see if I can swing it. Though part of me would rather go to Vegas for skate America.

 

[victorskid]

well, that would be tempting.

Perhaps I'll see you again? My Vancouver cousin is agitating for me to go west again....

 

[kalamalka]

Rosaleen and I will be there! Great news to have it back where she can attend in person.

 

[MR-FAN]

East gets Skate Canada, West gets Nationals. Fair!

 

[manhn]

I thought I was not going to attend a skating event next season. Glad to be wrong!

 

[overedge]

?

 

[Alilou]

 

[kalamalka]

I thought I was not going to attend a skating event next season. Glad to be wrong!

You mean you won't make it to any of the JGP in Richmond?

 

[manhn]

There's going to be a JGP in Richmond? I never heard about it!

 

[kalamalka]

August 26-29 (first of the season). I'm guessing it will be at the Oval this year, although location hasn't been announced yet. There was an article in the Richmond paper last fall about a FS test event that was run by Richmond Sport Hosting with Connaught skating club.

 

[Sylvia]

There's going to be a JGP in Richmond? I never heard about it!

2020/21 Junior Grand Prix Dates & Locations (from ISU Communication 2289 - Decisions of the Council)

https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/22408-isu-communication-2289/file The Council approved the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Calendar for the season 2020/21 as follows: August 26-29, 2020 Richmond / CAN (including Pair Skating) - first held there in 2018...

www.fsuniverse.net

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

As the host facility for the 2018/19 GPF, The Thunderbird Arena received a lot of criticism from customers. Here's hoping that Skate Canada looks into a lot of things that need to be addressed before Vancouver hosts the National Championships again.

 

[made_in_canada]

August 26-29 (first of the season). I'm guessing it will be at the Oval this year, although location hasn't been announced yet. There was an article in the Richmond paper last fall about a FS test event that was run by Richmond Sport Hosting with Connaught skating club.

I missed that too! Thanks!

 

[kalamalka]

Re the location in Richmond for the JGP
It's off-topic in this thread, but the article and event were last summer, and when I saw it some time after the JGP list was published, it seemed that the two were most likely linked:

Connaught & Richmond Sport Hosting give Oval a trial run

Staged event could lead to future national and international competitions in the city

www.richmond-news.com

"Ourselves and the Sport Hosting staff have the appetite to host provincial, national or international level events here in Richmond. The Oval has never been tested in this type of situation before,” explained Connaught director of programs Keegan Murphy, who worked closely with Richmond Sport Hosting manager Pam Lacroix to put the day together. “The Oval needed to go through some stressers of a real competition just to see how it goes and this is the product.
.........

Murphy was very pleased with how the day unfolded and says it’s now up to the provincial organization and Skate Canada to award a competition to Richmond in the coming months.

 

[Japanfan]

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