Deanna Stellato-Dudek (FOREVER!) & Maxime Deschamps (HOT!) Cheer Thread

[Sylvia]

^^^ @sk9tingfan that person on Twitter/X was joking. ETA that their followup tweet says: "in all seriousness this man was definitely just in mtl for the funeral of one of the old prime ministers yesterday and probably decided to stick around for an extra day"

For context, I had posted this in the Canadian Pairs news thread last week:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1771298168375755152

35-second clip from their interview with CBC's Scott Russell: https://twitter.com/abbylckharts/status/1771887519468007458

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Justin Trudeau showed up at the World's banquet to personally award Deanna Stellato her Canadian citizenship.

https://twitter.com/loopohater/status/1772107947214070155

Holy crap, really? How amazing.

Lol never mind I just read Sylvia’s post

 

[Lanie]

No, it was some random person joking about it…

 

[Jay42]

She's on track to get her citizenship without actually needing it expedited. IIRC at the latest she should be able to have it by summer/fall 2025. The turnaround time is usually 5-6 years. I can see why Maxime would mention getting it advanced though because the process can take ages.

I take a lot of ID photos for passports, permanent residence and citizenship applications. Sometimes the customers and I chat.

 

[sk9tingfan]

Deanna stellato at Junior Worlds at the age of 16. What a throwback!:

Deanna Stellato 2000 Junior Worlds FS

www.youtube.com

 

[Sylvia]

Tara Lipinski on Deanna (March 27) - excerpt from Lipinski's 7.5-minute CBC Sports interview with Scott Russell: https://twitter.com/CBCOlympics/status/1773060159348088995

TeamCanada.ca article (March 25):

Passion, preparation, and partnership at the heart of Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps’ rise to world champions

At the moment Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps finished their gold medal-winning free skate at the 2024 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, the noise at the Bell Centre in Montreal was measured at more than 90 decibels.

olympic.ca

CNN article (March 23): https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/sport/figure-skating-championships-deanna-stellato-dudek/index.html

An Australian blog post:

Retired at 17, world champion at 40: Deanna Stellato-Dudek becomes oldest woman to win skating world title

"Forty is the new twenty," Deanna Stellato-Dudek declared with pride on having the "oldest woman" title and becoming a world champion.

womensagenda.com.au

Deanna & Max are in Osaka now for Stars on Ice rehearsals - their first Japan SOI tour!

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Tara Lipinski on Deanna (March 27) - excerpt from Lipinski's 7.5-minute CBC Sports interview with Scott Russell: https://twitter.com/CBCOlympics/status/1773060159348088995

TeamCanada.ca article (March 25):

Passion, preparation, and partnership at the heart of Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps’ rise to world champions

At the moment Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps finished their gold medal-winning free skate at the 2024 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, the noise at the Bell Centre in Montreal was measured at more than 90 decibels.

olympic.ca

CNN article (March 23): https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/sport/figure-skating-championships-deanna-stellato-dudek/index.html

An Australian blog post:

Retired at 17, world champion at 40: Deanna Stellato-Dudek becomes oldest woman to win skating world title

"Forty is the new twenty," Deanna Stellato-Dudek declared with pride on having the "oldest woman" title and becoming a world champion.

womensagenda.com.au

Deanna & Max are in Osaka now for Stars on Ice rehearsals - their first Japan SOI tour!

all of the posts

I thought the one article would’ve addressed it but when she moved north to Montreal did her husband go with her? I’m curious as how they worked that out if he went with or he stayed behind in Chicago?

 

[Sylvia]

More Deanna articles:

Toronto Star today:

‘As an older athlete, I have to be even more committed.’ At 40, Deanna Stellato-Dudek tells us about being the oldest figure skater to win a world title

After retiring at 17, she didn’t lace up her skates in 16 years. She's back and competing against teens, and says age has its advantages.

www.thestar.com

The Kit (April 10):

She Came Out of Retirement at 40 To Smash Figure Skating Records—Here's How She Did It

Deanna Stellato-Dudek talks career shifts, the benefits of age and competing against teens

thekit.ca

ETA from the Canadian Pairs news thread in GSD:

Global TV interview with Deanna & Max: https://globalnews.ca/video/1041720...k-and-maxime-deschamps-on-their-historic-win/
It includes reference to their inclusion on the Stars on Ice tour.

 

[Sylvia]

Deanna article in the Chicago Tribune by free-lance journalist Emily McClanathan (April 18):

Deanna Stellato-Dudek becomes the oldest woman to win a figure skating world title — by channeling childhood idol Michael Jordan

When Deanna Stellato-Dudek attended a work retreat in 2016, she didn’t know it would set her on a path toward winning a world championship in figure skating.

www.chicagotribune.com

GSD news & discussion thread:

Please consider signing this petition to help Deanna Stellato-Dudek obtain Canadian citizenship sooner rather than later

Please consider supporting Deanna Stellato-Dudek in her quest for obtaining Canadian citizenship -- sooner rather than later -- so she can become eligible to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics in pairs figure skating with 🇨🇦Maxime Deschamps (started on April 15, 2024 on Change.org)...

www.fsuniverse.net

Deanna & Max are performing in "Gold on Ice" in Leesburg, Virginia tonight and then it's on to CSOI rehearsals next week in Halifax.

April 11 in the Canadian Pairs thread (5 min. interview):

Global TV interview with Deanna & Max: https://globalnews.ca/video/1041720...k-and-maxime-deschamps-on-their-historic-win/
It includes reference to their inclusion on the Stars on Ice tour.

 

[Sylvia]

Top seeded Deanna & Max's 2024 Grand Prix assignments are #2 Skate Canada International and #5 Finlandia Trophy.

From the end of Canadian sports journalist Rob Brodie's substack post today (June 12) about Canada's GP assignments that were announced on June 9: https://rwbrodiewrites.substack.com/p/some-grand-news-and-a-milestone

Allow me to take you back to the events of March 21, the night Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps put Canada back on top of the World pairs podium. It was an unforgettable (and lengthy) night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, with the post-event press conference not finishing until 11:45 p.m. We’d barely gotten back to the media centre when we were told the building had to be vacated by midnight (house rules). It meant packing up my computer, schlepping 15 minutes down the street to my hotel, and figuring out how to sum up what I’d seen.

One thing I’ve learned in this business, though, is this: the more exhilarating the moment you’ve seen, the easier it can be to describe it. That 15-minute walk back to the hotel gave me time to think about the whole thing, and the words just flowed when I got going. It was the best thing I wrote all week [note: article is linked below]. Near the end of it all, I noticed the clock in the corner of my computer screen was ticking toward 2 a.m. And I had this thought:

“I’m not even getting paid to do this! Why am I still up?”

But then, almost immediately, this thought …

“Now you know you’re doing this for the right reason.”

Like I said, labour of love. And not an ounce of regret.

Worlds 2024: 'We've got a Hollywood script on our hands'

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps lived out a golden dream in the city they call home. It's one of the most remarkable stories figure skating has ever seen.

rwbrodiewrites.substack.com

 

[Judy]

Holy crap, really? How amazing.

Lol never mind I just read Sylvia’s post

Oh wow I actually almost fell for that while thinking how did I miss that

 

[Sylvia]

CBS Chicago (June 11):

Suburban Chicago native chases Olympic gold again after 16+ year retirement

Within three months, Stellato-Dudek was once again landing every triple jump. And while Stellato-Dudek got back on the ice for herself, she told herself this time, she wouldn't say no to anything offered to her.

www.cbsnews.com

Also on YT:

Deanna visited/filmed this piece at the Glenview rink in May (same dress in Rohene’s photo):

Rohene Ward on Instagram: "What a SURPRISE to have our dear friend and the New Current WORLD CHAMPION @deannamsd622 stop by her old rink and say hello to our generation of kids!! You are a QUEEN MY LOVE!!! ANDsuch an inspiration to our new young gene

309 likes, 4 comments - rohenew on May 23, 2024: "What a SURPRISE to have our dear friend and the New Current WORLD CHAMPION @deannamsd622 stop by her old rink and say hello to our...".

www.instagram.com

 

[Sylvia]

Re-posting here from the 2024 Skate Canada International subforum in Kiss & Cry:

I don't know how many will be able to access this link from the (Manitoba) Free Press, but it is about Deanna's journey, starting with her first international outing in Winnipeg in 1998 through to her hopes to compete at the 2026 Olympics in Italy.

Figure skater on top of the world, decades after International debut

HALIFAX — Ya gotta start somewhere. For Canada’s reigning world pairs figure skating champion Deanna Stellato-Dudek that somewhere was a suburban Winnipeg ice rink. At what was then known as Dakota Co...

click.email.winnipegfreepress.com

Thank you @Skate Talker - I always enjoy reading Laurin Nealin's articles. Loved this part:

Yet, the seemingly ageless Stellato-Dudek has never forgotten her first international assignment as a singles competitor for Team USA.
“It was so exciting at that age to get an international and even though it was only in Canada, it still felt like such a big deal,” recalled the Chicago-born athlete.
Stellato-Dudek was one of eight young women chosen to compete in Winnipeg at the 1998 North American Challenge Skate ((NACS), a now defunct event intended to give promising novice level skaters from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico early experiences with international competition.
The Free Press reported at the time Stellato had “created the biggest buzz of the competition” as she “nailed triple jump after triple jump” during practice sessions at the Dakota rink.
When asked what she wanted to accomplish in the next three years, the then U.S. novice women’s champion answered, “Well, that’s the year before the (2002) Olympics, so I want to be world champion and the next year win the Olympics.”
When reminded of her long-ago ambition following the pairs practice on Thursday, Stellato-Dudek exclaimed, “Wow. That’s so crazy. Had the (Olympic mindset), then didn’t, then got it back.
“The 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City and the 2006 Olympics, I was actually aiming for both,” she continued. “2006 was also in Italy, so it’s very hilarious that 20 years later I’m trying to go the Olympics in Italy again. It’s a very full circle, comedic moment.”

Encouraging citizenship news updates are posted in Deanna's thread in GSD (posts #40-42): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...-rather-than-later.111726/page-2#post-6667687

 

[Sylvia]

Tatjana Flade interviewed Deanna & Maxime at Nebelhorn Trophy in September 2024 (uploaded Oct. 24 on the ISIO YT channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1czWiTj0Eqg

Anastasia Bucsis interviewed them (and Goldie the dog) at SCI24 in Halfax for CBC Sports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y9SyddPpnQ