2025–26 Canadian Ice Dance: News and Updates

[victorskid]

Haley Sales & Nick Wamsteeker were married yesterday - Ted Barton posted photo of himself with them on his Instagram.

Ted Barton on Instagram: "Congratulations to this wonderful couple!"

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Bev Smith weighs in on the most recent ice dance judging controversy: Ice Dance Hocus Pocus

The Olympics always brings out the worst in ice dancing judging, but this year’s incidents have reached another level of hocus pocus.

To start off with, the optics were not good when Shawn Rettstatt, an American chair of the ISU ice dance technical committee, acted as the technical controller at both Skate America – where top Olympic contenders Madison Chock and Evan Bates competed – and at Finlandia Trophy, where a couple of their major competitors – Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron (France) and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier (world silver medalists from Canada) were competing. Rettstatt and his panel set all the levels of difficulty up to level four, most difficult. We hardly saw any level fours.

At both events, the tech panel awarded a host of level ones (lowest difficulty) to teams that are the best in the world, unless of course, you were Chock and Bates, and another up and coming US team Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik.

 

[chantilly]

Ooooh that article's a doozy!

 

[Winnipeg]

I hope this does not take us back to the old days of judging cheating or unfairness in dance.

Is there no method of accountability built into the system yet? I thought this had been addressed after SLC?