I think Roman said something like that in his last video. Watching Challenge made me wish that we could've had virtual Skate Canada. Shame this is the end of the season, likely.
Doesn't Skate Canada buy the time from TSN?
Considering they weren't planning on sending skaters to Worlds in the unlikely event that it did happen, it makes sense.
Besides covid & travel concerns, A big concern of Skate Canada is the training time the athletes have had (or mainly not had), depending where they live etc there have been various levels of lockdowns/restrictions that impact their ability to train on the ice.
Oh great! Yay! I get to see them! So, I get to see most Canadians at least skate once this year, but Stephen G.
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. Romsky doesn’t know if Worlds goes on, how they are going to select Canadian Team. In the case they do select athletes, Romsky was trying to remember if how well he skated or not. I guess they would base the selection heavily on this virtual competition possibly. I found humour in that part. Anyways, I have a feeling Canada won’t be participating at Worlds this year. So, that is disappointing.
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but yeah... i still wish they would have considered a virtual championship maybe in the spring.. or whatever... but it seems that they prefer closing the season right now and calling it a night... they cannot possible say that challenge winners are national champions after the fact... i think that's unfair to those who had byes or played it safe to qualify (some of the newer pairs) i have a hard time computing what is possible or not... because we have athletes in the middle east competing in judo right now, and i don't think judo canada has that much more money than skate canada... but i am almost 100% sure that there won't be any worlds for canada.... what's the point??? if our athletes cannot train for nationals, they certainly cannot train for worlds... i actually believe that worlds will also be canceled...Ok. Good! So, you expected the cancellation. I was thinking of going since it was being held in my home turf. Glad I didn’t get to the point of buying a tickets and rearranging my work schedule I guess....4everchan had an evening of important meetings and called his mom before chilling and just found out the news LOL
I am not devastated because i am not surprised.... unlike what happened for worlds where i had printed my tickets, reorganized my whole schedule and was thinking about which snacks i would smuggle into the rink
What the USFS is doing isn’t a bubble; I don’t think bubbles are especially viable for figure skating, as it would require isolating the athletes in hotel rooms for two weeks, so you’d probably have to bring everybody to the event location at least a month in advance to give everybody time to train up again.
Curling Canada is doing a bubble in Alberta, starting in February for the scotties, brier, mixed double championships and mens worlds, some teams could be in the bubble for months if they keep winning.
Possibly you're not aware of a) the astronomical cost that those plans are incurring, b) the fact that they've allow 1,200+ people to jump the quarantine queue, thus making it even harder than it already was for some of the 38,000+ Australians still stuck overseas and struggling to get home to access the limited number of quarantine places available (which are limited, I'll point out, because our federal government refuses to recognise that running quarantine is its responsibility, not that of the individual states and territories), and c) how utterly, tearingly furious many Australians are that a rich sports tournament going ahead is being prioritised over the wellbeing of our stranded fellow citizens.
