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Here we are... interesting how they opted for 6 ladies. Interesting about the men too....
Exciting year to come.
http://skatecanada.ca/national-team/
Exciting year to come.
http://skatecanada.ca/national-team/
Skate Canada updated the National Team
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does it say that you need a password for everyone else?
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Yes and it even gives me an error code sometimes but I just select cancel and keep going.
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Unfortunately one of my (many) fears came true with Kevin not being on the national team. I'm sad about it but kept the tab open from skate canada when he was on it up (My computer better not act up in a way where I have to restart it though for the next year....though that'll be near impossible). However, I was sort of expecting that he would not be on it. Which is sad. But as a huge fan of him, I was being realistic with my prediction on that this would happen.
I wonder if the reason why Kaetlyn was put on the national team but not Kevin was due to that she would be competition ready for the Grand Prix season though both she and Kevin WD from nationals (Which honestly I don't want him to do the GP series. It's a marathon, not a sprint to recovery. And again, I'm saying that as a HUGE fan of Kevin. Don't want him to get injured this badly anymore).
But it still makes me sad regardless......
I wonder if the reason why Kaetlyn was put on the national team but not Kevin was due to that she would be competition ready for the Grand Prix season though both she and Kevin WD from nationals (Which honestly I don't want him to do the GP series. It's a marathon, not a sprint to recovery. And again, I'm saying that as a HUGE fan of Kevin. Don't want him to get injured this badly anymore).
But it still makes me sad regardless......
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No Kevin
Wishing him the best so he may have a fast recovery.
I wish him a fast as possible recovery. More of a steady, healthy, slow, and careful recovery is what I'm hoping....so hopefully by the time nationals comes around....oh I'm just being so unrealistic right now.
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I wonder if Kevin's already decided not to compete at all this season, to focus on his recovery, and that's why they didn't put him on the team? To be honest I know very little about how Skate Canada operates.
I'm also curious about why there are only four ice dance teams. I know there are a lot of new teams, but surely there's someone who could benefit. Aren't Edwards/Pang moving up to senior? I wonder if they had to make room in another discipline to accommodate six ladies.
I'm also curious about why there are only four ice dance teams. I know there are a lot of new teams, but surely there's someone who could benefit. Aren't Edwards/Pang moving up to senior? I wonder if they had to make room in another discipline to accommodate six ladies.
Kevin has had the same type of injury and surgery that both Alissa Czisny and Evan Lysacek had. Neither was able to return to competition afterward, although both had announced plans to attempt returning. I don't recall Kevin making any kind of announcement about his post-surgery competition plans, so it makes sense that Skate Canada wouldn't have put him on the team.
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The basic criterion is (and has been in previous years, AFAIK) top five placement at Nats -- and then Skate Canada has the discretion to add the likes of Patrick Chan and Kaetlyn Osmond.
http://skatecanada.ca/2015/07/skate-canada-announces-2015-2016-national-team/ (Jul 7 Skate Canada press release)
I love Edwards/Pang
, but they obviously are not in the same league as Chan and Osmond.Orford/Williams would have been the fifth team --- they were 4th ahead of Paradis/Ouellette at Nationals --- but they split; she has teamed with Asher Hill.
Bent/MacKeen were 6th at Nationals, and they, too have split; she has teamed with Dmitre Razgulajevs but is remaining junior internationally.
Skate Canada may have been reluctant to name Edwards/Pang to the National Team because they were 7th at Nationals.
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You mean Edwards/Pang?
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... I hope that Skate Canada would not have been reluctant to name Pang/Tong
to its National Team (for any discipline ).But agree that it is understandable that Edwards/Pang were not included. Hope they will move up in future years :yay:.
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Thanks, golden411 and chuckm! I had been thinking the discretionary picks could be used to develop a younger skater/team, but it makes sense that it's instead for giving spots to top-notch athletes who missed Nationals the year before.
Yes, I imagine naming Pang/Tong to the Canadian national ice dance team would have caused a stir for several reasons
EDIT: I didn't see Krunchii's and golden411's replies before I posted. I didn't mean to pile on about the Edwards/Pang and Pang/Tong mistake. But it was a funny one.
Yes, I imagine naming Pang/Tong to the Canadian national ice dance team would have caused a stir for several reasons
EDIT: I didn't see Krunchii's and golden411's replies before I posted. I didn't mean to pile on about the Edwards/Pang and Pang/Tong mistake. But it was a funny one.
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Last season they did handle things differently than usual where pairs were concerned -- Moore-Towers/Marinaro, who had only recently teamed up, and Jones/Reagan, who finished seventh and last at 2014 Canadians, were both named to the team with Duhamel/Radford. But that was a situation in which D/R and J/R were literally the only senior teams who remained intact from 2013-14, so it was probably a bit more urgent than maintaining a full roster of five in dance this season. (I would personally have liked to have seen E/P benefit as well, though. If they pick up a Grand Prix assignment over the summer, they should at least be getting an invite to High Performance Camp.)
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Well, I should add ... I do not pretend to know any inside scoop re Skate Canada's thought process. Was just giving my two cents based only on reading between the lines.
The good news -- as someone else already noted above -- is that international comps (including GPs) are not unthinkable for those not on the national team.
But my impression is that the national team has special status (and the most funding, I would guess?).
I do remember noticing in previous photos from Skate Canada's High Performance Camp that some of the group shots are limited to the national team, although not all the skaters at HPC are on the national team.
Weird that neither Balde nor Bell/Swiegers are on the list but they both have international GP assignments! I mean wouldn't it have to be Skate Canada that submitted their names for assignments.
Also makes it pretty clear who will be the TBAs at Skate Canada. In Dance it would be Paradis/Ouellette and in Pairs it would be Grenier/Deschamps.
Also makes it pretty clear who will be the TBAs at Skate Canada. In Dance it would be Paradis/Ouellette and in Pairs it would be Grenier/Deschamps.
I think Paradis/Ouellette are the right choice for SC, but I also think Edwards & Pang are special and worth supporting. I wonder, though, if the federation wanted to see these two and the new teams battle it out first before raising E&P onto that top tier list.
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I too would love to know why Balde isn't on the team . I seem to recall he was sick or injured at Nationals? has he recovered and is he training?
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